I’ve logged back in to post Marcellus Williams poems. You can read a few here.

Growing up in a conservative Catholic family, I was told--you won't need abortion if you just make "good choices." But sometimes abortion is the "good choice" that makes all the other choices possible. So, I was deeply grateful to hear Kamala Harris acknowledge that reality last night.

Me in high school: I can get by on this packet of Nibs and have change leftover for gas money. My kids in HS: cooking up fried rice, marinating chicken, roasting chicken peas.

It just seemed like news that Trump was raving in Nassau County about driving out people who came from "the Congo....Africa..the Middle East...Asia," and then it seemed even more like news that none of the coverage mentioned it defector.com/where-racism...

“Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, blood pressure sinking & organs beginning to fail. It took 20 hrs. for them to finally operate. By then it was too late.” www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.

Now that's what I call a lead. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/o...

The good people at the Haitian Times planned a community meeting in Springfield tomorrow. Now it has been cancelled and moved online because of ongoing threats. Despicable.

Haitian families in Springfield have been harassed and had cars vandalized since the Trump-Vance ticket’s racist lies about pet-eating. “I’m going to have to move because this area is no longer good for me,” said one resident. haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/h...

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread

Racist claims by right-wing Republicans about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are giving way to physical attacks against Haitian families, some of whom are keeping their children from school today to p...

We talk to election law guru Gerry Cohen (@gercohen) about the absentee ballot situation in North Carolina triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/11/w...

We talk to Gerry Cohen about the absentee ballot situation in North Carolina

We had lots of questions after the state Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a 4-3 ruling, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name needed to be removed from NC ballots, which were already printed and set to g...

Remember when they showed 60 Minutes a giant book of his healthcare plan and Leslie Stahl opened it and it was just blank?