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Cannot be said too often…

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."

The Governor took away civil rights protections for iowans today. Who are politicians like Kim Reynolds doing things like this for? Themselves.

Ewwww, David. (Daaaaamn America is led by awful humans.)

@iamwandasykes.bsky.social gets it. Wanda’s kids get it. Her kid's friends get. It’s not really that hard.

#pronouns

Iowa gives final approval to a bill removing gender identity protections despite massive protests A bill that would strip gender identity protections from Iowa’s civil rights code has received final legislative approval and now goes to the governor.

Iowa legislature votes to go backwards, and decides transgender people don't deserve civil rights despite massive protests.

Every law, every smear campaign, every cruel joke is an attempt to erase us—but we are still here, and we are not going anywhere. Fuck you!!!

apnews.com/article/iowa...

The connections…

Iowa Republicans back a bill that would strip gender identity from the state's civil rights code Several protesters were arrested at the Iowa state Capitol as Republican lawmakers advanced a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity.

If you can, make noise in Iowa. The Republicans there are aiming to become the first in modern history to remove civil rights protections. They're trying to strip gender identity protections that have been in place for nearly 18 years.

apnews.com/article/iowa...

Time to signal distress AND extreme emergency.

💯 THIS! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Meme that reads: If you ain't vaxxed, don't be jamming up our hospitals with your dumb ass. You ride that shit out at home with your Hannity and your horse meds.

💯 THIS! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

With the all the attacks on our community I thought I’d post this again. Might save a life.

Every single American needs to hear this, particularly women!

If the Save Act passes, most married women will be required to show US Passports in order to vote!

That will mean people who cannot afford one won't be able vote & Republicans like Rep Walberg don't want us to & he's on tape saying so!

NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation.

Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.

And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

Sadly true.

Also expect that anything you have put in eRA Commons, NIH’s central grant application and review repository, will be used to train Musk’s AI.

We should start asking Grok “what research work is <X NIH grant applicant> proposing to do” and see when confidential info starts popping up. 🧪

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

❤️ Love to you my friend.

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

What’s at stake in Friday’s court hearing on NIH research indirect cost cuts A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to maintain a stay on a cap on NIH overhead cost payments

Tomorrow, 3 cases against NIH regarding indirect costs will have their first hearing — here’s what to look for:

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www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/t...

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

We will not be silenced by Trump or Musk or anyone in the fascist Republican Party. 👏🏼👏🏼🩷👏🏼👏🏼 Graphic that states: SILENCE DOESN'T KEEP THE PEACE IT LETS THE LOUDEST VOICES GO UNCHALLENGED

We will not be silenced by Trump or Musk or anyone in the fascist Republican Party. 👏🏼👏🏼🩷👏🏼👏🏼

Love this guy

Tell the EPA to Reject Pesticide Labeling Changes That Would Shield Bayer-Monsanto EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0562-0001 RED ALERT! Bayer-Monsanto is back with an assault on our rights as Americans. We must stop them and their allies.

Deadline Midnight!
Please sign!
“11 state AGs want to outlaw any state from forcing pesticide manufacturers to correctly label their products as carcinogenic, or the cause of other health harms, when the EPA does not recognize those harms.”
via @gmofreeusa.bsky.social
#food #Health

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank.

I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history.

Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Meme from Call to Activism with a side by side photo of Dan Rather & Donald Trump. It reads as follow: “I cannot remember a time when the world saw the United States this unsteady, adrift, corrupt, or incompetent." -Dan Rather

🎯🎯🎯

Knowledge is power…

National Insitutes of Health funding cuts by Trump administration benefit no one | Opinion Indirect funds are essential for supporting the research infrastructure needed to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing health challenges.

I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities!
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...