Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution

🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.

Yes good transit, and, as an added bonus, many of the bus stops look cool

some bell hooks and some hell books

Someone sent me this.

You know who actually supports my work? Daycare workers. That's the industry that needs billions poured into, not tech and slop AI.

In addition to your other points, this will also be useful information for our volunteer abortion doulas when providing support. I’m excited for this line of research! 👏

Repro justice must refuse silence and complacency.

We must throw grit into the gears of the U.S. war machine that robs futures, denies care, and rips apart families from here to Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and beyond.

Start here: tinyurl.com/USCPRAct

NO LONGER CORRECTING TYPOS - THEY ARE ARTISINAL PROOF OF HUMANITY.

I recommend @codoulaproject.bsky.social. We provide financial, emotional, and logistical support to abortion-seekers in Colorado, wherever they’re from. We share borders and proximity with many ban states, so keeping abortion accessible here helps everyone. My link: fund.nnaf.org/annacrawford

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“Mentally competent patients typically have the right to choose their medical care — or refuse it. But there is one notable exception: pregnant patients.”

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⚠️ This is an ABORTION FUND checkpoint. Have you set up monthly donations to your local abortion fund yet? abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

Yes! Collectives like the @codoulaproject.bsky.social 💜

I love how many new voices get a shot on @cbbworld.bsky.social , but there’s something reeeeeally special about four master improvisers with history and a lot of love, throwing fast balls at each other for an hour and a half.

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Torturing my policy and advocacy students this semester with poetry

A real opportunity was missed in not calling this “Terminal Degree”

jfc this is where I went to undergrad

“god bless America” meaning the continents of North and South America is going to give the worst people alive a collective aneurysm :)

Sent 💜

How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Fertility Polarization. It's going to be okay even if self-identified liberals fall to ~0 TFR Lyman Stone Feb 03, 2026 * Paid (substack post) It is now widely understood that having babies is essentially a right-wing activity. I’ve written here on Substack about how it really just is now right-wing to love your family (outlink to some other deeply wrong piece of writing). At the Institute for Family Studies,

They're going to keep pushing this narrative that only conservatives have children, and it's very important that we keep saying "what the fuck are you talking about"

As if I would ever voluntarily participate in a right wing activity

going to start posting this as a reaction image every time pronatalism comes up instead of saying anything substantive

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."