A tremendous loss for Dayton. 💔

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.

We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

History was just made in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Camden Hargrove has been elected to the Menomonie City Council— becoming only the second out Black trans man ever elected to public office in the United States. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Communities across the country are winning real victories against Flock's creepy surveillance tech.

Our movement to protect our privacy is growing by the day.

Ah yes, the inconvenience of being able to listen to the music whenever we want to regardless of internet, and owning the pieces forever after purchasing one time. lol

Awww my alt text disappeared :/

lol!

Beethoven or woke

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

Chinese feminist media blooms amid censorship
While the #MeToo wave in China "fizzled out" around late 2018, there was no turning back from the societal shifts and conversations it unleashed.

Footnotes ftw (love this book)

In grad school (early 2000s), I set out to prove Susan McClary and Suzanne Cusick were wrong. My application essay was an empirical study of leitmotifs in Wagner. ⁉️

Bassoonists...

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules The DOJ settled, but more than 30 states kept litigating against Ticketmaster anyway.

Break them up! Break them up!

www.theverge.com/policy/91268...

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Wyoming lawyer files complaint against Gray for providing voter data to feds - WyoFile The Secretary of State’s office complied with a Justice Department request to turn over the driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of every registered Wyoming voter last year. An...

A Cheyenne lawyer wants a special prosecutor to take on a complaint filed with the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office against Secretary of State Chuck Gray for sharing sensitive voter data with the federal government. wyofile.com/wyoming-lawy...

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

😂 They went to the one with the closest birthday, which might still have been me were there anyone else at my table!

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Me smiling with a bouquet of flowers, behind me blue skies!

Associate professor with tenure announced!

Growing a beard seems like a hard barrier for babies, also.

Tuniversity Tuniversity is a songwriting, production and theory learning experience brought to you by Derek Fawcett and Ethan Hein Announcing “Tune Up”: The Inaugural Tuniversity Showcase, Gathering, and Mini-…

So! My buddy Derek and I have launched a music school! It's called Tuniversity and it was motivated by two different things: people want to study with us who don't attend NYU, and NYU does not have enough classes for us to teach. Our first songwriting class starts next month. tuniversityny.com

Ohio sits atop U.S. in library usage, federal funding lawsuits resolve in favor of libraries • Ohio Capital Journal The State Library of Ohio is moving (literally) in a positive direction, as court battles over funding for U.S. libraries end, and the state gets recognized as the top state in library circulation.

The State Library of Ohio is moving in a positive direction, as court battles over funding for U.S. libraries end, and the state gets recognized as the top state in library circulation. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/13/o...

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Literature & Government, or L&G with the LG, a lecture series engaging campuses across Virginia in thoughtful dialogue on democracy, leadership, and public life.

Coming to a campus near you!

New Slavery Databases Document More Than 150,000 Enslaved People in Cuba and Brazil, Opening Paths for Research A decades-long project by Distinguished Professor Laird W. Bergad of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies opens a major new archive on slavery and challenges long-held…

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla...
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Fighting with the pope, thinking of himself as god, humiliated in a naval war of choice he assumed he would win easily over an "inferior" people, surrounded by kook healers and medical advisors, obsessed with familial legacy in the shadow of an actually successful father, this man is Nicholas II

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Incredibly inspiring.