Though HIPAA generally makes conversations between you and your doctor private, medical personnel can sometimes call law enforcement if they suspect a crime has been committed. This can have new implications in states where abortion is now illegal: consumerreports.org/health-privacy…

It's All About Controlling Women, Part II: Abortion and Contraceptive Laws (a brief history) Link here: terikanefield.substack.com/p/its-all-abou… Make yourself a promise. After you read it, take a mental health break. Ideas: Take a lovely walk somewhere.

Here’s how Dems can + must do more than wait for an election. Let’s start w/ why: - 7 of the 9 justices were appointed by a party that hasn’t won a popular vote more than once in 30 years - 1 of those seats was stolen - Several lied to Congress to secure their appointment…

A must read story not just about the mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, but about the danger of relying on companies/countries' goodwill, the devastating neocolonial hierarchy enforced by the TRIPS agreement, and what a better future could look like. nature.com/immersive/d415…

Capitalism is killing us.

1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here's my story about how and why it happened, and who's responsible. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Why would Trump want to keep nuclear documents? It is time to review the 2019 House Oversight Committee’s stunning allegations of nuclear corruption between Trump World (Flynn Kushner etc) & Saudi/Qatar. My thread from 2019:

This is fine.

Chile’s proposed constitution, written by a representative democratic convention, is up for a vote on 9/4. If passed, it’ll be a victory for Indigenous self-determination in Chile and across the 🌎. I've translated key Indigenous provisions to expand access & celebrate them. A🧵:

Elamin Abdelmahmoud I read a quote from Elizabeth Warren that said something like, "if you went through hard times and think others should because you turned out okay, you didn't turn out okay." I think about that a lot.

Trump saves millions in property taxes by owning a dozen goats & pretending Bedminster is a farm, but GOP wants you to believe relieving student debt is a handout. GOP

This is a really detailed analysis of everything we know so far about debt cancelation. Excellent reporting by Anna Helhoski nerdwallet.com/article/loans/…

How is the income determined? From our 2021 tax returns? Adjusted gross income or taxable income? #studentloanforgiveness

All these crazy hot takes about students should work in the summer to cover tuition. Tuition = $10,000/ semester To pay for 1 semester a student would need to make $20/hr work 40/week pay $0 in taxes and have $0 expenses just to pay 1 semester of tuition. This isn’t the 70’s

Karen Attiah (Karen Attiah) makes the case, clearly and persuasively, that the death of QEII is the appropriate time to call out colonialism and remember those killed in the Mau Mau uprising, the Biafran war and other last gasps of empire: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Yesterday, a judge in Baltimore overturned the murder conviction of Adnan Syed whose story became widely known after being chronicled by the podcast “Serial.” To learn more, Lisa Desjardins spoke with Syed’s attorney Erica J. Suter. to.pbs.org/3BRQlEL

Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.

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