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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Here’s the full list of states with SNAP junk food restrictions: Arkansas Colorado Florida Idaho Indiana Iowa Louisiana Nebraska Oklahoma Texas (starts April 1, 2026) Utah West Virginia

SNAP EBT changes EFFECTIVE 2/15/26: Due to updated state SNAP restrictions, EBT will no longer be accepted for the following: Candy - chocolate, gummies, caramels, hard candies, taffy, mints, fum Soft Drinks - soda, sweet tea, energy drinks, sports drinks, flavored water

in a few days, EBT will be cut even further to prevent anyone needing assistance from buying literally candy/soda among other things

so like, all you comfy folks with enough $ for every new game, vacations, cars, concerts, treats are gonna step in and help out, right?

right?

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.

my grandma’s rural AI doctor diagnosed her with missing fingers

Starting the new year with a renewed hatred for all things Gen AI. So I drew a knight slaying a dragon, can you spot all the hints that the monster is AI? 🌞

An illustration of a comet hitting an ice cube that says "ABOLISH ICE" with "No human is illegal" in the bottom left corner

Light blue background with deep blue text that reads “we will take care of each other.” Three sausages fill the right side of the frame. From top to bottom, they are carrying a ladder, a bag of groceries, and a coffee. All have happy, helpful looks on their faces.

I’m going to start (inconsistently) posting over here again. Hoping to switch over permanently soon, but The Other Place has a hold on me.

Hi. Sausages are back.

Chart of US measles cases by year

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous. “CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.

In a December 16 email to Mother Jones, at which time South Carolina already had more than 100 cases, a spokesperson from HHS downplayed the threat of measles.

Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

The kids are not alright.

They need the adults to do the right thing.

They need us to acknowledge the very real threat of Long Covid, and start taking steps to mitigate the risk.

We urgently need to adopt mandatory masking in healthcare, paid time off & clean air in public spaces:

Digital illustration of a large group of people of different ages, races, genders, sexualities and abilities. Text reads. 'Abortion saves lives.'

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I've Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3. Here's Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think Editors Note: This is a boldly honest look at how people with paralysis have to deal with "overly kind" (well-meaning) offers of help. It's a uniquely

Please take a couple of minutes to read this piece.

It's important.

"We have ignored the perspectives, stories & voices of disabled people for so long that their actual needs, feelings and experiences are hardly acknowledged."

Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.

The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.

Measles is airborne like COVID and a lot more contagious.

But because we've had 5 years of COVID minimization and airborne denial we're not dealing with it.

Saw a Chicago-based bakery chain selling cannoli-cream-filled pączki today and I just love America so much.

Ah!! What!

The jerk store called. They voted 11-3 to unionize! Everyone welcome Jerks Local 217

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

When did the American Dream become "watching someone else suffer more"?

Measles cases nearly double in Ontario over last 2 weeks, far surpassing last decade's total | CBC News Ontario is reporting 78 new measles cases over the last two weeks, nearly doubling the province's total count since an outbreak started in the autumn.

Measles cases nearly double in Ontario over last 2 weeks, far surpassing last decade's total

18 unimmunized children hospitalized as a result of recent outbreak

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below: