I would really love to see high speed rail in the Midwest.

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Tallying the number of Americans detained by immigration agents is inherently messy and incomplete. The government has long ignored recommendations for it to track such cases, even as the U.S. has a history of detaining and even deporting citizens.

Yay some good news. 💜

Thank you for your work. This award is so well deserved.

Yes, as my colleague said yesterday, basically FDA held a flu vax advisory committee meeting without the advisors and without the public.

Iowa GOP fast-tracks bill ending trans civil rights protection as protesters flood Capitol House lawmakers on Monday advanced a bill that would remove protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

One of the sponsors says he wants to get rid of all protected classes in the the Iowa Civild rights act.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Wide-ranging GOP bill would remove gender identity protections from Iowa Civil Rights Act A wide-ranging Republican bill would remove protections against discrimination for transgender people from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

They are not even bothering with pretext. They are openly saying that "separate is not unequal." They have also said publicly they want to remove protections for women and other groups listed in the Iowa Civil rights act.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

It's funny ... but not funny hah-hah ... to see Republican AGs suddenly claim not to have realized that their lawsuit claimed Section 504 was unconstitutional. This is count 3.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court The A.C.L.U. filed a lawsuit after the president’s administration stopped issuing passports that reflect the gender identity of transgender and nonbinary people.

2. For most of history, passports didn’t include sex markers. Then, in 1977, the government added them—not for security, but because officials panicked over unisex fashion.

Yes, really. (NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...)

The 17 states: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. 😣