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The MAGAs are really, really blatantly firing a ton of women in the federal government and military for the crime of being women, and it is embarrassing when people ignore or downplay this.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

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I have never been able to convey just how bad maternal health is down here in the Gulf, especially for Black women. But this @mississippitoday.org report? It does it, and I hope EVERYONE reads it. mississippitoday.org/2025/02/19/m...

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Congratulations to Amanda Zurawski on her nomination as one of TIME's Women of the Year. Her courage, bravery and conviction is incredibly inspiring, and we were honored to screen the documentary Zurawski v. Texas at Brown last year. time.com/7216391/aman...

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It isn’t just that they care more about restricting abortion than they do about maternal health ramifications of those policies. They literally don’t care about protecting maternal health.

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"Two in five scientists ... reported harassment and intimidation ... Intimidation efforts included online abuse, physical threats, and threats to budgets or employment." theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

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Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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AOC speaking to a thousand people demonstrating against Trump's destruction of our federal work force She is the leader we need

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As a person who has probated many estates, let me say there is no more effective method of communication than the one from funeral directors to SSA. SSA immediately puts a hold on the bank acct where checks were deposited so SSA can claw back $$ for the DAYS in a month the claimant was dead.

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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"However, one resident who was born with an XY pattern, which would normally signify a biological male, has female genitalia and identifies as a woman. Yet on her wedding license, she’d be forced to identify as a male." dailymontanan.com/2025/02/19/c... #LGBTQIA

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This is a fantastic piece. Very well argued. Morally righteous as well.

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New research confirms what advocates have said for years — abortion bans have reverberating effects on timely access to care everywhere, and protective laws in “Blue States” will not be enough to stop them. Abortion bans are not just a “Red State” problem. They’re an everybody everywhere problem.

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

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Seeing many false claims about immigration as the source of measles outbreaks. Here are some facts: 1) the west Texas outbreak started in a county with 1 of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the state 2) the Americas are the only WHO region that is free of endemic measles

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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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All of Ezra Klein’s recent punditry assumes that we are definitely in a normal liberal democracy where scandals will hurt and thermostatic politics function normally. Zero awareness that we run the risk of hopping the tracks into a competitive authoritarian system that follows different patterns.

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I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites acting like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

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Feels like the flood zone strategy could also help insulate the administration if/when Pam Bondi says the DOJ can prosecute people for mailing abortion pills www.jezebel.com/inside-the-d...

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Profiling Jonathan Mitchell without mentioning the Comstock Act is like profiling Ted Kaczynski without mentioning mail bombing. How. Why. What are we even doing here ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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One time gender critical hero Andrew Bailey of Missouri

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We’ve come a long way from the “this is your brain on drugs” PSA era.

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Someone else said it, but this should be the biggest scandal in American history-Watergate on steroids and speed. If this is true, the president is tearing through the DoJ to find a lawyer to break the law. No ambiguity about wasteful spending or administrative procedures-just naked lawlessness.

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Elon Musk doesn't read as Christian (though I get into why that's misleading). But make no mistake: his rampage through the federal government is helping pave the way for a Christian nationalist takeover. www.salon.com/2025/02/14/w...

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I am tired of Keira Bell attempting to fuck up other people's lives. It's unfortunate that she took hormones and then regretted it, but the vast majority of people don't. If I get a knee replacement and regret that, it doesn't mean I get to ban knee replacements for everyone else.

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