Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Was thinking the same thing!

Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

Fear of familial disgrace and flunking out: Nobel winner connects with students Hudson Valley Community College students welcomed home their new hero Thursday — a student who was just like them, and who went on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

A feel-good story about public education, immigrants studying in the U.S., & the Nobel prize. Chemist returns to Hudson Valley Community College to talk to current students about his rocky start to a career in academic science.

www.timesunion.com/education/ar...

Perfectly put.

This news story should win an award for the best Headline-Subheadline pairing.

On trans day of visibility, I always want to acknowledge those who can't be visible. Because it's not safe, they're not ready, or they're still figuring it out. Whatever the reason, whatever amount of visibility: you are valid, you deserve joy, you are loved. <3

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

My kids is trans. We face the real possibility they will have to leave the country to live their life with full rights and freedom. I will never stop fighting for them but it would be helpful if I didn’t have to fight so many people allegedly on my side.

So, you know, happy TDOV.

This very quickly became one of the most important legal cases in transgender rights

So two of the three NYC airports are offline this Monday morning?

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

And Alpharetta is within Atlanta's sprawl.

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

yes, yes!

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein.

One was warned off by his Mom.

“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here," said Scott Aaronson's mother.

www.science.org/content/arti...

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

“We are taking back your papers, you have no papers now” is even more chilling than “show us your papers”

Kansas legislature overrode the Gov veto on a nightmarish anti-trans law, so today's a great day to send some funds to the pipeline.

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"

Okay, I love everything about this.

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

Arghhh.

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

Thank you so much for this.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Gah “A most excellent”

Almost excellent thread breaking down all the details and references in Bad Bunny’s halftime show. So good (so helpful!)

I just confessed this very thing to my husband!

Wow. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...