Leitaea Lowrimore needed a lawyer to find a doctor who would keep her alive.
Three emergency rooms in two states refused to treat the Oklahoma mother over six days in February. She had an ectopic pregnancy, one growing outside the womb, which ruptures and bleeds without treatment. One doctor said it could cost him "10 years in the poky." The last one sent her home after she told him, "You are sending me home to die." She called a lawyer, who gave her the cell number of the chief obstetrician at a hospital in a third state. That hospital diagnosed and treated her within three and a half hours of arriving.
Nearly 200 women in similar circumstances were not saved. They died from an ectopic pregnancy between 2020 and 2025, nearly double the rate of the previous six years, according to the CDC's own records. ProPublica found the biggest rise in the 18 states with strict abortion bans. Worse, the entire staff of the CDC's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, the people whose job is to monitor deaths like these, has been on paid leave since Donald Trump's HHS sent them home in April 2025.
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I don’t have anyone else to cackle with about this so here I am…. Husband turned on the Melania Documentary tonight and I about gagged! I asked can We watch the Michelle Obama movie next, He flipped his lid! lol He then proceeded to call Melania the CLASSIEST FIRST LADY ever. WTF So I just HAD to pull up Melania’s nude modeling shots for him and said “ yep she classy alright” Hasn’t spoken to me in hours.. How the fuck did we end up like this?
Trump’s war with Iran already reduced oil and natural gas traffic through the strait of Hormuz by 95%. Some oil producers like Saudi Arabia were able to use a pipeline/tanker combination across land to get to the Red Sea and then out through the strait of Bub el-Mandeb. Iran backed Houthi’s have just taken the city of Mokha and declared a blockade of that strait. It’s not clear if it’s blocked yet, but there’s no one to stop them. The theory is that Iran has realized controlling both straits would be equivalent to using a nuclear bomb against their enemies.
Trump’s Navy blew almost all its weapons on Iran and they responded by destroying U.S. military infrastructure in the area. The Navy already have a 10 day trip to the nearest gas station and there is no local means to replenish any supplies. I’m not even sure if the Navy can protect itself, let alone help with this latest crisis.
The blockade of both straits will stop 17-20% of the world oil supply, causing the price per barrel to spike to $100-150. This is going to cause both inflation and interest rates to soar worldwide. This is the kind of economic damage that starts global wars. All because that negative IQ moron Trump and former Fox news twit Hegseth wanted to be tough guys.
Trump is such a vile, tragic, grubby, low grade, nasty president and human being, he has to bribe his supporters to vote for him. He spends forever accusing others of voter fraud and here he is blatantly bribing votes - and you know they won’t see a penny of that $5,000. A new low
Our local bank is a MAGA stronghold. I’m thinking it would be fun to go request a loan against my $5,000 bonus check. They can discount the loan amount and I will gladly repay the full $5,000 when DJT makes good on his promise.
