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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

These are the devastating consequences of Republican abortion bans. Women suffer—and in some cases die—because they can't get the health care they need.

Abortion IS health care. Full stop.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

No kidding, seeing all this happen even if I'm not from the US is a huge deterrent for me coming out. The sudden spike and normalisation of transphobia is outright terrifying and I fear for my safety if I publicly come out. Fucking hate the rise of anti-trans sentiment worldwide.

Global media outlets protest Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza | CNN Media outlets coordinated a large-scale editorial protest on Monday to demand Israel stop the killing of journalists in Gaza and call for international press to be allowed into the enclave to report f...

“At the rate at which journalists are being killed in Gaza by the IDF, soon there will be no one left to keep the world informed. This is not only a war on Gaza, it is a war on journalism itself,” said Thibat Bruttin, director general of RSF. (Reporters Without Borders.)
www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...

Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospitals — and access to maternity care Medicaid cuts in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill threaten rural hospitals, risking service cuts and closures that could severely limit access to maternity care.

Too many women already have to travel hours just to get maternity care. Congressional Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will force even more hospitals to close their doors. We should be strengthening access to care, not making it harder for moms and babies.

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Workers Over Billionaires Seattle Labor Day

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

YouTube TV may drop Fox News, other Fox-owned channels Wednesday YouTube TV is warning customers that it may be forced to drop Fox-owned broadcast channels and cable networks by the middle of this week.

Please Lord, may YouTube drop it completely forever and forever, Amen. thedesk.net/2025/08/fox-...

Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit

Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’ A placard referring to Trump’s two impeachments was removed in July, after the Smithsonian agreed to perform a “content review”

The Smithsonian said that it would restore information about President Trump’s two impeachments to an exhibit in the National Museum of American History within weeks.

The Post previously reported that the museum reverted the exhibit to how it looked in 2008.

Trump contorting justice department into his ‘personal weapon’, experts warn Critics say DoJ has been ‘politicized like never before’ and the main job requirement is now ‘loyalty to Donald Trump’

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Matt Egan: Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics would be like an NFL owner who responds to his team losing big by immediately firing the scoreboard operator.

The job report numbers don't lie. So Trump's firing the number-gatherers.

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

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Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report President Donald Trump on Friday had his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May than p...

Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.

Photo I took this morning of a Bumble Bee waking up on a Dahlia.

befuddled old fuckwit accuses Joe Biden’s autopen of writing the Epstein Files no, really — he did

here's today's post: "befuddled old fuckwit accuses Joe Biden’s autopen of writing the Epstein Files" — no, really. he did.
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One of the four people killed in Monday's Midtown shooting was an off-duty New York Police officer Didarul Islam.

He was the father of two and his wife was pregnant. She is due with their third child next month.

He is also an immigrant from Bangladesh.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Beyoncé Responds To President Trump

Beyoncé responds back to trump
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Trump Admin Plans to Burn $10 Million Worth of Contraceptives for Poor Nations The U.S. government has rejected multiple solutions to distribute the aid to those who need it.

The Trump administration has chosen to burn almost $10 million worth of contraceptives rather than send them to poor nations. Sources say they rejected offers from the United Nations and aid groups to help distribute the supplies, which include contraceptive implants, pills and intrauterine devices.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
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DAY 23 JULY 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

The CRUELTY of ICE
The National Guard and Marines might be gone
But ICE is still rampant and so many are suffering

THIS IS
"THE HANDS THAT FEED US"

We Should Thank Them All

Our Crops
Our Construction & Service workers 🙏

A deaf and mute Los Angeles man with legal status spent weeks in ICE detention — unable to speak for himself.

The question: If ICE detains people with disabilities, where are the protections?
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