It’s official. Jason Aldean’s controversial culture war country anthem is the new number 1 song in the country, making his summit atop the Billboard Hot 100 top 3 the first in the history of the chart in which the three top songs are all country crossovers.

POTUS releases a great new political ad.

I love it when some people are duped by fake Twitter memes and are called out on it.

Vox has a great primer on the current state of affairs regarding LGBTQ+ rights in this country on the eve of yet another spate of critical decisions this term @ SCOTUS.

I guess he’ll take any accolade he can get.

The College Board counters DeSantis on LGBTQ course inclusion.

HRC declares a national state of emergency for LGBTQ people.

Former POTUS tries to appease the cult with his response to his (first?) criminal indictment.

“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats — the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this Country — have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement. You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this.

“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference.

“Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done. The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Ever.

“Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was hand-picked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace. Rather than stopping the unprecedented crime wave taking over New York City, he’s doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on. This is how Bragg spends his time!

“I believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden. The American people realize exactly what the Radical Left Democrats are doing here. Everyone can see it. So our Movement, and our Party — united and strong — will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these Crooked Democrats out of office so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Yep, still thinks he’s POTUS.

Trump makes history again. If 2 impeachments weren’t enough.

Just over 5% of US physicians is African-American. This startling statistic has, once again, led to the consideration of inhibiting factors that may occur decades earlier within the formal sphere of socialization, education, and resource accessibility of Black students.

One reason why the percentage of US doctors who are Black remains far below that of the US population that is Black can be traced to how Black people have been “historically excluded from medicine” and the “institutional and systemic racism in our society,” said Michael Dill, the Association of American Medical Colleges’ director of workforce studies. […]

“And it occurs over the course of what I think of as the trajectory to becoming a physician,” Dill said. At young ages, exposure to the sciences, science education resources, mentors and role models all make it more likely that a child could become a doctor – but such exposures and resources sometimes are disproportionately not as accessible in the Black community.

This doesn’t even take into account the raw number of Black females represented in medicine - a demographic which has also had to contend with sexism within the ranks of hierarchical ascension within medicine.

In 1940, only 2.8% of physicians were Black, but 9.7% of the US population was Black; by 2018, 5.4% of physicians were Black, but 12.8% of the population was Black.

“The more surprising thing to me was for Black men,” said Dr. Dan Ly, an author of the study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Data on only Black men who were physicians over the years showed that they represented 1.3% of the physician workforce in 1900, “because all physicians were pretty much men in the past,” Ly said. Black men represented 2.7% of the physician workforce in 1940 and 2.6% in 2018.

Fox ‘News’ on MN Rep. Angie Craig’s assault. It’s what you’d expect from a now proven propaganda outlet.

I seriously don’t know why the problem of mounting issues with acute (hospital) care discharge is just now being reported on — as if this was never on healthcare policymakers’ radar?

Waiting patients also increase caseloads for nurses, which increases their stress and reduces the time they can spend with others. Patients and family members grow anxious as they wait for days or weeks, which can spark verbal or even physical altercations.

Probably because we now have a legislature that is under DFL control. Good luck with this one…

The DFL-controlled legislature gets ready to make a much needed overhaul of the MN state flag.

MN codifies abortion rights into law.

In a ceremony with legislators and advocates, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, which will add access to contraception, maternity care, family planning and abortion to state law.

Abortion access was already guaranteed under state law after a 1995 decision by the state Supreme Court. The new law, supporters said, was meant to protect those rights in the event that a future set of justices could change their mind, and in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down the federal right to an abortion guaranteed under Roe v. Wade.

Legendary music mogul and pioneering gangsta Dr. Dre speaks out after his music is used by a fringe right congresswoman.