K. Mackenzie Sumwalt

This is crazy. 60 days for sexual abuse of a 6-9 year old. Pedophilia has basically become legal of you are a Republican.

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

Raping children

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

A new ProPublica investigation found blood transfusions during first-trimester miscarriage ER visits in Texas surged 54% after abortion became a felony. Women are being sent home hemorrhaging instead of receiving standard care. This is cruel, dangerous, and preventable. propublica.org/article/texas-…

A 2023 study found that the supplies, extra food, and time required to sustain breastfeeding can cost mothers upwards of $10K a year. And that number doesn’t fully capture the intangible, from lost time and income to the mental load of breastfeeding. marieclaire.com/culture/big-bu…

He was sentenced to ten years. Republicans let him out after 6 months. Disgusting.

Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/kfJxWVn

I just want to point out.... The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

After six months and nearly 1,000 cases, the South Carolina measles outbreak is officially over. How'd they do it? "Measles vaccinations were the most effective single containment tool." abcnews.com/Health/after-1…

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” propublica.org/article/texas-…

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.” They did. 2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.” They did. 2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.” They did. 2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.” They did. 2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.” They did, today. Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.” They will.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court has blocked mailing prescriptions to mifepristone, restricting access to one of the most common means of abortion. apnews.com/article/aborti…

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/…

The people most worked up about last night hardly batted an eye over this. 👇🏼

“rape/abuse allegations ruin men’s careers”

The deadliest mass shooting our country has witnessed in two years was not an assault at a church or a school but an incident of domestic violence, according to police. Shamar Elkins, a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, killed eight children, seven of whom were his, on Sunday morning. The only child who survived climbed to the roof and jumped. Elkins also shot two women, one of whom is his wife, Shaneiqua Pugh. She reportedly planned to leave him. “Many women are not so lucky. I cannot look at my feed lately without seeing stories of Black women’s lives ending tragically,” writes Brittney Cooper, who grew up in Shreveport. Across these deaths, much of the public discourse has centered on the mental-health challenges of the alleged male perpetrators. Shamar Elkins had indicated struggling with suicidal ideation and “demons” to his mother and stepfather. “It is tempting to treat Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman,” Cooper continues. “But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation for this violence.” Cooper writes about how these killings are the natural outcome of a country enamored with patriarchy: nymag.visitlink.me/pXidf0

A 31% drop in NIH grants focused on women in 2025. Behind that number are labs, scientists, and diseases like endometriosis and ovarian cancer - areas that have long been misunderstood, underfunded, and deprioritized. inequity reinforced by science in real time.