Reposted by VelvetpageProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2026Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)propublica.orgTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. 7919961130
Reposted by VelvetpageChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2026We are the laughing stock of the world. 861146435535
Reposted by VelvetpageLunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 17/02/2026On President's Day, the First Amendment Troop staged "Resistance" - a tribute and act of artistic dissent - at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, CONTD PT1 13369139
Reposted by VelvetpageTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.newsletter.ofthebrave.orgI’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions. 339117286055
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 12/10/2025#CTV quoted a professor saying there's "no inherent downside" to three-way split grades. They didn't talk to any teachers of split grades to get this story. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...ctvnews.ca‘A slap in the face’: North York parents speak out against combined classroom with three gradesParents at a North York elementary school are speaking out after three grades were combined into a single classroom taught by a single teacher following a recent reorganization process. 110
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The Quebec government is going full Trump. Tying doctors' pay to "performance indicators" is a great way to make sure the sickest, most challenging patients can't find a doctor. The same tactic was applied in the US to teachers with NCLB, and the result was teachers fleeing inner city schools. 120
Reposted by VelvetpageProfolus @profolus.com · 24/09/2025KONSYSE: European regulators push back on Trump’s autism claim. EMA confirms no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism. It further urges reliance on evidence-based science.konsyse.comEuropean Medicines Agency Refutes Trump. Dismisses Claim Linking Paracetamol to Autism — KonsyseThe European Medicines Agency refutes a claim by Donald Trump linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism. 1225
Reposted by VelvetpageSiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 24/09/2025"If that is how they are treating us with camera all around us, what are they doing to the detainees that ate in that facility with the boarded up windows." @katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center. 29726
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 24/09/2025So, a shooting that killed only #ICE victims, and no ICE officers, is being blamed on... People who hate ICE officers? We're supposed to tone down our rhetoric but they bear no responsibility for grabbing people off the street and outside their court hearings? Don't dehumanize the masked bandits? 110
Reposted by VelvetpageTess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information? 992390547
Reposted by VelvetpageRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/09/2025"Another religious figure has publicly voiced their criticism of Charlie Kirk." 50753347
Reposted by VelvetpageChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2025Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update. ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting. She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication. 48572114014
Reposted by VelvetpageSandyLee🍁 @leeram.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Why should good people condemn this? These vile people are living in their own reality and dragging down everyone with them. He lived in a world he was creating. He died in that same world. The rest of us don't have to live there. 25311
Reposted by VelvetpageCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy. But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy. He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it." On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation. Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer. 2111092311
Reposted by VelvetpageDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025MAKE NO MISTAKE; these are actual FBI stats. I’ve attached the detailed spreadsheet for doubters. ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the... 36645
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Me, teaching short vowels: this is a hen. Listen to the vowel. Is it hen or hin? Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e? The joys of grade one. 000
Reposted by VelvetpageSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs. 303248516263
Reposted by VelvetpageCalvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025“This means war” to “who led this sweet boy astray” in less than 48 hours 5877210
Reposted by Velvetpageanita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 12/09/2025FUCKING LIAR. The right are committing the crimes. 085
Reposted by VelvetpageAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information. 283848839
Reposted by VelvetpageSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/09/2025weird how there are suddenly a bunch of violent incidents and threats at HBCUs and the DNC office despite nobody knowing who the shooter is except that he appears to be a white man in an American flag shirt 11017157
Reposted by VelvetpageDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.motherjones.comNo, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right wayHis assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped. 849196795063
Reposted by VelvetpageChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/09/2025MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasn’t a good dude, yet they’re bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record. Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths. 40844291355
Reposted by VelvetpageCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025He said gay people should be stoned. 291995343
Reposted by VelvetpageA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite. 12314926612364
Reposted by VelvetpagePeter Collinson @petercollinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice To our own lips. Macbeth - Act 1, scene 7 3174
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Here's my current feelings about Charlie Kirk: he'll get very slightly more empathy from me than he gave to other people, because I'm simply not capable of the level of sociopathy he showed. 021
Reposted by VelvetpageThee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Pride Spotlight: Marsha P. Johnson 🏳️🌈🖤 A Black trans icon, drag queen, and activist who helped spark the Stonewall uprising in 1969. She co-founded STAR to support unhoused trans youth and fought for liberation with joy, rage, and love. Say her name. Honor her fight. #Pride #Pinks 916254
Reposted by VelvetpageRick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The Cruelty ls The Point! You Would Have To Be An Awful Person To Support Such Policies.. 13724891227
Reposted by VelvetpageJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Narrator: they were not considering the offer 1705174372155
Velvetpage @velvetpage.bsky.social · 25/05/2025#PaintPour #FluidArt I bought a glass tea light holder with a star shape. 020
Reposted by VelvetpageEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The House just passed a massive attack on trans people and literally NO MEDIA OUTLET is covering it Transition care literally saves lives. This is an effective ban on transition care. It will literally kill people. 10902543
Reposted by VelvetpageLA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Trump had a meltdown in the Oval Office when asked about the $400M Qatari jet: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter." A real president wouldn't accept a bribe from the people who flew planes into the Twin Towers. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice 46861358
Reposted by Velvetpagescha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17/05/2025ICE agents, without masks, look like January 6th insurrectionists. 2092859626
Reposted by VelvetpageBarbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6 year old, and 3 year old. I have a bullshit detector. I’m just asking you a question 601544327
Reposted by VelvetpageKye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2025BREAKING: AOC broke it down— How the fuck does 1 million undocumented people = cutting 13.7 million citizens off healthcare? Because it was never about immigrants. It was about gutting the system and locking the door behind you. You lose your coverage—and then they outlaw your Plan B. 5834241155
Reposted by VelvetpageChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/05/2025GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️ 11773832066
Reposted by VelvetpageJoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Newark radar screens go black for the second time. Day 1 47 fires the FAA director Day 2 he froze all hiring of Air Traffic Controllers Day 3 closes the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee Day 8 buyout offers go out to ATCs & FAA staff 3 months later… abcnews.go.com/US/radar-scr...abcnews.go.comRadar screens at Newark airport went black again overnightRadar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning. 11190151
Reposted by VelvetpageThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 1453226209761
Reposted by VelvetpageSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Interesting thread. It made me think about how one longstanding problem for the Democratic Party since the 1980s has been its passive reliance on “the moral arc of the universe” to take us into a more just future…as if history was just naturally on “our side.” But moral arcs don’t bend themselves. 27513129