Saw this today, and had to post it:
Katherine Clark (@WhipKClark) posted at 1:11 PM on Mon, Jun 09, 2025:
What else was snuck into the GOP’s Big, Ugly Budget?A provision barring health plans on the ACA marketplace from providing abortion coverage.
Let’s call it what it is: a back door to a national abortion ban.
It won’t matter if you’re in a red or blue state.
(https://x.com/WhipKClark/status/1932138536536244582?t=qVIVoH2Srdrm15x13U52pA&s=03)
Not surprised at all.
This is horrific.
Breaking: White House Rescinds Federal Guidance on Emergency Abortions
They’re telling us who they are. Again.
Jessica Valenti
Jun 4
I just left a play with my husband when I saw the news: the Trump administration has rescinded federal guidance requiring hospitals to provide patients with emergency abortions.
To put it plainly: The White House is telling Republican-led states that they can let women die.
I wish this were hyperbole. I wish I didn’t have to write you yet another email detailing yet another way that this administration has made clear they don’t see us as people. I hate being the messenger of our dehumanization.
And part of me would love to soften the blow—truly. But at a time when anti-abortion lawmakers and activists are working overtime to massage reality, candor is more important than comfort.
Because here’s what’s going to happen: They are going to say that we’re fear-mongering. That women can get life-saving care even in states with abortion bans. They’ll say it even as maternal mortality spikes and stories of women’s deaths go public. They’ll repeat that lie as mothers beg someone to care that their daughters are dead. They’ll even have the nerve to blame us—saying that the abortion rights movement is scaring doctors out of doing their jobs.
That level of disinformation and gaslighting necessitates being clear-eyed. So here’s what you need to know:
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires hospital emergency rooms to provide patients with life-saving and stabilizing care, including abortions.
After the end of Roe, the Biden administration made clear that hospitals were required to adhere to EMTALA regardless of state abortion bans. In other words: refusing women emergency life-saving or stabilizing abortion care would be against federal law.
Conservative organizations and Republican-led states were furious, and have been fighting to free themselves of that requirement ever since. They claim that EMTALA doesn’t apply to them, and that the law doesn’t require abortion care anyway.
Idaho’s EMTALA challenge made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where justices were treated to arguments over how many organs a woman can lose before a state is required to give her care.
Rather than take a substantive stand, SCOTUS chickened out—responding with a non-ruling that kicked the issue back to a lower court and left Idaho patients in limbo. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson laid into her conservative colleagues for just that:
“While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires. This Court had a chance to bring clarity and certainty to this tragic situation, and we have squandered it. And for as long as we refuse to declare what the law requires, pregnant patients in Idaho, Texas, and elsewhere will be paying the price.”
When Texas took the issue to court, however, the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit ruled explicitly in their favor. Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt wrote, “EMTALA does not provide an unqualified right for the pregnant mother to abort her child especially when EMTALA imposes equal stabilization obligations.”
Setting aside Engelhardt’s obvious disdain for women who dare to want to live, consider what it means to require doctors to treat both a woman and a fertilized egg equally as patients. Consider that this is what they expect us to die for.
That’s the most important takeaway from today’s decision: The Trump administration isn’t just signaling that anti-abortion states can deny women care without consequence—they’re demanding that hospitals treat pregnant patients and their embryos, fetuses, or fertilized eggs as equal.
This isn’t creepy at all….uh huh
uh huh
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 3:20 PM on Thu, May 29, 2025:
Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country.The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here.
https://t.co/bIHV2X1CXS
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1928184815456522677?t=hcePdVysNPLBXbymc13zlA&s=03)
Please notice.
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 6:05 PM on Thu, May 22, 2025:
Republicans are trying to use a bogus study to restrict abortion medication—and they think no one will notice.Thanks to Sen. @PattyMurray for letting FDA chief Marty Makary know that we won’t let the administration get away with lying to voters. https://t.co/hFHndyBgmP
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1925689452313084340?t=l6HmCTmQD4M6bUwILPkaCA&s=03)
This is outrageous. If you put in writing and sign what you done with YOUR HEALTHCARE, IT SHOULD BE RESPECTED.
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 6:26 PM on Thu, May 22, 2025:
I thought I was pretty well versed on all things pregnancy and abortion, but this news from @DrJenLincoln truly shocked me: over 30 states have laws that override your advance directive if you’re pregnant.
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1925694826357391853?t=7cwYzXnHIkCAd96400pKbA&s=03)
Been done told you:
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 4:59 PM on Mon, May 19, 2025:
Republicans are trying to restrict mifepristone using a junk science published anti-abortion activists.Here’s lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide.
Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡 https://t.co/xXK5wuWoER
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1924585647043428633?t=IbucWckhCBtCptbmLW2N0Q&s=03)
Please heed these warnings.
Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 10:04 AM on Fri, May 09, 2025:
This is super important: @AlannaVagianos interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.Really, don’t miss this one:
https://t.co/7Vu4fEkXDz
(https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/1920857455514263599?s=03)
LarryO reading the letter from Senator Smith’s office to the azzhole Senator Lee, concerning the BULLSHYT Lee did this weekend in reference to the Minnesota assassinations
I have to say…this realization is literally slapping me upside my head 😳😳
It’s CRAZY,but it explains so much .
They, for real, thought that BLACK AMERICANS..
that WE WERE IMMIGRANTS 😳😳
LIKE…DA PHUQ??
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8r6FdGE/
DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) posted at 9:26 AM on Sun, Jun 15, 2025:
You aren’t going to like this post, but it needs to be said about Vance Bolter.
At first, I assumed Vance Boelter was just another grifter in the NGO/activist space. He built a fake resume, floated around volunteer gigs, and set up shell organizations for clout. His “Red Lion Group” has no real paper trail. His side business in “security services” looks like a cash grab.
But the more I dug, the more different it looks.
Boelter was a 7/11 manager, but constantly promoted himself as a corporate executive. He claims the title “Dr.” based on a Ed.D. in Leadership. He chased every opportunity to get in front of an audience: volunteering for Governor Walz’s “Workforce Development” initiatives, speaking at conferences, anything to be seen as a leader.
And in videos of him in African churches, you see him light up. He’s performing. He’s preaching vague, positive platitudes to foreign audiences. He wanted to be somebody. He wanted to be followed.
There’s good reason to believe that @JamesHartline is right… he was remodeling that building below into a church. Not to serve Jesus, but as a stage for an audience that would never come.
I think he is a man addicted to attention and status, who tried to get it through a lot of means. And when that attention dried up (possibly whoever cut him off his funding in Congo), he snapped.
I believe Vance Boelter committed violence as a last, desperate attempt to be glorified: under the delusion that killing abortion rights activists would make him a martyr or hero.
This is not Christianity. I watched his sermons. They were designed to provoke emotional applause, not spiritual conviction.
His actions contradict the standard Jesus gave us to recognize false prophets:
“By their fruits you will know them.” – Matthew 7:15–20
Boelter bore no good fruit. Just narcissism, manipulation, and ultimately violence. He wasn’t an evangelical or MAGA. He was a man who couldn’t stand being ordinary.
https://t.co/EbphTJRM4c
(https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1934256121394712998?t=VuCpTAKIPfgBEYGKQhibgg&s=03)
Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) posted at 1:00 PM on Sun, Jun 15, 2025:
As I told @minhokimdh of the @nytimes here, corporate sponsorships of yesterday’s parade involved use of public office for private gain, particularly when taxpayers, not the corporate sponsors, paid for most of the cost of the event.
https://t.co/umlO8p2S7W
(https://x.com/RWPUSA/status/1934310038186655751?t=WuFOqvCIflE_eNc73BXBsw&s=03)
Janai Nelson (@JNelsonLDF) posted at 3:33 PM on Sun, Jun 15, 2025:
Important that ICE is pausing most raids on farms, hotels & restaurants but let’s be clear: Trump dn do it to keep families together, honor the dignity of essential workers, or right an egregious wrong. He did it b/c businesses are worried about profit. https://t.co/p4AShcjrDK
(https://x.com/JNelsonLDF/status/1934348675918012710?t=e-3X-6IIj8z5L9cZzj20bw&s=03)
Billifer 🇨🇦 (@billifer1973) posted at 11:26 PM on Sun, Jun 15, 2025:
This likely isn’t going to be just another Trump tantrum. This is full-blown narcissistic injury. He’s been humiliated on the world stage, and that kind of ego hit often leads to unbridled rage & revenge. We can laugh, but we should also be very concerned about what happens next.
(https://x.com/billifer1973/status/1934467531160559724?t=BFj9NwLXzPKhUUgT0ooQZA&s=03)
response to this from the Orange Menace:
Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.
In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!
I want our Brave ICE Officers to know that REAL Americans are cheering you on every day. The American People want our Cities, Schools, and Communities to be SAFE and FREE from Illegal Alien Crime, Conflict, and Chaos. That’s why I have directed my entire Administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came, and preventing the admission of ANYONE who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.
To ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, the Patriots at Pentagon and the State Department, you have my unwavering support. Now go, GET THE JOB DONE! DJT
lips so pursed
Variety
@Variety
The Trump Organization has announced Trump Mobile, which will offer 5G service with an unlimited plan priced at $47.45 per month via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
Trump Mobile plans to release the “T1 Phone” in August — described as “a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier.”
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-mobile-wireless-phone-service-launch-1236431690/
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊