This is a war based on lies

Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

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If you purchased an auto in the last year, you paid thousands more for that vehicle in the USA because of tariffs. Even if it was made in the USA. Those auto companies passed those taxes onto you. You paid as much as 10% more. Now they are going to get 10% back in their pockets. WTH! NOT YOU!

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Overall abortion rates have increased since Dobbs, but abortions for medical reasons have become more difficult to access. Horror stories of women dying, nearly dying, or birthing dying children have been reported on a regular basis in states with abortion bans.
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Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".

Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.

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Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Just take 3 mins and 15 seconds to listen to this lady speak.

WHY👏🏾DONT👏🏾WE👏🏾ALL👏🏾KNOW👏🏾ABOUT👏🏾HER??!!!

This genuinely makes me so upset.
She been gone 8 years and I hear her name on a random

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How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

🧵 This isn't a story about a bad nurse. It's a story about a staffing model that put a new grad on a float pool because Tufts Medicine is hemorrhaging money, because 67% of its patients are on Medicaid, because OBBBA just cut a trillion dollars from the program. (Oh and the CEO took a 32% raise.)

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

IMPORTANT PSA: Please talk to your kids about this horrific trend!

Let them know that if they’re the victim that to let you know immediately. If they’re see it being done to others report it to authorities asap!

This could lead to devastating consequences for teens!

#Pinks

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

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Louder, for the men in the back. 👏

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read (w alt text)

OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS! 🇺🇲

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

This is as good as everyone's saying it is. The anti-corruption message is a good one, imo

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

We got a refusal to renew our home insurance due to wildfire risk and have now found - after a lot of searching - an chance to pay through the nose on the secondary market.

Just “sell and move out”

Um.

Fuck you billionaire hoarders.

We appear to be dog sitting an adorable baby seal.

Trump greeted by empty seats at Arizona rally leaving supporters 'totally shocked': report Donald Trump's ability to pack arenas is evaporating. The president who once filled sports venues across the country couldn't even come close to filling a 4,500-seat Arizona church on Friday night, ex...

Trump greeted by empty seats at Arizona rally leaving supporters 'totally shocked': report

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Timeline cleanse for Chicagoans

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

I love this so much.

Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.

Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂

“Trump Family, with $10 billion in ill-gotten gains, does corruption the right way. Mamdani not stealing anything is just pathetic.”

-Ezra Klein

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Former ICE Detainees Find Healing, Companionship in New Support Group - Documented Dozens of New York area immigrants come together monthly to relive — and heal from — their experiences in detention centers.

The emotional trauma inflicted by ICE on our immigrant neighbors is devastating — and often neglected.

So it’s really beautiful to see @envfreefund.bsky.social create this support group. (1/2)

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...