Michael E. Kanell

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.

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

and i include liberals who keep saying "republicans werent like this before." stop it. just stop it. they were. goddamn reagan was laughing about black politicians being monkeys and laughing at damn aids patients forty years ago. shut the absolute fuck up about how this is new.

No accountability. No morals. No empathy. No limits.

Because they can.

UPDATE: Trump says Kushner helped convince him to go to war with Iran The disclosure highlights Kushner's massive financial conflicts.

Maybe it's just me, but I think more people should be talking about the fact that Jared Kushner helped convince Trump to start a war with Iran.

Meanwhile, Kushner's top client, Saudi Arabia, which pays Kushner $25 million+ annually, was also lobbying Trump to start a war.

“.. 15 percent of individuals said they had borrowed money in the last year to pay for medical expenses, while another 11 percent said they had skipped a meal.”

@nytimes.com
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

At the same time, the Israeli government has halted the entry of the agreed quantities of food, humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and basic shelter materials. Living conditions in Gaza are deteriorating rapidly while Palestinians remain trapped with nowhere safe to go. (3/4)

America seriously needs to heal to past the point where the only concerns when it comes to illegal and butcherous wars are just gas prices and the loss of American lives.

Another good day to remember:
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

It is a weakness of our system that the murder of 160 schoolchildren does not result in an immediate dissolution of the government.

ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving medical attention for severe tooth pain Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.

At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.

The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.

2/ This effort was both domestic and international, constituted a criminal conspiracy involving election fraud and illegal donations and tax fraud and illegal foreign election interference, and Donald Trump was well aware of it. He needed these women paid off, but would not or could not pay himself.

Leading NYC Jewish groups raise ‘deep concerns’ over Mamdani’s latest extremist associations UJA-Federation of New York called Mamdani’s recent gatherings with Mahmoud Khalil and Abdullah Akl a betrayal to his pledge to battle antisemitism

We need to stop accepting that these are "leading Jewish groups." They are not democratically accountable to the majority of American Jews, and I suspect the majority of NYC Jews do not care if Mamdani shares iftar with Mahmoud Khalil. I certainly do not! jewishinsider.com/2026/03/mamd...

What's up with all these America first types hating everything about America as it actually exists

“He does what?”
“He likes to guess their shoe size and orders it for them.”
“And they don’t fit?”
“No, he’s comically wrong. Like, every time.”
“And they wear them anyway?”
“Yeah. See, that’s how you know how sycophantic they are. It’s symbolism.”
(beat)
“Eh. We can’t do that. It’s too on the nose.”

ABC News: Many military members may get care at hospitals at risk of financial distress — partly due to Trump cuts

Before throwing a new generation of troops into war, they made sure to:

Torpedo our VA.
Enact the biggest health care cut in history.
Shutter hospitals.

Don’t you dare tell me you care about our heroes when you're doing everything you can to undermine care when they get home.

So. He may be vile, ignorant, brutal and erratic, but at least he's a coward.

turns out that the goals of "get foreign populace to rise up at great personal risk against a legitimately oppressive and evil regime" and "lethalitymaxxing without regard for human life, civilian infrastructure, or that populace's cultural treasures" are not entirely congruent with one another

Leaked Documents Show a Border Patrol Remade in the Image of Gregory Bovino - The American Prospect Bovino’s smash-and-grab tactics are now the norm for immigration enforcement across the country.

Leaked documents show the US Border Patrol being remade in the image of Gregory Bovino. Example: last November "guidance was issued across the Border Patrol to clarify how to smash suspects’ car windows and extract them from vehicles while minimizing legal liability."
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Family at Dilley ICE center details moldy food, medical neglect The family, including the mother and her five children, detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations. They’ve been ...

"This place broke something in us."

In letters and drawings, a mother and her five children held in the Dilley ICE detention center detail what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations.

Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.

It’s awesome and not at all predictable that the fascist movement that gained power by promising people they could be more selfish and worse versions of themselves have fucked things up so badly they’re now preaching sacrifice. Never seen this movie before.

We killed those kids and we’re going to feel the fallout for decades

Okay, they are vile, ignorant, sloppy and bigoted.

But they *are* vain.

Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.

Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

On Donald Trump's watch, the US military incinerated nearly 200 children.

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades."

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Media coverage of this needs to start with informing people that the JCPOA existed, what it did, that it was working, & that Trump unilaterally destroyed it, & inform them that anything now is almost certain to fall short of that.

Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.