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The My Voice, My Choice campaign gets a vote on Wed. in the European Parliament. It would enable women from EU countries that restrict abortion to have free abortions in another member state. It's expected to pass but the European Commission must still decide whether to adopt the proposal.
Europe to vote on scheme to help abortion access
PARIS, Dec 17 - The EU's parliament will vote on Wednesday on a scheme that would enable women from nations restricting abortion to terminate pregnancies in another member state free of charge. Read m...
www.straitstimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The My Voice, My Choice campaign gets a vote on Wed. in the European Parliament. It would enable women from EU countries that restrict abortion to have free abortions in another member state. It's expected to pass but the European Commission must still decide whether to adopt the proposal.
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Earlier this year, the Trump administration shut down a program to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South. Why? It was deemed illegal DEI.
On this week's More To The Story, Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how these rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet:
On this week's More To The Story, Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how these rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet:
Why Trump deemed basic sanitation illegal DEI
On this week’s “More To The Story,” activist Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet.
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Earlier this year, the Trump administration shut down a program to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South. Why? It was deemed illegal DEI.
On this week's More To The Story, Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how these rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet:
On this week's More To The Story, Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how these rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet:
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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🚨 HUGE NEWS: Democrats' discharge petition to force a vote on extending the ACA subsidies and lowering premium costs for millions has gotten enough signatures.
Speaker Johnson tried to block this bill because he doesn't care if your premiums double or triple. We do.
Speaker Johnson tried to block this bill because he doesn't care if your premiums double or triple. We do.
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨 HUGE NEWS: Democrats' discharge petition to force a vote on extending the ACA subsidies and lowering premium costs for millions has gotten enough signatures.
Speaker Johnson tried to block this bill because he doesn't care if your premiums double or triple. We do.
Speaker Johnson tried to block this bill because he doesn't care if your premiums double or triple. We do.
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Jeffries calls on the House to stay in session until there's a vote on the discharge petition: "Mike Johnson should not recess the House of Representatives until we vote on the straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act Tax credits."
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jeffries calls on the House to stay in session until there's a vote on the discharge petition: "Mike Johnson should not recess the House of Representatives until we vote on the straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act Tax credits."
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Apparently I’m a Mick Foley fan.
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Apparently I’m a Mick Foley fan.
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Quagmires “R" Us
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher | Andrews McMeel
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It appears President Trump is preparing to jettison yet another campaign promise. The stakes are high. Trump’s muscle-flexing foray into Venezuela will put many lives at risk.
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I think we’ve seen this movie before.
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher | Andrews McMeel
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It appears President Trump is preparing to jettison yet another campaign promise. The stakes are high. Trump’s muscle-flexing foray into Venezuela will put many lives at risk.
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I think we’ve seen this movie before.
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Quagmires “R" Us
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher | Andrews McMeel
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It appears President Trump is preparing to jettison yet another campaign promise. The stakes are high. Trump’s muscle-flexing foray into Venezuela will put many lives at risk.
.
I think we’ve seen this movie before.
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher | Andrews McMeel
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It appears President Trump is preparing to jettison yet another campaign promise. The stakes are high. Trump’s muscle-flexing foray into Venezuela will put many lives at risk.
.
I think we’ve seen this movie before.
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
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"Since Judge Dugan’s arrest, protesters have frequently gathered in downtown Milwaukee to show their support for her, including during jury selection last week. Demonstrations are expected to continue in downtown Milwaukee throughout the trial..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Trial Starts for Judge Accused of Helping Undocumented Immigrant Evade Agents
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Since Judge Dugan’s arrest, protesters have frequently gathered in downtown Milwaukee to show their support for her, including during jury selection last week. Demonstrations are expected to continue in downtown Milwaukee throughout the trial..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
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Yes, we are all Belén. 😢
The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.
The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.
We Are All Belén
Belén is both a reminder and a warning: when abortion is criminalized, we risk harming anyone with a uterus, and it’s already happening.
latinamedia.co
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Yes, we are all Belén. 😢
The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.
The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.
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Almost everyone has a pre-existing condition by the age of 40.
🚨Pre-existing conditions look a lot like a general representation of the purpose/function of healthcare.
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Almost everyone has a pre-existing condition by the age of 40.
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Undecided voter: “How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Undecided voter: “How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
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Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...
Rob Reiner: 5 essential films
Revisit the astonishing run of films that Rob Reiner made in his early career.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...
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This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
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The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) can grow to more than 450 kg (1,000 lb) and live for over 65 years
📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba
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December 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) can grow to more than 450 kg (1,000 lb) and live for over 65 years
📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba
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