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I’m a baby boomer, mother and practicing ob/gyn. I love knitting 🧶and crochet and quilting. Avid reader of fiction and news junkie. I love watching sports and movies and really good tv series. Not yet returning to Canada.
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Big news— The Failure, Fear, and Frenzy around Luigi Mangione is officially on the EMMY ballot. That means it’s now in the running to become an EMMY nominee. The next step is voting—starting June 12—where members of the Television Academy decide what officially gets nominated.

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

Rümeysa Öztürk has finally been ordered released. She has been unlawfully detained for more than six weeks in an ICE facility in Louisiana, more than 1,500 miles away from Somerville. This is a victory for Rümeysa, for justice, and for our democracy.

New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...

“There was no association between being vaccinated and having a miscarriage, the researchers found. Furthermore, the number of vaccine doses, type of vaccine (Moderna, Pfizer, etc.), and the timing of the vaccination were not linked to miscarriage.” #ReproSky 🧪 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

(AFP) - Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico's name to "Gulf of America" for Google Maps users in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday. $GOOGL www.yahoo.com/news/sheinba...

After firing thousands of workers, the VA is risking patient privacy by forcing providers to hold telehealth appointments in crowded rooms, where sensitive conversations can be overheard. This attack on veterans' mental health care is unacceptable. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...

During his first homily as pope, delivered in Italian, Leo said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

Word is Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking records and testimony from journalists. Please be mindful of how you communicate use secure formats, follow established guidance, and above all, protect your identity at all costs.

Thanks to the advocacy of Black Alabamians and organizations like @allontheline.bsky.social, Black voters in Alabama will continue voting in fair congressional districts that allow them to elect candidates of their choice. This is a win for Alabama, and proof that progress is possible.

I'm not. I'm MANA. #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

Oops.

If this is how they want to play... Time to get fired up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/n...

More than 3 in 10 D.C.-area residents say someone in their household worked for the federal government or a federal contractor at the beginning of the year, and of those, about a quarter say the employee or contractor had been fired, laid off or put on leave.

William Shatner says Mark Carney should offer to make the U.S. the 11th province. “Do a real estate deal,” the 94-year-old Canadian actor said. “Make a counter offer.”

Taps sign...👇

NEW: Our FOIA lawsuit revealed ICE is contracting more than 22,000 beds with the private prison corporation GEO Group for immigration detention across the country. This is the first time ICE has disclosed GEO's vast detention capacity spanning 20 facilities.

Excellent Idea! Much Closer To The Way It Once Was…

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Reproductive and sexual health data should be private. We have a bill to keep it that way.

A nonpartisan analysis now confirms that the Republican budget scheme will strip coverage and benefits from millions of Americans. For months, Republicans have lied about their plans, but now we have answers. And Democrats are using every tool at our disposal to stop it.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

In the second such incident in less than a month, two airline planes clipped wings at a US airport, this time in San Francisco, according to the FAA.

Chicago is on to something.

Double Checked, Unfortunately True! You Should At Least Know The Geography Of North America!

We joined federal workers on the Capitol steps who were indiscriminately fired by this administration. These workers are showing up to call on Congress to take action. We are with them in this fight to save their jobs.

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

A federal judge halted a Trump administration effort to cut funding to libraries: bit.ly/3YAiSK7

This is a damning confirmation of what we've been saying: Republicans want to rip away healthcare from millions to fund more tax cuts for billionaires. Hands. Off. Medicaid.

As part of their proposed reconciliation bill, Republicans want to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $230 *billion*. For a nonprofit like Full Plates Full Potential, which works to address childhood food insecurity here in Maine, the impacts will be devastating. (1/3)

Neil deGrasse Tyson on who is the greatest scientific mind in history.

“The owners of Canada” brought 40 million people into the conversation and into the White House along with him.

Lawmakers in Florida, Texas and at least 13 other states are considering similar flag prohibitions to the ones in Utah and Idaho, said Logan Casey, director of policy research with the Movement Advancement Project, which studies LGBTQ+ rights. #idleg #idpol

This is so darkly accurate

More shameful cowardice from Big Law.

This piece features one bone-chilling quote after another: “Most Americans ... may assume they can keep their heads down for four years, make concessions, and then regain their independence on the back end. But history shows—and the Hungarian experience shows—that they would be mistaken.”

Exactly