Betsy Yates

Mifepristone is a safe, essential medicine that so many women depend on in some of the hardest moments of their lives. When access to this care is taken away, the need doesn’t vanish. It just becomes harder to meet—and far more dangerous. Last year, while visiting Louisiana to understand how the shifting landscape is affecting our communities, I heard heartbreaking stories from mothers denied treatment during grave crises in their pregnancies and doctors forced to delay care when every minute counts. Friday’s ruling is a blow to families across the country, who suffer when women are stripped of the ability to make decisions about their own health and futures. Everyone deserves health care that’s guided by science, not politics. apnews.com/article/aborti…

If you think they’ll stop at mifepristone and not come for birth control, you probably thought they’d never overturn Roe either.

@Reigningonyour1 @effthealgorithm @KellyMcGugan I did. It was a joke, babe.

@BetsyYates @effthealgorithm @KellyMcGugan Did you not read the post

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

@effthealgorithm @KellyMcGugan You could use AI to put this over the Billy Joel track!

@KellyMcGugan Oh wow. Love it!

If it feels like you’re only getting half the story on Georgia politics… you are. 🍑 #PeachPol #GeorgiaPolitics #GAPolitics #NewsTok #Atlanta

@AutisticCallum_ It’s been 10 years but I think about it all the time.

The autistic talent of falling in love with unpopular products that keep getting discontinued without warning.

@Cody_Wittick @BrandonLuuMD Cmon man. Would Jesus tweet this?

@BrandonLuuMD Pretty much explains most marriages

This is great advice. In young women, just 1.36% dehydration makes tasks feel 58% harder, concentration 45% harder, fatigue 17% worse, and headaches ~2x more likely.

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s move to drop the long-standing recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to additional infections and millions in added health care costs, new studies show. wapo.st/3QLrZXe

@slooterman This is a beautiful thread. Thank you.

I got an autism diagnosis in 2014 because I wasn’t able to maintain friendships, relationships or employment and didn’t understand why. It was my mom’s idea — She had recently read John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye and recognized a lot of similarities to how I was as a kid.

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump. wapo.st/4eDLPO4

The Savannah Mayor was not playing with you hoes 😭

@jrovner @APStylebook @boltyboy

I’m going to start a support group for health reporters who are horrified that @APStylebook is making health care one word. Who wants in?

@CorbinBolies The hardest of passes.

Cleveland’s Plain Dealer seems to have added AI-generated caricatures of its reporters as part of its embrace of AI:

@LuluGNavarro @EricMGarcia Dogs.

I literally don’t know a single adult person who doesn’t find modern life periodically exhausting. The onslaught of screaming voices vying for your attention on social, the forcible interface with bad tech (hello call bots and website AI assistants), the demands to adapt or die (maybe literally in some cases because you’ll get fired if you don’t and lose your health insurance), the lack of basic social decency in public spaces (I’m guilty of this too). I could go on. I’m not a Luddite, but some days I’m just overwhelmed by all the demands made on my processing skills. How do YOU cope? LMK.

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@xenoluxx This is the best one I’ve seen so far. You are correct on all of these.

shosh doing crack. shosh saying the rice smelled like badussy. shosh telling them they’re not her friends. marnie’s wedding makeup. marnie singing stronger. the panic in central park. hannah wearing that mesh shirt.

How I felt talking about Lena Dunham all week to normie offline 20 somethings

NEW: More Perfect Union is opening up our newsroom, connecting with students everywhere, and equipping them with the tools needed to unrig our broken economic system.

@mlcalderone @AudieCornish

Ari Shapiro joins CNN as a contributor, will co-host new podcast with @AudieCornish thewrap.com/industry-news/…