Staying calm

Feeling Naïve on Memorial Day I honestly can't tell anymore.

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/feeling-na...

Here comes the sun

Law. Suit.

Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.

Not a drill. Please read and consider the consequences.

www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

May Day

Of Cuteness

Stuck a feather in his…and called him macaroni.

The rise of end times fascism 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

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism. It’s time to think about this.

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Why is the world?

government for and by psychopaths

At the local coffee shop

When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

No. More. Scrolling.

Scrolling one too many times

On the alert

Rainy days and Mondays

New rule of thumb: If Herr Drumpf talks up something (like, oh, bitcoin), then you ought to pull your hard earned money out of it. Stat. Consider this a friendly PSA.

WTF is happening, anyway?

On the edge

the andrew tate news has solidifed this. they want women to be afraid because they think if we're afraid, then we won't thrive.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Contemplative

Why do all the MiB in my dream look like the muskrat?

@crope.bsky.social Aha! You found me first. Thanks. Now I’m following you, Candace.

@annemal78.bsky.social Hey, Anne! Found you. Please stay in touch.

Louisiana Indicts New York Abortion Provider, Arrests Mother These are the first post-Roe criminal charges brought against a doctor.

Louisiana Indicts New York Abortion Provider, Arrests Mother
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In case you were too busy following all the other outrageous things going on.

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