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Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

submitted 37 days ago • 926 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 36 days ago • 57 comments

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

submitted 81 days ago • 421 comments

Shameful that three Senate Democrats - Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin - helped the Islamophobic GOP block this well-qualified Muslim judge.

submitted 81 days ago • 82 comments

📽️ WATCH: The morning that Coast Guard Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C, or dilation and curettage, to remove fetal tissue after having a miscarriage, she learned the surgery had been canceled because Tricare, the military’s health insurance plan, refused to pay for it.

submitted 81 days ago • 48 comments

"It’s troubling to consider what the media will look like when it shifts to the state-run — or at least state-approved — model that Trump clearly craves. Meanwhile, the president-elect and others and his orbit are threatening even more defamation cases."

submitted 82 days ago • 147 comments

He’s so poor all he has is money.

submitted 82 days ago • 52 comments

Ouch and spot on from Erik Wemple: “ABC News will never live down this capitulation. Never.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 82 days ago • 123 comments

This is entirely because the current management selected by Jeff Bezos is inept and cloddish and, let’s be honest, whose has a limp entrepreneurial record. And Bezos has other competing interests rendering him no longer the owner he once was www.axios.com/2024/12/17/w...

submitted 81 days ago • 29 comments

Some people will react in horror. But the more idiotic and frivolous suits like these that he brings, the better. Because he will lose and make an even bigger ass of himself. His narcissistic and psychopathic compulsion to overreach can actually do some good. www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...

submitted 81 days ago • 928 comments

"Two female editors at The Post have overseen coverage of what Lewis did for Murdoch in the past year. They have now both left the company." www.thedailybeast.com/how-prince-h...

submitted 81 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: This is how Endo, one of the nation’s largest opioid makers, escaped a $7 billion federal penalty. With @inquirer.com propub.li/3DluB7F

submitted 81 days ago • 29 comments

Another environmental catastrophe caused by Russians east of Crimea, after one of their decaying oil tankers broke apart on high seas 2 days ago, 35km of pristine coastline has been contaminated in true Russian style. And these tankers are now all over the world.

submitted 81 days ago • 1193 comments

Make America the Great Depression Again: Trump’s plan to kill the FDIC wapo.st/3ZTmEPL

submitted 81 days ago • 30 comments

A settlement before the evidence is even on the table, and one for such a large amount, three times the verdict against Trump in the first of the two Carroll cases, doesn’t make a lot of sense from a strictly legal perspective. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

submitted 82 days ago • 80 comments

Republican politicians made a decision that the rest of America should live like this and now we do.

submitted 81 days ago • 101 comments

This is the sad state of country. Large institutions are failing us. As I write tomorrow: We Are on Our Own. Sign-up now to receive straight to your inbox. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 82 days ago • 323 comments

Mike johnson is about to have a math problem

submitted 82 days ago • 306 comments

This Harry Litman piece on the legal ins and outs of the ABC News defamation settlement is worth your time. harrylitman.substack.com/p/et-tu-abc?...

submitted 82 days ago • 17 comments

Come on.

submitted 82 days ago • 135 comments

Dear @ABC, Stephanopoulos didn’t do a damn thing wrong, but now that you’ve capitulated in advance to the spaghetti sauce stained sexual predator he’s saying he’ll sue the Des Moines Register, 60 Minutes & the Pulitzer committee. Because they had the audacity to report the truth.

submitted 82 days ago • 1177 comments

For the record, I know what it is like to be sued by Donald Trump. He sued me and several others in 2022. We did not bow down, we did not settle, we fought and we won.

submitted 82 days ago • 326 comments

“Bottoms Up”— Pete Hegseth Took Swigs from Champagne Bottle, Plunged Into the Alcoholic Beverage During Fox News Broadcast Hegseth’s kids were present and sampled the dunk tank champagne

submitted 81 days ago • 90 comments

Russian general is killed in Moscow. - Top Bluesky searches produce media sources (NYT, Guardian) - Twitter algorithm results: Crazypants conspiracy tweets Twitter's advantage used to be breaking news. No longer.

submitted 81 days ago • 219 comments

#DEI for GOP means putting White Men in every position of power.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

-again the $250M ignores the $44B he spent to be in a position to do this.

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

resharing for newer followers: STATE supreme courts are immensely important for what's next, as progressives hope they can be a place to turn to on issues from abortion to democracy while the right cements federal courts. so i took a turn at the supreme court results in all 32 states that had them.

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

Smith to Chutkan: "The government's position on the merits of the defendant's prosecution has not changed. But the circumstances have: as a result of the election."

submitted 103 days ago • 25 comments

The most important line in the brief: "Although the Constitution requires dismissal in this context, consistent with the temporary nature of the immunity afforded a sitting President, it does not require dismissal w/ prejudice."

submitted 103 days ago • 22 comments

Driving it home w/ a quote from OLC opinions: "immunity from prosecution for a sitting President would not preclude such prosecution once the President's term is over or he is otherwise removed from office by resignation or impeachment."

submitted 103 days ago • 27 comments

In the classified documents case, on appeal to the 11th Circuit, the Special Counsel dismisses the case as to Trump but proceeds as to his co-defendants, which will continue until his new AG dismisses the case or Trump pardons them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 103 days ago • 172 comments

As expected, Jack Smith has dismissed the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump. Although it's without prejudice, these case are over as a practical matter.

submitted 103 days ago • 286 comments

submitted 103 days ago • 31 comments

Mission accomplished. He ran for POTUS to stay out of jail, and here we are. | Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 103 days ago • 322 comments

"News" is the killer app for a social media platform. People in media need a platform that will allow them to drive readers to their work. Platforms that throttle outbound links are at a disadvantage. Which is why @bsky.app is likely to end up the dominant platform. 1/4

submitted 103 days ago • 11 comments

Not often that I agree with Noah, but this is right (as we know from a lot of political research). People decide who they like, then retcon reasons to support them.

submitted 104 days ago • 52 comments

If you're looking for alternatives to traditional media I hope you'll consider my newsletter, Civil Discourse, which focuses on the intersection between law & politics & is free. I've been writing about Trump's connection to Project 2025 for over a year joycevance.substack.com/p/project-20...

submitted 104 days ago • 97 comments