April

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US At a buzzy event in San Francisco, World announced a series of Apple-like stores, a partnership with dating giant Match Group, and a new mini gadget to scan your eyeballs.

First came the Amazon One palm reader at Whole Foods checkout stands. Now, Sam Altman wants you to pay for things—and verify your identity—with a scan of your irises via an orb that stores biometric information on the blockchain.

my working assumption is that any foreign government who cares to has basically real time access to the inner workings of the Trump administration

which doesn’t really help much when the six fireflies bouncing around inside Trump’s skull hit a new random thing to tariff

Lol just crazier and crazier

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.”-- @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Great write up on a very effective scam that uses a second scammer to call your bank while you speak to the scammer. Don't trust unsolicited calls/texts/emails claiming to be from your bank.

Imagine if YOUR wife, sister or daughter was detained immediately after giving birth & isolated from her baby, her family, her lawyer & friends. She was held incommunicado.

𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗡 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗬!

This regime is lawless.
They are soulless.
They are brutal.
They are Nazis.
www.kold.com/2025/05/03/g...

Great sign seen at today’s #TeslaTakedown.

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Last Tuesday, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by RFK Jr.’s department.

So DOGE was just about getting rid of Elon’s troubles.

Corruption Run a Musk

End the Nerd Reich

So Much to Protest, So Little Cardboard

Some signs of the times: Seen today at the joyful #HandsOff and #TeslaTakedown protest here in my town.

A soft wind rustled through some pine trees. You swore it sounded like muffled words. Couldn’t be, obviously. But you listen again. You convinced yourself you heard it. “Rainbow bike tunnels in IRA2” it whispered.

Can anyone explain how Alberta has been so poorly treated by Liberals? They bought them a pipeline ffs. And the highest ever amount of oil produced/exported was under Trudeau. These folks aren't living in reality. They'll never be satisfied. They want to hate liberals more than they want the truth.

Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" by a Liberal Party logo, Calvin says, "Life could be a lot better, too!" under an NDP logo, Calvin's dad says, "Life being worse builds character!" under a Conservative Party logo

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

Haitian woman dies in US immigration detention At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.

A Haitian woman who was among those held in allegedly inhumane conditions has died after more than 10 weeks in immigration custody.

At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.

Write a letter. Send it registered. Request reply by letter. Write one for each appointment required. Be excruciatingly informative ("I've called on theses dates" sort of thing), but meticulously polite. You are allowed to say that you are finding the process very stressful.

From an Australian cartoonist...

12 Indigenous candidates elected in 2025 federal election | CBC News Twelve First Nations, Inuit or Métis people were elected as the ballot count continues on Tuesday in the 2025 general election.

12 Indigenous candidates elected in 2025 federal election

Danielle Smith has one card to play: picking fights for the sake of fighting. If she doesn’t make an enemy out of the federal government, she’s left with no one to blame but herself.

Albertans are proud to be Canadians. We know better than to play games when our nation’s sovereignty is threatened.

RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

RFK Jr. is ending the federal Narcan distribution program credited with the recent steep decline in overdose deaths. This despite his own past heroin addiction and his own brother dying of a drug overdose in 1984.

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Alberta shocks nation with same election results they've turned out since 1958 CALGARY - In a truly unexpected turn of events, Alberta has stunned voters across Canada by voting exactly the same way they have voted in every federal election for seven consecutive decades.

Alberta shocks nation with same election results they've turned out since 1958 #cdnpoli

Follow the money, people. Always follow the money.
America is corrupt from sea to shiny sea.

Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

I hate you

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

Ah, the historically *checks notes* better reviewed and better paid authors? thank heavens someone has arrived to help the under-represented from that (as oppressed modern thinker Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote) ‘damned mob of scribbling women.’ #booksky

Google translate screenshot. Sneglefart: snail's pace

Today's absolutely delightful Norwegian word:

The National Parks budget is $3.6 billion, but they produce $55 billion in revenue. Cutting their budget is like quitting your job to save on gas.

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon