🎶Soft silken tofu Goes on forever And we're leaving, yeah we're leaving Broken hearts behind🎵
Bodily autonomy, still a thing
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I really hate describing myself. But I'm glad to be here.
If you haven't listened to the exceptional @apmreports.org podcast IN THE DARK, which played a significant part in vindicating Curtis Flowers—thanks to an incredible woman-led reporting team—I can't recommend it enough
In the Dark, Season 2 (Curtis Flowers) | Podcast | APM Reports
We investigate the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. Flowers spent more than 20 years fighting for his life while a white prosec...
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Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d agoFuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
Go double check your registration! I just did.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6d agoIf you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 7d agoArguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.
I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
lawdork.com
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."
Unmanned
Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...
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This is so satisfying. Wish I was there so I could leave.
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2w agoUN delegates walk out as Netanyahu begins his speech today at the UN. F**€k that guy.
British Airways looking really incompetent here
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3w agolol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3w agoTrump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees
I have a heavy fundraising lift. I am trying to raise $40,000 for REBUILD to help keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... There's so much to say about the people who are being supported through this program. I co-founded it and am an advisor. I believe in this work.
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He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
This is top of my list for vengeance. Give me human rights candidates to vote for.
hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4w agoIf we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
boltsmag.org
I know there are differences in comma use in American English vs British English and that South Asian English is another flavor of British English but why oh why did the editor have to add so many commas in my report? There's no verb in half of those phrases. No verb!
Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani shaking hands at the Sept. 11 ceremony via ABC7NY
“HRL has assessed based on ground reports from human sources, UN figures, media reports by Sudanese journalists, and the analysis of over 150 piles consistent with clusters of human corpses that at least as many as 60,000 people may have been murdered between October and November in El Fasher.”
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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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@solomonrmissouri.com I just learned the word zaftig. Do you know this word? Seems like a useful word for you.
From what I can find*, the NUMBER of food recalls is more or less in line with historical trends. But CASES are way up! so as you said, I think it's a matter of our capacity to get ahead of/stop outbreaks having degraded significantly * pirg.org/edfund/artic... among others
Are we seeing more food recalls these days?
Proof of one problem: 4 weeks after Chipotle pulled jalapeños, the FDA is still announcing new jalapeño recalls. High-profile outbreaks have many wondering whether our food is less safe.
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(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
Fucking Silo. How am I gonna get through this episode.
This Gloria Steinem essay found me exactly when I needed it to - If Men Could Menstruate
JaneSlainLane@nyjanelane.bsky.social · last mo.