ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

Into my veins

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander. This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now. The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Hasan Piker because my child is growing up under expanding ecological collapse and constant state of distress, anxiety and worry about the future. Hearing about fascists canceling cancer research every evening was my own "Hasan Piker"

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has RESIGNED. Her exit follows a tenure rocked by multiple scandals—including an investigation into an alleged affair with a security staffer and accusations of drinking on the job. Keith Sonderling will serve as Acting Labor Secretary.

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.

laying the groundwork for 2028 "But a complicating factor for anti-war voters is that [Democratic Candidate] may be more tied to the increasingly unpopular War in Iran than Vance, who publicly opposed it." "analysis" pieces bsky.app/profile/rick...

Destreamerization. The elimination of streamers as a class

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out

checkmate, fellow terrorists

From @metzger.bsky.social, I am HOWLING.

*SWALWELL RESIGNS FROM CONGRESS

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Yet I alone, alone do me oppose Against the Pope, and count his friends my foes.

Why Pope Leo should go on Joe Rogan.

Viktor Orban to join Harvard Institute of Politics.

Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary’s!

Bartiromo: Do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections? Trump: I hope so. I mean, I think so, it could be. It could be the same or maybe a little bit higher.

It seems suspiciously like the person feeding positive J.D. Vance stories to the press is none other than Vance himself. by John Barron

the NYT political desk is facing facts: their boy Trump is in a terminal political spiral and it's time to start polishing the next right-wing turd

I received this letter from a woman in Tehran and it brought me to tears. It's unimaginable what the Iranian people have had to endure, from a brutal regime that massacred tens of thousands in January, to relentless bombing and destruction during Trump's illegal war.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

There's this mythical idea of voters who disapprove of Trump but think impeachment is going too far, and that simply is not a real thing. Wasn't in the prior impeachments, isn't now. Which isn't to say you should go impeaching anytime a president is unpopular. But voters will not punish you for it.

People will say anything on here. "Impeaching the president will distract voters from how bad a president he is." No it won't, that's not true.

BREAKING: JURY FINDS PROFESSOR CARAVELLO NOT GUILTY! While some justice was restored by the jury’s decision, the beatings, the surveillance, and the trauma that John and others across the state and nation have had to endure cannot be ignored. #ICEOUT

Absolutely horrifying. ICE continues to terrorize and shoot innocent people.

My friend who did this would wait until her cover was blown, find the guys’ wives in Texas or wherever, and forward them a history of the messages

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

Look, you may not like it, but we all have to just sit around and accept it. The man received a VERY large minority of the votes in the last election, his biggest minority yet.

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

‼️ NEW Trump tells MS NOW he didn’t know anything about Melania’s statement beforehand

I do find it ironic how we have to have all these delicate conversations about what to do about ICE when Trump and co. have executive fiated USAID, DOE, the Wilson Center, institute of peace, CFPB, and now the Forest service

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

I have seen one good example of this plate

Eyes open, folks.

because “maga” just means whatever trump wants/does to most people while “non-maga” are romney-brained deadenders who haven’t thrown in with dems because of purple hair dye or whatever the fuck republicans are imbeciles, that and your local sports at 11

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

The Tampa Papacy

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

I love that the book banning little freaks get booted from school/library boards basically every time AND I want to shout out the wine moms they radicalized who were like ‘oh fuck these people, I’m running for school board.’

Houston City Council approved a proposal from three city council members limiting Houston police officers’ cooperation with ICE agents on Wednesday, with Mayor John Whitmire in support. bit.ly/48kqrta

Trump finally getting arrested, but it's for violating Texas's anti-BDS law bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Liberals now have significant majorities on all three "Blue Wall" state supreme courts: 5-2 in Wisconsin, 5-2 in Pennsylvania, 6-1 in Michigan. Their latest win, tonight in Wisconsin, is a romp: Chris Taylor leads by about 20 points, having so far flipped 15+ counties that went for Trump in 2024.

Deals are my art form. Some people get their kicks in different ways, but for me it's always been doing beautiful deals.