Access to doula care can be the difference between life and death, especially for Black and brown mothers. That’s why New York City Council fought to provide free doula services in underserved neighborhoods across NYC. Now, Trump’s Medicaid cuts threaten to strip mothers of this essential care.

I will never ever understand how people could have voted for this. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

Saying "vaccines are safe" is an irrelevant detail when you voted to hand all of the US government's health organizations over to someone who adamantly insists they are not.

🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇 www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Over on X, the nazi algorithm & foreign bots site, they've convinced themselves that climate change is no longer a big deal. They are very wrong:

Tomorrow is a month away from Xmas Eve. Please have a look to see if you have any children's clothes, books, toys, etc that are no longer needed & donate them to your local charity shop ASAP. The demand for these items is now, not after Xmas. People are skint but still want to make Xmas special. ❤️

My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.

The current Republican Party by any objective measure is an authoritarian outlier in modern international politics, and they should be treated as such. Wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com: badfaithtimes.com/the-republic...

Every rose has it's thorn Just like every night has its dawn Just like every pontiff sings a sad, sad song Every rose has its thorn

Axios absolutely got played As Michael Weiss showed yesterday, Kirill Dmitriev used Axios to manufacture the illusion of a serious Ukraine “peace plan” -- when it was just a Russian wish list The result: absolute chaos in DC, Kyiv, and European capitals macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Mayor Wu stunting on em heavy

no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply

Wrote about this 10(!!) years ago: episodes.ghost.io/episodes-the...

"Attiah called balls and strikes & was shown the door; exiled, even. Meanwhile, Nuzzi was handed the keys to future fame & fortune in spite of proving the ease with which she deceives, and perhaps because of her alignment with right-wing figures. The locus of power has never been more clear..."

Also, it goes to my longstanding point I have learned covering her: AOC is far more pragmatic than her detractors and her fans think because she is interested in advancing policy outcomes. wapo.st/49BkLwA

Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

trump has never looked at or even talked about jd vance this way lol

imagine how intoxicating it is to talk to a normal pleasant person after a year of working with JD Vance

the son he always wanted

Trump is now seeming to endorse execution for his perceived enemies — retweeting a post that called for the hanging of Democrats who told servicemembers to refuse illegal orders. He also claims the Dems are engaging in 'seditious behavior'.

We can laugh about how stupid this is, but at the end of the day, a not-insignificant number of parents will believe the CDC and refuse to vaccinate. And some of their children will die because of it. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

he's also sharing someone who's got a red iron cross as their profile image

There’s an interesting parallel with the “mecha-Hitler” episode here: AI seems to have a lot of trouble with the sort of winking needle-threading “respectable” right wingers have spent decades mastering, although that’s breaking down of late as well.

I don't see where students were actually given a choice, free from prejudice

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’

🚨Across the U.S., a century of public-health consensus is being quietly rewritten. In statehouses from Florida to Utah, lawmakers are advancing measures that erode vaccination and food-safety standards. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...

"You want a book to explain exactly how one lusts after a man who left two wives and wears jeans to the gym." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

"Don’t let a machine - regurgitating everything that came before - tell you how to write the rest of your sentence." carla.substack.com/p/save-the-e...

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.

Leader Thune should bring this legislation to the Senate Floor and it should be passed immediately. We should protect children, not abusers and their corruption. Transparency is the only path forward to expose the extent of the crimes committed and give survivors justice.

SCOTUS: “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech” TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Wow

THINGS HAPPEN

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...