It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Mark your calendars because #HCWvsHunger 2025 starts in just one week…

And if you donated early due to the shutdown keep those receipts because we are going to find a way to count them.

Let’s feed some more people 🍎

hcwvshunger.org

Great piece by a former women's competitive swimmer.

Resistance takes many forms.

US military choir singing a Les Mis compilation at the Governor’s Ball on Sat night.

youtu.be/IQ1J0HCZS74

This

NEW: Pregnancy 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%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Needed some sort of win today 😊

And Kansas has joined the ranks of states banning gender affirming care for youth. 😔

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024.

The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth.

When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness.

If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

This is the Ben & Jerry’s video that has folks talking and MAGA losing their shit!

We need to support @benandjerrys y’all, because we don’t ever want them to “stick to just the ice cream”. 👀

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"

This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the news cycle w/ a stream of outrage porn to distract, scare, & confuse. These are the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week:

NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL

aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

Measles cases rising in a Texas County. Measles hospitalizations rising, all in unvaccinated patients. Most are children. There are many things that RFK Jr could do to try to control this outbreak. I suspect he will do none of them.
#PedSky #MedSky

www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Anyone have good book recommendations for Stonewall? Looking to horde books before mass bans to keep the history alive.

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of my friends posted a comment: why is everyone upset with DOGE—you shouldn’t get upset with the auditor when it uncovers your bank has been stealing money from you.

At that moment, I came to understand how fundamentally different we are understanding the current political situation. 😢