I’m curious why the religious right wants women to have more babies but are letting rural hospitals close, making pregnancy infinitely more dangerous, kicking poor people off their medical insurance, and prosecuting women who don’t turn in their fetal remains to law enforcement after miscarrying.

Trump's Conversation with Jesus It's going great.

Donald Trump's conversation with Jesus.
It's going great.
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Like ours?

Trump has the sads, but no new words As prominent MAGA podcasters turn against him.

Trump has the sads because all the people he used to love are dumping on him. open.substack.com/pub/emturner...

The removal of Trump from office needs to proceed post haste. The entire administration needs to be put out of a job. They successfully did a coup on the United States in 2024 and it must be reversed.

The President of the United States commemorates Easter by threatening war crimes and dropping an F-bomb

We need a new president, immediately, insomuch as this one has lost all control over his faculties

“Intelligence” isn’t the best applicable word for what is either provided to or received by this president.

A criminal refuses to accept a summons.

And Hegseth nods like a bobble head beside him.

Sean Duffy should be impeached and removed from his cabinet post.

Starve the blacks, that’s the plan.

Yees!

Is it happening again?

So why in the hell did Ty Cobb work for the SOB?

Wow, this is a really stupid boy who is too stupid to know he's stupid.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

A Quartz Contentment I remember the morning after Trump was elected in 2016.

I've been thinking about spring, and death, and where we are now. A Substack essay. open.substack.com/pub/emturner...

Can this stand?

Trump tariffs live updates: Supreme Court deals president a major setback President Trump's sweeping tariffs are the centerpiece of his economic agenda but have raised prices for businesses and consumers.

Somewhere in a closet in a little-used annex of the Supreme Court there must be a tattered copy of the Constitution, but apparently in the past few days they found it and dusted it off. They struck down the tariffs today.

Sweet.

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92,000 beds. Who are they putting in those beds? It won't only be migrants. It'll be us.

How about they stop killing American citizens? Why are ICE citizens more important than other citizens?

Wednesday's News in Idioms and Metaphors "Saying the quiet part out loud," "giving the game away," "letting something slip (out)," "letting the mask slip."

I have a new Substack post on the language we use when the truth slips out. This one has some news that not everyone may have realized. open.substack.com/pub/emslangu...

Omigod. They nailed it.

A two-month-old: what a national security threat! Omigod! This would be ridiculous if it weren't so tragic and disgusting.

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So sorry for your loss. It is a heart wrenching one. Hope for peace for you and your family.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.