@mellikins
Feminist, Christian, Grandmother, Liberal, Democrat. She/Her/Y’all. I mostly read social media for information. Don’t do a lot of posting, do like and re-post and sometimes reply. Grew up in MS, lived in ME, now in NH.
Someone is suggesting instead of going thru Strait of Hormuz dig the canal across the land.
Same stupid suggestion, only, cross land in trucks.
Stupidity isn't a virus, but it's sure spreading like one
My favorite thing is when people act as if a car and a bicycle pose the same risk to vulnerable road users
THE HILL SENATE Hawley introduces bill to remove FDA approval for Mifepristone BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 03/11/26 5:29 PM ET
THE HILL Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation to remove Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the use of mifepristone to end pregnancies, a bill that has quickly gained the support of major anti-abortion groups. The legislation is an ambitious undertaking given the drug's widespread use in the United States, where an estimated 7.5 million women have used it to terminate pregnancies since the FDA approved its use in 2000. It accounted for 63 percent of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023. But mifepristone, which when combined with the drug misoprostol can end pregnancies at up to 70 days of gestation, has become a major target of the anti-abortion movement. President Trump has sought to satisfy those anti-abortion voices by launching an FDA review of the drug, which has not been completed. Hawley says the ability of doctors to prescribe the drug across state lines has led to rampant abuse and alleges that incidences of adverse health effects are far more common than the drug's maker, Danco Laboratories, has acknowledged.
While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA…
Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone
The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.
They are building these mass detention camps for any American they want to disappear. We should all be concerned.
Looking back at that period of our lives, I’m not sure how Briana and I did it, how we kept getting out of bed and sending the kids off to school and going to work as if the whole life we had built together wasn’t crashing down on top of us. We explained to the kids what was going on but didn’t get into the odds of success and what failure might mean down the line. Dad’s liver was full of cancer, so the Mayo doctors were going to take it out and put in a new one, and that was that. They were familiar with cancer as a concept because one of the twins’ classmates had just gone through a harrowing diagnosis and treatment of a different kind of cancer the prior year. The classmate had been treated at Mayo and he was fine now, so Dad would be too. The kids wanted to know if our cancers were connected, if there was something in the air or water that was giving people cancer in our town, and if they were going to get it now too. There were, certainly, a lot of cancer cases in the community. On the corkboard outside the local mom-and-pop grocer, it seemed as if there was always a flyer or two advertising a potluck fundraiser for so-and-so who had just been diagnosed with brain cancer or breast cancer or bone cancer. I couldn’t help but look up our local cancer-incidence data on the state department of health website. We didn’t seem particularly unusual. Pinning down environmental determinants of cancer is notoriously difficult. Outside of slam-dunk cases like smoking and lung cancer, teasing out causality is virtually impossible. Still, a number of studies in recent years have explored possible links between the use of farm chemicals and various malignancies. One study posited that living in a community exposed to pesticides “could increase the incidence of cancer as much as smoking,” and others have suggested that water-borne nitrates from farm runoff could also be driving some cancer cases. Our town of 1,400 was surrounded on all sides by miles of cropland, and on days wh…
It certainly *seemed* like there was a lot of cancer in our small rural Minnesota town. And it was hard not to torment myself with hypotheticals like, "would I still have gotten cancer if we had never moved here?" slate.com/life/2026/03...
PEDOrump started EPSTEIN'S WAR
PEDOrump has the blood of 7 soldiers on his hands...so far
PEDOrump IS TO BLAME for this [probable] drone attack on American soil
LOS ANGELES COULD BE ATTACKED BY IRANIAN DRONES OUT TO KILL AMERICANS
His "Make AmeriKKKa Great Again"
MADE AMERICANS THE MOST HATED
#ProtectDemocracy 🇺🇸
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’
“Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Graphic showing countries with the largest oil reserves. Venezuela is at the top, followed by Saudi Arabia, Iran then Canada. Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Russia, USA and Libya round out the list - in that order.
In case you’re wondering.
Laura Ingraham finally turns on her own side, grilling a flailing Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox News as he fails to explain the administration's plan for the spiraling Iran oil crisis.
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White House and Pentagon caught lying to the Biritsh Government. "Defensive patrol" missions announced to Parliament are actually (surprise) attack missions on Iran, counter to British guidance for base usage, and strong opposing public opinion.
This will have consequences for trust of US forces.
But the AI told him the translations were immaculate!
But Trump & his sycophants in Congress LUV the veterans. My ass! They have as much respect for our military as they do for our Constitution. This is the action of a tyrant. He is a dictator & a Hitler loving autocrat. Nothing about this makes America great.
Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe
“There’s kind of a defeatism, this idea that there’s no stopping technology & that resistance is futile, everything will be crushed in its path. That needs to change … We can decide that we want to be human.”
#AcademicSky
I'd sure rather have healthcare 😒
This is ridiculous and unsustainable.
Oh and impeachable!
Do SOMETHING Congress!!
A Stephen Miller-linked dark-money group brought pro-ICE propaganda to Detroit with a billboard on I-75, pushing the same sanitized lie that immigration enforcement is just about protecting families. The group behind it, Citizens for Sanity, has been tied to Miller’s America First Legal network
I don't want him within 3 steps of the presidency, but I'd be willing to nominate his social media manager to get a cabinet position titled "Chief of Clapping Back" or "Major Zinger"
Say what you will about Gavin. He knows how to get down in the gutter with this slimeball.
J6er, Jake Lang is running for Senate in FL, and he will fit right in with the rest of the GOPedophiles since he’s also a pedophile. Apparently, he likes kids in junior high or high school. Well, kids or goats.
#ProudBlue #GOPedophiles #JakeLang #Florida
No joke I'll give $100 to any reporter who responds to a comment like this with "If you keep invading countries without a plan you're a rotten president."
The SAVE Act isn’t just about voter ID. If you’re a naturalized citizen without a passport and you lost your citizenship certificate, you’d have to reapply for proof. That means reopening your file. When citizenship files reopen, denaturalization risk follows. #Pink #Momsky
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tRump arrives home to discover that nobody has forgotten about the tRumpstein files.
“A 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump and his once-close friend Jeffrey Epstein has debuted across from the United States Capitol.”— Daily Beast.
#ProudBlue #Trumpstein
When the President decides photojournalists can’t take pictures at Sec’y Hegseth’s Iran briefings, it’s not a small thing. We’re connecting the dots to the larger efforts to erode our 1st Amendment rights, just when we need them the most. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Yep!!
He looks fucking terrible
With everything going on, I completely missed this one. Someone apparently crashed their car into the gate outside of the White House this morning. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-worl...
