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Plain White Rapper

@sketchycharacter.bsky.social

Uptight, middle-aged suburban white chick for peace, love, & understanding. Bleeds madras. Sardonically and sartorially irreverent. Closeted wannabe standup. Word puzzle addict, artist/painter, Nantucket basketmaker, Boston-area landlord, rabid tennis fan.

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Plain White Rapper@sketchycharacter.bsky.social · last wk.

Trying to get my husband (who works from home) to quit at a reasonable hour today (we have some stuff to get done) but he never listens to me. So I'm playing dirty to get my way. I started cooking hashbrowns. Let's see how long before he comes downstairs.

Dittie@dittie.sheshed.rocks · last mo.

In Sunny Isles Beach, FL, aka “Little Moscow” Trump-branded condos have spent years marketed to wealthy pregnant Russians as premium birth tourism packages — gold bathtub and chauffeured Escalade included. Funny how outrage over birthright citizenship never touched that. #SheShed

Russians Seek Trump Properties to Give Birth to U.S. Kids

While the president rails against children of undocumented immigrants, wealthy Russians rent his condos—at huge costs—so they can have American kids.

thedailybeast.com

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

projects.propublica.org

Tracy@tcar2000.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why is it that almost no one gives a damn that the Republicans are deliberately killing the maximum number of pregnant women possible? The abortion restrictions in red states have caused maternal mortality rates to soar, as everyone knew they would. So the GOP stopped keeping statistics.

Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)

Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth

thegepi.org

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever

Scientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies

ecoticias.com

Beth Humphreys 🌺@producrgrl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers in Hong Kong developed a nasal spray for rapid stroke intervention. The system uses nanotechnology to deliver neuroprotective drugs directly to the brain and reduce neuronal damage during the emergency stage.

Bild
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4mo ago

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...

propublica.org

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski

Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

nbcnews.com

Plain White Rapper@sketchycharacter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Who else is really worried for the "formerly trans person" who got a full scholarship to LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, that Trump featured tonight? I'm not a therapist, but I feel like they may hit a few more bumps in the road. Somethin' ain't right.

Plain White Rapper@sketchycharacter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hot take: instead of voting against Trump, Republicans are slowly dropping out of Congress and will gradually cede the power back to the Dems who will then prosecute him. That way it's more like attrition and not confrontation, so they can't be blamed.

Plain White Rapper@sketchycharacter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I want to know more about how NEST/Google was able to find video imagery of the Guthrie kidnapper a week after the event, from a camera with no subscription service, or from some server somewhere. Please. I'd really, really like to know!