Neurospicy Sunflower

Back of homemade Retazo quilted coat

Back of homemade Retazo quilted coat

Front of quilted Retazo coat

@sewliberated.bsky.social finished the Retazo coat, just waiting on the snaps to arrive but I’m already planning out a second one #retazocoat #sewliberated 🪡🧵👌🏻

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Amanita mushroom

Amanita mushroom

White mushroom

Snail on mushroom

Almost fungi Friday 🍄‍🟫🍄🍂🍁🐌

Spined micrathena spider

iNaturalist says spined micrathena, amazing spider 🕷️ 🍃🍂🪾

Infographic saying: Measles Alert. The US is approaching a tipping point - we may lose our measles elimination status. What is "Measles Elimination"? "Elimination means no continuous endemic transmission of measles for <12 months despite importations. The U.S. was declared to have eliminated measles in 2000. But elimination is not "forever" - if the virus begins sustained transmission again, the status can be revoked. Why the US is now at risk: 2025 is seeing the highest measles caseload in decades - over 1,544 confirmed cases as of Sept. 30. Many outbreaks are clustering in under-vaccinated communities. Measles is extremely transmissible, so her immunity needs very high coverage (>92-95%) to block sustained spread. What losing elimination means - and why it matters: Measles becomes endemic again: regular spread, more severe outcomes, and greater health impact. The public health burden increases; contact tracing, outbreak response, surveillance costs, and strain on local health systems.

We are reaching the tipping point with continued measles outbreaks throughout the U.S. If they continue (bad news: under this administration, that's nearly guaranteed), we are at risk of losing our elimination status. What that means in the info-graphic, below.

Appliquéd fabric to look like an anatomical heart with flowers growing out of it done with embroidery

Appliqué and embroidery on an old hoodie 🪡🫀 🧶

Welcome to the “Fire 🧠🪱!” party, @idsainfo.bsky.social 🎉
Along with 21 more medical organizations

It’s getting crowded in here… maybe RFK Jr can explain tomorrow why all his colleagues and health experts want him gone. 👀

#fungifriday

Rebrand of the week: The CDC becomes the Centers for Disease, mocking the Cracker Barrel rebrand logo.

🧪🌿🌎

Large white mushroom with Kaweco sport pen within upturned cap for scale

This might top the last huge mushroom I posted, Kaweco sport for scale 😹, possibly a type of Amanita

BREAKING: The Texas House just voted to expand the state’s extreme abortion ban by criminalizing anyone who makes, prescribes, or transports abortion medication — even out-of-state.

Texas already has poor reproductive health care, and this will make it worse.

I’ve ordered a couple of your books from @bookmarksnc and hope to see you at Books and Bites in Winston-Salem, excited and a little overwhelmed at the thought of so many people 😬

Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for helping bring attention to this.

We need to call the shooting at CDC what it is - an act of domestic terrorism, stoked by antivax rhetoric.

We are beyond enraged at RFKJ's "leadership" and that the President still hasn't even acknowledged the attack.

Male Rose breasted grosbeak on feeder

Downy woodpecker

Red throated female hummingbird on raspberry limb

Black throated green warbler on raspberry bush

Birds in the yard in July #birds 🪶🦉🐦‍⬛🪺

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.

“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

States Fear Uncertain Future of FEMA Grants Under Trump Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders are looking for clues about the money — and the future of FEMA itself.

UPDATE: A group of 20 states, including North Carolina, sued the Trump administration for abruptly canceling grants that local governments were planning on to help them reduce natural hazard risks.

Hummingbird feeding from bee balm

Male Eastern towhee by raspberry bushes

Male red throated hummingbird

Carolina chickadee

Birds from the garden #birds #ncbirds 🪶🪺🦉🐦🪴🌿

Cardinal male and female sharing seed

Red throated hummingbirds female and male sitting on feeder

Couple of couples - Northern Cardinals and Red Throated Hummingbirds #birds 🪶🪺🐦‍🔥🌱

I got a Panasonic Lumix ZS99 from BHP and I’ve enjoyed it, fits in a purse or large pocket.

Cardinal couple in Barr branch

Female Cardinal in tree

Male Cardinal on branch

Male Cardinal on blueberry bush

Cardinal couple back 🐦‍🔥🪶 🌿🪾🌳🫐
Mr. Cardinal is quite sassy.
Yes, I like to personify all animals.
#birds #NCnature #nature #amateurbirder

Female red throated hummingbird on feeder

Female red throated hummingbird on feeder

Female red throated hummingbird on feeder

Hummingbird feeding from fire pink flower

Hummingbirds are hard to capture, here are my best shots so far #birds #hummingbirds #nature 🪶

Handsome cardinal pair - male and female on tree branch

Tufted titmouse on a branch, looking dapper

Female eastern towhee strutting her stuff

Mourning dove chilling in a tree, after my cat chased her poor thing

Some more birds because I can’t help myself #ncbirds #birds 🪶🐦🦉

Dark eyed junco eating seed

Red bellied woodpecker

Carolina chickadee with raspberry

American goldfinch

Assortment of birds from WNC #birds 🪶🦉

What Republicans' possible Medicaid cuts could mean for nursing homes Experts told PBS News that there are ways to ensure older adults get the quality and type of care they need, but most require more resources, not less.

Medicaid, the largest payer for long-term care facilities, covers around 2 in 3 nursing home residents, and reducing dollars to the massive, yet already resource-limited, program could have disastrous effects on older adults’ health, safety and quality of life.

Eastern Towhee on branch

Eastern Towhee with open beak on branch

Easter Towhee #birds 🪶 #panasoniclumix

Female cardinal on branch

Male cardinal on branch

Male cardinal on branch

Cardinals #birds 🪶 #panasoniclumix

Robin with worm in its beak

Robin with worm in its beak

Robin with lunch
-new camera is a major improvement over the phone
#birds 🪶

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