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Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like. As pregnancy criminalization is on the rise, Birth Behind Bars offers a rare look at what it’s like to be pregnant behind bars.

As conservatives push for the criminalization of more pregnant women & abortion seekers, a new book shines a light on what it's like to be pregnant behind bars

I spoke w/ author Rebecca Rodriguez Carey for @motherjones.com about the women she says the repro justice movement has largely left behind:

Some in Congress can’t muster maturity when they have a transgender colleague. But members of the U.S. Armed Forces can—and have.

My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.

People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”

This is authoritarian control in real time.

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot.
Unions know better.
Happy Labor Day Weekend.

Peter Dinklage and erasing medical debt? I'm in.

Other countries have crime and mental health challenges. What they don’t have is more guns than people. Only America has that. Enough with the excuses. It’s the guns.

Is Trump Embracing Socialism With His Intel Deal? This is a huge opportunity for the left. Because the question is not now 'big government or free markets?' The question we should be asking is 'who controls the economy – the elites or the people?'

"Is Trump Embracing Socialism With His Intel Deal?"

This is a huge opportunity for the left, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo. Because the question is not now 'big government or free markets?' It's 'who controls the economy – the elites or the people?'

Must-read:

When I read EO Wilson's letters at the LOC, it was clear that he was an ACTIVIST (for "scientific racism"). He was organizing with "race scientists," supporting them, positively reviewing their pubs and books, encouraging them to write Op Eds. Yet only progressives get the "activist" label.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

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RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS:

If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.

But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.

Budgets are value documents

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights

JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you

Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

Yep—Trump Is Still the Most Racist President of the Last 100 Years His racism defines nearly everything he does. And it is making the United States of America a cruel, sick, mean place.

New Column: What do the Smithsonian attack, Texas redistricting, DC policing, and more have in common? Hmmm, let's see... newrepublic.com/post/199457/... via @newrepublic.com

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data. https://cnn.it/4mZjjHQ

Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Correction: Minnesota teen was trapped and assaulted in restroom for failing to conform to server's gender expectations

Not to mention the fact that a rushed 5 year census wouldn't be accurate in any shape or form. This administration is blatantly stupid and hypocritical.

The fucking sec of state of the most powerful nation on earth is too scared to have his own thoughts or values, so he's turned himself into an impotent mouthpiece for the most dangerous person on earth.

Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last Why The Voting Rights Act's 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act promised to protect every American’s voice at the ballot box. Today, that promise is fading. As it marks its 60th birthday, we may be witnessing its last.

Ms. Rachel:

“How did it get to this point…I feel like I’m in a nightmare where I’m explaining not to kill thousands of children.”

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

"Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation...many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president."

Trump is the most corrupt president in living memory and it's not even close.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”

(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

1/ Today, we remember the victims of the Olenivka massacre. On the night of July 28-29, 2022, 50 Ukrainian POWs were executed in colony #120, and over 100 others were wounded. Their lives, their sacrifice, and their stories will never be forgotten. #UkrainianView

Performers honor victims of 1919 Chicago Race Riot through dance, music and story: 'We're in this together' Steps from where Black teen Eugene Williams was struck in the head by a rock and killed in Lake Michigan on July 27, 1919, Lookingglass ensemble members hold an art ritual of dance, music and spoken w...

In 1919, Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old Black boy, was stoned and drowned for crossing an invisible color line at a Chicago beach. His murder sparked 7 days of terror...38 killed, 500+ injured, 1,000 Black families left homeless.

Today, we remember them...

chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025...

This. Nothing else matters.