Hegseth: military no longer requires flu vaccination
“This is an irresponsible decision will undermine the medical readiness of our troops,” says Georges Benjamin, CEO of the American Public Health Association. “[Hegseth] clearly demonstrates his unfitness to command our nation’s military forces.”
Posts by Kathy Hursen, RN, MS
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption
Republicans are now drifting toward open complaints that teenage girls aren’t having enough babies.
Republicans elected a pedophile who preys on vulnerable children, reflecting a troubling decline in their values and decency, threatening the foundations of American society and financial stability.
As ProPublica investigated those preventable deaths and five others across three states in the past few years, reporters found that abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications.
Two of the doctors failed to properly intervene as a pregnant teenager repeatedly sought care for life-threatening complications, the board found.
The third did not provide a dilation and curettage procedure to empty a miscarrying patient’s uterus, and she ultimately bled to death.
The Texas Medical Board has disciplined three doctors whom ProPublica previously investigated, whose patients died after receiving delayed or inappropriate pregnancy care under the state’s strict abortion ban.
Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh: The U.S. is trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic effort through this diplomatic circus that they are adopting…Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement
“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours.
Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump
I Completely Support This Petition….
Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern.
Officials are worried about what would happen in the event of a domestic terrorist attack while Patel is in office. Their apprehension has increased significantly in the weeks since Trump launched his military campaign against Iran.
#DIBLives In December 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, allowing women admission to the legal & other professions. 46 days later Dorothea Heron became the 1st woman apprenticed as a solicitor & #OTD 1923 she became the 1st woman solicitor in Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/he...
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain access to Rhode Island's unreacted voter file.
In these cases nationally, my law firm is now 5-0 and DOJ is 0-5. Not sure how Harmeet is going to explain this to her "boss." www.democracydocket.com/cases/rhode-...
Federal judge dismisses Trump administration’s ‘fishing expedition’ for R.I. voter records.
The Department of Justice sued Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and other states that refused to hand over sensitive voter data
"Voters want funding for care, not foreign wars."
A must-read from @reshmasaujani.com and @aijenpoo.bsky.social:
time.com/article/2026...
A shocking number of the president’s supporters have turned against him.
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Elaine Godfrey
Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick.
Hungarians decided that a major source of their problems was Orbán himself. Maybe someday Americans will come to a similar realization about Orbán’s great admirer, Donald Trump.
By Adam Serwer
CAR-T cell therapy was first developed as a cancer treatment. But recently, it’s had remarkable success in patients with autoimmune conditions—including a woman who was battling three severe diseases at once and is now in remission, @katherinejwu.com reports.
Pope Leo XIV said the world is "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants" and decried world leaders who "manipulate" religion and the name of God for military gain in a speech in Cameroon as President Donald Trump has continued sparring with the pontiff.
📸: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
Clarence Thomas should recuse himself, being that he was once a Monsanto lawyer.
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Temporary Squeaker Mike is so dumb it hurts.
Advocates, such as Michelle Haimowitz of the Massachusetts Head Start Association, urged Congress to bring back a policy that prevented immigration agents from conducting operations in sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals, and churches.
Mark Twain saw this coming
In the rhetoric of holy war around Iran, echoes of ‘The War Prayer.’
By Renée Loth