"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"
Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.
Yet again, lefties have hled their nose and voted for a right-winger to save democracy from the far right.
Contrast that to the large number of right-wingers who consistently chose far-right candidates over even centrists.
Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.
Front cover of French magazine Paris Match with far-right leader Jordan Bardella and his new girlfriend, a princess who looks a lot like Marion Maréchal
Ha, spring! The time for young love and the normalisation of the far right!
Closed list PR can shield women from voter bias and even boost their incumbency advantage. In open list PR, where voters choose candidates, women may gain less from incumbency as they are more vulnerable to gender stereotyping doi.org/10.1086/735871
I think it's fair to say that British Higher Education is now in a chaotic and (counter-) revolutionary situation. That's been inevitable for a couple of years, but it still whacks you every day when you realise.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
This post from BPAS on Instagram helps outline the disinfo about the changes to the abortion law www.instagram.com/p/DWPJgNgDo1...
While attention naturally focuses on Iran the war in Ukraine continues. Russia may be in the early stages of a spring offensive and so far it is not going well. I explore in this post (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/has-the-ru...
Congratulations, Tom!
All those Irish people cheering for England today. All for nothing - except for me. I'll be reminding them of it for years to come
"Whilst recognising and celebrating progress, it is impossible to ignore the myriad challenges facing women in NI."
Following International Women's Day, Dervilia Kernaghan from @womensplatformni.bsky.social writes for our guest blog series.
www.pivotalpolicy.org/our-work/piv...
From the people who gave you Inside Out
Counter-demonstrators need to print pictures of Ibrahim Ali, Brahim Bouraam, and Federico Martín Aramburú, all killed by the far right in France
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
Watching Channel 4 news to catch up with the Andrew MW news. Husband and I are puzzled as to why they keep interviewing Americans. Who cares what they think? Who have Americans arrested as a result of the Epstein files?
So I guess we've been reminded why we've stopped watching C4 news ages ago
I guess it's a victory for gender equality that biathlete Julia Simon was given some grace by the French federation after being found guilty of stealing from one of her teammates because she's a bloody good athlete. Today she became the first French woman to win 3 gold medals in the same Olympics
Look, if this phrasing keeps manosphere idiots away from podcasts, it will be a public service
A shocking indictment of the intimidation and danger MPs now routinely experience.
The hostility routinely whipped up against "Westminster" and "politicians" has a real human cost.
That's appalling behaviour
The sequel to Adolescence should be about older men getting radicalised online
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NEW Pivotal tracker report reviews two years of the restored Northern Ireland Executive
Read the report here
www.pivotalpolicy.org/assets/files...
This by Badenoch looks to me like Eric Ciotti saying that the main difference between Les Républicains and the National Rally was their ability to govern. Ciotti, of course, is the guy who tried to take LR in a coalition with the far right and was kicked out of LR for doing so
"For too long our homelessness response has been focused almost entirely downstream, rescuing people once they are already in crisis." A new guest article for Pivotal Platform, by Cathy Brolly from the Simon Community. www.pivotalpolicy.org/our-work/piv...
Just for context when I complained to hotel chocolate that one of their shops wasn’t wheelchair accessible because they didn’t have a ramp, which fails to comply with the Equality Act I got a £100 voucher and no write up in the times for my suffering
Years ago I did a liberation of Auschwitz thread on the other platform. Time to redo
Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. What happened? How? The Western Front is studied minute by minute, the East a black hole. The strange thing, though is that many documents are declassified and online
En France, tenir ses promesses électorales ne rapporte rien
Avec @egrossman.bsky.social, on revient pour @france.theconversation.com sur ce résultat contre-intuitif et ce qu’il dit de la représentation & de la responsabilité des gouvernants de la Ve République 👇
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I’d say this is a generous response. The extent of his use of ChatGPT is really concerning in terms of academic integrity
