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 patientsβ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
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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 patientsβ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
In the number are 10 Nobel Laureates. In total, 23 Nobel Laureates have supported the articles of impeachment.
Scientists are standing up, and lifting our collective voice to say, enough is enough. It's time our representatives take action to #ImpeachRFKJr
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Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasnβt the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead.
Heβs a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
Are u taking away their funds? Bc otherwise this is useless
06.02.2026 03:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability canβt wait.
For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
06.02.2026 01:32 β π 7880 π 2066 π¬ 40 π 32ICE is running a βconveyor beltβ of illegally detained Minnesota families.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
Black quote graphic reading βThe entire encounter with ICE has left me traumatized. Even though I am a U.S. citizen, I am afraid to be outside alone because I am terrified of being stopped by ICE again.β -C.C., Minneapolis resident, in a sworn declaration in our lawsuit challenging ICE's unlawful actions.
C.C. is scared heβll be separated from his daughter again because of ICEβs relentless enforcement machine in Minneapolis.
No one should have to fear being forcibly separated from their family by our government.
The safest place in America for a debased criminal is to be in the Epstein files.
03.02.2026 01:57 β π 1424 π 269 π¬ 45 π 11βItβs just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?β
03.02.2026 02:08 β π 3290 π 1098 π¬ 28 π 21DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was βinvolvedβ in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a βriot control agentβ that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
βIt just doesnβt work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,β an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
they shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti and 1 out of every 10 Twin Cities residents volunteered to take their place
03.02.2026 02:48 β π 890 π 127 π¬ 12 π 7In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
βClimate change is making extreme weather like heat waves and ice storms more extreme,β Margaret Renkl writes. βWith U.S. policy now undermining international climate goals, itβs clear that weβll be needing each other more than ever.β
"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "
03.02.2026 03:23 β π 1781 π 558 π¬ 15 π 5"In the past, Republicans have just waited us out because they thought we would break. This would be a very dangerous moment for us to do that because of the specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens?"
27.01.2026 12:30 β π 1948 π 602 π¬ 55 π 19Whatβs unfolding in Minnesota didnβt come out of nowhere.
Itβs tied to decades of allowing police violence against black and brown people to go unchecked.
Now, *this* is the cut of Melania's new vanity movie I'd watch.
(I'm kidding. I wouldn't watch anything about her.)
Welcome to America, where Republicans only care about injustice if they see themselves in the victims.
26.01.2026 22:27 β π 1681 π 405 π¬ 48 π 9"You have to admit that it's a bit suspicious that insurgencies keep springing up everywhere we're trying to occupy" - Guy who claims Art of War as his favorite book.
26.01.2026 17:15 β π 2928 π 219 π¬ 3 π 2MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
26.01.2026 17:10 β π 5482 π 901 π¬ 637 π 783Quit TikTok already π
26.01.2026 23:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Whole weβre freezing in the USA
26.01.2026 10:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.
βIβm literally a U.S. citizen!β one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
They're no doubt searching for a new evil dumb fucking distraction to replace their current evil dumb fucking distraction that was done to keep y'all from talking about Epstein
26.01.2026 03:43 β π 30 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
26.01.2026 03:47 β π 5865 π 1836 π¬ 53 π 32part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
26.01.2026 00:14 β π 10717 π 2504 π¬ 220 π 79In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed to bar discrimination based on race. In 1973, Donald Trump & his father were sued by the DOJ for refusing to rent apartments to black people. Civil Rights came into being to stop racist assholes like the Trumps, not to discriminate against white people.
13.01.2026 01:21 β π 2327 π 872 π¬ 155 π 48AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with
13.01.2026 01:20 β π 3822 π 911 π¬ 61 π 32