Not The Onion
- www.usatoday.com Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use
Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in millions of births.
Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean section, they gave her midazolam, a benzodiazepine commonly prescribed to keep patients calm. A day later, the grieving mother was cradling her stillborn daughter when a social worker stopped by her room to deliver another devastating blow: Salinas was being reported to child welfare authorities
What happened to Salinas and Villanueva are far from isolated incidents. Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found.
- Luigi Mangione played 'Among Us,' breathes airwww.404media.co Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air
The ritualized rifling through old internet accounts usually muddies the story more than it informs the public.
(kinda cheating because the headline is halfway to satire already)
- www.foxbusiness.com Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger calls for prayer and fasting for employees
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger took to social media to invite people to pray and fast for the chipmaker's employees, saying the company is going through a "difficult period."
> Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, who stepped down from his leadership post a week ago, is inviting people to join him in prayer and fasting for the struggling chipmaker's employees.
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- futurism.com Sauron Secures Funding for All-Seeing Eye
A security startup ominously named Sauron is offering elaborate but dystopian sounding surveillance systems for wealthy homes.
- Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart.www.xatakaon.com Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart
Texas is the land where regulation is always second, or so they say. However, it’s also a state where politicians have chosen to regulate oddly specific...
cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/952397
- www.nbcnews.com A Pokémon creature is the latest subject of the internet’s embrace of the suspect in health executive’s killing
An image from what appeared to be Luigi Mangione’s X profile has, for some, become a symbol of resistance. For others, it’s a clue.
- The ‘Trump Dance’ Was Rebellious. Now It’s Just Everywhere.
> > > Last month, in a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the San Francisco 49ers’ star defensive end, Nick Bosa, celebrated a routine sack with a cheerful and ungainly series of hip-swivels and fist-pumps, not unlike the movements of an automaton gaining sentience. > >
> > > This time, though, the scolding, humorless masses don’t seem to mind. So accustomed are we to a politics of mischief and defiance that there has been little of the liberal pearl-clutching that serves as lifeblood for the right-wing commentariat. It feels especially pointless to note how many of the talking heads who are now gloating once groaned over athletes daring to oppose the former president. Not even the N.F.L., which takes a perverse pleasure in doling out fines for celebrations it deems political, violent or sexually suggestive, could be bothered to feed the outrage machine. The league, its spokesman stated last month, takes “no issue” with the dance. If anything, the move’s popularity marks a new frontier: Trump as the mainstream, no longer an outsider but a figure so banal and impervious to scandal that people can muster no more than a sigh — or, perhaps, a little wiggle — when they encounter him, suddenly, on the field. > >
