Category Archives: Healthcare

Open Thread | More on the Attack of Women’s Reproductive Rights

Posted on June 16, 2025 by rikyrah

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 … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Republicans Are Using the Los Angeles Protests to Get Trump’s Budget Bill Passed

Posted on June 12, 2025 by rikyrah

UH HUH UH HUH The GOP Budget takes an AXE TO THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SAFETY NET. Republicans Are Using the Los Angeles Protests to Get Trump’s Budget Bill Passed God forbid they condemn the government’s excessive use of force. By … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Let’s Try And Save Biomedical Research

Posted on June 2, 2025 by rikyrah

From Josh Marshall: A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research May 16, 2025 1:26 p.m. Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers either at NIH, other government grant-making agencies or at the various American … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Two Anti-Women Stories With Regards to Reproductive Rights That The MSM Has Ignored. BRAIN DEAD WOMAN CURRENTLY BEING USED AS HUMAN INCUBATOR

Posted on May 27, 2025 by rikyrah

These stories need to be paid attention to, because it’s obvious to me that they are TEST CASES. STORY 1: Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) posted at 9:01 PM on Tue, May 20, 2025: A Texas woman was just released from jail … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | This is Who They Are…This Is Who They’ve Always Been

Posted on May 7, 2025 by rikyrah

Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) posted at 8:35 AM on Fri, May 02, 2025: He’s destroying public education. He’s destroying public broadcasting. He’s destroyed USAID. He’s imposed regressive tariffs on our trading partners. He’s attacked the @smithsonian and deported citizens for … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | How Having A Baby Has Changed Under Trump

Posted on April 28, 2025 by rikyrah

And, none of it is good. From Time Magazine: How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump Apr 17, 2025 12:33 PM CT by Alana Semuels Senior Correspondent Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Stop Believing Republicans

Posted on March 20, 2025 by rikyrah

I hear that. From Jessica Valenti: Stop Believing Republicans 3.17.25 Jessica Valenti Mar 18 Stop Believing Republicans It’s a rule to live by, especially when it comes to abortion rights. Right now, Republican state legislators across the country are pushing … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Abortion Update – Conservatives Are Coming for Prenatal Tests

Posted on March 10, 2025 by rikyrah

Conservatives Are Coming for Prenatal Tests 2.28.25 Jessica Valenti Mar 1 Conservatives’ Next Target: Prenatal Tests Back in 2023, I wrote an investigation about the anti-abortion movement’s quiet campaign to force women to carry doomed pregnancies to term. This wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Abortion Update

Posted on January 6, 2025 by rikyrah

As I have written before, Jessica Valenti is my go-to person whenever I want to know how bad it is out there for women in America, in terms of abortion. I follow her on TikTok and on Twitter. These Anti-Abortion … Continue reading →

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Open Thread | Why Healthcare in America Will Never Get Truly Fixed

Posted on December 30, 2024 by rikyrah

The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller This is a highly under-appreciated and underdiscussed aspect of why the 🇺🇸 oligarchy hates the idea of universal healthcare. They want us trapped in our jobs. #MedicareForAll https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1870854708010852778 I’m not a fan of Medicare for All. … Continue reading →

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