Olivia Messer

'This Is a Big Deal': Texas Lawsuit May Test Nationwide Telehealth Abortion Access A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.

From @19thnews.org: A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.

You (Yes, You) Should Be Pissed About the Texas GOP’s Shameless Gerrymandering Here's why you should be pissed about Republican gerrymandering in Texas and its implications for democracy and voter rights.

At President Trump’s command, Republicans are set to carve up Texas like a Christmas ham. Predictably, the gerrymandering spree involves stripping voting power away from Black Texans. At its core, it’s an insult to us all — regardless of partisan stripes.

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Inside a South Texas Drug-Trafficking Scheme: Kilos of Cocaine, a Middle School, and Two Disgraced Mayors A former Texas mayor was sentenced for involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring that operated out of a middle school.

The former mayor of a south Texas town is facing nearly four years in prison for his role in a nine-person cocaine trafficking ring — which was operating out of a local middle school.

Inside a South Texas Drug-Trafficking Scheme: Kilos of Cocaine, a Middle School, and Two Disgraced Mayors Nine people were sentenced last week after the group — including former mayors, the president of the local school board, and even a school bus driver — smuggled cocaine through the IT room of Progreso...

Nine people were sentenced in South Texas last week after the group — including former mayors, the president of the local school board, and even a school bus driver — smuggled cocaine through the IT room of Progreso’s Dorothy Thompson Middle School.

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“Governor Abbott is doing this in submission to Donald Trump,” said Rep. Gene Wu, chair of the Texas State House Democratic Caucus. “We will not be complicit in the destruction of our own communities.”

‘Come and Take It:’ Quorum-Busting Texas Democrats Stand Up to Legal Threats from Gov. Abbott Dozens of Texas representatives left the state to block Republican-proposed redistricting maps. Now, Abbott is claiming they’ve forfeited their elected positions. U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jef...

“The Republican governor of Texas is out of his mind,” U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on CNN Monday. “There is no basis to charge these House Texas Democrats.”

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damn this age is gilded af

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

And (straight/cis) women often do a threat assessment of potential partners. Many women (accurately) conclude that a man who is unable to laugh at himself is likely a threat to their safety.

it concerns me greatly that I’m not sure he would be doing major construction on a house he’d be expecting to leave in a few years

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

The White House war on federal statistics Economists and scientists worry over disappearing data and advisory groups

Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
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I genuinely cannot remember whether I’m 33 or 34 and even when I look it up, it doesn’t stick

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had to call the bank for something this morning and when they asked me my ssn, old addresses, name and spelling of the people on my team, I was so confident! and then they asked what age I’ll turn on my next birthday and...

They went to a summer arts camp in 1994 looking for girls. This is so awful. The scope of this. My god.

I’m so so sorry ♥️

We are trying so hard to make it better!!!

I read an essay once where the writer put an entire stick of thc butter into a batch of pasta and then got so high she ate the whole thing — and she was still a little high the next day, but that’s an ungodly amount

I can’t stop laughing at how ludicrous this is. You know how much you’d have to take for this to be true? Maybe just… don’t eat an entire jar of gummies in one sitting? It’s like outlawing alcohol based solely on the fact that if you drank 4 bottles of wine alone you’d get alcohol poisoning.

I promise that some of us do know that!

No, journalists can say that victims have told us repeatedly of Trump’s involvement.

They were at camp with us

Jesus, that could have been so many of my friends (I went to a performing arts elementary & middle public schools & many of my classmates went to Interlochen in the summer — they would have been 13 then, too)

Yes!

Epstein and Maxwell used a sprawling system to find and abuse young girls — then provide them to wealthy men in power of all types all over the world. Never forget it could have been any of us at any time. All that saved any of us is circumstance.

exactly

Epstein Had His Own Lodge at Interlochen’s Prestigious Arts Camp for Kids Epstein was a big donor at Interlochen, where his cabin was located near the junior girls camp. The mother of a former student once accused him of trying to groom her 13-year-old.

Yeah, he also funded a lodge :(

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Screenshot of the linked Daily Beast story that shows Epstein met a girl at Interlochen arts camp

Photo of me, Olivia, at Interlochen arts camp at the age of 13

Honestly this really shook me, and I’d missed it before. The screenshot from this Daily Beast story (written by the phenomenal Michael Daly) shows Epstein meeting a victim in 1994 at the same arts camp I attended as a 13-year-old (second photo is me) for years

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Poll asking multiple questions about American attitudes about Israel, all showing a 40 point gap between young adults and 55+ adults

Historic polling on Inter-racial marriage showing ~40 point gaps in 1991 and 2002, but minimal gaps after

New Polling on US/Israel is jaw-dropping. No matter how you ask, there is a 40 point gap between young adults and elderly. That kind of a demo split is unheard of. I looked through every poll in Gallup history and the only analog was interracial marriage. news.gallup.com/poll/692948/...

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way) “The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…

The move between registers, the way the academic and incisive meets the personal honesty. The courage of it, sure. But more the messiness, the refusal of narrative as the only way to own narrative. . . credit to the good doctor @megpillow.bsky.social . A great piece of writing about a terrible thing