Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Interesting explanation why a lot of white middle class women could vote for Trump: www.instagram.com/reel/DH4QOlf...
01.04.2025 04:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great concise explanation of what tariffs will do to the US economy: youtu.be/doIvFUNZgTs?...
31.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Greenland anti-MAGA cap :-)
28.03.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ordo Iuris and Orbán's people want to dismantle EU with Trump's help.
But who's really behind it?
🔗⏬ Must read, No paywall
The Netherlands has tightened its travel advice to the United States for LGBTQ+ people, highlighting an unease among European nations about Washington’s policies toward sexual minorities.
25.03.2025 14:41 — 👍 224 🔁 71 💬 11 📌 7A bit shocking it has come to this that European countries have to warn their LGBTQ+ citizens to use caution when travelling to the US as if they were travelling to e.g. Uganda, Gambia or Sudan: www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/25/e...
25.03.2025 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Priceless compilation of the Trump's Cabinet members' pure hypocrisy at work: youtu.be/5pPd6dHSNFM?...
25.03.2025 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great depiction of how Russian disinformation and plain propaganda works just before presidential elections in Poland, first stirring up, then weaponizing anti-Ukrainian sentiments for the benefit of alt-right candidates in the upcoming elections: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe...
25.03.2025 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And it’s only two months into the turn. It’s scary to think what other blunders/mishaps/instances of utter carelessness will happen under this administration.
24.03.2025 22:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Every. Single. Time. Their go-to is always attack the media outlet. And yet, officials in his own administration already confirmed the story is accurate. bsky.app/profile/atru...
24.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 3867 🔁 878 💬 437 📌 71Trump had an overwhelming support of the working class - a group to be the first one to be kicked to the curb and to lose the most. But dismantling crucial systems ensuring that the group stays above water is not enough, it clearly has to be done with such utter disdain :-(
22.03.2025 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.
22.03.2025 00:59 — 👍 10803 🔁 2943 💬 478 📌 257Karma's a bitch
20.03.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very educational little series by Zeihan, just one of the episodes, but all of them bring a number of interesting details
youtu.be/GRyXhfu_ZUE?...
History repeats itself - without mass protesting, Niemöller's poem will ring true again:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists (...)
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Viktor Orbán’s attempt to ban the Hungarian Pride march is one of the strongest examples yet of his Fidesz party’s efforts to win back extremist voters as its rival surges in the polls.
18.03.2025 11:19 — 👍 530 🔁 139 💬 11 📌 11I'm sure they will react, the problem is it will take time. Poland's learned it the hard way when Polish local governments in order to show an even greater support for the Law and Justice Party then in power starting declaring LGBT free zones. The EU pressure and funds withdrawal helped.
18.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0US recent foreign policy:
youtube.com/shorts/LDkjv...