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This week's 3 for 1 abortion story

The administration taking another terrible step in trying to erase transgender people.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people exisit and their rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Dangerous Concept of Fetal Personhood — rePROs Fight Back Fetal personhood, in short, labels a pregnancy as a person. It is the idea that anything a person is legally entitled to, a fetus is, as well. Karen Thompson , Legal Director at Pregnancy Justice and...

What does “fetal personhood” mean and how does it expand state power over pregnant people? This week, Karen Thompson at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and Garin Marschall at @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about viability, state involvement in pregnancies, and criminalization. #podcast

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Decimate Medicaid — rePROs Fight Back The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), President Trump’s Tax and Spend mega bill, recently passed Congress. It will strip billions of dollars from essential health programs while paying for billions ...

President Trump’s Tax and Spend mega bill, recently passed by Congress, will strip billions from health programs to fund tax cuts for the rich, expand mass deportation programs, & continue to harm reproductive justice. Madeline Morcelle at @nhelp.bsky.social breaks down what this means for Medicaid:

Albeit depressing as hell. Knowledge is power.

Excellent episode. Worth watching or listening!

“…office cloaked in a dark curtain.” Just WOW.

Gov. Mike Braun, Indiana GOP leaders talk redistricting with Vice President; Mrvan says decision ‘a done deal’ After Vice President JD Vance met with Gov. Mike Braun Thursday, U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan blasted the Trump administration for bringing “the circus” of redistricting to Indiana and said he belie…

Braun confirmed redistricting, oops Gerrymandering, was discussed with JD.

The District 1 seat held by (D)Frank Mrvan is a target because it’s competitive, a larger district than the 7th District, & risks racial gerrymandering

A special session cost taxpayers $240,000 for the near abortion ban

Scarborough loses patience with Mike Lawler after Lawler lies that Republicans didn't actually cut Medicaid: "Congressman, you can keep talking if you want to, but are you saying you know doctors' business, you know hospital administrators' business better than they know their own business?"

The deep state is trying to make Altman the new Musk ... with a little incest for new flavor.

crooksandliars.com Hannity Lashes Out At 'Petty' Trump Supporters Who Dare To Criticize Their POTUS | Crooks and Liars

Hannity Lashes Out At 'Petty' Trump Supporters Who Dare To Criticize Their POTUS https://twp.ai/4ip6L2

Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents over CIA objections, sources say Some former intelligence officers said they were alarmed at the detail revealed in the declassified document about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

For all the naysayers who thought Trump would throw our national security and every citizen under the bus just to protect his own pedophile rapist ass, I just want you to know that you were completely correct.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Five minutes after Maria Bartiromo covered Tom Cotton's criticism of Intel's CEO's "potential ties to communist China," President Trump called for the CEO's removal.

Left, Fox Business, 7:34 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:39 a.m.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at
“Alligator Alcatraz” as she considers whether it violates environmental laws.

Not about the inhumanity of it?????
These are the things that make me say FUCK!
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1

The Hype Man of Trump’s Mass Deportations Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.

"soon after he took command in El Centro, his social-media team released 'The Gotaway,' a fictionalized video showing a migrant sneaking into the United States and murdering the first person he encounters" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It. The UK’s biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.

🏳‍⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely.

These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?

🦗 Silence.

#TransPride #MediaBias

Read why it matters ⬇️

The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval ratings | Judith Levine Claims that Maga is fracturing are overblown. But that doesn’t mean Trump can’t be defeated

The polls look bad for Trump – but tyrants don’t depend on approval ratings | Judith Levine

Don’t worry. They aren’t. They’re only talking about it, as usual.

Republican lawmakers have fought against affordable healthcare for way too long!!! These elected politicians don’t give a damn about their own constituents (until they need their votes) These liars (who condone Trump’s countless crimes) should’ve been voted-out a long time ago!

#BlameRepublicans for only ever sabotaging our healthcare. They have never once done ANYTHING that helps Americans get & keep their healthcare. Nothing, ever! Not once.

Republicans don’t care if we live or die bc they know they & theirs will always be just fine.

Screengrab from article : "I'm a lean-no on doing anything to help subsidize the ACA," he said. "There's just much better ways to handle this." [^Above is highlighted by poster. Text edit in red added by poster: Never once have they offered an alternative.] Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who is a member of the Finance Committee and chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, punted on the ACA subsidies question. "I think it needs to be studied," he said. Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who is running for re-election to his Texas seat, didn't close the door to an ACA funding extension, but said he's open to modifying the thresholds. "We need to have a discussion about what level is appropriate," Cornyn said, while adding that it could be paired with policies to "eliminate the waste and fraud" in health care.

Screengrab from article : "Republicans have plenty of time to ram through tax cuts for billionaires - but they literally haven't even talked about extending health tax credits for working-class families," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said on X. [Sen. Patty Murray’s statement highlighted by poster, followed by added two red exclamation points.] "Republican indifference is a major reason why your premiums will be spiking dramatically THIS YEAR." GOP proponents say there are other opportunities to extend the funds - including a stand-alone bill or a year-end package of various health care provisions and tax extenders. One thing is clear: Republicans will need Democratic support, given the divisions in their own ranks. And they may need to modify the existing version to make it palatable in the party. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., an early proponent of continuing the funds, said this week that "there's a question about whether or not it's the…

All the Republicans do is talk about “better ways to handle” healthcare for everyday Americans. Never once have they offered an alternative.
‼️THEY’VE HAD THE TIME‼️
But they’re too busy giving billionaires permanent tax cuts and passing upgrades to their own federally provided FREE HEALTHCARE.

Screengrab from article : "I'm a lean-no on doing anything to help subsidize the ACA," he said. "There's just much better ways to handle this." [^Above is highlighted by poster. Text edit in red added by poster: Never once have they offered an alternative.] Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who is a member of the Finance Committee and chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, punted on the ACA subsidies question. "I think it needs to be studied," he said. Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who is running for re-election to his Texas seat, didn't close the door to an ACA funding extension, but said he's open to modifying the thresholds. "We need to have a discussion about what level is appropriate," Cornyn said, while adding that it could be paired with policies to "eliminate the waste and fraud" in health care.

Screengrab from article : "Republicans have plenty of time to ram through tax cuts for billionaires - but they literally haven't even talked about extending health tax credits for working-class families," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said on X. [Sen. Patty Murray’s statement highlighted by poster, followed by added two red exclamation points.] "Republican indifference is a major reason why your premiums will be spiking dramatically THIS YEAR." GOP proponents say there are other opportunities to extend the funds - including a stand-alone bill or a year-end package of various health care provisions and tax extenders. One thing is clear: Republicans will need Democratic support, given the divisions in their own ranks. And they may need to modify the existing version to make it palatable in the party. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., an early proponent of continuing the funds, said this week that "there's a question about whether or not it's the…

All the Republicans do is talk about “better ways to handle” healthcare for everyday Americans. Never once have they offered an alternative.
‼️THEY’VE HAD THE TIME‼️
But they’re too busy giving billionaires permanent tax cuts and passing upgrades to their own federally provided FREE HEALTHCARE.

Republicans are split on extending Obamacare tax breaks as higher costs loom Trump’s pollster warns that the GOP will pay a “political penalty” in the 2026 election if the funds expire this year. But many conservatives in the party say they should end on schedule.

Republican leaders are facing growing calls from their members to extend a bucket of funding for the Affordable Care Act that is slated to expire at the end of this year — as some look to avert insurance premium hikes and millions of Americans losing health coverage.

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED

@reuters.com

Houston congressional candidate Isaiah Martin was violently thrown to the ground and arrested yesterday for objecting to Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. Republicans win by cheating.

Isaiah Martin spoke out as the leader he is and was arrested. 🤬

WE DEMAND HIS RELEASE!!

Indeed
Perhaps now NPR and PBS can drop the sickening both-sideism they have been engaging in and present ONLY THE TRUTH

#NOKINGS #NOICE #NOFASCISTS #NOPEDOPHILES
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY #EMPATHY #TOLERANCE
#HUMANITY #dueprocessforall #RESIST #GOODTROUBLE

Years ago, we got two early Google assistants from my dad for Christmas. My husband would plug them in. I would unplug them. They creeped me tf out! No thanks. (We ended up putting them in a garage sale.) Though I do get it that our phones are doing basically the same listening, learning & plotting.

"...they said that I do not have rights, that my constitutional rights don't matter at a port of entry and that I should stop talking about rights," Chavarria said.

We need to educate every vulnerable person (and their loved ones AND employers) of what to do in these instances

Thanks to Nicholas for the gift link! bsky.app/profile/geog...

THIS from the freaking WSJ. Not exactly a bastion of liberalism.