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This has devolved into LAPD insanity again. An anti ICE protest has turned LAPD army. TikTok is managing only a couple lives under the guise again as a concert so it doesn’t get pulled.

They’d every right to protest as DHS and ICE have begun ignoring the restraining order.

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Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

man this is embarrassing

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

It feels like you have to give your email address to get access to EVERYTHING these days.

We have a guide to help you avoid that!

privacyinternational.org/guide-step/5...

After Decades of Misunderstanding, Menopause is Finally Having Its Moment Last spring, actor Halle Berry made headlines when she boldly shouted, “I’m in menopause!” outside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., challenging the

Some free advice about menopause: Once you start getting the classic symptoms, make an appointment with your doctor and explore all your options.

There are many options now. Please don't wait, and don't be afraid. There is so much more research now, and you don't have to suffer in silence alone.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Trump's crackdown leaves LA's undocumented migrants on brink of homelessness — AFP News When her husband was arrested in an immigration raid near Los Angeles last month, Martha was abruptly separated from the father of her two daughters. But she also lost the salary that allowed her to k...

Trump's crackdown leaves LA's undocumented migrants on brink of homelessness - AFP News apple.news/AXCCGwan4Qby...

About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk. Households that rely on both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are spread throughout the country.

According to ACS data, Urban experts find that at least 12 million households receive benefits through #SNAP and #Medicaid, and that impending cuts to these programs could have significant impacts on households’ health, nutrition, and more.

Dive into the #data in a new Urban Wire post.

Fox News is making campaign ads for me now.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

ICE plans to build more tent jails for immigrants. What could go wrong? A brief recent history of "soft-sided" facilities and their many faults.

Even a Trump 1.0 border official is raising alarm about how dangerous this is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many of them went to the U.S. At the time, America was the most compelling destination for scientific talent in the world. It would remain so until earlier this year.

An incredibly depressing sentence.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

“I am willing to die to make sure these kids can get home”: An NYC baseball coach defends his players (all American citizens) from bullying ICE agents. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is serious. Very serious.

Competing Conspiracy Theories Consume Trump’s Washington

1/Many thanks to @peterbakernyt.bsky.social for giving Trump’s stumbling efforts to deflect criticism over the Epstein files away from himself, with a ridiculous spree of conspiracy theory nonsense, the level of seriousness they deserve, which is to say, none. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...

This is not a thing that ads or focus groups or nipping around the edges with influencers can solve. We need wholesale change across the party — new leaders who can redefine what the party means.

The first Teaming While Driving death will actually herald the ultimate end of us

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

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Hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer-funded vaccine doses may expire, lawmakers say Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute?

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

Guy who posted this tried to avoid felony charges in four jurisdictions by arguing that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution

America in a nutshell.

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.