The LuLac Edition #5, 693, June 23rd, 2026

 

ABOTTIONS UP SINCE SUPREME COURT RULING

Four years after the Supreme Court threw out case law for Roe Vs. Wade, there are more abortions in the Unted States than ever. The reason?

American women have found ways to counteract this measure of the lying court. Since the 1970s, legal abortions in the U.S. have taken place at brick-and-mortar facilities across the country, like the one where Bass practiced in Oklahoma. But that began to change in the early 2020s. Between the COVID pandemic and the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, doctors had to rethink what a safe abortion looked like. The evidence for how to have safe and effective abortions outside the clinical setting was waiting for them.

If what you picture when you think of an abortion is a woman in a medical gown, undergoing a procedure, that's far from the norm today. Medication abortion — taking pills to end a pregnancy — now makes up 63 percent of all abortions in the country.  People who counsel someone through a medication abortion, now h ave an easier task.

There is still a debate about mil order abortions before the court featuring the drug misoprostol aa Mifeprex but access to the pills have increased the number since Roe was, after 50 years, was sent to the dustbin of history.  (NPR, LuLac)

 

TRUMP AND THE POOL

Water from a vacuum line being used by National Park Service employees to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool pours into a nearby drain, Saturday, June 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired. 

At this point, like all the other times, Trump is lying his ass off. Trump later acknowledged in a post that the Reflecting Pool will need to be repaired, yet again, to restore it to “an equal level of Beauty” as before. “We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible,” he wrote. Trump insisted something nefarious has been going on at the scene. “No different than the chemicals that were used on the National Mall, they used something similar in the Reflecting Pool to try to destroy and demean our beautiful work,” he posted Friday evening. Here’s the bottom line. The reflecting pool might have needed repairs but Trump’s Marilago pools guys weren’t experts. The cost of this project now is over 14  million dollars.  The original contractor bid, approved by the National Park Service, was about $13.1 million for Atlantic Industrial Coatings, with a profit margin of roughly 20%, far above the typical 6–12% seen in federal construction.

14 million dollars. Let that sink in. (AP, The Blaze, LuLac)