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Seems bad that the Trump administration is trying to use the FCC to scare media companies into actively avoiding stories related to trans people, tbh.
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Good stuff. I’d do the neighbor’s lawn.
Is there a cool be-bop score to mow by?
![screenshot of fact sheet from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (c3) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (c4) with first bullet point highlighted in yellow:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/68/a6/68a6c411-5e28-4112-b7ec-ce3bc3043574/fact_sheet_c3c4.pdf
Republican Lawmakers and President Trump are Decreasing Access to Birth Control and Dismantling the Health Care Safety Net
H.R. 1 [the "Big Beautiful Bill"] and its provision “defunding” Planned Parenthood to try to block patients from using Medicaid at Planned Parenthood health centers — combined with the months of withheld Title X funds in 2025 — left entire communities without access to basic care. As attacks from the Trump administration and its backers in Congress continue, health care costs are rising for patients and communities, as other providers cannot fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood health centers.
IT’S EVEN HARDER TO GET BIRTH CONTROL
Taking away access to birth control and basic care creates contraceptive deserts in more communities
*In 2025, over 50 Planned Parenthood health centers closed across 18 states, including over 20 closures since H.R. 1 was passed. Nearly all closures occurred in contraceptive deserts.
• When people cannot afford the full cost of contraception, they rely on a network of publicly funded providers that offer free or
reduced-fee care through public funding, primarily Medicaid coverage and Title X-funded services for individuals living with low-incomes or uninsured.
*Planned Parenthood health centers serve one-third of all female patients seeking contraceptive care at publicly funded health clinics.
• Over half of the counties where a Planned Parenthood health center closed now lack any Planned Parenthood provider. In those counties, these centers provided the majority of contraceptive care for low-income women in those counties](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreidl7fltq5pvxkaversqsocp5hrcra3si4qmspahiafydr6v2h45q4)
screenshot of fact sheet from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (c3) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (c4) with first bullet point highlighted in yellow: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/68/a6/68a6c411-5e28-4112-b7ec-ce3bc3043574/fact_sheet_c3c4.pdf Republican Lawmakers and President Trump are Decreasing Access to Birth Control and Dismantling the Health Care Safety Net H.R. 1 [the "Big Beautiful Bill"] and its provision “defunding” Planned Parenthood to try to block patients from using Medicaid at Planned Parenthood health centers — combined with the months of withheld Title X funds in 2025 — left entire communities without access to basic care. As attacks from the Trump administration and its backers in Congress continue, health care costs are rising for patients and communities, as other providers cannot fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood health centers. IT’S EVEN HARDER TO GET BIRTH CONTROL Taking away access to birth control and basic care creates contraceptive deserts in more communities *In 2025, over 50 Planned Parenthood health centers closed across 18 states, including over 20 closures since H.R. 1 was passed. Nearly all closures occurred in contraceptive deserts. • When people cannot afford the full cost of contraception, they rely on a network of publicly funded providers that offer free or reduced-fee care through public funding, primarily Medicaid coverage and Title X-funded services for individuals living with low-incomes or uninsured. *Planned Parenthood health centers serve one-third of all female patients seeking contraceptive care at publicly funded health clinics. • Over half of the counties where a Planned Parenthood health center closed now lack any Planned Parenthood provider. In those counties, these centers provided the majority of contraceptive care for low-income women in those counties
The war on birth control access is well underway, it's just less explicit
Planned Parenthood says 50 of its clinics closed last year as a result of an anti-abortion budget provision—and nearly all of them were in contraceptive deserts (link in alt). Translation: it's now harder to get birth control
Crushed affordability indeed.
Thanks Luis!
Interesting story. Regulatory enforcement is not dead! (But really what caught my eye was that they're headquartered at the old Manbites Dog?! Hot dogs for lunch every day I guess.)
#RandomSongInMyHead
Everybody's got to get it together
Get her back the way she used to be
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Excerpt from newspaper article: Charlotte-based Spectrum Companies has broken ground on a 267-unit apartment project in one of Durham's most established neighborhoods - another sign that demand is pushing multifamily growth deeper into residential areas. The word "multifamily" is highlighted, and the word "residential" is underlined
"Why are we having such a hard time finding places for people to live?"
"Uh, boss, I think I'm seeing the problem here . . . "
Thinking of it as Cold War-era state tv helps a lot.
Pace yourself.
Photo looking up at a rock face with mostly gray rock on the bottom two thirds and rougher green-tinged rock overhanging that. There’s a thin stream of white water falling down from the top right onto a rounded rock outcropping and falling down its face. There’s also some mist rising off the rounded rock and some small strands of water coming down on the left. For a sense of scale, look closely and you’ll the head, shoulders and raised arms of a person standing behind the mist-covered rock.
Fourmile Falls.
#WaterfallWednesday not quite #ClassicMono #scape
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
Go home, Pete, you’re drunk.
Oh, it’s this kind of bullshit trolling.
bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
Put it on a pocket square!
It’s amazing how quickly they can flip the switch from TRUMP IS ALL-POWERFUL WE CAN DO NOTHING to TRUMP IS COOKED WE HAVE TO DO NOTHING.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
WTF kind of bullshit trolling is this? Funneling money to Aryan Nation?
Decorum, good sir!
But damn, the attention to detail. 👩🍳😘
C'mon, man. No explanation necessary.
Insert Offred joke here.
And to be a dick.
You go to war with the communicable diseases you have, not the communicable diseases you wish had been eradicated.
MICROBES ARE PEOPLE TOO!
You heard it here first:
That may not look like Shatner but it is absolutely the wig he wore.
The biggest hit Tim Apple's reputation will ever take.