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The Free State of Florida, where women who don’t want a C-Section will be dragged into a court proceeding *while in labor* to defend their choice.

14.03.2026 17:08 👍 241 🔁 105 💬 18 📌 7

69 MILLION MARRIED WOMEN

ERROR RATES AS HIGH AS 14%

14.03.2026 01:19 👍 36 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital
By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax
March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT
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Local Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT non-shortened link https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/georgia-woman-charged-with-murder-after-taking-abortion-pills-giving-birth-hospital/6GA7IHO7YNBCLC24BXHHBAV6XI/

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.

@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

13.03.2026 17:58 👍 2406 🔁 1059 💬 2 📌 80

"... These are the trans rights I'm talking about. I know you want to ask me about sports, and we can have a nice big discussion about fairness after we put a stop to the persecution of this tiny minority."

That's what I'd say if I were one of these politicians.

09.03.2026 16:59 👍 242 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0

republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒

*sob

09.03.2026 00:53 👍 2410 🔁 433 💬 3 📌 0
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

09.03.2026 01:00 👍 1094 🔁 613 💬 76 📌 59
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9307 🔁 6066 💬 607 📌 1538
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WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare

COMER: We believe that's your fault

WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

04.03.2026 15:00 👍 8542 🔁 2407 💬 502 📌 140

All the way

01.03.2026 05:57 👍 587 🔁 148 💬 8 📌 4
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

01.03.2026 14:54 👍 4213 🔁 1768 💬 352 📌 103
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Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1
Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.

01.03.2026 14:59 👍 629 🔁 193 💬 7 📌 21

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

27.02.2026 04:54 👍 1466 🔁 485 💬 13 📌 22

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

28.02.2026 12:11 👍 1188 🔁 368 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely horrifying. More details here: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

28.02.2026 14:28 👍 285 🔁 196 💬 25 📌 16

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

28.02.2026 12:14 👍 6546 🔁 2769 💬 1 📌 73
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This aged well. Note the author.

28.02.2026 13:27 👍 16086 🔁 6223 💬 547 📌 357
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Trump releases a statement saying he is sending Americans to war with Iran because “Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump.”

28.02.2026 16:15 👍 1820 🔁 630 💬 377 📌 171

cancel culture was never real. not when the most powerful people in society keep giving rapists and racists opportunities their victims never get.

28.02.2026 05:00 👍 728 🔁 151 💬 5 📌 3

When I say we should unconditionally support trans people and victims/survivors of abuse, people who are trying to introduce conditions for that support are helping the oppressors and abusers whether they want to believe that or not.

26.02.2026 16:43 👍 234 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 0

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

28.01.2026 03:12 👍 4536 🔁 1975 💬 40 📌 54

You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety

First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us

26.02.2026 01:47 👍 2451 🔁 523 💬 8 📌 7
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

26.02.2026 01:43 👍 9406 🔁 4617 💬 232 📌 672

"Why does everything have to be political..." usually means "Why can't I do obviously political things without being criticized by people who disagree with my politics?" imo.

24.02.2026 16:05 👍 1293 🔁 189 💬 37 📌 6
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Former ICE instructor will testify as whistleblower that agents taught to violate Fourth Amendment The instructor, who is an attorney, plans to tell a forum sponsored by Congressional Democrats that the procedures in entering homes are not taught appropriately.

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

23.02.2026 18:33 👍 1904 🔁 791 💬 31 📌 64

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

23.02.2026 15:46 👍 10415 🔁 2054 💬 343 📌 85
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Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

23.02.2026 04:49 👍 8654 🔁 3158 💬 258 📌 336

Not only does it not inoculate his lies… but when liars are not given their measure… those who refuse to do so… are also… lying

22.02.2026 13:38 👍 89 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

🚨This plane landed in Portsmouth, NH, to refuel but sat there for 8 hours and is now headed back to Alexandria.

This is how the 75-hour shackling in Oct. and the 82-hour shackling in Dec. began, w false starts. Migrants will likely be shackled in a holding area near tarmac until they try again. 1/

22.02.2026 12:21 👍 184 🔁 96 💬 4 📌 6
With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

21.02.2026 15:59 👍 8043 🔁 2215 💬 62 📌 204

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."

— Anat Shenker-Osorio

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