Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I just keep scrolling and liking everything. Lovely change of pace. Hope is a beautiful thing.

Bad night for sexual assaulters all around

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

holy shit

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

Major win in Arlington County Public Schools, with pro-trans Moe Bryant dominating the election. Arlington County Public Schools has made headlines for defying the Trump admin on trans kids in bathrooms.

Support for Cuomo now pouring out from men who don't understand why their current (and former) wives despise them.

My worst fears confirmed

If you work in employment law long enough, you learn "mistakes party" is a more accurate name for most work functions.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Getting old = Excitement to find your old glasses, because wearing them will help you find your new glasses, which you have also misplaced.

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

This expression is so deeply Canadian.

LawSky: I will keep beating this drum. Elevated stress and loneliness are well-established predictors of suicidal risk and are widely experienced in the legal profession. Check in on yourself and your colleagues. Know available resources and share them. Rise above the stigma.

Happy Halloween, friend-os.

Discovered a hole in my sock today and couldn't help but hear my Dad saying: "Is today Sunday?" "Then why are you wearing your hole-y socks?" One for the ages.

Proof I've been a clown since at least 1989.

"But we can open the expensive bag of tiny candy bars intended for children."

Cat too long, need bigger couch

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

I threatened to fight a doctor today who tried to touch one of my ears (I have a horrible double ear infection). She knows me well enough to know both: (1) I was very serious; and (2) I would never. So that's going swimmingly.

This explains some of my recent email traffic.

A double ear infection is twice the fun of a regular ear infection. My body is at war with me. Also, I left my phone in a Lyft today. Let me tell you. The customer service at Lyft HQ? If my driver hadn't been so cool, that fucker (my phone) would be long gone. One day at a time. Got this.

My Lyft driver today had a dent in his car from being hit by an unmarked LE vehicle in DC. They suspected the folks he picked up were "illegal aliens," and with MPD's help, pulled him over and demanded his passengers exit. He refused to unlock his doors and they threatened to break his windows.

Fixed it: We should help people who need it. 40MM people rely on foodstamps to survive. We should get off our asses. Do our job. Stop perpetuating lies. Change our shitty culture. Stop taking everything for ourselves. If we aren't working for you, we aren't doing our jobs.

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

You know how you could trick me, a bartender, into giving you a free drink? Not being a sociopath. I gave free drinks to nice people every shift, man.

Got myself out of bed and out of the safety of my house today to go for a silly little walk. All on my own. Proud of me. A reminder to myself in better times (when I find my pride at this laughable) to take it easy. And hopefully a reminder in the bad times that it only *feels* impossible.

This is Non and Asa. We do not know which one went into turbo mode first. But we do know it is highly contagious. 14/10 for both (IG: asa.n.kuroshiba)

For the hell of it: The Regulars You Meet at a Wine Bar: Eddie: 60's. Brings his dog for happy hour on the patio. Pretends he is apathetic about dog. He is not. Dog is great. Lawrence: Always wears a suit. Orders whatever you recommend. Tips generously. Dawn: Just give her the bottle.

My cat is an agent of chaos who just wants to watch the world burn.

Watching Friday the 13th, Part 2, and I've perfected my "chi chi chi, ah ah ah." 80's slasher films are unhinged.

I wish I didn't have to be so "all or nothing" with the news. Like, paying attention to only the news that is personally important to me should be a workable compromise. But everything that is going om feels personally important to me and all of it is so damn upsetting.

Right. The women who can't get work done because a man won't stop grabbing their ass are the immature ones. FFS. If only they had a better sense of humor or could stop being so dramatic, right? What a piece of shit.

My sister was a tattoo artist for a bit, but I have no tattoos. I did contemplate some dumb ones. Only dumb like: I'd have to keep translating that latin, or explaining what book that quote was from, or describing why I thought it would look cool to put a butterfly or a dragon there.

These past few weeks have been trying. I'm undergoing treatment to increase my brain's plasticity (this is a real thing!) for approx. 8 hours per week. The remaining days I am in therapy. Like, hours of therapy each day. And trying new meds. Always. Grateful for it all, but so, so tired.

Text from my mom: "I could come visit you both. Homicide 12-oh." Luckily, I knew this to mean she was watching a police procedural while using voice-to-text. May start sending cryptic business messages this way.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

People with *real* children find references to one's "fur baby" annoying. Which is why I am very clear when I describe my hairy toddler who eats everythig she finds off the ground and sweats through her tongue.

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish). He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

A gentleman holds up a “no dictators” sign next to Pikachu and Cartman

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

Replica. Where's the original? Guys where is the original Omg it's behind me isn't it

Therapist: Have you tried carrying a worry stone? Me: Yeah. Once. My last worry stone:

I wore my glasses into the shower today and it took what can only be described as "too long" for me to figure it out. Doing great.

Yep. Can verify. Cop had already separated the carbon copies of ticket (for expired inspection) and handed client his copy. Client stuffed ticket into his visor, and cop took issue. Kept yelling at him to sign the ticket again using his "real signature" then arrested him.

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave