The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net kffhealthnews.org/MjEwNjQwMQ by @celinegounder.com via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @marthajbailey.bsky.social @whitneysrice.bsky.social @rachelfey.bsky.social @bthomas520.bsky.social @megankavanaugh.bsky.social

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny." ~ Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father

Voter suppression. Trump and MAGA are planning for permanent power. All in front of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

That’s no ballroom…

We stand in solidarity with AFGE, @afscme.bsky.social, @nffe.bsky.social, NAGE, @seiu.org, @ifpte.bsky.social and @aft.org to fight the administration’s reckless plan to fire federal employees furloughed during this shutdown: bit.ly/3KWm52O

Not funding the government, keeping food on people's tables? ok then...

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

This is not a functioning democracy, in case anyone was clinging to that illusion.

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT WON’T ALLOW DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD IN ILLINOIS PENDING APPEAL

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

This story, of a woman denied treatment for an ectopic pregnancy IN ILLINOIS is horrifying. In conclusion, subscribe to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's newsletter, Abortion Every Day.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

There’s power in resistance and speaking out for neighbors. Ayman Soliman, an Ohio faith leader who recently won his release from ICE, said he didn’t expect ongoing protests in his defense. "But they kept doing that for the entire time—and I am beyond grateful." New at @americasvoice.bsky.social:

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Thanks, New Yorker

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

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Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Imagine sending an airborne division after this guy

The world is rough so please enjoy this snuggly boy this morning.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Swear her in.

Everyone deserves access to an array of birth control methods that works best for their body, their life, & their goals. @rachelfey.bsky.social at @powertodecide.bsky.social spoke with us about the critical need for contraceptive equity, & ongoing attacks on birth control ⤵️ #WorldContraceptionDay

“I am familiar with the history of authoritarian leaders disappearing people they don’t like in Latin America, the part of the world that my family comes from. I wanted to think that doesn’t happen in this country. But what I had just witnessed felt uncomfortably similar”

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

I know people are bored with “resistance” but it worked, whatever this is Isn’t working.

ah, well

Trump administration using state power to consolidate control of the media.

BILL CASSIDY agonized about RFK Jr — but delivered the key vote to cinch his confirmation Seven months later, as RFK Jr and his deputies work to roll back vaccine recommendations, @rachelroubein.bsky.social and I ask: what is Cassidy thinking now?