Peter B

Peter B

@pburkholder.bsky.social

88 Followers 98 Following 87 Posts Joined Mar 2024
2 days ago
THE HILL
SENATE
Hawley introduces bill to remove FDA approval for Mifepristone
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 03/11/26 5:29 PM ET THE HILL
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation to remove Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the use of mifepristone to end pregnancies, a bill that has quickly gained the support of major anti-abortion groups.
The legislation is an ambitious undertaking given the drug's widespread use in the United States, where an estimated 7.5 million women have used it to terminate pregnancies since the FDA approved its use in 2000. It accounted for 63 percent of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023.
But mifepristone, which when combined with the drug misoprostol can end pregnancies at up to 70 days of gestation, has become a major target of the anti-abortion movement. President Trump has sought to satisfy those anti-abortion voices by launching an FDA review of the drug, which has not been completed.
Hawley says the ability of doctors to prescribe the drug across state lines has led to rampant abuse and alleges that incidences of adverse health effects are far more common than the drug's maker, Danco Laboratories, has acknowledged.

While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA…
Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone

The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.

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5 days ago

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

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6 days ago

It is not enough to say, in oversight hearings, “you are committing crimes and there will be consequences.” I want these people to see draft indictments written up, the construction of the courtroom where they’ll be tried, their proposed prison sentences.

Voters want to see this too.

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2 weeks ago
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Duty Calls

Duty called. I answered. xkcd.com/386/

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2 weeks ago

Yes, yes, the Trump administration, quite famous for being good stewards with the American people's tax money.

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2 weeks ago
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Public Inspection: Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Programs: Nationwide Temporary Moratoria on Enrollment of Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Supplie... Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Programs: Nationwide Temporary Moratoria on Enrollment of Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Supplier Medical Supply Co...

www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

It's a moratorium on enrolling new COMPANIES that sell DME.

But Dr. Oz clearly can't communicate.

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2 weeks ago

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

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2 weeks ago

✅ Follows the pattern: "Despite [terrible thing happening to news org], reporters at [news org] are still doing their jobs."

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2 weeks ago
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention

A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

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2 weeks ago

The disclosure was in the first sentence:

`The birthday-party invitation said “siblings welcome,” which means you can bring your 11-month-old son while your husband is out of town. `

Using the second person signals it's NOT a case study.

That so many folks can't pick up on that cue saddens me.

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3 weeks ago

Wait, people thought this was a specific case study? Is that how poorly Americans read now?

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3 weeks ago

Fucking love this guy.

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3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago

This really is indistinguishable from self-satire from Thomas Chatterton Williams: The left should stop criticizing slavery because its causing the right to excuse slavery.

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1 month ago

Lot of people saying “can’t believe QAnon was right” instead of “can’t believe the feminists were right about rape culture”, which feels suspicious tbqh.

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1 month ago
The FBI not knowing where Wisconsin is, apparently?

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

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1 month ago

"Could this week be more filled with shit?!" is all my wife could say on hearing the news of Catherine O'Hara's death.

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1 month ago
“Dark-mode screenshot of a message labeled ‘From Opinion’ with a timestamp of 9:57 PM. The text reads: ‘The millennial optimism of “Harry Potter” doesn’t resonate in today’s climate. Its moral simplicity was too good to be true.’”

Are you kidding me with this shit NYT?

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1 month ago
YouTube
George Washington YouTube video by unvmebad86

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

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1 month ago

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

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1 month ago

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

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1 month ago

Enjoy your dinner!

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2 months ago

Tagging @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social

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2 months ago

More protests should have singing. Something so unifying and inspiring about it.

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2 months ago
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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores? Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

Apple and Google have previously removed apps providing nudify services from their app stores.

So why havent they taken action against X and Grok?

@carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports

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2 months ago
The house I live in
A plot of earth, a street The grocer and the butcher And the people that I meet The children in the playground The faces that I see All races and religions That's America to me
A place I work in
A worker by my side
A little town or city
Where my people lived and died
The howdy and the handshake
The air of feeling free
And the right to speak my mind out
That's America to me
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2 months ago
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

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2 months ago

The fact that every other professor at OU didn't stage a strike - and yes - risk their careers - over this - is goddamn disappointing.

This is the future that awaits them if they don't resist it.

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