Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

it is the year 2026

Update: As of May 12, South Dakota has also dropped out of the Texas v. Kennedy lawsuit. If you live in one of the 7 remaining states on the lawsuit (Alaska, Montana, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida), use our action alert to push your Governor and Attorney General to do the same!

I am in several online groups for In-Home Supportive Services caregivers and you would be shocked how many people *who rely on Medicaid* do not know they are on Medicaid Someone tried to argue with me that Medi-Cal is *not* Medicaid and Medicaid "only pays for old people" I'm gonna lose my mind

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

there was a moment this afternoon where a fire had broken out in the hills overlooking the L.A. park that was hosting a kite festival, and it felt like a real-life version of the "this is fine" meme

Thinking of little Reese and her mom Trista who moved heaven and earth to make this happen: a button battery that isn't a death sentence for kids.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

“We’d really like to see Congress hold RFK Jr & HHS broadly to account for everything they’ve done over this past year that has been so harmful to the autistic community and to public health generally, with oversight hearings." @autisticadvocacy.org's Zoe Gross: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

we need to talk about what Louisiana Republicans are doing to Calvin Duncan, who deserves so much better than this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

finally!

my 9-year-old, correctly understanding how to motivate me: "Mami, if you wake up I will buy you a cheeseburger"

Most of Florida’s jails have stopped contracting with Armor Health companies, which have been sued repeatedly for subpar care. Only one jail, where Brian Tracey died, still uses a company affiliated with Armor. With @thefloridatrib.bsky.social

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per the Social Security Administration's estimates.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court has blocked mailing prescriptions to mifepristone, restricting access to one of the most common means of abortion.

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

👏STOP👏MAKING👏JIMMY👏KIMMEL👏TRANSGRESSIVE

me: speaking of that, it's time for your baño my 5-year-old: speaking of that, no

I see this whenever I call out "inspirational" AI videos as being fake. People are mad at me instead of being mad at whoever manipulated them

CN: Police killing Alex LaMorie, an autistic man, called the police for help. Instead, they shot him. At least two of the three officers who shot Alex went through autism training. It was not enough to stop them from killing him. By @autisticadvocacy.org: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/04/auti...

I had hoped this was AI. It is not AI.

RFK Jr has been attacking Medicaid-funded caregiving all week. For @motherjones.com, I spoke to a parent on how these payments helps her family keep her disabled son at home. Her son is one of 155 kids in Oregon who has a parent who is a paid caregiver. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵

my 9-year-old has informed me that J am both fired and canceled

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i'm not sure how to live in a country in which the murder of eight children doesn't ... stop everything

health policy under trump

my youngest: Mami, was I a baby inside your belly? me: yes honey my youngest: how did I get inside your belly? me: ... ... ... long story

This is empirically false. 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or would be exempt from work reqs, but we know from experience with Arkansas that documentation proves onerous, esp with multiple jobs with inconsistent hours or gig work. And 2/3 of coverage losses from unwinding were procedural!

Experts estimate that the IRS stands to lose up to $479 billion over the next decade as immigrants face deportation and disengage from the formal economy. https://wapo.st/4vvl1pj

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

it's a liiiiiittle unnerving how much of my Constitutional Law reading is Supreme Court cases that changed things in the last five years

no one: absolutely no one: my youngest: Mami, I'm not scared of dead

Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in

I really need health care reporters to get educated on ABA because I am extremely tired of seeing stories about ‘autism services’ being cut and then it’s just ABA uncritically represented as the best thing ever and no discussion of services autistics have actually asked for and benefit from.

hey LAUSD, maybe slow your roll on robocalls about arts events when L.A. parents are hanging on every update about a possible strike

Nearly half of Arizona’a SNAP participants have been booted off. www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

"It's giving war crime" has entered the lexicon

"some" "fish"

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."