frannyhelen
@frannyhelen.bsky.social
Midwestern by birth, California girl for 45 years, now in NC. Fan of excellent sports writing.
Louisiana's lawyer says it right here: The case against the providers would end the "ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send ANY abortion drugs" to ban states, and the case against the states would strip providers of protection to prescribe "back-up drugs"
An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co
Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
Complaints filed last week target access to both mifepristone and misoprostol, a back-up abortion pill method.
autonomynews.co
Holy slime mold! This is tomorrow, 10/6!! See you soon!
Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 6d agoA WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books
Great article explaining optogenetics in neuro research for those who, like me, had no clue what optogenetics actually is despite hearing about it all the time www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience (Gift Article)
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses pulses of light to activate neurons in the brain.
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and if you are heading over to PBS, try Trespasses, very good 4 part scripted drama set in Belfast during the Troubles, tremendous performance by Lola Petticrew & just generally quite good. Now I gotta watch the cave art doc!!
Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · 3h agoHEY NERDS NEW CAVE ART SHOW JUST DROPPED www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
“WSJ editorial page says that Trump and family are totally crooked. Trump’s 2025 disclosures are ‘an unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit… Trump boys [corrupt] deals [aided by] GOP corruption…’” @robertscotthorton.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robe... Archive: archive.is/9r6a7
Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’
They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼@ifindkarma.bsky.social · 8mo ago“Conspiracy of wealthy predators is real [and] documented publicly since Epstein was first indicted in 2006… I believe in redemption, but not for this. Not for the predators, not for the enablers. This has always been a clearcut case. This has always been a spiritual war.” @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
minor boost for “Ken Paxton’s team wants him to lose” theory
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3h agofolks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
I still see a lot of WHY DON'T THE SO-CALLED GOOD CHRISTIANS STOP THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS going around. Beloveds, we are trying, but the Christian Nationalists don't listen to us. They're sending us death threats, and we can barely afford insurance on the building.
just did a quick google "San Diego is the heart of U.S. naval and Marine Corps power, home to more than 115000 active duty service members and a $52.6 billion military economy."
Bayliss Wagner@baylisswagner.bsky.social · 5h agoBREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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I’m running for state senate here in NC. People keep showing me polls and I refuse to acknowledge them. I’d rather knock doors and show up everywhere and then just see what happens on November 3rd.
tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)
Once again, this shit would be career-ending for any other politician but the Very Special Boy gets to say whatever he likes because he gets to play by Very Special Rules. Why is that?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
Thom Tillis knew EXACTLY what he was doing. If he's not fascist, he's fascist-adjacent - and this redemption tour bullshit needs to stop.
Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Especially after seeing what's happening in Brazil. So many people just don't even vote that it doesn't take many people directly voting for fascism to bring it back around.
Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.
Taxpayers are being forced to spend $950 million to buy three aging detention facilities and then keep paying GEO Group to run them through 2034. We’re paying hundreds of millions for the facilities and billions more to operate them, while ICE moves to limit oversight of unsafe conditions.
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 7h agomeanwhile on Xitter...
Why am I seeing an OH-Sen ad here in San Antonio during this ballgame? (trans-bashing anti-Brown; they really have nothing else, do they?). I'm on team Campaign Spending is Good, but maybe we've finally overdone it.
ALSO after dems made Walz stop calling republicans "weird" in 2024, that is literally the word the Paxton folks/pacs are using to describe talarico now.
Whoa wait are you questioning the staggering genius of folks who stole the entire world’s collective intellectual property and managed to turn that into a $42 BILLION dollar loss?
"But if it was limited only to public domain it couldn't function like it does!" I mean: a) That's why I noted "licensed and compensated works" b) It doesn't excuse IP theft or materially argue for the value of a tech apparently only possible through IP theft c) It's not too late to compensate!
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
