Kat Barefield, MS, RD, CPT

Mom of Athletes. Registered Dietitian. Tiny Habits Coach. Fitness Professional. Lover of learning, dance, fitness and adventure.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

The Pope just condemned the death penalty after the Trump administration decides to expand it with firing squads in the U.S.

"The Church teaches that the death penalty is inadmissible… The right to life is the very foundation of every other human right…"

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

BLOCKED—RFK Jr’s CDC had blocked its scientists’ studying showing that the COVID booster shots reduce ER visits and hospitalizations—even among healthy adults. Already passed scientific review—CDC blocked its report from its own flagship medical journal. Disgusting.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

MASSIVE:

🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying.

A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements.
Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts.

We tracked a whale for weeks.
0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate.

You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets.

Now the BBC has the receipts.
Nobody will be investigated.
Nobody will be charged.

The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders.

Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order.

That's an out of control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

[mavsmarie @mavsmarie]

Joe Biden pardoned 80 people in his time as President.
Trump in his first term pardoned 144 people.
Trump in his second term over 1600. 166 of them are separate from the Jan 6th pardons.

Take away the Jan 6th pardons, Trump still doubled Bidens pardons.

Miss me with this BS

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: If you want a house, your mortgage went up because interest rates went up, because of this war. Your tank of gas got more expensive. The price of food this summer will be more expensive because fertilizer is more expensive because of this war. They are asking for an extra half trillion dollars for the defense budget. That is thousands of dollars from every household in this country. So we are paying directly for this. And what do we get in return? Is the world any safer? No

[danisha carter @danishacarterr]

because in a FREE country the religious beliefs of the people in charge do not dictate the way they treat their constituents

unfathomable for the republican mind, i know

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Buttigieg: "For the leader of the free world, the leader of this country, to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that crossed a line and is a new low ... the reality is the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the White House"

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

What an odd way to admit that your staff are committing crimes, and to let them know they won’t get in trouble when they commit more.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: NYC MAYOR MAMDANI ON IRAN WAR:

We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians.

We are spending tens of billions of dollars to kill people. Money that could be making life easier for working people.

The things we’re told are unrealistic would cost a fraction of this war.

We always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Children in Lubbock, Texas were admitted to the hospital with liver damage. Not from measles. From vitamin A toxicity — because their parents followed RFK Jr.’s advice and gave them cod liver oil to treat measles. He is the sitting U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

This is not the first time this has happened. In 2019, RFK Jr. traveled to Samoa and ran the same anti-vaccine campaign.

Vaccination rates dropped to 31%. Five months later: 5,700 cases. 83 dead. Most of them children under 4. He called it a “natural experiment.” The Senate confirmed him as HHS Secretary anyway. https://t.co/IIFqMOobvW

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[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

So he’ll stop bombing Iran in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz…

…which was open before he started bombing Iran.

Got it.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."
Image: @vaticannews_it

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute insanity at the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth is so triggered by Pope Leo's anti-war message that he literally banned Catholic services at the Pentagon on Good Friday! The Trump administration is now actively suppressing religious freedom to protect their war agenda.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s kids buy into drone companies

Trump cancels existing drone contracts

Trump’s kids’ companies get military contracts

Trump starts wars

Trump’s kids’ try to sell their drones to the countries being attacked because of Trump’s wars

👉🏻 This is what corruption looks like.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.

Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.

Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.

He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.

https://t.co/WgdehtOAC3