The Trump regime‘s strategy for seizing absolute power is to divide Americans. They want states to hate each other.
23.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 62 🔁 22 💬 9 📌 1
When you help preside over economic policy that is both inflationary and nonsensical and tell average Americans struggling with affordability that they should deal with it by finding a new place to live.
23.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 381 🔁 89 💬 50 📌 10
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
23.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 1480 🔁 532 💬 84 📌 55
The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
23.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 955 🔁 291 💬 16 📌 5
The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
23.11.2025 02:39 — 👍 1967 🔁 479 💬 47 📌 10
Change in the number of ICE detainees at identified "threat levels" from October 2024 vs. November 2025.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
23.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 481 🔁 119 💬 10 📌 3
“…wherever there was a ‘deserving’ Party member and no other place could be found for him, he would be dumped into education.…Putting ignorant ‘reliables,’ from politics or business, over the educators was also part of the Nazi way of humiliating education and bringing it into popular contempt.”
23.11.2025 00:55 — 👍 70 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 2
When this all comes crashing down, this and their covid disinformation is all these guys should be remembered for.
Nothing else.
22.11.2025 18:27 — 👍 108 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 1
No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
22.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 3023 🔁 892 💬 78 📌 33
We have created three distinct certifications tailored to key audiences:
Gemini Certified Educator: for teaching innovation and student success.
Gemini Certified University Student: for academic excellence and professional preparedness.
Gemini Certified Student (K12) for responsible, informed use by high schoolers. Please note a foundational course completion is required before the assessment can be taken.
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
22.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 177 🔁 70 💬 8 📌 18
I almost cried to see a man who'd happily seize your or my private property, would trample constitutional liberties without thinking twice, and has zero fiscal responsibility, being welcome in the Oval Office. And it didn't help matters that Zohran Mamdani was there right next to him.
22.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 202 🔁 26 💬 8 📌 0
The Centers for Disease Cultivation
The Centers for Dying Confusingly
The Centers for Deranged Care
21.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 52 🔁 15 💬 8 📌 0
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
FBS was founded by ex-doula Emilee Saldaya, and most women find it through its podcast, which has been downloaded 5m times, its Instagram account, which has 132,000 followers, its YouTube, with nearly 25m views, or its bestselling The Complete Guide to Freebirth, a video course co-created by Saldaya with fellow ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark, available for download from FBS’s slick website. Analysis of FBS’s financial records by Stacey Ferris, a forensic accountant and academic at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, suggests it has generated revenues exceeding $13m since 2018.
When Lopez discovered the podcast she was hooked, listening to an episode almost every day. For $299, she joined FBS’s paid-for, private online community, the Lighthouse, where she met the three friends in the room when Esau was born. To prepare for her freebirth, she purchased The Complete Guide to Freebirth in May 2022 for $399 – a vast sum to the then 23-year-old nanny.
After consuming hundreds of hours of FBS materials, Lopez grew convinced freebirthing was the safest way to deliver her unborn child, away from unnecessary medical interventions. Earlier in her three-day labor, Lopez had visited her local hospital for an ultrasound as the baby wasn’t moving as much as usual. Staff urged her to stay, warning she was at high risk of shoulder dystocia, as the baby was “huge”. But Lopez wasn’t concerned. Fresh in her memory was a newsletter she’d received from Norris-Clark, stating fears of shoulder dystocia were “greatly exaggerated”. From The Complete Guide to Freebirth, Lopez had learned that women’s “bodies do not grow babies that we cannot birth”.
Gabrielle Lopez blows bubbles for her son, Esau, at their home in Levittown, PA, US, August 2025
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‘The small gains are huge for us’: Gabrielle Lopez with son Esau. Photograph: Hannah Yoon/The Guardian
After a few minutes, with Esau still not breathing, the spell in Lopez’s bedroom broke.
![It is hard to quantify exactly how many babies have died in FBS circles, because many “loss moms”, as they’re known, disappear in the wake of their tragedies. Most do not respond to journalistic inquiries.
Within the Lighthouse alone, around eight women appear to have experienced stillbirths or neonatal deaths in the last year, in a community of around 600 women, many of whom were not pregnant.
As part of this Guardian investigation, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who suffered late-term stillbirths, neonatal deaths or other incidents of serious harm after they or their birth attendants were heavily influenced by FBS. Their accounts were corroborated through interviews with friends, family and partners, and supported by journal entries, medical notes, video footage, message threads or legal documents. In all 18 cases, the evidence suggests FBS played a significant role in the mother or birth attendant’s decision-making, leading to potentially avoidable tragedies.
They include Adair Arbor, who never would have considered an unassisted birth before encountering FBS, and whose daughter, Ilex, was stillborn in January 2021 following a 115-hour labor, and Amalia Hernandez, who nearly bled to death in March 2024 after refusing to call an ambulance, believing her post-partum bleeding would resolve itself at home. The same year, Haley Bordeaux went blind and suffered several strokes following a four-day labor in which she was in contact with Saldaya, in phone calls and text messages via a friend. When Saldaya was later informed that doctors had concluded Bordeaux’s temporary vision loss was due to severe pre-eclampsia, she replied: “She doesn’t have severe pre e[clampsia], that’s so entirely retarded.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreibvoc4qne4oeq7cqauzorzonfgp5zb3phienvkuvwfcna3lfkhdoq@jpeg)
It is hard to quantify exactly how many babies have died in FBS circles, because many “loss moms”, as they’re known, disappear in the wake of their tragedies. Most do not respond to journalistic inquiries.
Within the Lighthouse alone, around eight women appear to have experienced stillbirths or neonatal deaths in the last year, in a community of around 600 women, many of whom were not pregnant.
As part of this Guardian investigation, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who suffered late-term stillbirths, neonatal deaths or other incidents of serious harm after they or their birth attendants were heavily influenced by FBS. Their accounts were corroborated through interviews with friends, family and partners, and supported by journal entries, medical notes, video footage, message threads or legal documents. In all 18 cases, the evidence suggests FBS played a significant role in the mother or birth attendant’s decision-making, leading to potentially avoidable tragedies.
They include Adair Arbor, who never would have considered an unassisted birth before encountering FBS, and whose daughter, Ilex, was stillborn in January 2021 following a 115-hour labor, and Amalia Hernandez, who nearly bled to death in March 2024 after refusing to call an ambulance, believing her post-partum bleeding would resolve itself at home. The same year, Haley Bordeaux went blind and suffered several strokes following a four-day labor in which she was in contact with Saldaya, in phone calls and text messages via a friend. When Saldaya was later informed that doctors had concluded Bordeaux’s temporary vision loss was due to severe pre-eclampsia, she replied: “She doesn’t have severe pre e[clampsia], that’s so entirely retarded.”
When 42-year-old mother of one Keelee Sullivan, from California, signed up for the RBK school in 2023, she borrowed $6,000 from a family member, telling him, as she believed, it was “for midwifery school”. After the first birth she attended ended in hospital, Sullivan realised she’d been “practicing delusional optimism” and “was not educated or prepared” to be a midwife: “And no, I am not willing to go to jail.” She has not attended any births since.
Saldaya and Norris-Clark always insisted that being a Radical Birth Keeper isn’t illegal. “You are not practicing medicine,” Saldaya told her students. But privately, Norris-Clark mocked medical disclaimers. “Always consult your licensed certified medical professional,” she laughed in one call with her students. “This is for entertainment, informational, artistic purposes only. Yeah, it’s all just performance art, right?”
Molly Flam, 34, a doula from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, who attended MMI, FBS’s flagship midwifery school, described it as “a scam”. She paid $9,000, only to find the pre-recorded videos were rambling and unprofessional, and contained medical advice that was inaccurate and confusing. “They’re showing up to classes dishevelled, talking about their personal lives,” Flam says. “There was no structure.”
From 2020-2025, FBS ran nine RBK schools and at least one MMI school, generating more than $4m in sales. At one stage in 2024, FBS was making up to $160,000 a month, according to one former employee.
As the money poured in, Saldaya established what she called her “queendom”. She bought three pieces of land in Hayesville, including a four-bed house in eight acres of land, an adjacent 53-acre plot and a school, set in 17 acres, that she spent tens of thousands renovating, only for it to fail a year later. She spent more than $10,000 on lawn ornaments, including giant toadstools, for the school and festival. She bought a Range Rover.
I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
22.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 357 🔁 69 💬 6 📌 7
"Freedom of the press...as long as they promote our right wing Soviet-style propaganda"
21.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 113 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 0
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
20.11.2025 04:22 — 👍 3370 🔁 963 💬 39 📌 35
If this man had any kind of medical license, it would be suspended by his state medical board for corrupt, deliberately deceitful, self-enriching conduct grossly harmful to the public health. RFK Jr—and his opportunistic enablers—should be impeached and investigated for criminal prosecution.
21.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 60 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 4
Someone should ask Ron Johnson about the "real, free-market capitalism" of Trump using the US Government to take partial ownership of corporations or pushing for bribes in order to allow mergers or acquisitions.
20.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Impeach RFK Jr. And vote out everyone who voted to confirm him in the first place.
21.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 67 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
Handed a patient a printout of a CDC summary.
They were suspicious.
I pointed out the publication date.
It was from 2024.
“Oh, ok, so this is from when we could trust them.”
20.11.2025 13:08 — 👍 308 🔁 71 💬 7 📌 7
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
20.11.2025 04:19 — 👍 26512 🔁 6628 💬 7 📌 221
