Listen I am usually immune to cutesy hospital press releases but omg @dustindwyer sent me and @lzsmitty pics of the costumes the Trinity NICU nurses handmade
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When the last abortion clinic in the U.P. shut down, two doctors started offering medication abortion out of a local urgent care. You can read/hear that story here, and see if you can spot them in this new Abdul video. npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-…
www.npr.org Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap? When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mor... “He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.”
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You can't understand the MI senate race if you don't know what voters hear when El-Sayed says "Medicare for All" here. They don't know what it means. But they know it feels like radical, systemic change, at a time when healthcare costs are killing them. npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-…
www.npr.org 'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is. Drew is the single best local reporter covering data centers right now. If you live in an area where data centers are being considered/built (aka, earth) you need to follow his work.
the $100 billion @SpaceX spaceport @elonmusk is building in Louisiana is the first new project @LAGovJeffLandry has announced since my reporting on his administration’s widespread use of NDAs to conceal negotiations behind large industrial developmentsView quoted post on X
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I went to the Michigan Vaccine Choice walk in W. Michigan, met a lot of warm, welcoming people (homeopathic healers, homeschool moms, parents of kids w/ severe autism, etc) and came away convinced that the single issue that could unite all peoples/end all wars is: data centers.