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In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

It’s a horrible thing to watch your husband of 30 years deteriorate to glioblastoma. From attacks on SSDI to ACA to research to vaccinations, this administration has turned a gut-wrenchingly difficult time in my life to something even worse, and I have privilege that many don’t. Such cruelty.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Sounds about white

My latest blog - our just-finished BMod Academy (and please feel free to share...) www.puppyworks.com/trainertalk/...

For over a year, EPIC: The Musical has been living rent-free in my head. This is the one that’s been playing non-stop in my brain the last couple of days. youtu.be/8pc7cSaUw68?...

Story: Twin Cities breaks 125-year-old temperature record; 100 in northwest Minnesota ↘ bringmethenews.com/minnesota-we...

Dana Rudolph at LGBTQ nation wrote such a beautiful story about Zooey and I, our family, and what it is like to parent our wonderful son together :) www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/an-a...

I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

(AXIOS) - The Senate on Wednesday killed a resolution that would have effectively reversed President Trump's 10% tariffs on all imported goods, with just three Republicans joining with Democrats in support of the measure. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/30/s...

Look at the expressions. Everybody gets kind of uncomfortable when Smith asks Trump about the attack on Harvard and Trump starts going off about riots in Harlem and how how the Blacks love him.

subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius. www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...

It was never about saving money—or rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. Musk bought himself a presidency, and in exchange, Trump handed him the keys to our government so he could tear down anything in his way, siphon off our data w/his hackers, and line his pockets w/more fat government contracts.

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

1. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has blocked the passport ban for transgender Americans... government ban likely violates equal protection, and is made with animus. Though the ruling only applies to plaintiffs, it is expected expand in coming weeks. Subscribe to support my journalism.

And just like that. Leverage. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

It’s a fire sale…

The SAVE Act is a poll tax. Over 69 million women would have to get new IDs to vote under the SAVE Act—all of which, except military IDs, cost money. As @mcclellan.house.gov explained, whether it’s $1,000 or 1¢, no one should have to pay to vote.

The president just massively increased taxes on workers by fiat and is gutting the economy at a record pace. But at least he and the GOP are moving full scale ahead on destroying Medicaid and giving huge tax cuts to the rich.

It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within.

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

Reminder: Republicans in Congress could repeal all these tariffs tomorrow and take back their full authority over tariffs. Members of Congress who refuse to do so support this huge tax increase.

This is an excellent and really valuable overview of everything wrecked at HHS.

www.forbes.com/sites/chasew...

Faux news knows

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I left Kansas over this kind of crap. The GOP is weirdly obsessed with genitals because they don’t have any policies that really helps anyone other than the 1% and caters to the ideological outrage of fundie religious beliefs and bigotry www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

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don’t wanna hear one person say “well I don’t *love* any of the candidates” ever again YOU AREN’T SUPPOSED TO LOVE THEM THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO A BORING JOB COMPETENTLY SO WE CAN HAVE PARK RANGERS AND NOBODY GETS KIDNAPPED BY A COP OR SELLS YOU LISTERIA ICE CREAM