A $440,000 Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed In on a Consumer Protection Law

This is so incredibly messed up. Congress needs to fix this disaster

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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

In addition to Trump's war with Iran, he has all but declared war on lifesaving medical research.

I'll keep fighting to protect funding to cure cancer and so much more, but we need an administration that isn't actively trying to sabotage things like Alzheimer's research.

How to end gerrymandering in 2 steps:

1) Gerrymander so aggressively that Republicans beg for mercy
2) Pass a national gerrymandering ban

How not to end gerrymandering:

Create independent districting commissions in blue states only

How to end gerrymandering in 2 steps:

1) Gerrymander so aggressively that Republicans beg for mercy
2) Pass a national gerrymandering ban

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

How not to end gerrymandering:

Pass independent districting commissions in blue states only

How not to end gerrymandering:

Pass independent districting commissions in blue states only

How to end gerrymandering in 2 steps:

1) Gerrymander so aggressively that the Republicans are begging for mercy
2) Pass a national gerrymandering ban

How to end gerrymandering in 2 steps:

1) Gerrymander so much that the Republicans beg for mercy
2) Then pass the national ban.

They think you're stupid.

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

There must be zero tolerance for corruption in the Democratic party

Approval is still way too high

But this is progress

And we’re in Illinois so we haven’t even gotten to the low hanging fruit yet, like banning styrofoam and single use plastics

Still feels like there is a lot of room to go legislatively in terms of standardizing which plastics can be used and incentivizing recycled materials or compostable materials

Between that and a curbside recycling service (shoutout WasteNot Compost), I feel like we are actually diverting quite a bit of material from the garbage. Also trying to buy stuff with less packing, more recyclable/paper/compostable packing helps a lot too

Not sure how much an environmental impact it actually makes, but for some reason I wasn’t regularly recycling plastic films until relatively recently, but honestly it’s not that hard. Just keep a bag stashes somewhere that you can put the plastic films and periodically run it to the grocery store

They don’t care about him but people won’t stop asking them about him for some reason

Seems like that’s a case for fare assistance/fare exemption programs rather than eliminating fares altogether

'Hard to break the habit': Why free public transport isn't enough to shift from cars Free public transport is a popular policy, but researchers say it's not enough to convince drivers to leave the car at home.

From Australia:

"New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport."

"Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."

Solid blue states really need to do a better job of putting up good candidates

Measuring the Impact of Data Centers in the United States Economy: Monetary Damage from Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

US data centers consume 5-8% of US electricity generation (!) and generates $25 billion in external environmental costs

www.nber.org/papers/w35100

Cries as someone who treats oral cavity cancers 😭

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

So you’re basically telling us that you’re a dumbass

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...