The takeaway is that you really don't want to be an Ob/Gyn or even an ER doctor in Texas. In some situations, your choices are:
1. Treat your patient and risk criminal prosecution and being sued by anti-choice vigilantes.
2. Don't treat them and perhaps lose your medical license.
Yes. Péter Magyar just told all of us in the US to step our game up.
If the rest of the world didn't overconsume fossil fuels, Norway could still make money on them, albeit at a lower price,
without having much of a contribution to global warming.
My thoughts on the SAVE Act-
There are serious potential downsides for Republicans.
e.g.-
1. Thune kills filibuster.
2. SAVE ACT passes.
3. SCOTUS kills it.
4. R's lose big in Nov.
5. D's pass popular bills.
6. Trump vetos them.
7. Possible D overrides.
8. R's lose even more in 2028.
🤞
I think that you mean DUI hires.
Trump and the Coronavirus I wrote a lot about the coverage of Trump’s response to the pandemic, and here is what was clear all along: He had no real plan to restore the country to health other than to peddle false hope, predict a quick end, adopt fake deadlines and shift the blame to others. The most urgent need was to test, test, test, and either he didn’t get it or he didn’t want to know the results because they would “look bad”. The media blew its coverage by letting political reporters lead instead of health and science reporters. Political reporters paid way too much attention to whatever Trump said, such that whatever it was made headlines. They let Trump set the agenda instead of letting knowledgeable people do it. Political reporters also gave Trump way too much credit for trying. They covered up for his incoherence, ignorance, cluelessness, gaslighting, and yes, just plain stupidity. They failed to properly exploit their rare access to him by confronting him with facts and piercing his bubble. They remained complacent in the face of a massive death toll, instead of relentlessly demanding more forceful action.
History repeats itself. Remember how devastatingly incompetent Trump was during Covid? How he had no plan? And how news outlets didn’t call him on it? Let me refresh your memory: presswatchers.org/category/tru...
Another day of interest on the tariffs Trump collected and refuses to give back. American consumers paid the tariffs, American taxpayers pay the interest on Trump holding onto the money as long as possible. Every day the bill goes up.
Dan Crenshaw was a mostly fascist windbag, but his support of Dear Leader wasn't quite absolute enough for MAGA. He committed an unforgivable sin: he refused to support the Big Lie. So they primaried him.
Dan Crenshaw says election deniers know they’re lying share.google/7parqisUO7J5...
Shocker. A director at Turning Point who spread lies about Democrats cheating in the 2020 Arizona election got caught red-handed committing election fraud in 2024. And guess what Erika Kirk and the Republican leadership said about it? Nothing.
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The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.
A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT
CARTOON OF THE DAY
NEW: Trump has lost the MAHA moms. The glyphosate order was the final straw.
"Women feel like they were lied to." -- Alex Clark
"A betrayal" -- Zen Honeycutt
RFK has escaped the wrath of movement's leaders, if not the rank and file.w/ @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
Yeah, you were obviously lied to, you gullible dimwits. Your cult leader endorsed him and you lemmings ran over the cliff. We told you before the election about Trump's environmental track record, but you ignored the facts. How long until you dumbasses figure out that RFK jr is a con man, too?
First Brasil and now South Korea are showing us how a functioning democracy reacts when a president attempts to abuse their power to seize authoritarian control of the government. It's a tragedy that our justice system failed to prosecute Trump for his attempt.
I really doubt that these two alleged Catholics believe in hell.
Yo, ICE! This is what a hostile, threatening approach looks like. And Ilhan Omar’s security didn’t murder him. Imagine that.
Would it be more efficient to spend less money and effort on enforcement and just reduce the taxes on legal cannabis to reduce the profitability of the illegal operations?
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
This is insane. Lindsey Halligan is arguing that her appointment being ruled as invalid only applies to the Comey and James case and that she's still the U.S. Attorney for all her other cases.
Many of these states make a good argument for being first. Except for the clown show which is Iowa. They should go last for a few election cycles. After they've proven that they can run a primary competently several times in a row, then they can make their case for being first, but not before.
Poor FOX News. Not the sound bite they were looking for.
In September, the Trump admin revoked the TPS of 600K Venezuelans in the US. It put them in a dangerous position by invading Venezuela and seizing its president. Depending on who fills the vacuum, it might be dangerous for them to return home.
I doubt that Trump gave this a moment's thought.
Two articles describing how many US interventions in Latin America have not gone as planned and have often ushered in decades of brutal dictatorship.
Chile coup 50 years later: The U.S. role and its unintended consequences www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1...
uh holy SHIT?
I wonder if Trump is going to try to install his wife as the minister of culture like Ferdinand Marcos and Chairman Mao did. I sure hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Wow. I wasn't familiar with this particular Trump appointee's stunning ignorance, but there it is.
LYING: It's the Lord's work!
Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
Yes. There's a direct line from Ford's pardon of Nixon to Abu Ghraib to where we are now. Accountability is key to arresting a moral descent.