My neighborhood is nice but it has only intermittent sidewalks so we often walk on the side of the street. Stepped into a nice uneven pothole on the evening walk. I’ll try to bury the pic of my skinned knee in the comments but I’m really hoping the ankle on the other leg isn’t broken. Sigh.

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Isn’t it strange that Texas misses its deadline for the Maternal Death Report only when Greg Abbott is up for reelection? As a reminder, if it does actually come out in December, it won't cover the first 2 yrs following the aborting ban, per a vote by TX’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

What do you do when you have a nut allergy but adore pesto? Grow your own basil and spend an afternoon processing it. Between the garlic and the herbs, my house smells sooooo good right now.

Post your getaway vehicle

Sonya 🕊️@sonya.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Post your getaway vehicle

Swung by HEB to pick up stuff for my office mates - hot chocolate, half n half, some bottled water for clients that ask for it. Forgot that tropical moisture in the Gulf means that HEB is our last lifeline of hope and OMG everyone must shop before the Heights gets 2 inches of rain.

It can’t be overstated how lasting the consequences of the Trump presidency will be for our national parks and forests long after he leaves office

Oregon Capital Chronicle@oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration will move ahead with plans to end more than 25 years of sweeping protections for tens of millions of wild, federally managed acres across the U.S. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/18/t...

Tarrant County Sheriff's Office confirms they really think it's their job to ARREST a resident for saying "bullshit" while he was speaking at a public meeting against a plan to cut nearly 50% of Election Day voting locations

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

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Rain* in August is a gift. *Non-hurricane

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

The kid and I share an iCloud account. So when she takes pictures on her iPad, they show up on my phone the next day. Apparently the dog was being cute…

Four runners are not ready for the cold. The power of friendship is worth its weight in Olympic gold.

Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The itinerary for the boys’ trip to Holland may have been overly ambitious. Starring Sean Connery

Houston, you need to lock in right fucking now. The federal government is claiming they put armed officers on your streets without body cameras, they're saying they can shoot you in the street without providing video footage and your mayor is lying to you, claiming the city cant even investigate it.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo ago

NEW: None of the officers at the scene where a man was fatally shot by ICE in Houston were wearing body cameras, according to two DHS officials and a source familiar with the investigation.

I could tolerate the Nazi shit because I felt like I needed to know what was being said. But this…was untenable. I left X when they made it clear that Grok generating CP was cool with them. Fucking disgusting.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump on Greenland: "That's what hurt my relationship with NATO...it's an important part for the United States. It's surrounded by China ships & Russian ships. Greenland should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. We could remove all our soldiers out of Europe. They better be careful"

Dude, there’s literally a non handicapped space right night to you. There’s also a drive thru. Guess it was a donut emergency.

Deeply sad tonight but at least I made a watermelon. (Sugar baby variety - it’s a little personal sized guy.).

I own a GIANT knitted blanket from @blumagaincurios.bsky.social Trust me when I say you want to bid on her making you a cowl.

Helena Greer@blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Have you considered that you could go to the @romancingthevote.com auction and bid on a giant custom knit, hand dyed pride cowl that you can also wear as a hood and hide inside?? You could be like a queer monk! A Jedi! The gayest grim reaper! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Tonight I shed a few tears for a man I barely knew. 10 years ago, I drafted his Will and he asked that I serve as his executor. As a general rule, I won’t write myself into a client’s documents. But he had no one. No spouse, no kids, parents, siblings. No friends close enough. 1/?

Fully asleep with all four legs in the air and his mouth open. If he wasn’t breathing warm dog breath on me, I’d wonder if he was still alive.

It’s been feels like 4000° degrees with 💯% humidity here and the okra is like don’t care won’t care. Board games with friends this afternoon so I’m making Cajun roasted veg, entirely with stuff from my yard.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

Game Day in Houston and it’s suddenly pouring. Welcome to Htown, folks!

Good morning to everyone except the officials who signed off on a detention facility where inadequate screening contributed to a TB outbreak, three detainees died, and evidence was reportedly missing or destroyed in one detainee death investigation. None of this is normal or acceptable.

Largest ICE detention facility wasted millions and put detainees at risk, report finds

A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors.

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5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire

We often have veggie starts out on our Free Plants table. Now people have started to leave us return gifts. Today it was honey from neighbors who keep bees. A few weeks ago, fresh chicken eggs. My secret hippie side is loving the gift-society.

Happy PRIDE y’all. The parade may be rained out, but there’s still Barnaby’s cake.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.

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