Republicans decided that they didn't need to know who they were starving.
Trump Administration Backs Off Effort to Collect Data on Food Stamp Recipients
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#TACOTrade #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FoodStamps #USPol
Forget the money.
25 million kids.
25 million kids.
25 MILLION KIDS.
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The modeling estimates don’t account for other costs, like parents’ lost work.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.
They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.
When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit
They told me it was “normal” to be in more pain 8 days after surgery than on day 1 (it’s not).
They said “what do you want us to do?”
They refused to run any tests beyond basic vitals, and scolded me for wasting their time
I knew something was wrong, but I was young and hadn’t yet learned how to advocate for myself.
The pain, swelling and bruising were getting worse with each passing day. I was dizzy, listless and had no appetite.
I slept ALL the time.
I was not getting better
I did what anyone would do, I went back to the ER. Surely this time they would take me seriously?
They didn’t. They made no attempt to hide their frustration that I had returned”. They made misogynistic comments about how “sensitive” I was & that being in pain was normal
I went home feeling completely dejected and disrespected, but also starting to gaslight myself.
Maybe it wasn’t that bad. Maybe this was normal pain. Maybe I did need to suck it up.
I tried to force myself to eat and go for light walks. I tried to play through the pain.
I was vomiting everything up and frequently collapsing from fatigue.
I could not suck this up.
My boyfriend had to carry me into the ER for a third attempt to get help
They did the exact same thing. Asked what we expected them to do. Told us the pain was normal. Refused to call a consult or run tests.
Thankfully my boyfriend believed me over them. He was certain if I went home, I wouldn’t make it through the night
He refused to let them discharge me. He told them, loudly and sternly, that he was not taking me home to die. That they needed to do their jobs.
They threatened to call security but he did not back down.
Thankfully a doctor overheard him and decided to look in and see if he could calm the situation.
When he saw me, half unconscious and white as a ghost, he immediately ordered tests. He told the triage staff not to call security and to take me into a private room
It turns out my boyfriend was right. Had I gone home that night, I wouldn’t have made it to morning.
I had a massive internal bleed and a giant infected abscess which had been growing since the surgeon sent me home.
I was rushed to another hospital for emergency surgery and given 50/50 odds of survival. I spent over a month in the hospital, developed a second hospital acquired infection, and needed 11 months to fully recover.
I survived due to luck & privilege. Had my boyfriend not believed me, I wouldn’t be here. Had he not been a white man? He likely would have been removed & I would have died
This is medical misogyny. They didn’t listen because I was a woman. They thought I was being dramatic
I tell this story because of what happened to Adriana Smith. A young black woman in Georgia who tried to get medical care for severe headaches, and was dismissed and gaslit instead.
She suffered brain death at home because no one believed her. Because of misogynoir.
To make matters worse, she’s been turned into a medical experiment because she was nine weeks pregnant and living in a state with an abortion ban. She’s on organ & tissue support being treated as a human incubator.
No care when alive & forced “care” when dead
Misogyny in medicine kills. It maims. It disables and traumatizes.
Women are frequently treated as hysterical and not given the medical care they require.
We often need a man to accompany us just to be taken seriously.
It’s not right and it needs to change
I will forever deal with medical PTSD because of what I went through, but at least I survived.
Adriana wasn’t so lucky, and no one’s survival should ever be based on luck, privilege or their ability to find a man to speak for them
I survived due to luck and privilege, Adriana didn’t.
What’s worse, due to abortion bans and dangerous forced birth policies, her body is kept alive on organ and tissue support without her family’s consent.
We must do better:
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#misogyny #misogynoir #ableism #patriarchy #abortion #mybodymychoice #disability #ableism #uspol
Adriana Smith couldn't access competent medical care when she needed it, and it killed her. Now the hospital is forcing 'care' on her by keeping her alive as an incubator due to Georgia's abortion banBroadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
From Tuesday May 20th, 2025;
"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats should not abandon defending the rights of transgender people as they figure out how to win again."
"'It's a mistake', he insisted. 'And here's the thing: we need to tell people your cost of eggs, your health care being denied, your homeowner’s insurance, your lack of getting warning on tornadoes coming has nothing to do with someone's gender'."
In case you missed it earlier this week, Tim Walz is still out there being wholesome, pushing back against the anti-trans narrative 💜
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #ProtectTransKids #USpol
Kamala Harris’s former running mate says ‘your cost of eggs ... has nothing to do with someone’s gender.’Eric Garcia (The Independent)
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.
Source: Economist, 2025 economist.com/science-and-tech… #science #uspol
Other countries may benefit. Science will sufferThe Economist
“Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud,” Popular Information reports.
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#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
You might have seen a post being shared around saying Canada has opened up its suicide hotline to American citizens with Trump threatening a shutdown of ours in the US.
The number it links to is the Trans Helpline. This is likely a right wing attempt to try to flood and overwhelm the hotline and hurt trans people.
Please be careful and check on this before you share them. And if you see an account for a Jeras Ikehorn which seems to be bridged here from Bluesky, know this is the second time in several weeks they have blatantly shared misinformation that harms trans people.
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #ethics #corruption #maga #ice
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
Angry constituent here: "It’s very hard to get people to believe that anyone is trying to end research into finding cures for diseases that affect everyone. The richest people get #cancer & #Alzheimers & #Parkinson’s. . . . & yet it is happening. Quite simply, until elected officials start hearing from angry constituents in town halls who are pissed that their futures & the futures of their loved ones are being lit on fire for no reason, then nothing matters."
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This post isn’t quite a post in the way I normally do them, more jotting down some of my brainstorming over the weekend. Universities are a core pillar of civil…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Read this, weep, refuse to comply, & don't be paralyzed by the evil.
"I understand that we have an immigration problem. I do," Riggs said. "I understand that our country cannot harbor every single person that crosses its borders. I understand that there are really bad people that we have to find." But starting w/a 73-year-old grandfather who has a #heart condition & who is the primary caretaker of his wife w/#dementia is not the solution, she said.
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The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.The Advocate
Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.MSNBC
THIS IS IMPEACHABLE!!!
President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m…
#BystanderTrump #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump looks like a bystander, offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.Steve Benen (MSNBC)
Thank you, Bishops! He's a threat to the entire world.
More leaders: STAND UP!!!!
'The President is a dangerous threat': Lutheran bishops take a stand
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#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Who gets to decide what is Christian? What does religious liberty look like today? With so much unsettling and destabilizing news coming from the new administration in Washington, DC, it’s hard to keep up with and keep track of everything.Wisconsin Examiner (Alternet.org)
And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli
A version of this @ #globeandmail
“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”
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Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.nicole (Cascade Institute)
The Department of Education being closed is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Most #maga supporters want it as #trump and #doge convinced them schools were federally funded, and they were going to overhaul and fix it.
They're too uneducated to know that it's already funded by states, and The Department of Education exists to fill gaps in resources, especially for #disabled and disadvantaged children.
Which red states need THE MOST.
Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US #deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more info as a legal battle plays out.
Advocates have launched a WhatsApp helpline for people searching for family members, while #immigration attorneys have tried to locate their clients after they went dark.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #USpol #Trump #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct
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The public comment period for the transphobic bullshit on US passports ends TOMORROW! (Monday)
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.The General Strike
A friend of mine, Amy Paris, has decided to speak out after being fired from DHHS, where she oversaw the safety of organ donations across the US. As a high-performer and one of the highest-ranking trans people in the US government, it’s hard not to see this as politically-motivated.
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#USPol #transgender #trans #19thNews
I had to learn a lot about parliamentary government when studying for Canadian citizenship so I have all the passion of the recently-converted but I think we're all getting a lesson on which is the superior* approach right now.
*Not perfect, of course. And I'm still holding my breath for the Canadian election.
The public comment period is currently open for a proposal to remove NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations. Please share this with your networks and add your thoughts: federalregister.gov/documents/…
#Trump claimed that his #trade policy will be “great” for the American #farmer because they won’t have to compete w/foreign producers.
Actual #farmers point out that the #US #agriculture industry produces far more corn, soybeans, pork, chicken, cattle etc. than Americans could possibly consume. Farmers say they need foreign markets, but other countries impose #tariffs on their goods in #retaliation for Trump’s tariffs. That cuts them off from the foreign customers they need.
#Trump trashes the federal work force for not being at work in person since the pandemic, & says those who “resist this change will be removed from office immediately.”
The days of being ruled by “unelected bureaucrats” are over, Trump says.
#Democrats scoff & point up at the gallery where #Musk is sitting.
#Trump falsely stated that #DOGE has found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.” DOGE has claimed to have cut $9 billion thus far.
Trump is talking about firing federal workers & “reclaiming power from bureaucrats.” His efforts to expand presidential power by firing workers and removing independent agency leaders have been largely blocked so far in federal courts.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus [#CBC], including Illinois Rep #LaurenUnderwood, plan to wear black to the speech to "capture the party's somber mood," according to her & to reports from Axios.
Other members are planning to wear blue & yellow to show solidarity with #Ukraine, just days after #Trump ordered a pause on military #aid to the country.
Tonight, at #Trump’s speech, members of the #Democratic #Women’s Caucus — will be dressed in a bright pink.
New Mexico Rep Teresa Leger Fernández, chair for the 96-member caucus, explained to Time that the pink is meant to “signal our protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women & families.”
[it’s also the color of the #WomensMarch]
#USpol #tyranny #MaleSupremacy #sexism #Rapist #SexualAssault #law #accountability
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Dozens of Democratic congresswomen will wear pink to President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress Tuesday night, organizers tell TIMENik Popli (Time)
"At least 146 measles cases have been ID'ed in W TX, incl. 20 hospitalizations & 1 death.
"MX has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to TX & 7 states due to a measles outbreak."
"Thanks to vaccines, #Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Anti-vaxers hosting measles parties are sending their own kids to the hospital."
-J Cabellero
The US has a #PublicHealth crisis.
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borderreport.com/news/health/m…
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.Salvador Rivera (BorderReport)
I'm thinking German tourists are not really going to want to visit the US, with ICE and the tendency of our National Parks of killing them on vacation.
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#tourism #germany #ICE #politics #USpol
A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)
Biking on the wrong side of the road. Crossing the Rio Grande on foot. Shoplifting at Target.
These are some of the arrest records for 178 Venezuelan migrants detained in #GITMO this mo. Others seem to have no record at all.
Of 18 cases, found: 6 of the migrants appear to have no previous record, 5 only charged with illegal entry -sentenced to time served. Several were detained during scheduled appts with border authorities for those seeking asylum...
#Immigrants #USPol
miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
Let me just say that this is fucking disgusting.
‘Trump gold card’ to offer rich foreigners route to US citizenship for $5m
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
#ArrestTrump #ArrestMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US president says new visa program would be open to Russian oligarchs, some of whom ‘are very nice people’Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)
"A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state."
Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"
“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.
"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.
“The whole public sphere is at stake.”
~Chris Dols
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#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.Democracy Now!
Their phony “statistics” aren’t just an attempt to justify DOGE’s destruction of the government. Trump and Musk’s goal is even more duplicitous and shady.
Trump and Musk Keep Spouting Bogus Numbers to Hide Their Real Agenda
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#ImpeachDonaldTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
