From 1977-2024, the anti-abortion movement has committed:
11 murders
26 attempted murders
42 bombings
203 arsons
570 assaults
109 attempted bombings or arsons
100 acid attacks
668 anthrax or bioterrorism threats
4 kidnappings
and the list goes on!
Researchers say it’s important to understand what barriers active-duty service members are facing, especially in states with bans. But they said it is becoming increasingly difficult to study because of state laws, the DOD under its current leadership, and factors that existed long before Dobbs.
Alright Gulf Coast, South Carolina, southern Oklahoma and Arkansas, it's go time for y'all now!
Start of the approximately 3 week long peak migration period
BirdCast is predicting we'll have 133 million birds above the continental US tonight and they're especially headed your way
Lights out!
Accurate!
Boys should also get the HPV vaccine, not only to help eliminate cervical cancer through building herd immunity but also because in this latest study it cancer risk in men by about half (in 10 years of follow up; the reduction may be larger with longer follow up)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@liberaljane.bsky.social
Did you know the laws being used to punish people for pregnancy loss and abortion today have roots in the 1600s?
“The instruments to punish women with shame and humiliation may have changed, but the instinct to punish has not,” writes @pregnancyjust.bsky.social’s Kulsoom Ijaz in an op-ed:
The Trump administration has systematically pressured immigration judges, threatening them if they do not deport more people and firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement agenda, a New York Times investigation has found. nyti.ms/3Q3IZaU
A godzilla toy screaming at the sky, arms out. text reads And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs "Skreeonk!"
4 Non-Kongs
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps.
🗣🗣🗣"Most importantly, regardless of scientific debates, no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights."
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.
363 pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants were deported b/w Jan 2025 and Feb 16, DHS confirms.
16 miscarried in detention.
121 actively detained as of last month.
These are the first numbers we have on how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing people have been detained under Trump.
THAT'S MY MAYOR! (I live in NC).
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the purpose of a positionality statement is not to list how you're oppressed. It is to reflect on your perspectives and how that influences your research, particularly as it relates to your identities, and takes into account privilege & power.
It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle
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This heartbreaking story, about the after effects of family separation, was written by our very own @tinavasquez.bsky.social. We recommend that you read it:
Image Description: Vibrant collage for Abortion Provider Appreciation Day featuring the text 'Abortion care is forever tied to our liberation' above the U.S. Supreme Court building and a bright sun.
Collage vibrante para el Día de Agradecimiento a los Proveedores de Abortos que presenta el texto "El aborto está para siempre ligado a nuestra liberación" sobre el edificio de la Corte Suprema de los EE. UU. y un sol brillante.
Abortion care is liberation work. We #CelebrateAbortionProviders for the work they do in keeping the power to determine our own futures in our hands.
Return the love by donating to @keepourclinics.bsky.social which supports independent abortion clinics across the country: keepourclinics.org/donate/
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
OB-GYN tip of the day:
Women’s health research was historically done on women, not for women. Consent and ethics were not guaranteed ... and that history still shapes trust today.
The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.
Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.
Priorities.
The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here.
www.thecut.com/article/bad-...
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
