Nearly half of women who said abortion should be legal also said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views (43%), compared with just 32% of men. That's a significant gender gap.
The number of legal abortions in Poland doubled in 2024, while complaints to Polish authorities over conscience clause refusals in the country have apparently ceased. The government had told hospitals they are obliged to provide abortion on the legal grounds of a woman's mental health.
This is incredible.
On this week’s Hell Gate Podcast, among other topics, we discussed Kathy Hochul trying to roll back the state’s climate law: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Impossible to imagine that scotus didn't think Citizens United would deliver fascism. It was so obvious it must have been intentional.
"Focusing on deaths per mile driven is like trying to reduce the number of cancer deaths per cigarette smoked"
We have to be relentless, in our criticism, and protest, of this awful, corrupt, murderous, Regime.
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Some companies have found lucrative opportunities to capitalize on a growing need, extracting payments as high as $800 an hour. on.wsj.com/4usG5wi
"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.
This article doesn’t mention that the amicus brief filed in the SCOTUS on behalf of Killer Mike, Young Thug, Fat Joe, T.I. & other artists & scholars is the work principally of colleagues & students in the Criminal Justice Clinic at @howardlawschool.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
On right, John Oliver talking to the viewer. On left, a ProPublica headline from February 15, 2025 says: “Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy.” An article excerpt below says: "... where he attempted to delay or halt dozens of programs …”
2/ Oliver later referred to our reporting about former USAID lead Peter Marocco.
Officials told us they saw Marocco’s gutting of the agency as a campaign of retribution against those who opposed his foreign policy agenda in the first Trump administration: propub.li/47CkZ4u
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
ICE awarded a $113M contract to KVG LLC to convert a warehouse in Washington County, Maryland into a detention center holding up to 1,500 immigrants. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has sued to stop the project.
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A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
I'm a big fan of @karenattiah.bsky.social's work, & this is a good opportunity to delve into the connection between football & politics.
Here's results of a global survey that included a question about whether abortion is "morally unacceptable." Some percentages of those who believe that include:
- Canada - 19%
- USA - 47%
- Sweden - 5% (the least)
- Indonesia - 93% (the most)
President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
I'm out of words here
Nothing conspiratorial happening. The current fascist US regime sees it as in its interest to pulverize Iran. That's it.
When the guy has been accused of and found guilty of rape for decades, and the press is calling all this “unsubstantiated” they are no longer doing their job.
They are aiding and abetting a child rapist.
Dear Americans: Your enemies are not in Iran. They are in THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Abortion is almost completely illegal in Brazil, yet that doesn't stop heartless right-wing politicians from trying to restrict it more, including for minors who were victims of rape and incest.
From 2017 to 2024, 103 bills to restrict abortion were introduced across the country.
sometimes I wonder if the people who insist AI can’t have some form of consciousness really just overestimate how much we actually know about the nature of consciousness. like, for reference, “rocks are conscious” is a plausible view on the matter that you can basically support as well as any other
A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. on.wsj.com/3PoQMj5
public media is a democratic good
a necessity
It deserves so much better than a BBC EIC who was the marketing veep for Pepsi. Excellent media reporting from @revealnews.org
Nearly $1.3 billion in local, state or federal government grants were awarded to 1,259 crisis pregnancy centers in total between 2019 and 2024 (in the US). These centers are doing real harm to pregnant people, as this report documents.
you always wanted to see the painted desert, go there to meet god or oblivion
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Black Zine Fair returns to BK on May 9 - www.instagram.com/p/DVj7XGvEfdC/ - Stay tuned for details.
