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submitted 90 days ago • 66 comments

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

submitted 109 days ago • 865 comments

If you are a Democrat who is spending time attacking Kamala Harris or her campaign rather than focusing on the fight ahead, you aren't helping anyone.

submitted 112 days ago • 479 comments

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submitted 112 days ago • 434 comments

Wild, that some people that look at Project 2025 and dismiss it, when 23,000 people in Texas had to birth their rapist’s baby last year, a parent has to sign an affidavit each time their child goes to the library in Idaho, and there’s an open war on Trans people. Folks in red states are living it.

submitted 241 days ago • 3 comments

@natebowling.bsky.social Meta just removed the latest episode of Nerd Farmer Podcast from my page, claiming it was spam. From the wording on the notification, I think most content moderation is being handled by AI, not people.

submitted 280 days ago • 1 comment

When my mom miscarried, my dad thought he was going to lose her. All he could do was get her to the ER, and then wait and pray. Fortunately for my mom and dad, the doctors didn't have to worry about being arrested for performing an emergency D&C. Mom's life was saved, and Dad was spared from grief.

submitted 295 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot claim to be "prolife" while insisting that women can be denied emergency medical care during miscarriages.

submitted 313 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know, our books are available everywhere! geni.us/Moonbreak

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"Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal." apnews.com/article/preg...

submitted 318 days ago • 1 comment

A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future."

submitted 387 days ago • 29 comments

Objectively.

submitted 387 days ago • 1 comment

How Chicago Became an Unlikely Leader in Body-Camera Transparency The city has a long history of brutal, violent policing, but its latest approach to body-worn cameras and police oversight could serve as a national model. www.propublica.org/article/how-...

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As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better www.propublica.org/article/what...

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Happy 2024. Let’s go turn collective trauma into collective care Let’s bring the action (of love of self and love of others) Let’s go fuck shit up (by creating far-reaching systemic change that benefits the people who need it most)

submitted 427 days ago • 16 comments

ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR: I take Maimonides' texts on "repentance"-- I read as abt owning harm, transformation for changed behavior & amends, & centers the victim, & I apply them not only to interpersonal situations, but also to institutional, national, systemic. We've all been harmed, & harmed.

submitted 427 days ago • 0 comments

Polar Express Musings - It wouldn't take much tweaking to turn Polar Express into a horror movie. - Wow, the white male privilege. - I would love Polar Express roller coasters! - Would Billy have received a gift if he never got on the train? - Did the kids ever physically leave their rooms?

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

My family here in the Philippines have a tradition of kicking off our Christmas viewing with Polar Express, complete with hot chocolate. This leads to my annual Polar Express musings.

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar is back up and running, and you can now open door two (and door 1, if you haven't opened it already): jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book... #sapphicbooks #queerbooks

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DID YOU KNOW that possibly the first feminist movement in history was a movement of embodied sacred sexuality that honored women as prophets equal to men, tried to undo the harms of Eden, and became a crisis of false prophesy in 17th c Ottoman Judaism? SOMETHING IN HERE FOR EVERYONE:

submitted 463 days ago • 8 comments

Unspoken but also, "when the blacks were in their place." The halcyon days of obligatory heteronormative gender identity and performance were also, not coincidental, the halcyon days of white supremacy, slavery and colonization.

submitted 466 days ago • 0 comments

They. Will. Not. Stop. So we stand together, refuse to be baited into turning on our own family, and we LOVE.

submitted 471 days ago • 1 comment

I know many of you enjoyed last year's Sapphic Book Advent Calendar, so I joined forces with 42 fellow authors to make your holiday season a little merrier & a lot more sapphic again! You can sign up for the daily reminder emails & a cool surprise on my website: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

submitted 473 days ago • 3 comments

When Child Services crosses the line into child abuse...

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Thoughtful essay about the frenzy behind book bans focused on Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ existence and history. TL;DR - You can't tell Ruby Bridges' story without gram and gramps throwing rocks and screeching at a child being the bad guys. Which they were. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/right-w...

submitted 478 days ago • 1 comment

For more than a decade, the all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard.

submitted 485 days ago • 6 comments

The Supreme Court Will Decide if Domestic Abuse Orders Can Bar People From Having Guns. Lives Could Be at Stake. The court’s ruling on US v Rahimi could clarify an earlier decision on guns. Or it could take away one of the best options to protect domestic violence victims.

submitted 486 days ago • 2 comments

Y’all when you see photos from the horrors in Israel/Palestine, at least check eg the number of fingers on hands or etc. Seeing a lot of AI images in the strangest, most unnecessary contexts. (There’s plenty of truth to share with no misleading photos! Don’t share misinformation!)

submitted 486 days ago • 6 comments

Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :) There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.

submitted 560 days ago • 173 comments

HI HELLO THIS www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

submitted 491 days ago • 6 comments

A lot of words to avoid saying "theocrat"

submitted 492 days ago • 9 comments

Secrecy Shields Powerful Adults in Our Juvenile Justice Systems. Kids Showed Me What’s Really Happening. The three years I spent working on “The Kids of Rutherford County” podcast taught me one thing: Tennessee’s punitive policies aren’t leaving children in the legal system better off.

submitted 494 days ago • 1 comment

On November 18, I'll be a panelist in a GCLS Virtual Series panel that promises to be interesting! Moderator @karin.kallmaker.com & fellow panelists Melissa Brayden, KC Luck, Ann McMan, Anna Pulley, and I will discuss book series. Register for the free Zoom event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 495 days ago • 1 comment

Cozy mystery pet peeve: When the main character never asks the obvious questions.

submitted 495 days ago • 2 comments

Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks. Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot.

submitted 496 days ago • 3 comments

I deeply want these terms to enter academic literary discourse h/t @derekkunsken.bsky.social who posted it on FB!

submitted 497 days ago • 2 comments

After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.

submitted 500 days ago • 1 comment

Cozy mystery pet peeve: when the law enforcement character has woefully insufficient reasons for going after their chief suspect, but neither bigotry nor incompetence are the motivation.

submitted 502 days ago • 0 comments