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 29%. (Published May 2025)

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion

Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

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El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.

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Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

BREAKING: New Mexico suing the Trump DOJ & Acting AG Todd Blanche for “stonewalling” its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein & Zorro Ranch. I was at the press call with the New Mexico AG & I share the details, including a breakdown of the lawsuit and its claims. youtu.be/eeQiycHm0x0?...

🚨Trump DOJ SUED for BLOCKING New Mexico EPSTEIN RANCH Investigation!!

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MAJOR BREAKING: After obsessively claiming that the Iranian regime are the biggest terrorists on the planet, Trump’s Treasury Department just lifted counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft and three airlines linked to Iran's IRGC. Like I said, we lost this war. x.com/i/status/208...

The $30 million AIPAC wasted in Michigan, wasted trying to help Haley Stevens, could have been used to fully fund and deliver 6 million malaria nets to sub-Saharan Africa. Or, it could have fully paid for universal free school breakfasts in Mississippi, America's poorest state.

JD Vance takes a big dump on American colleges and universities and college graduates

✊⚖️ Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel

Tracy Chapman Online@tracychapmanonline.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time So now we see the light (what you gonna do?) We going to stand up for our right (yeah, yeah, yeah) #getupstandup #bobmarley #tracychapman #humanrightsnow

Trump Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins just called his SNAP cuts a "pretty big win". Throwing 5 million struggling Americans — including families with children — off food aid to fund tax cuts for the rich isn't a "win". It's a national disgrace.

Wildfires don’t recognize borders, and neither does compassion!🇨🇦🇲🇽 Thank you to the courageous firefighters from Mexico who have traveled far from home to help protect British Columbia! Your bravery, sacrifice & solidarity will never be forgotten!❤️🔥 #BCWildfires #ThankYou #Canada #Mexico #SheShed

INGRAHAM: How is Canada doing? VANCE: They're doing terribly

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EXPLAINER: North Korea Sends Its Missile Unit to Russia, Aiming at Ukraine's Thinnest Shield

Pyongyang's crews, launchers and missiles are moving into western Russia—and the one thing built to stop them is the layer Ukraine has least of.

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Impressive.👇🏼

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 9h ago

Thomas Smith, a political unknown who raised almost no money for his campaign, defeated President Trump’s endorsed candidate in a Republican primary for a Michigan congressional seat, NBC News projects.

Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society.  And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that

Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Hackers linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service intercepted hotel Wi-Fi worldwide to steal officials’ and executives’ data. The SVR-linked Midnight Blizzard “collects intelligence in support of Russian foreign policy interests,” the Insider reports.

Hackers linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service intercepted hotel Wi-Fi worldwide to steal officials’ and executives’ data

Russian state-linked hackers have been breaking into hotel Wi-Fi networks around the world to steal data from corporate employees on business trips, according…

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I never thought I’d see testimonies like this before the U.S. Congress. These are grown men who should know fact from fiction, yet they stand there shamelessly gaslighting the American people & performing for an audience of one. It’s both astonishing & deeply sad to see how far the U.S. has fallen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Don't forget Ukraine 🇺🇦 Don't forget Ukraine 🇺🇦 Don't forget Ukraine 🇺🇦

The New Mexico Department of Justice is suing the Trump administration over access to unredacted Jeffrey Epstein documents in relation to the state's investigation into Zorro Ranch.

Where is Mitch McConnell

"Pirro clearly wanted to spare herself any further scrutiny by the courts, but her motion to dismiss is comically inept, an attempt to paper over the fact her office charged Hearn based only on Trump's fevered imaginings. All it does is highlight how much she was willing to lie in the first place."

Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies

It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.

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I'm sorry if you disagree with me but … #BirthControl is an extremely critical part of care for women. Hormonal birth control (Depo, the ‘pill’, etc.) is used by many women to regulate their menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand reproductive biology should STFU. #HerBodyHerChoice

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Bernie Sanders: “Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of this country. He’s an authoritarian, he’s a kleptocrat, he’s corrupt, he has gotten us into a horrible war. My job as a senator is to do everything I can to fight back against those disastrous policies”

Trump: "And as illegal aliens go home, the cost of rent, groceries, and other staples is coming down very fast ... it was a word they devised -- 'affordability'"

i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Lombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."