Meanwhile, Louisiana Republicans are presiding over one of the worst Black maternal and infant mortality crises in America. Where are the bills addressing that very real problem?
Black women in Louisiana account for roughly 36% of births, but nearly 58% of pregnancy-associated deaths.
Joe says it well:
THERE’S A PATTERN
Before Jen Kiggans was nodding along to “cotton-picking,” she was already trying to police how schools talk about racism.
#JimCrowJen
Anti-Black history panic👇🏽
As a state senator, Kiggans championed SB 570, a bill banning school’s honest discussion of race & racism in US history
Cartoon from Andy Donato.
MAGA Rep Jen Kiggans (R-VA) agreeing with this radio host that Leader Jeffries (D-NY) needs to get his cotton-picking hands off of Virginia, tells you everything you need to know about the Republican Party. #JimCrowJen needs to resign or lose her seat in November. VILE‼️‼️
“We are watching the systematic targeting of the very places where black people, black women, have excelled...
This is not an accidental byproduct...
It's what happens when you have an administration that works more like a crime family than a governing body.”
- Color Of Change DC Lobby Day
A former director of policy in USAID's Bureau for Global Health said D0GE team had no idea what the agency did.
He recalled briefing its chief of staff, only to be met with the admission: "Wow, I had no idea that you did all this. I assumed it was just abortions".
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.
“Cotton-picking hands” is not a figure of speech.
It is a direct invocation of slavery — designed to remind a Black man of his place.
Rep Jen Kiggans heard it used against Hakeem Jeffries and said THAT’S RIGHT.
If that doesn’t make your blood boil, check your pulse.
#JimCrowJen
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A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts.
So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.
What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
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Christopher Webb
One of the worst ever Ebola outbreaks is underway. Blame foreign aid cuts.
