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You can't give a fetus human rights without taking the human rights away from the person carrying it. I will not respond to unsolicited DMs. Sorry, not automatically following anyone back atm because there are too many troll accounts to sort through.
Fewer teen pregnancies are a good thing. Children born to women over 30 have several points higher in IQ. They are benefits to having fewer higher quality children. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.RFK JR: Our fertility is dropping dramatically. Teenagers in this country have the same testosterone levels as 68 year old men
The information environment around councils is fucked, frankly. Too many candidates run on platforms that are just fantasies but they get voted in because their impossible narrative is allowed to fester. Plus it's hard to stand if you're not wealthy and generally, older. #nzpol
The Spinoff@thespinoff.bsky.social · last yr.Rates will never be enough – councils need the power to raise money in other ways
If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More "The administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades"
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
propublica.org
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
The playbooks for yesterday's tariff profiteering were written in the 1970s, eg Doug Casey's Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression, Harry Schultz's Panics & Crashes and How You Can Make Money Out of Them, Howard Ruff's How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years..
Think of prohibition as a “price support” for traffickers. You will never make these substances disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Meanwhile, escalating law enforcement keeps the market in flux. The only thing worse than organized crime is disorganized crime.
Filter | harm reduction journalism@filtermag.bsky.social · 2y ago“It is welcome to see the systemic failure of the enforcement model confirmed by academic work commissioned and published by the Home Office itself," @steverolles.bsky.social tells @matthabusby.bsky.social. "It certainly makes it a lot harder for them to ignore.”
More than 50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 have been wounded — two-thirds of whom are women & children. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Much of that devastation has been done with bombs that the U.S. supplied to the Netanyahu war machine. We are complicit.
“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
theguardian.com
Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency. Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!
I spent about 30 hours over four weeks reading all 716 pages of the report of the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response, then wrote two articles detailing its findings and recommendations. With the paywall now lifted on both of those pieces, here's what I found. 🧵
The next pandemic is coming. NZ isn't ready
Special report: The island nation is less prepared for a pandemic than it was five years ago, even as new threats emerge overseas.
newsroom.co.nz
Abortion access and domestic violence have never been separate issues. Studies show that people who seek and are denied abortions face a significantly increased risk of long-term domestic violence. www.jezebel.com/abortion-ban...
Abortion Bans Are Making It Impossible for Advocates to Help Abuse Victims
“To have to say to someone, ‘You live in a state where you’re more likely to be criminalized than the person who’s abusing you’—it’s devastating,” If/When/How’s Sara Ainsworth told Jezebel.
jezebel.com
they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
newyorker.com
It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power. It is another to hand it to him. I’m headed to the Senate floor now. To cast an emphatic “no.”
The disrespect Putin shows for Trump is humiliating. He never thanked Trump for abandoning our allies and destabilizing the world, he hasn’t thanked Trump for purposely crashing the worlds strongest economy and now he ignores Trumps peace plan and escalates a war right in Trumps face, embarrassing!
Ngāruahine chair Emma Gardiner presented to the Transport & Infrastructure committee today entirely in te reo. When the chair said halfway through that the committee didn't have an interpreter or anyone who spoke te reo, she replied, "Nē rā? Nā koutou te hē!" and forged on.
Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2y agoA south Taranaki iwi will use only te reo Māori when corresponding or speaking with central government officials from now on and hopes other iwi and kaupapa Māori organisations will follow suit. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/17/i...
A south Taranaki iwi will use only te reo Māori when corresponding or speaking with central government officials from now on and hopes other iwi and kaupapa Māori organisations will follow suit. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/17/i...
Iwi pledges to use only te reo Māori to communicate with Govt
The move comes after the government departments began to prioritise their English names and the Finance Minister questioned agencies funding te reo lessons for staff.
newsroom.co.nz
What do you think I will bomb tonight to prove that Ukraine doesn't want a ceasefire?
We thank all abortion providers, staff, and volunteers who work to help as many as possible access the care they need every day despite harassment, political attacks, and legal challenges. 💜 Our communities need abortion access, and we must all #CelebrateAbortionProviders!
Donald's victims.
Olga Tokariuk@olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 2y agoAt least 20 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just this night by Russian missiles and drones. Hundreds of soldiers were killed on the frontline in recent days. These are the first results of the US suspension of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine: more deaths time.com/7265679/sate...
Bernie Sanders: "Saving money by dismantling the Department of Education, which, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional, so that the billionaire class can receive huge tax breaks, is terrible public policy and morally reprehensible."