Melissa

www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

Make no mistake: Capito Care makes life-changing cuts to Medicaid • West Virginia Watch West Virginians for Affordable Health Care has launched a 55 county tour to shine a light on the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.

COMMENTARY: Over 500,000 West Virginians count on Medicaid — from our youngest to our oldest, and everyone in between — including working families, people with disabilities, and those who need expensive or long-term care they couldn’t afford on their own, writes Ellen Allen.

It’s amazing that she thinks anyone is buying this

Stained panties, male guards and no privacy: what it’s like to have your period in prison In my 15 years of incarceration, I’ve seen women’s bodily needs constantly disregarded. One solution could grant us back some dignity

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose.

Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today.

Speak to your medical provider.

Let’s be clear: you unsubscribing from Disney did it. Nothing else.
Follow the 💰

I stand with #Tylenol.

Tylenol does not cause autism. Women should not have to “tough it out”. Fuck that shit.

Rural Women Are at a Higher Risk of Violence − And Less Likely to Get Help | The Daily Yonder This article was originally published by The Conversation. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are

dailyyonder.com/rural-women-...

the secret service explanation just confirms how fucked up this is

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Imagine being a billionaire, in charge of one the most powerful, influential companies in the history of world, and prostrating yourself to Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. Sheesh.

THIS.

THISSSSSS.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

⚡️JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social barred from a Secretary Noem event at NASHVILLE AIRPORT, in his own district🤔

He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.

FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...

KY woman’s abortion ban challenge on religious, IVF grounds can continue, court rules An appeals court has ruled that a Louisville mother who sued Kentucky in 2022 over the abortion ban’s impact on her ability to get pregnant using IVF has legal standing to continue with her lawsuit.

A Kentucky appeals court has ruled that a Jewish woman who sued the state in 2022 over its abortion ban has the necessary legal standing to challenge that law.
www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article310766900.html#storylink=cpy

DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.

One day. That’s the slap in the face the DOJ is calling “accountability” in Breonna Taylor’s case.

Now they want to act like civil rights charges were too much? Please be for real.

If you’re wondering how little they value Black lives—look no further.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.

No spine. No balls.

Appalachian-area partners pushing for continued federal funding (The Center Square) – Officials from Ohio and Kentucky have joined more than 80 other government officials, nonprofit leaders and advocates urging Congress to keep funding for the Appalachian Regional

www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article...

All Those White Girls Drowned and the GOP Will Still Do Nothing No flood safety. No climate action. Just thoughts, prayers, and profit.

open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills. In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker.  Funded through a temporary grant from a local mental health center, Reed provides resources and care...

www.100daysinappalachia.com/2025/07/w-va...

Slavery in the U.S. didn't disappear with the 13th Amendment. Southern states passed Black Codes & vagrancy laws to re-enslave freed Black Americans.

The Bracero Program (Mexican laborers brought to the U.S. btwn 1942–1964), laid the groundwork for today’s guestworker systems, H-2A and H-2B visas.

Crockett: How is it that you can explain that we still are running up the credit card and we have nothing to show for it except for the fact that we won't have food on the tables and we won’t have health care.

Crockett: We have 83 billionaires. And somehow they have 535 people that are speaking up for them every single day to make sure that when they get married for a second or third or fourth time, that they can go ahead and have another $50 million wedding

It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.

Connected by trains, maybe?