Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin endorsed #Trump, which is weird, since Aldrin was one of the few astronauts back in 2010 who backed #Obama 's NewSpace plans to reform the agency. (So did Elon Musk.)
But Obama's NASA administrator Charlie Bolden has endorsed #HarrisWalz2024. So has former Teacher in Space Barbara Morgan.
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
On the eve of (the latest) most important election of our lifetimes, Mira Ptacin tells the story of the journalists, World War II veterans, rabble-rousers, lumberjacks, and policymakers who, when he tried to build a training compound for fellow fascists, ran a #neoNazi out of rural #Maine.
Issue no. 156, "The Crash of the Hammer," is now live
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of-the-hammer-maine-neo-nazis-blood-tribe/
There is no migrant crisis.
There is, however, a refugee crisis. That crisis is the effect of at least a half-century (and, arguably, twice that) of calamitous US political intervention in Central America, and not — as President Trump would have us believe — the inevitable byproduct of “bad hombres” who may as well be “animals.”
I found out through We Rate Dogs about Dogs Matter. It's a program to provide free foster care for dogs while their humans are in rehab so the human can focus on recovery and know they will be reunited with their dog.
They also do wellness checks for 12 months after reuniting in case more support is needed.
Rickie Bansbach
I've turned into a freakin' socialist. But with ordnance. #151484