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Jilly_in_VA's JournalVDH finds Henrico NICU violated state standards, failed to maintain medical records
A recent report from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) revealed a lack of training, repeated failure to report bruising and injuries in babies and a missing medical records system in Henrico Doctors’ Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), violating state standards for hospital care.
The hospital failed to ensure that these nurses received the proper training before their shifts, as several babies have since been found with fractures and bruising between 2022 and 2024, with some dying.
The most recent action by the VDH was to carry out a survey on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency.
The report states that a registered nurse must assign care for each patient based on what the patient needs and the qualifications of the nursing staff, however, according the VDH, “This STANDARD is not met as evidenced by: Based on review of facility documents and interviews with staff (EMP), it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that nurses from another hospital had onboarding training or competencies prior to performing their shifts in the NICU.”
In a Jan. 2, 2025, interview, an employee said the hospital failed to document evidence of orientation or training for at least nine employees — some of these employees were also working at other hospitals besides Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/vdh-finds-henrico-nicu-violated-state-standards-failed-to-maintain-medical-records/
This was the last hospital I worked at, and it's the unit where the nurse worked who was arrested for inuring babies (her toll is now up to 12). Among their problems is lack of documentation, and as every nurse knows, if it wasn't documented, it wasn't done...but they have video surveillance...
Snake falls into margarita at Henrico restaurant
It’s a story you have to see to believe. Carletta Andrews said she’s traumatized after a snake fell from the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant in Henrico County and into her margarita.
It happened at the Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in Sandston in the evening of April 16. In an exclusive interview with 8News Anchor Autumn Childress, Andrews shared that she and her husband had just finished their food when she felt something on her forehead.
“I leaned in to take a sip and I noticed something hit me in the forehead and I looked at my husband like what was that,” Andrews said. “When I turned around, I saw the snake in my margarita.”
“It was moving. It started wrapping around my straw,” she said.
The rest is sort of a blur for Andrews. She recalls restaurant workers trying to remove the baby snake with a stick, but she said another customer grabbed it and released it outside.
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/snake-falls-into-margarita-at-henrico-restaurant/
I think I would have freaked out a bit myself!
2-year-old U.S. citizen apparently deported 'with no meaningful process,' judge says
A federal judge on Friday said he strongly suspects that the Trump administration deported a 2-year old U.S. citizen to Honduras "with no meaningful process."
The child was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 4, 2023, according to court documents. The child was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday morning with her mother and her 11-year-old sister, while the mother was “attending a routine check-in” with the federal agency, according to the petition.
“In the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process,” U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty ordered a hearing on May 16 in Monroe, Louisiana.
The judge added, “It is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain for deportation, or recommend deportation of a U.S. citizen,” citing a 2012 deportation case.
Doughty, chief judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/26/judge-ice-deported-two-year-old/83293111007/
Absolutely appalling.
Alabama man dies days after he was Tasered during arrest
A Black man who was Tasered and left hospitalized after an arrest earlier this month has died, and his family is demanding justice and accountability.
John Daniel “LJ” Scott Jr., 39, died Tuesday from his injuries sustained in an April 15 arrest by the Decatur Police Department, his family’s lawyers said.
The family's attorneys said Scott "was in the midst of a mental health crisis" and should have received immediate medical care, but instead "endured excessive force during his arrest."
"His condition worsened after being transported to Morgan County Jail, where he was left untreated until it was too late,” the attorneys said. It's not clear what the official cause of his death was.
The family is now calling for a thorough investigation into the actions of the officers involved.
Decatur Interim Police Chief Nadis E. Carlisle Jr. said the Madison County Sheriff’s Office is officially leading the investigation into the circumstances of Scott’s death, and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and FBI may be asked to provide additional support and resources.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-dies-days-was-tasered-arrest-rcna202953
Get it through your heads, people---Tasers are NOT innocuous! They are dangerous and should be banned@ Among other things, they disrupt the heart. Cops should be taught better. This is a really shameful story.
A developing political scandal in Florida has Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive
Fla. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the defensive over questions about how $10 million in state money came to be used to fund a political campaign.
In two terms as governor, DeSantis has enjoyed strong support from the Republican-controlled legislature. But now, Republicans in the state House of Representatives say the alleged misuse of funds may warrant a criminal investigation.
The allegations involve $10 million that was paid to Florida by Centene, a company that provides managed care to Medicaid recipients. The money was part of a $67 million settlement by the company after it was charged with overbilling taxpayers for medications. Ten million dollars of the settlement was paid directly to a non-profit group, Hope Florida. That's a charity founded by Gov. DeSantis' wife, Casey, to help people move off government assistance into community-based programs.
An investigation by state lawmakers found that after receiving it, Hope Florida transferred the $10 million to two "dark money" political groups — groups that aren't required to disclose their donors. The two groups then sent some $8.5 million to a political committee that was campaigning against an amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. It was a group controlled by DeSantis' then-chief of staff, now Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.
Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Alex Andrade, say they believe that transaction was illegal.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5368535/ron-desantis-florida-governor-political-scandal
Note who is saying this is illegal. NOT Democrats, REPUBLICANS!
They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?
"Humanity is dying," billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor Bret Baier recently when asked what keeps him up at night. "The birth rate is very low in almost every country. And so unless that changes, civilization will disappear." Through interviews, social media posts, funding for population research and his own example as the parent of at least 14 children, Musk has become one of the most visible beacons of anxiety about falling birth rates.
While discussions about the economic challenges of falling birth rates exist across the political spectrum, the right has increasingly taken up the cause under the banner of "pronatalism" to promote higher birth rates. The Trump White House is reportedly soliciting suggestions to boost births from married couples, even as it continues drastic reductions to social services and public health funding.
In recent years, a revitalized pronatalist movement has brought together parts of the religious right, tech types and dedicated "new right" anti-feminists. These camps have some disagreements over government policy, technologies like in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering and the rehabilitation of eugenics. But most are united in the belief that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies.
Last month in Austin, Texas, many proponents of pronatalism met up at the second Natal Conference, known informally as Natal Con, where the mood was exuberant. Many there see this moment as a chance to advance their agenda through perceived allies in the Trump administration, including Musk and Vice President Vance.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5371718/pronatalist-birth-rate-musk-natal-conference
These people are fucking rich, sick, and backward.
Hegseth Plasters Pentagon With Photos of Controversial Wife
Under-fire Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has plastered the walls of the Pentagon with photographs of his ever-present wife.
The snaps can be seen in the background of photographs showing exit-bound government utility man Elon Musk chatting with Hegseth’s team inside defense HQ in late March.
This is likely to grate Pentagon staffers, who are growing increasingly irate at how often Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth is around. “What I’ve seen with [Pete] Hegseth—never in my life have I ever seen this,” one insider said of the situation.
Under-fire Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has plastered the walls of the Pentagon with photographs of his ever-present wife.
The snaps can be seen in the background of photographs showing exit-bound government utility man Elon Musk chatting with Hegseth’s team inside defense HQ in late March.
This is likely to grate Pentagon staffers, who are growing increasingly irate at how often Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth is around. “What I’ve seen with [Pete] Hegseth—never in my life have I ever seen this,” one insider said of the situation.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paranoid-hegseth-plasters-pentagon-with-photos-of-controversial-wife/
No security clearance!
Trump to Get Humiliating Third-Row Seat at Pope's Funeral
President Donald Trump is likely to be seated in the third row at Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday.
Despite being one of the first to confirm his attendance after Pope Francis died on Monday, the thin-skinned president—who famously mocked former President Joe Biden’s placement in the 14th row at Queen Elizabeth II’s 2022 funeral—will be seated several rows back at the state funeral in St Peter’s Basilica, the Daily Telegraph reports.
While not exactly the nosebleed section, Trump is famously unenthusiastic about playing second fiddle to anyone, and is unlikely to be thrilled with his location.
The news comes as the Vatican scrambles to manage what one senior clergyman described as a parade of “big egos.”
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, told the Telegraph the ceremony would be a “masterpiece of stage management when you consider those state leaders who have high opinions of their importance.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-likely-to-get-humiliating-seating-assignment-at-pope-francis-funeral-as-vatican-braces-for-big-egos/
It may be improp[er to laugh, but I'm laughing.
Milwaukee County judge arrested by feds in immigration probe
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by federal authorities at Courthouse
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested April 25 by federal authorities who are investigating whether she tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week, officials confirmed.
Dugan, 65, is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Dries at 10:30 a.m. April 25 on the second floor of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Milwaukee, according to two federal sources.
Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X about the arrest. He later deleted the post.
"Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week," Patel wrote. "We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest."
Multiple Milwaukee County judges confirmed that the arrest took place at the courthouse. Chief Judge Carl Ashley confirmed the incident in an email to courthouse officials.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-immigration/83271644007/
So now they're arresting judges.....
Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.
“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.” The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.
The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues. Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps. These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.
There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.
Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory. According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.
Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/womanosphere-conservative-women
Look out for them! I myself am relatively thin, but way past fertile and in no way Republican...and my husband can fix his own damn sandwich!
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