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)

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Does Disney World know?

Kristi Noem is lying.👇

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who reportedly accompanied Mr. Miller on his visit to ICE headquarters, seems to defer to him. “It’s really Stephen running D.H.S.,” a Trump adviser said. The attorney general, Pam Bondi, is so focused on preparing for and appearing on Fox News that she has essentially ceded control of the Department of Justice to Mr. Miller, making him, according to the conservative legal scholar Edward Whelan, “the de facto attorney general.” And in a White House where the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is not well versed or terribly interested in policy — “She’s producing a reality TV show every day,” another Trump adviser said, “and it’s pretty amazing, right?” — Mr. Miller is typically the final word.

LOL, I think www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

BREAKING: A Trump DOJ investigation has found that this photo does not exist, and if you saw it, no you didn’t

ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?

To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.

She knows what she did

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

This is the number that keeps me up at night

If what was happening in LA was such a “national emergency”, why was the “president” in NJ smiling for the cameras at a UFC fight?

New York has a higher per-capita income, a lower crime rate and a functional insurance system.

OMG

Katie Miller, 33 Spokesperson In December, during the transition, Trump named Miller, who served in the first administration as a press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, as one of the first members of DOGE. She is the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. After reports that DOGE personnel accessed internal USAID data, Katie Miller defended the group, saying that “no classified material was accessed without proper security clearances.”

Stephanie Holmes, 43 Human Resources Holmes is running human resources at DOGE, according to government workers who have been in meetings with her. A former lawyer with Jones Day, a firm that frequently represents Trump, she was previously the chief people officer at Oklo, a nuclear energy company chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. She also ran her own HR consulting firm, BrighterSideHR, which advised companies to pursue “non-woke” approaches to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Brian Bjelde, 44 Senior Adviser Connected to: Office of Personnel Management Musk link: Vice president of people operations at SpaceX Bjelde is a longtime SpaceX employee who’s spent more than 20 years at the company, according to his LinkedIn profile, where he’s had a variety of jobs, including as managing director of the “food services group.” He previously worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He’s been referred to in press reports as a “top DOGE Lieutenant,” working at OPM to slash head count. CNN previously revealed that Bjelde had informed OPM staff of a plan to cut 70% of the agency’s workforce. The New York Times reported that Bjelde helped Musk cut staff at Twitter following its takeover.

Anthony Armstrong, 57 Senior Adviser to the Director Connected to: Office of Personnel Management Musk link: Worked on Musk’s purchase of Twitter Armstrong is a technology banker at Morgan Stanley who worked on Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter — since rebranded as X — in 2022. He has been given an influential role at OPM, which handles personnel issues across the federal government. Since Trump took office, OPM has spearheaded the new administration’s efforts to dramatically reduce the federal workforce and roll back telework and remote work policies.

So much attention has been paid to Elon's college-age DOGE bros.

But @propublica.org's roundup of 20+ members of Musk's demolition crew shows that it's largely comprised of alleged adults, including Katie Miller (wife of Trump whisperer Stephen Miller)

projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Thanks, Trump!

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Elon Musk gave a speech where he (twice) made a Nazi salute. And this is how the Washington Post is covering it.

We need better coverage of Musk, which is why I launched Musk Watch today.

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This is gold.

Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute...

you decide if this isn't a nazi salute

I would have followed up with, “Name three brands of vodka”

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Hegseth

He’s still a sexist.
He’s still a predator.
He’s still an angry drunk.
He’s still a dangerous pick for Secretary of Defense.

youtu.be/Q4Es-IDBDao?...

The Tinkle Tape Traitor just referred to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as “Ukraine’s war with Russia.” He also referred to Putin as “President” and Zelensky as a “representative of Ukraine.”

In case anyone was wondering how this shit was gonna go.