Dear politicians, talk to a person from the South BEFORE you talk about the South, please. Cause this is not how to do it…

It was a great day!

It’s so telling when they say they are only trying to bring in an OB once a week because there’s nothing around, otherwise they wouldn’t do prenatal care. You would think you would have to offer prenatal care to be considered a “pregnancy center.” www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsn...

NYC friends - I’m doing a fundraiser panel for the clinic, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and @msfchoice.bsky.social Thursday night that you won’t want to miss… givebutter.com/m2m2026NYC

That would explain why the US is currently “under-babied”

So these two statement totally contradict each other. www.wvua23.com/news/man-acc...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Ban SCOTUS as a threat to public health…

Not only do they have no fear, I believe they WANT the confrontation so the courts can rule that "religious liberty" supersedes the separation of church and state.

"'While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process,'” a USDA spokesperson told USA TODAY on May 13." Wow. That's quite a "fuck you, we don't care we're doubling down" statement if I ever read one.

Adventures in trying to run a free and sliding scale clinic: a real live email I just sent our electronic records management company a few minutes ago.... And people wonder why I don't sleep anymore.

wrote about Alabama, the "Purcell principle," and the Supreme Court playing KKKalvinball—blatantly changing the rules as it goes and affording greater legal weight to Republican lawmakers’ desire to subvert democracy than Black voters’ right to participate in it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

If I blew past estimates the way this man does on one project - much less every single one I initiate - I would be fired in a heartbeat... abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

Well that’s an ad I’ve never seen on news sites before…

And I’m sure they’ll do a new map to tear up Sewells district as soon as they can, too

Again - Trump wasn't in office when the IVF ruling came down in Alabama. That was February of 2024. He did an executive order in Feb of 2025 but that did NOT create a right to IVF as they are claiming. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Doctors say that a Vitamin K injection given at birth saves the lives of hundreds of newborns. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for "further study" says the injection can create mitochondrial challenges. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

“Under-babied”?

Oh that’s gonna be a tshirt…

I'm listening to the maternal health press event in the Oval and I'm pretty sure Trump just said they "had something passed within two days" of the Alabama state court IVF ruling which is news to me since that was February of 2024 and he wasn't in office until January of 2025...

I'm reading this and thinking about the 1-2% charity care budget line, and how that may sound insignificant that's really a lot when you think about how massive a hospital operating budget really is. And this problem will only get worse as insurance disappears. www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...

Read this. For any of you weirdos silly enough to try to come in my mentions and say that I "ruined college sports for you" by helping start NIL? Please know how serious I am when I say that I don't care, and I would do it twice if I could. Many of your exploited Black athletes are from Alabama.

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

There is a special place in purgatory for folks who use fiscal sponsorship to steal money from nonprofits, but I hope it’s an even worse one for people who extract the tiny bits of funds that actually manage to get granted by Alabama’s tiny pool of philanthropic dollars.

Today Pfizer announced more than $14 billion in revenue in just the first quarter of 2026.

The cruelty is the point… www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/u...

Tell me something good?

Think we are cute? Think we work hard? Give D4 D ALL the money for this here baby shower! share.google/SsE922O6Uh5q...

We. Are. Here! McDonald Hughes Center! #sliceslicebaby!

Prepping for the Diamonds for Doulas community baby shower today, because resourcing people is the best revenge against racism and misogyny. We will be serving 50 low income patients with car seats and other goods. Want to help? Donate here: givebutter.com/diamonds4dou...

Cutting WIC has FAR more short and long term health consequences than taking mifepristone does.

In case you haven't heard the news. www.al.com/news/2026/05...

If you’re mad about Louisiana, you can do something to help us in Louisiana. I literally grant write and fundraise alone so I can put women & girls through school, pay their rents, & provide them menstrual products. Don’t talk about us in Louisiana like we’re dead. tpfwoman2woman2026.funraise.org

'Things sure are moving fast lately.' -someone who disapproved of my use of the term 'accelerationist' 18 months ago.

This fucking week share.google/d1pMGX7sKKxE...

Yall there is a lot of things I am unhappy about, but pokopia brings me endless joy…

Have we considered this might just be an incentive to try to get him to leave the planet? gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wi...

youtu.be/WzZaJDg6E0A happy First of May to all the folk who know how to celebrate the right way…

I will say this as I do every time these land in burg a Friday and first or last day of the month - please pick a different day. Yes, I understand the historic significance, but too many people living check to check get paid on Fridays or first/last and have already been putting off necessities.

My “averaged out” electric bill is $350 a month…

There are no Planned Parenthoods in Louisiana because they closed them over a year ago...

Doing the month's numbers, and if things continue at the rate they have been going we are likely to break 3000 appointments this year. Just appointments. Most people receive multiple services per appointment. Services will be closer to 7000.

I'm going to be shouting out Black southern fiction you need to read. Because not in this house are we going to be hating on the south neglecting it as a home of Black folks & our culture. I will start with my own debut novel. This posting project continues as I have time & until I run out of steam.

Under-emphasized in the redistricting fight is that when Alabama got its second Black (&hence second Democratic) congressional district, no one GAVE Black voters a majority. In fact, there were still more eligible white voters. It just gave them a winnable one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Action For Transformation Fund is accepting rolling applications for $5K-20K grants for Trans-led organizing, healing, & power-building. BIPOC + Sex Worker-led orgs to the front. You can via online form, video, phone in English or Spanish. Link to apply: transgenderlawcenter.org/action-for-t...

Um, that’s not how math works… “Our own state of Alabama – which voted for Trump by 65% in 2024 – by all rights should send an entirely Republican delegation to Washington.” 1819news.com/news/item/u-...

My favorite method of abortion is medication abortion because it allows folks to avoid people like Gill… share.google/rpzG37nWUdtt...

Well now I don’t even WANT to get my kids passports anymore :/

For folks who use apple watch to help with health stuff - how fancy does it need to be and do you think it's worth it? I lost my fitbit a year ago and I'm really trying to take better care of myself and I feel like being able to integrate everything might help but also....apple.

I mean, when you put the kids to work in middle school… share.google/MkZRq1lRinXj...