“You’re healing, he’s balding”
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“You’re healing, he’s balding”
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An appeals court has allowed the government to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid for a year. The organization has said the policy could result in the closure of close to 200 clinics and cut off 1.1 million patients from using their health insurance at the health provider.
How Planned Parenthood’s defunding could leave more than a million patients without health care
An appeals court has allowed the government to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid for a year, eliminating a crucial source of funding for clinics across the country.
bit.ly
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
An appeals court has allowed the government to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid for a year. The organization has said the policy could result in the closure of close to 200 clinics and cut off 1.1 million patients from using their health insurance at the health provider.
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Welcome to Utah, the only state that explicitly bars colleges from banning guns. Kirk was killed by someone (what little we know points to a college-age male) who fired from a campus rooftop with a rifle.
Did “accepting innocent deaths” include Kirk accepting his own untimely death? trib.al/imYuvkT
Did “accepting innocent deaths” include Kirk accepting his own untimely death? trib.al/imYuvkT
September 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Welcome to Utah, the only state that explicitly bars colleges from banning guns. Kirk was killed by someone (what little we know points to a college-age male) who fired from a campus rooftop with a rifle.
Did “accepting innocent deaths” include Kirk accepting his own untimely death? trib.al/imYuvkT
Did “accepting innocent deaths” include Kirk accepting his own untimely death? trib.al/imYuvkT
SB 16/HB 5337 threatens the voting rights of all Ohioans. Live in OH? Use @standupamerica.com’s tool and urge your state representative to vote NO on SB 153/HB 233:
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Send a letter: Stop SB 153 / HB 233 in Ohio
The Ohio SAVE Act will make it harder for eligible voters in the state to make their voices heard. Email your lawmakers today to stop this bill.
act.standupamerica.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
SB 16/HB 5337 threatens the voting rights of all Ohioans. Live in OH? Use @standupamerica.com’s tool and urge your state representative to vote NO on SB 153/HB 233:
act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
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Your capacity to love, stand tall, and peacefully take no shit unnerves them
June 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your capacity to love, stand tall, and peacefully take no shit unnerves them
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Only 90s kids will remember this: a precedented event
June 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Only 90s kids will remember this: a precedented event
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Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans.
That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
PBS, NPR funding on the line as House nears final vote on $9.4 billion in DOGE-backed cuts
Passage would solidify DOGE-backed cuts, but some Republicans are uneasy about the programs being targeted, including th
www.cnbc.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans.
That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
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Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
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The U.S. government is spending $134 million dollars to deploy troops in America while veterans sleep on the streets.
June 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The U.S. government is spending $134 million dollars to deploy troops in America while veterans sleep on the streets.
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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
June 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
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On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.
May 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.
May 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.
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Yesterday — just weeks after a judge released him from detention — our client Mohsen Mahdawi graduated from Columbia University.
This is a momentous moment for him and for all of us who believe in our right to speak truth to power.
This is a momentous moment for him and for all of us who believe in our right to speak truth to power.
Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage
He spent more than two weeks in federal detention before a federal judge ordered his release.
gothamist.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yesterday — just weeks after a judge released him from detention — our client Mohsen Mahdawi graduated from Columbia University.
This is a momentous moment for him and for all of us who believe in our right to speak truth to power.
This is a momentous moment for him and for all of us who believe in our right to speak truth to power.
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66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams
Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Childre
www.commondreams.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
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People talk to me like I wouldn't, in a heartbeat, give their kids kazoos
May 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
People talk to me like I wouldn't, in a heartbeat, give their kids kazoos
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Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.
A Texas abortion ban sponsor aims to clarify when doctors can do the procedure
Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.
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The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
May 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
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Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
www.propublica.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
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Instead of limiting the amount of dolls and drawing pencils kids can have let’s limit the amount of money and political influence douchebags can have
May 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Instead of limiting the amount of dolls and drawing pencils kids can have let’s limit the amount of money and political influence douchebags can have
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64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
May 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
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World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says
World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says
As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ grows
A leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada.
The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in west Texas, the measles outbreak has killed two unvaccinated children and one adult and spread to neighboring states including New Mexico and Oklahoma. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says