Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Julia Slater
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Publishing Editor, Social Science Journals @ Sage Publishing. All posts/opinions are mine. Art, AuDHD, baking, data, decolonization, drag, ethical publishing, history, theatre, and truth-seeking. Unapologetically queer.
People think incarceration does matter or doesn’t count if you didnt do 20 years standing on your head. 5 DAYS in jail can cost a person $30,000. 5 days.
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 3w ago22 states are seeing sober drivers arrested for DUIs EN MASSE. Tennessee is leading the charge with their officers bypassing people blowing zeros on field sobriety tests and them basically saying “well I smell alcohol” and locking people up anyway
The auDHD urge to over-explain your nuanced stance on AI to the faceless account that blocked me and has added me to THREE “anti-AI” moderation lists… kind stranger, please utilize your time elsewhere. I am not the one.
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
Nobody ever wants to discuss how the mass layoffs, firing, housing insecurity, and cuts to SNAP are all pushing women into the prisons and jails. Women are more likely than men to experience housing, food, and job insecurity prior to incarceration. We are feeding women to the prisons.
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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The only research center in the United States focused on disabled parents may close soon due to loss of federal funding. New from me at @motherjones.com. “It is a profound setback for disability rights and family equity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The only research center for disabled parents is losing federal funding
Staff call it a "profound setback for disability rights and family equity."
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Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...
Last night, Maine Democratic nominee Graham Platner suspended his campaign for Senate following sexual assault allegations. Back in May, @queenmab.bsky.social wrote about how women’s safety has routinely been sacrificed to protect the political careers of powerful men.
Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis – Rewire News Group
Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets.
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NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW
Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.
Book Report: The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory by Dr. Emma Heaney (Northwestern University Press 2017) 1. Please share this important history 2. For more than 950+ book recommendations follow me on goodreads (link in bio)
"Reverend Ray" Broshears founded the queer vigilante group the Lavender Panthers in 1973. The group's impact is still felt today. n.pr/4va7li1
Militant LGBTQ+ rights group 'the Lavender Panthers' was founded on this day in 1973
"Reverend Ray" Broshears founded the queer vigilante group the Lavender Panthers in 1973. The group's impact is still felt today.
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 12 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/vXb0d
Women disproportionately make up the safety net that fills in where the government doesn’t. For many of them, federal policy changes are making their jobs more challenging than ever.
Women help feed their communities. Federal cuts are making that harder.
Changes to safety net programs are putting extra strain on a woman-led workforce that is stretched thin and often underpaid.
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DeLAURO: Will you commit that you will carry out our spending laws as Congress intended as they were enacted? VOUGHT: We'll make sure we are spending money where you intend us to spend money, but ... DeLAURO: The answer to that then is 'no'
Book Report: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by Dr. George Chauncey (Basic Books) Happy Pride! Gender variant people have always been here 1. Please share this important history
"We're the test case." At NIH, even grants that have passed peer review are delayed for political screening. Officials warn the proposed OMB rule would codify this chaos aross the fed. government. Politicians shouldn't be able to decide what questions science is allowed to ask. zurl.co/f6hmm
Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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If you're an #NSF funded researcher and haven't written a response to the OMB proposed rule and contacted your Congressional delegation about it, you should know Russ Vought is coming for your field first, enshrining the chaos of DOGE as policy. Do both at fight2win.standupforscience.net
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Cole Donovan@colesci.bsky.social · 2mo agoOh my god he admit it Link: www.regulations.gov/document/NSF...
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda.
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2mo agoTwo ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...