This is heartbreaking and unconscionable.

#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.

We're at step 9.

The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?

Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated) The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with

UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried.

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#reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year was spent on the public broadcasting budget.

If you donate $20 a year, you're covering what your tax dollars would have done. If you do a monthly donation of $7, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on PBS per year.

Florida looses appeal by the minute.

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccines work - here are the charts to prove it. As science-based vaccine guidance comes under threat in the US, Scientific American has published these amazing visuals of which vaccines to get, and why they work. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Lobbyist claims that New York anti-plastic bill would harm people of color called ‘misleading’ Bill that aims to reduce plastic packaging by 30% in 12 years faces staunch opposition by some business interests

If only industry cared more human well-bring than short-term profit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

And who they didn't approve of

Every Election Is Now Existential A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right"
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May 30, 2025 In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...

May 30, 2025

Don’t know how Rubio sleeps at night.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Trump has decided that CDC shall stop informing the people as a whole about the outbreak and spread of major communicable diseases... apparently because this makes him look bad. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

I believe in science

Wonder how many people Trump is negotiating foreign policy and tariffs with, that have children and other relatives going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools ?

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SPEAKER OF THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE

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Not that we could expect anything different, given the current “ leadership”.

50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law The US government not only denied these men due process; it has generally failed to provide their families, their attorneys, or the public any information about what it alleges these men did to deserv...

We have no integrity as a nation. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...

The other "N" word spoken loud and clear.

Somebody give that woman a safety pin, and ride home. Sheesh.

Surprise, surprise!

COBOL is a genuinely archaic programming language. But trying to do this in a rush is INSANE. And you can bet a huge, huge number of things are going to break. Even in very simple code bases, understanding the levels of dependencies built up over decades takes a huge amount of time.

Michael Waltz’s Venmo Is Public, and It’s Full of Journalists The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.

Writers at SNL super sad because this was going to be their skit. prospect.org/politics/202...

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

Judge freezes Trump plan to dismantle Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Federal Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the continued operation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was "in the public interest" and froze White House plans to shut it down.

Federal Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the continued operation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was "in the public interest" and froze White House plans to shut it down.
By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social