Cate

In exchange for five seats

I hate what frank has done to this show

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

New: The Veterans Affairs system is already down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year.

At several VA facilities, more 1/3 of the positions for doctors remain unfilled.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @propublica.org

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

NEW: The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into a program to help fund state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes.

It’s now at risk of being cut.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

The massive Grand Canyon fire is burning out of control The Trump administration's US Forest Service staffing cuts may have hampered the agency's ability to respond.

The massive Grand Canyon fire is burning out of control

Me too

I like it!

Shady Hayley

Makes no damn sense

Y’all hear that? Solar is saving Texas!

Heat index in Houston is 111. Air conditioning demand is high. Gas & coal plant outages are up sharply. But prices in Texas are the lowest in the country ($20/MWh). Why? Texas' nation leading solar resources are generating >30% of the power needed on peak. #txlege #txenergy

I hate it

Bizarro world

Texas DPS director’s son is still active trooper weeks after injuring bystander State trooper Freeman H. Martin was driving 101 mph in a 45 mph zone when he blew through a red light and hit another car during a police chase.

State trooper Freeman H. Martin was driving 101 mph in a 45 mph zone when he blew through a red light and hit another car during a police chase.

The guy who has been anti-vax for two decades without any scientific evidence to back it up, promised to Congress that he wasn’t anti-vax, got confirmed, and then immediately started doing anti-vax things

I hate this whole thing

Insurance Companies’ Medicare Pullback Is Here Insurers are planning to scale back benefits, trim plans and exit from markets. Investors are cheering.

"Insurers are cutting benefits and exiting from unprofitable markets, and Wall Street is cheering them on."

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

What a jerk

Thank you for writing about your experience and sharing it with us. I am so sorry about Clay.

Agree and I loved it!

Yeah it’s gettin old

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Western renewable energy labs, research would lose big under Trump budget The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, based in Richland and Portland and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory based in Golden, Colorado, would see their funding in the year ahead nearly halved under the Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, based in Richland and Portland and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory based in Golden, Colorado, would see their funding in the year ahead nearly halved under the Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Court cancels consumer-friendly click-to-cancel rule A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of a Federal Trade Commission rule that prohibited companies from making it harder for consumers to cancel.

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Not a drag queen.

Camps also have a little-known state committee that advises DSHS, the very same state agency that licenses them, on requirements and policies. The Youth Camp Advisory Committee and similar advisory groups point to their necessity in a state without a full-time Legislature. Instead of waiting on state lawmakers to meet as scheduled every two years to pass laws, youth camps, which make up six of the nine members on the advisory group, meet semiannually to request rule changes to the state agency and the Legislature when it convenes.

Strikes me as not ideal to have the camps with 6 of 9 slots on this state advisory committee

More great reporting on the aftermath of Kerrville flooding and Camp Mystic from @tlangford.bsky.social @texastribune.org

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/01/t...

The FDA Is Cracking Down on an Indian Drugmaker Investigated by ProPublica Last Year In a warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration said Glenmark Pharmaceuticals failed to properly investigate flaws with a generic drug that ProPublica found was linked to U.S. deaths.

The FDA’s warning letter to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals comes after ProPublica’s reporting that one of its factories was responsible for an outsized share of recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm American patients.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

I love Scottie

Wtg TEXAS
GERRYMANDERING
Resistance
@isaiahrmartin.bsky.social
You are not alone
Shame on Texas Republicans