In 1955, the U.S. had more than half a million psychiatric beds. Today, about 61,000 are left despite more than 14 million people a year experiencing severe mental illness. @helenwsantoro.bsky.social explains what this meant for her. 🎨 by @oonatempest.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

In my story for @slate.com: IUD insertions are incredibly painful and traumatic for many, but they actually don’t have to be. For years, clinicians have used paracervical blocks to numb around the cervix for other procedures, so why aren’t they used for IUD placements? slate.com/technology/2...

I’m dedicating this Pride to my late wife. She was hilarious, stupidly smart, stubborn, & full of love. I spent my 20s loving her, & following her suicide, have spent my 30s grieving her. As Pooh Bear said: How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. #pridemonth #pride #lgbtq

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Heartbreaking story by @deldeib.bsky.social: Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

I don't think there should be a work requirement for SNAP. I think there should be a wage-should-be-enough-for-employees-to-eat requirement for employers.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Fact: The person who named sweetbreads isn't allowed to name things anymore.

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

alright guys. that's a wrap. we're in a twilight zone episode, we can all sign off now.

hey anyone wanna work in a basement with me and uncover some huge corruption or something? i’ll bring the bad coffee.

BREAKING: The BBC has reported that there appears to be "insider trading consistently happening in the Trump administration before announcements."

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. Unusual.

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

ProPublica staff are on strike starting today. Tell ProPublica you’ll honor a digital picket line: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The Olympics have allowed trans people to compete since 2004. I’m the 22 years since, exactly one trans athlete has competed. She didn’t make it past the first round of competition. Fuck the Olympics.

Only 1 transgender woman has ever competed in the Olympics: Laurel Hubbard (NZ). None has medaled. So this ban isn’t about the unfair competition from transwomen athletes; It's about the busybody bigotry of people running the Olympics. (Casey Wasserman, head of LA games, is in the Epstein files.)

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - Camilo Montoya-Galvez www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Jeff Besos never really struck me as a Sports Guy.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

This is painful to read.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

VICTORY: After thousands of locals protested, called, and gave public comments, a company halted the sale of a Virginia warehouse to DHS to be used for immigrant detention. DHS wants to buy 23 warehouses nationwide. Resist all of them.

Southwest Airlines expects to quadruple profits this year after making changes including charging for checked bags, adding fees for extra-legroom seats, and eliminating open seating, WSJ reports.

Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law. The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...

DHS appears to be bringing decades of violence at the U.S.-Mexico border to cities throughout the United States.

If any disabled/chronically ill people in the South want to share any stories of how they've been impacted by the storms, please reach out at [email protected] or signal juliametraux. 49 This is for a potential @motherjones.com story, thanks!

Why was Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer transferred to a cushy prison?

🚨BREAKING: A federal court Wednesday ruled against a Republican challenge to California’s redistricting plan, rejecting the GOP claim that the state had engaged in illegal racial gerrymandering when drawing up its new congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hospitals and doctors are ignoring RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule and relying on pediatricians’ guidance instead. Story by @danielpayne.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/n...

NEW: No, it was never really about drugs. Yes, it was about oil — but it wasn't *only* about oil. And no, it wasn't even close to being legal. In a new explainer out today, IPS scholars clear up the biggest questions about the U.S. attack on Venezuela:

Great news! EITM has been nominated under the category of Outstanding Independent Journalism by the GLAAD awards. We share this nomination with many other deserving publications. We couldn't do it without our readers, who help us break news every day. Thank you all.

If you're a 55-64 year old who is retired due to health issues who is struggling to get SNAP work requirement exemptions, please get in touch for a @motherjones.com piece. My email is [email protected]. I can potentially use first name only.

In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents. This case will eventually have national implications. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

A biotech company was called out for concerning science about their artificial blood vessels. Now, instead of restricting the vessels' reach, the company appears to be touting the product beyond the prescribed limits set by the FDA. My latest for @levernews.com www.levernews.com/regulatory-r...

How dare you assume that someone whose entire career has been a bad faith grift to benefit conservatives is acting in bad faith to benefit conservatives.

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

While Starbucks workers are on strike because they can't get a fair contract, the Bezos-owned Post is saying the CEO deserves the $96 million he got last year.

BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine. This is a tragedy in the making. This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.