Episode 526: Friendsgiving 2: Throwin' Rolls! @ambertolina.bsky.social, @babyshoes4cash.com, @edisthebest.bsky.social, @willaverill.bsky.social & @robonelson.bsky.social still celebrating! Top law dog, Gideon’s Trumpet 2: Double Jeopardy, Simon & Garfunkel & Salad! itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

#songwriter Mary Frances Spade delivers a #childrensbook filled with #creativity and #wonder in Oodle Doodle available now by Anamcara Press.

Now that #ElectionDay has passed let’s ignore the #books politicians want us to read and #read what we want instead

Happy to have 2 poems in the new Write Bridge by AnamcaraPress, with @ambertolina.bsky.social, @fatladysings.bsky.social, @bethgulley.bsky.social, @irisgarden9.bsky.social & more! Y’all can purchase locally or remotely at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social or @bookshop.org. 📸by Watkins Museum. #ReadLocalKS

Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.

Our daughter is terrified to get pregnant. She and her boyfriend have no plans for children.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.

How I take criticism

Opinion by Steven Becker: Take it from this retired Kansas judge — an independent bench reinforces justice #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/06/12/t...

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: School funding task force warns of fearmongering. Kansas K-12 supporters have reason to be afraid. #ksleg

These legislative actions, taken as a whole, suggest that lawmakers want nothing more than to spend less on public schools, shift resources to private religious institutions and face the absolute minimum of scrutiny while doing so. #ksleg

Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump. She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

Working with our good friend Nile at Abbey Road Studios this weekend. Stay tuned… 📸 Gavin Elder

Trump ‘blatant’ refusal to comply in deportation case shows growing rift with judges | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

🌮🌮🌮TACO MAN, TACO MAN, DOES WHATEVER A TACO CAN. 🌮🌮🌮

A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt: "The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

NPR sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, saying that a May 1 executive order violates the news organization’s First Amendment rights. “This is not about politics — it is about principle,” the member stations wrote in a joint statement.

An increase in extreme heat in Kansas is making pregnancy more risky, according to a report by the nonprofit advocacy group Climate Central. Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4jpzGv0

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: ChatGPT can now write a comprehensible column about Kansas politics. It might also end the world. #ksleg

The Trump administration’s move to end deportation protections for wartime allies who fled to the U.S. after the fall of Afghanistan has infuriated veterans, who say the U.S. government is betraying a sacred promise.

BREAKING: Trump took $98M from Chinese businessman Justin Sun—under SEC fraud investigation—and gave him VIP access. $75M into Trump’s crypto firm, $23M into his meme coin. This is open-air bribery. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

BREAKING: Donald Trump just declared an economic war on the entire European Union — demanding a 50% blanket tariff on all EU imports. He also wants a 25% penalty on iPhones made outside the U.S. That’s right — he’s gunning for Apple. And the market? Crashing. Fast.

No matter what I do, my Bluesky app looks like this. The notifications won’t go away. I think it’s a trick for people with ADHD to get us to keep coming back.

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: My son graduated from his Kansas middle school this week. Too bad the world stinks to high heaven. #ksleg

A Remarkable Story….

How many MAGA voted for RFK Jr. because they thought he’d stop this kind of stuff? 🤡

By @alejandrabee.bsky.social The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

They erased us from the textbooks. I’m putting us back in the story. They buried our truth and hoped we’d stay silent. ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon. Read it before they ban it. Share it before they silence it. Get your copy now. stan.store/gxldsociety/...

He is so damn correct. We are an angry country now. Damn shame

Breaking News: The vice president of a national real estate group has been removed after The New York Times revealed sexual harassment allegations against him.

Remember.....

“Bungled”? BUNGLED???

You'd never know from the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com front pages, but yesterday the President of the United States was asked if he needs to "uphold the Constitution," and his answer was "I don't know."

Crockett: That’s why they hired everybody from Fox because all they’re trying to do is put on a show.. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody… *Applause* Van Drew: *bangs gavel*

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

How can you not respect this woman when she describes Jake Tapper’s book as “fairy smut.”

Unfamiliar with the role of science in America’s national defense, or the history of science innovation in the defense of sovereign nations? I invite you to start with, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics & the Military. neildegrassetyson.com/books/2018-09-accessory-to-war/

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Speak Truth...Jan 6 should have been the end.... ..

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Caitlin Clark denounced hatred and bigotry directed toward WNBA players as the league investigated “alleged hateful fan comments” that were made toward the Chicago Sky and star player Angel Reese.

Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture “does not shy away from the tragedies, but neither does it give short shrift to the joy,” John McWhorter writes. It “trusts everyone to tolerate — no, celebrate — the contradictions.”