Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

It will be necessary to prosecute everyone associated with this farce—the lawyers who will have approved it, the commissioners, the staff, the recipients. Everyone.

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Referencing the Comstock Act in 20-fucking-26 is KUH-RAY-ZEE work. Eat shit, Alito.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court HALTS the 5th Circuit's decision blocking telemedicine mifepristone nationwide. Alito and Thomas dissent. Thomas suggests that mailing abortion pills violates the Comstock Act. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

Alito in Dobbs: we’re just leaving it to the states Alito in Danco: NOT LIKE THAT

what kind of soulless ghoul would want to snorkel around that ship? Probably bumped into RFK Jr down there looking for dinner.

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra-- GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record TURNER: During the Biden administration-- GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

More reason no institution should be knuckling under to these abusive subpoenas.

My friend and fellow @defendpublichealth.bsky.social member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy has collated some recommendations for websites that provide scientific information that can be trusted.

The students in Victor’s fifth grade class know how much he loves playing soccer. ICE targeted him and his sister Monserrat, a second grader, and stepmother at the bus stop and are currently locked away at the Dilley trailer prison.

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation? Rep. McGovern: Is anybody surprised? I’ve been saying all along that Trump doesn’t give a shit about the people of this country.

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

Child Protective Services in multiple states is opening up investigations and—in at least one case—taking teens from the mothers who help them seek out abortion

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

My husband made pita bread OH MY GOD!!!

You know that Project Freedom thing that both Hegseth and Rubio held press conferences about today? Trump now says it’s already on pause lol

the war on Iran is the first American conflict that hasn't had the press embedded with the troops. that's so they can lie their fucking faces off about the war crimes they've been getting up to. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I lay it all out. link is here: bit.ly/4ujsypQ

Rudy blocked me too! For the same reason 😂😂😂😂

Democrats just flipped Pearland, Texas. Quentin Wiltz has defeated Republican Tony Carbone in the mayoral race — turning a red seat blue.

"The State, in short, has no lawful predicate for the cancellation it has ordered."

The same day SCOTUS dismantled the Voting Rights Act, I watched Kamala Harris take the stage at the Douglas Awards. She didn’t offer comfort; she offered real talk 🔥 “This is how they play. They are strategic. They think long-term and they are ruthless…we have to be ruthless too.”

Today, 81 years ago my grandfather arrived at Dachau with liberating US troops.

22/On personal level, my grandfather's text - a man of God - emotionally stuns me. No different any time I read it. Deep sigh is necessary. The human race in the form of Nazis & their collaborators sunk to depths that prevented any religious feeling. Only human hate is left. Sigh

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

Here is the menu. The minimum ante now is totally revamping SCOTUS. But the rest of this list, aside from wholesale reform of the Senate, can also be done by normal legislation (not Constitutional amendments) & needs to be adopted if we're going to stop living under competitive authoritarianism.

That's step 1. Step 2 is take the WH in 2028. Step 3 is nominate, confirm and seat 5 liberal justices by February 20, 2029. If Rs could put Coney-Barrett on the court in 30 days, we can put 5 justices on the court in 30 days. There's simply no other way to save our democracy.

The Democrats must respond by gaining the House and Senate in November. Otherwise, it's going to be open season on insane district mapping. Turnout has to be like Hungary. Bury them.

🚨BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court kneecapped the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for more than fifty years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Voter suppression is a way of life for Donald Trump and far right extremists on the Supreme Court. Republicans know they cannot win a free and fair election in November and so they are desperate to rig it. We will never let them succeed.

Passed in 1965 with overwhelming bipartisan support, and re-authorized repeatedly, the Voting Rights Act has long and widely been regarded as one of the signal achievements in US political history. Now an activist conservative super-majority of Court has taken it down with a brutal 1-2 attack.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

The EPA is recommending that states test their water for abortion pills & birth control, labeling them as potential "contaminants" The move comes after years of anti-abortion pressure—and clears the way for Republicans to restrict abortion & contraception under the guise of environmental protection

Katie Phang announces she is suing the Trump administration over the Epstein files: When there is active concealment going on by way of violation of a federal statute, I cannot do my job as a journalist. And so I’m suing

I couldn’t agree more with what Julie K. Brown is saying here. Michael Tracey’s misconduct is not funny. I understand why people mock him, but it would be nice to see more of our media peers actually seriously condemn his treatment of women.

LMAO -- Senate Republicans are holding a whole ass news conference to gas up Trump's ballroom

was this dude always completely unhinged

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

If you think they're insufferable now, wait until the next WHCD event where they give each other a standing ovation and tell themselves how brave they are.

The only way this could have gotten any funnier is if Maxine Waters had showed up at the Hampton

If you want people to take this assassination attempt seriously, the first thing you need to do is treat this WHPC shooting like a legitimate crime scene. Instead, they're treating it like it was the live featured performance at their local dinner theater.