Solicitor General Prelogar for the US: Idaho makes termination of a pregnancy short of a woman's death subject to prosecution and years of incarceration. Idaho hospitals are air lifting a woman, on average, once every other week out of state for emergency care. It is not tenable.

“Guns…are not just threats to public health; they are threats, as Ruth Ben-Ghiat argues, to the “strong civic culture and a public sphere conducive to social trust and altruism” that democracies require….”
time.com/6660478/gun-co… TIME

Okay, ohmigod, I just had this thought for the very first time & now I cannot stop mulling: what will happen to Trump’s hair if he is jailed???

ABHORRENT: Against the will of the people—including survivors of The Covenant School shooting in Nashville—Tennessee lawmakers just passed a dangerous bill to allow teachers to carry guns in schools. What’s worse: Parents will not be notified if their child’s teacher is armed.

In Episode 4 of #FutureCasting with Utah State, I am joined by author Rachel Louise Snyder & Jill Anderson, CEO of CAPSA. The three of us discuss what it takes to successfully address sexual and domestic violence in our communities.

EPISODE 4 ➡️ usu.edu/president/comm…

#podcast

If I was in Trump’s secret service detail facing a possible prison term I would be incandescent with rage

Can a lawyer explain this to me: why is “catch and kill” being used synonymously with “NDA” in some of the reporting & online commentary? They seem like very different things to me. #TrumpTrial

For those who never seem to know what VP Harris is doing despite her posting her agenda every day, right now she's unveiling a monumental new plan to make the nation's nursing homes safer and better regulated and uplift beleaguered workers who care for our elders.

HOW IS ANYONE IN POWER NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?

I once gave a talk at a violence prevention conference in Canada & afterwards the organizers invited all of us to dance to #shakeitoff by Taylor Swift & I honestly think it might be the healthiest response to violence & trauma that I’ve ever seen. More of this please.

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opi…

NEW REPORT: Since Roe was overturned by SCOTUS, pregnant women are being turned away from US emergency rooms - even by security guards - and are being forced to miscarry or give birth alone in ER lobbies and parking lots. apnews.com/article/pregna…

Writer pals: remind of the site where you can look up whether your work has been used to train AI? #WriterCommunity #writers

Long, long, long overdue. Now he should have his conviction overturned. Amazing work Gilbert_King

Leo Schofield was granted parole. He will be leaving prison on April 30th.

The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman “shook an entire nation into some kind of recognition that domestic abuse crosses all bounds of race, class, sexual identity, ethnicity, age,” says Rachel Louise Snyder.

Read: nyti.ms/3vUH66J

Trump apparently nodding off in court today reminds me of the old cliche of the guilty man sleeping soundly through his first night in jail, relieved at last to be caught. Only the falsely accused innocent lies awake, scared of what might happen next.

so... the feds are closing the prison bc the employees won't stop abusing the women but also... 'no employees will lose their jobs' apnews.com/article/federa…

It was immediately called a terrorist attack. When the killer was found to be white, the mental health label was used. It’s a familiar pattern.

JC’s father said he couldn’t get a girlfriend and that was why he did it. He may have had schizophrenia but that is only part of the

Would the United States judiciary knowingly imprison someone for murder who had never actually killed another person?