Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialArghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/04/2026At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c 191058538
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.cnn.comExposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detectionCNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it. 1271184782
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12/04/2026Last month, inflation rose again — the most in four years. Americans are feeling the costly impacts of Trump’s war in Iran. He’s broken his promise to lower costs for people again and again.pbs.orgSoaring gas prices leads to biggest monthly inflation spike in four years in MarchIt’s the first read on inflation to capture the effects of the Iran war. 511334351
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2026They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms. 11035601109
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026No one says it better than @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 461569465
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing. 462370867
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Just like 2020 when Trump downplayed over 100 service members with traumatic brain injuries as “headaches”, and downplaying covid deaths, Trump is never honest with the American people about this if he thinks it makes him look bad. Because Trump is all about Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...cbsnews.comDozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources sayAbout 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait. 631963722
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?" 13734390712300
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/11/2025Trump denies grocery prices are up and then says people will be fine because "their 401ks are up." (Nearly half of Americans have no retirement savings) 2561781565
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 03/11/2025JUST IN: Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.n.prSNAP benefits will restart, but it will be half the normal paymentCourts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP. 53433212
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends. 1470176556686
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialJ.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025if you think this is anything but intentional, you're really not paying attention to what's going on in AmeriKKKa. 2326147
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2025This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted 112871691683
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2025That is just plainly not true. Your budget slashed help for people who buy Affordable Care Act plans. That's 22 million Americans whose premiums are going up - RIGHT NOW - by double digits directly because of a policy you passed. 19644851593
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2025The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.propublica.orgThe Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social SecurityDOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc... 341706721
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it. 7793956112306
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This is because Hegseth does not understand that there is a real world out there beyond his obsessions with American enemies within. His only idea is to use our armed forces against us. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comMilitary leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategyTop military officials have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership. 822115663
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025September 29, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comSeptember 29, 2025Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) left a meeting with President Donald J. 34982329
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialViolet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025DHS response to this + Chicago Headline Club statement on @peoplesfabric.com being detained and reporters being “shot intentionally with bean bags, chemical munitions” by federal agents outside Broadview: “No member of the media at CBS or any other outlet was ‘attacked.’“ 1619954
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism" 7433935712584
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025September 27, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comSeptember 28, 2025Late last night, President Donald J. 53979308
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/20251. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.popular.infoTrump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaireA $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary 15124771475
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/09/2025As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged. 23140571655
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGGmaJoy @ggmajoyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Heather @hcrichardson.bsky.social says this video is fake & is trying to get it removed. Don't fall for it! 1214847
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025If Trump actually believed he was popular as he always says he is, he would not be trying to rig next year's election. But he and Republicans know that waging war against the American people is not popular and are trying to avoid democratic accountability. apnews.com/article/redi...apnews.comMissouri governor signs Trump-backed plan aimed at helping Republicans win another US House seatMissouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a new congressional map into law that gives Republicans an improved shot at winning an additional U.S. House seat. 20964245
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Presidents get too much credit when the American economy is strong & too much blame when it isn’t. But in the case of farmers who can’t sell crops, Trump clearly gets 100% of the blame. Rare when you can point to economic disaster in a sector directly attributable to a president. 16155671356
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025 24082492689
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 23/09/2025UPDATE: President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.n.prTrump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him upPresident Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either. 2201023259
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2025So the recording show Tom Homan rejecting the money? Wow, I bet they're going to rush to show that to all of us and we're all going to look *pretty* stupid for believing the FBI statement that he took the money as soon as they show that to us, which -- again -- I am certain will happen *very* soon. 30349871087
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. 20849431945
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2025For the first time in decades, America is openly working on the weaponization of space, and Musk’s companies are uniquely well-positioned to snatch up billions of dollars in government contracts for these projects. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... 1526288
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22/09/2025The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...gelliottmorris.comA lot of people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump isThe backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel shows why it's important for businesses and the public to understand that two-thirds of Americans are not Trump voters 9542341130
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2025A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could: A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide or B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures. Right now, he’s choosing B. 32767421991
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialChip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...wbez.orgIllinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlistAn online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors." 35904531
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 19/09/2025This year’s winter heating bills may send a shiver down many Americans’ spine.cnn.comMore bad news for Americans battling higher prices: Your winter heating bills are about to rise | CNN BusinessThis year’s winter heating bills may send a shiver down many Americans’ spine. 25252121
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.social50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Anti-fascists (Antifa):media.tenor.coma black and white photo of soldiers holding an american flag on top of a hill .Alt: a black and white photo of soldiers holding an american flag on top of a hill; Iwo Jima 26876267
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.social"Mooch" Calucci 🤞 @moochcalucci.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Viktor Orban had his most loyal oligarchs buy up all of Hungary's major media outlets to establish a propaganda network. It's happening here now. www.ap.org/news-highlig... www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billi... archive.ph/2025.09.17-2...ap.orgHow Hungary's Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark | The Associated PressBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In the months leading up to elections for the European Parliament, Hungarians were warned that casting a ballot against Prime 11363182
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n... 012431
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2025House Judiciary Committee Rejects Request to Subpoena Banks in Epstein Casedemocracynow.orgHouse Judiciary Committee Rejects Request to Subpoena Banks in Epstein CaseRepublicans on the House Judiciary Committee rejected a request by Democrats yesterday to subpoena four major banks -- JPMorgan, BNY, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank -- about their connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 32335167
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment. 12524756415079
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out. 35066991608
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions". 17214532312344
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025OBAMA: Sir, I’m not the President of the United States, currently. So, there’s no point in shouting at me. I’m not in charge of foreign policy currently. 355102932423
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...theatlantic.comThe Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High SchoolsNone 1102902615
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/09/2025We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American. 1042115583
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 542215981
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 15/09/2025It has been 40 days since @oversightdemocrats.house.gov successfully subpoenaed Trump's DOJ to release the Epstein files. Two weeks ago, we heard harrowing accounts from the survivors who have been denied justice for decades. Survivors deserve truth, healing, & accountability. Release the files. 6744192
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Geography. Don’t skip it in school. 16840781340
Reposted by @motheroffemales.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2025WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon" 168398182676