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Supreme Court says states can block Medicaid money for health care at Planned Parenthood The Supreme Court says Planned Parenthood says states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and...

Today, the right-wing justices on the anti-choice Supreme Court denied millions of South Carolinians the right to choose their doctor for physicals, cancer screenings and other health care. The war on choice is a war on women’s health.

Trump’s health agency urges therapy for transgender youth, not broader gender-affirming health care - The Boston Globe The lengthy review advocates for a greater reliance on behavioral therapy rather than broad gender-affirming medical care for youths with gender dysmorphia.

Let’s be clear: gender-affirming care saves lives. Their move to block it is a deliberate, ideological attack on trans youth — not science. It’s cruelty dressed up as policy. Kids will suffer.

When you make sure your friends get to eat too. #dogs

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her.

And *that's* why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

February 22, 2025 Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.

February 22, 2025
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February 20, 2025 On Monday, James Marriott of The Times, published in London, noted that the very stability and comfort of the post–World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish...

February 20, 2025
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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

January 24, 2025 “NUTS!”

Mandatory reading from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

I know you all already know this, but this is going to get really bad.

disinformation is intentional lying, so it comprises a kind of break in the informal social contract by which we have conversations, what the linguist H. P. Grice called "conversational maxims"

I think that means that means despite the range of what we call disinformation, lies tend to recur in it

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words The actress is touring a one-woman show about how animals express themselves. She’s also getting Oscar buzz for “Conclave,” a film in which she hardly speaks.

“Incredibly enough, my career seems to be going better now that I’m older and wrinkled and fatter. So go figure it out.” Isabella Rossellini talks to Michael Schulman about aging, feminism, and why she never got plastic surgery.

the first hopeful thing I've read in a minute

This is perfect explanation

“Pam Bondi is a Donald Trump loyalist. And, if you won’t say no to Donald Trump when it comes to the Big Lie, what will you say no to him about?” joycevance.substack.com/p/pam-bondi

The Mump Oligarchy -- A Glossary Ten Words for the Wise

The Mump Oligarchy -- A Glossary
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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years (Gift Article) Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.

She took it back, but when Sec Def Hegseth's own Mom writes him an email in the middle of a "difficult" divorce accusing him of abusing "many" women, how does the Senate confirm him? Do GOP Senators have any character left, or are they just going to bend the knee? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

Anattā, or non-self, reminds us that clinging to a fixed identity is an illusion. Like a river, we are ever-changing flows, non-constant forms. Embrace impermanence and find freedom. #Buddhism #Buddha #zen

The Island Where Environmentalism Implodes New Caledonia is home to thousands of species found nowhere else—and to nickel that companies like Tesla desperately need.

In New Caledonia, mining companies extract nickel for electric car batteries from the soil by razing the forests that evolved on it. Ben Crair writes about how the engines of the so-called green transition could leave Earth’s most verdant corner in tatters.

The Fundamental Problem with R.F.K., Jr.,’s Nomination to H.H.S. Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy.

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

Dr. Tony Ogburn created an ob-gyn clinic in the Rio Grande Valley to provide maternal care to an underserved community. After S.B. 8 passed, Ogburn told his colleagues, “The standard of care can now be construed as a felony.”

Two people frown at a phone. One says to the other, “Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky.”

Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Abortion bans are violence against women.

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I think this signals that a vast rewriting of history is at hand

The explosion of hatred, misinformation and inauthenticity we've seen at the service of Trump is going to be recast as an efflorescence of free speech

Silencing the people inside the U.S. who have documented that is the first step