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Brittany Ballantyne (she/her)

@ballantynebeat.bsky.social

Comms manager @harmreduction.org, photographer | Formerly comms at Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence & schools, reporter/photographer for The Valley Breeze Newspapers | Views my own Believe survivors. 🌻 | πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ always

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Smoking, vaping, and smoking cessation shouldn’t be met with stigma. Check out our new resources to learn more about options and myth-busting, and share with friends! ⬇️

26.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Registration is still open for this year’s in-person Peer Foundational Training Program! ⬇️

26.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The path to ending hepatitis C transmission by 2030 We highlight what the state is doing, and could be doing, to realize its goal of eliminating hepatitis C transition by 2030.

🧡Eliminating #HepatitisC ( #HepC ) takes all of us & a true investment in #Prevention, testing, & cures. In New York, huge progress has been made because of the advocacy of NHRC & several other organizations, though backsliding from inadequate funding threatens milestones in...
bit.ly/EndingHepCinNY

25.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That he had to hold up a sign that says this make my heart break into a million pieces. And light up in flames of rage.

25.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judge blocks Trump DOJ from reviewing Washington Post reporter's seized data The federal magistrate judge expressed frustration that the Justice Department failed to flag a law that protects journalists from having their work materials seized.

Judge Porter rightly scolded prosecutors for omitting a law restricting searches of reporters in a warrant application to search Hannah Natanson's home.

He should also sanction prosecutors, and the State Bar should discipline them, we told @nbcnews.com.

25.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

25.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 19728    πŸ” 5085    πŸ’¬ 386    πŸ“Œ 150
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@summerlee.bsky.social at @meidastouch.com x @moveon.org People's State of the Union:

Earlier today I announced I'll be introducing articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi

25.02.2026 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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@smith.senate.gov after her guest, teacher Brenda Lewis, shared how ICE terrorizing her community has been impacting the students:

"Brenda and her educators should be figuring out how our kids should be learning. Instead, they are pressed into this relentless effort to keep our students safe."

25.02.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

❀️

24.02.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on β€œBloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.

"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

21.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4489    πŸ” 1615    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 104
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Dearborn reports 36% drop in overdoses, continuing downward trend Dearborn continues to see a sustained reduction in substance-use-related overdose cases for the second consecutive year, pointing to the impact of data-driven public health interventions aimed at addr...

🧡When we invest time, energy, funds, & care into our communities & follow evidence-based #HealthCare, we can all win. As this @mlive.com coverage shares, approaches to the #OverdoseEpidemic that focus on #HarmReduction β€” including expanding access to lifesaving services &...
bit.ly/DearbornODDrops

20.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s still time to register and join us! ⬇️

20.02.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

End the war on people.

19.02.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

18.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 23699    πŸ” 5065    πŸ’¬ 486    πŸ“Œ 641

Join us in March! ⬇️

18.02.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coming up next month! If you haven't registered yet, there's still time. We hope to see you there!

#HarmReduction #TobaccoHarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #THR #SmokingCessation #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #Vaping #Tobacco #HolisticCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #SupportNotStigma #EndTheStigma

18.02.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So....the Fourth Reich?

18.02.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 15820    πŸ” 3137    πŸ’¬ 2562    πŸ“Œ 705

Being homeless doesn’t mean you deserve to die. It doesn’t mean you deserve to be mistreated. It means you deserve housing. Period.

17.02.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Even as Rev. Jesse Jackson has died, his afterlife has begun through us. Through our undying struggle against racism. Through our eternal organizing of rainbow coalitions against resurgent ethnostates. Through our everlasting striving to β€œKeep Hope Alive!” Rest peacefully, Rev. Jackson. πŸ•ŠοΈπŸ’”

17.02.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

We must end prohibition.

17.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happening today, join us! ⬇️

17.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us today! ⬇️

13.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are loved. ❀️

13.02.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawmakers in a House health subcommittee consider bill to ban all syringe service programs in WV β€’ West Virginia Watch For another year, lawmakers in the state House of Delegates are attempting to ban syringe service programs across West Virginia.

🧡Every day in West Virginia, across the U.S. & its so-called "territories," & around the world, lives are saved & improved by the #HealthCare and other interconnected services #SyringeServices Programs ( #SSPs) provide. Eliminating these programs puts lives...

bit.ly/WVSyringeServicesBanAttempt

12.02.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LISTEN TO SURVIVORS AND ACT. ACCOUNTABILITY NOW. And no, acknowledging and apologizing to survivors bravely *literally standing up* behind you is NOT β€œtheatrics,” Pam Bondi.

12.02.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ—£οΈπŸ—£οΈπŸ—£οΈπŸ—£οΈ

11.02.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

11.02.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 20617    πŸ” 4618    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 67

Join us and spread the word! ⬇️

10.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NY metro area friends, come work with us! ⬇️

09.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯Ήβ€οΈπŸŒŽπŸŒπŸŒ

09.02.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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