Health care groups can help fix RI's food insecurity crisis | Opinion Because of limited health care literacy and support at home, this individual did not realize he had other options for reliable food sources. More: Don't waste that leek: How this RI organization saves ... 05/17/2024 - 11:10 pm | View Link
'Peer specialists' emerge to support patients amid constrained mental health care access Peer specialists provide support based on personal experience with addiction, mental health or other emotional and social challenges. The traditional route for such treatment is usually through ... 05/17/2024 - 3:43 pm | View Link
Advocate Health Care workers speak out against health system’s handling of Gaza humanitarian crisis Advocate Health Care workers gathered in Oak Lawn to voice concerns about the way the health system is handling the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and its employees ... 05/17/2024 - 2:00 pm | View Link
Doctors ask Advocate Health Care to support physicians in Gaza and those who support them Three doctors with Advocate Health Care shared concerns Friday about humanitarian issues ... The doctors sought a statement in support physicians in Palestine, for management to contribute ... 05/17/2024 - 11:59 am | View Link
Family caregivers are struggling at work, need support from employers to stay, AARP finds A new study by AARP and S&P Global says family caregivers are struggling and need more support to stay on the job. Here's what they hope changes. 05/17/2024 - 6:05 am | View Link
What is there to say about Marge Greene at this point? When Hobbes called humankind "nasty, brutish & short," he may not have known about it, but he was thinking of Marge.
So it was no surprise that after Republicans delayed hearings into the evening so they could visit the poor, cold, weak Trump during one of his many court cases, Marge helped ensure all hell broke loose.
The key was rising star Jasmine Crockett asked Greene, who was busy going off on random tirades, if she knew why she was there.
Here are three stories sending the same message: If you're a Republican, or at least avoid doing things Republicans don't like, you're an American. If you challenge Republicans, you're not an American, and you have only as many rights as Republicans are willing to grant you.
First story:
The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.
Republican supporters of the ban said it would help police crack down on protesters who wear masks.
It passed 30-15, with every Republican in favor and every Democrat opposed.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after news revealed that he flew the upside-down American flag—the same symbol adopted by some Trump supporters who deny the election results—outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Alito, of course, blamed his wife, but that story doesn't hold water for several reasons.
On this day in 1939 The Glenn Miller Orchestra began a three month engagement at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York. Today's musical selection, Tuxedo Junction.
Reality Chex: The Conversation.
Counterpunch: Donald Trump’s War on Science and the Environment.
American Journal News: Evolution denier Mark Robinson could reshape North Carolina’s education system.
Attention space nerds!
Fox News' Outnumbered program reacted very strongly to the congressional outbursts instigated by Marjorie Taylor Greene's mendacity which resulted in Emily Campagno blaming the disintegration of the Republican led House on President Biden.
"This is supposed to be the most noble, the most sacred, or among them, serving and representing the people," Compagno said." "If I want to see someone cussing out someone else, I walk outside my door.
“A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law,” the AP reports.