One of the most pernicious parts of this is that data show people of color have lower rates of morbidity and mortality when they have a physician of color ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Our first national study shows what doctors and patients have been warning: In states with abortion bans, fewer people are getting miscarriage care. This can threaten patients' health and lives. And it can add a layer of grief on top of an already devastating experience.

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the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

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The same medications and procedures that induce abortions are used to treat miscarriages. “You can’t just silo one aspect of pregnancy care” as all of that care is inextricably linked, says obstetrician and gynecologist Maria Rodriguez. “Women’s health, in particular, is over-legislated.”

Trump sued the IRS over the unauthorized release of his tax returns, then he dismissed the frivolous lawsuit so that a judge wouldn’t have to sign off on the terms of the agreement. It's not really a settlement. He's just ordering the DOJ to give him money.

$1.7 billion is about to be paid out of the pockets of US taxpayers to J6 criminals who beat cops and Trump’s other dirty henchmen. Trump set up a slush fund to reward these scumbags with your money and Republicans in Congress won’t say a word about this disgusting corruption.

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Trump wants to let special interests and giant development companies trample our public lands.  He wants extraction over conservation. Yet ANOTHER give away to Big Oil and Gas. Not on my watch.

Politican Mike Johnson says we need to let politicians trade stocks because they need extra income. He says: “Have some sympathy. Let them engage in some stock trading so they can take care of their family.” Congress earns 3x what the average American make and he’s asking for sympathy lol.

The world travels by horse. It did when my great grandparents were born and it did when they were my age and it did when they died … oh wait no. They had a car by the time they were my age.

How does a partnership with OpenAI fulfill our Land and Sea Grant mission or educational goals? How does this partnership serve the state and the nation? How will our partnership with ChatGPT support UMaine's commitment in 2021 to be a net-zero emissions campus by 2040?

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

“by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated.” This has always been the case and this shouldn’t even need to be stated. Yet here we are.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

The John Crow redistricting sessions taking place across the South are, in no uncertain terms, political lynchings. Mississippi lawmakers are headed back to the building where they seceded from the Union to eliminate the seat of the only Black federal representative in a state that's 40% Black

Made up data doesn't show the same pattern as actual data. Shocking new findings in our age of the stochastic parrot machine.

“Most Americans don’t know that in 2023, a CDC-trained community health worker in Tanzania identified an outbreak of Marburg — a filovirus from the same family as Ebola — early enough that it never spread widely. That is what these investments abroad bought us: outbreaks contained where they begin”

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

Everyone wants to blame smartphones but I'd offer up every student having chromebooks/tablets for all classes as soon as kindergarten as another reason. Computer literacy is one part of education but only one, we've been treating it as the main point.

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Election workers are public servants, not political targets. The DOJ’s attempt to obtain the personal information of Fulton County election workers is dangerous and unacceptable. I’m demanding answers and condemning any effort to intimidate the people who protect our elections.

The tech industry is gutting our public science infrastructure and hijacking the NSF to be their own R&D department. Not paying taxes is apparently not enough; they need both hands in our pockets. (There’s nothing wrong with funding those fields; it’s funding them only at the expense of others).

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

As a matter of fact, many Southern states actively scaled back public goods after Brown v. Board. I live in Norfolk, VA, a city of about 250k. We only have one public swimming pool, which was built recently. Why, you may ask? They were all filled in rather than integrated. 3/x

... and effect.

I'm so incredibly anti-homeschooling because of all the people i know who were personally ill prepared for life based on their parents decision to lock them away from the rest of society, aka homeschool. However, this happening in my kids' schools would make me reconsider.

all this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court

Forum-shopping anti-trans investigations to Fort Worth so that Reed O’Connor can personally oversee everything and sign off.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Wished my mom happy mothers' day. She giggled. Did she recognize my voice? Probably not. Recognize "Mom" was referring to her? Again, probably not. I bet Dad smiled while holding the phone up to Mom could hear me talk and she giggled cause Dad smiled. Happy mothers' day

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

This year, be sure to honor mom with the gift any mom loves most: paid parental leave, single-payer healthcare, and unquestioned bodily autonomy.

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

this is correct. we so often choose to not fight when we might lose, rather than taking the risk and getting caught trying. older example: the biden wh's response to dobbs. “well, our executive action is guaranteed to be overturned” — and? do it anyway, lose, and show the courts are partisan.

Marco Rubio: Operation Epic Fury is over. Our preference is to return to the pre-war status for the Strait of Hormuz. 🇺🇸US Senator: But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war? You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” #cdnpoli

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

Middle kid wrote dw and i a mother's day fill in the blank poem. Moms love quiet, tulips, and me Always says get dressed! Enjoys sleeping, rushing me, and hot tub Wants to sleep till 9 Is happiest when its their birthdays Is loved by me

Recovery milestone. Walked to middle kid's school to pick him up. Took 20ish min each way rather than just over 20min round trip. But progress!

In March 2025, the Trump admin made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act. All they had to do was ask. And ask they did. What happened next 👇

In one state, CPS took a teenager from her home to prevent her from having an abortion—threatening her mother with murder charges if she helped her daughter get out-of-state care. Another mother was investigated by CPS and police for helping her teen get an abortion *in a pro-choice state*

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” #JimCrowJohn

MAGA wants to reduce opportunities for women and increase opportunities for quacks. Chiropractors, a male-dominated woo-saturated field, still qualify, while female-dominated evidence-based professions are shut out.

the necessity of the Voting Rights Act has never been more clearly demonstrated by the behavior of the Republican party immediately after gutting the Voting Rights Act