Wisconsin Republicans are introducing a bill that mandates women use ‘catch kits’ when they have a miscarriage or abortion at home—forcing them to bag up their pregnancy tissue and bring it to the doctor as medical waste. jessica.substack.com/p/wisconsin-...

Summers was president of one of the most prestigious and famous academic institutions in the United States. This is what we have to deal with

Tired: Influential man has misogynistic insights Wird: Influential man shares misogynistic insights with leader of elite pedophilia slavery network

Based on what he considered acceptable to say in public (that women aren't scientists because of an innate lack of excellence) that he would hold a **much** less palatable sentiment and share that in private ... hope his reputation is permanently trashed after this ...

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I am once again reminding you that you can get recipes and crossword puzzles elsewhere

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

There is no such thing as conservative feminism. 😠 😡

Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame. n.pr/493YcAm

So far in 2025, Collins has voted to confirm at least eight explicitly anti-abortion judges to lifetime seats on the federal judiciary. It seems plausible Collins knows she’s likely to lose next November and isn't even trying to court voters anymore. It’s no longer of concern to her.

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

Upturn is hiring a new Executive Director: www.upturn.org/join/executi...

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

People often don't believe me or other repro health experts when we say this admin and its supporters (ahem, Heritage) are absolutely trying to remove access to WOMEN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL THEIR OWN REPRODUCTION. And this isn't about raising birth rates. It's about restoring the gender hierarchy.

#nokings Portland frog brigade

If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

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Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

I love what Portland is doing so much. Joy is resistance. Dancing animals are resistance. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

NYTimes is such a joke.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

live updates on what's not happening in Portland.

Portland: 24 hour live stream of what's really happening outside ICE facility. www.youtube.com/live/zNASPLj...

Eight of these Senators represent states that directly voted post Dobbs to codify abortion access in their constitutions, or blocked anti-abortion measures. But now they’re demanding federal restrictions (KS: Marshall, Moran; MO: Hawley, Schmitt; MT: Daines, Sheehy; OH: Moreno, Husted)

Show of hands if you’re a Portlander dog-tired from dealing with the fables spun by this Trump disciple

NEW: South Carolina already bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, but some conservatives have decided that’s not enough. State GOP lawmakers are now pushing for a new bill that could criminalize sharing abortion information, @susanrinkunas.com writes.

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Autonomy News is THE publication to read for the most accurate, up-to-date, and straight-talking abortion news just about anywhere on the internet.

Meta has already made the choice to allow speech about abortion on its platforms, and it has not hesitated to highlight that commitment whenever it has faced scrutiny. Now it’s time for Meta to put its money where its mouth is. www.eff.org/pages/platf...

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

I live in Japan now, but I am pretty proud that my U.S. home base is Portland, Oregon. Recently named second best foodie city in the country. 😜

Sick burn. finance.yahoo.com/news/22-old-...

Paging Ezra Klein. Ezra Klein? Anyone seen Ezra Klein? We need a cleanup in the “Politics the Right Way” Aisle.

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

nah

A great way to give up on being a global leader in science.

Today Oregon’s message to Donald Trump was loud and clear: stay out.

Our news networks should air an hour or two of European news every day to show Americans how flabbergasted the news presenters are here when they cover the U.S.

Meta's policies require "repeated" Community Standards violations before Meta will disable an account. But abortion advocates are getting banned after just one post. This completely cuts accounts off from their followers and silences crucial reproductive health information.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

In 2022, Kansas voters *overwhelmingly* defeated an anti-abortion ballot measure. Ohio voters passed an abortion rights amendment in 2023. And Missouri? You guessed it! Voters passed Amendment 3 this past November. So no, we don't need 'pro-life Democrats' to win.

To see someone ostensibly on the left use women's basic human right over bodily autonomy as a bargaining chip ... I just can't quite express how deeply horrifying it is. Government control over women's bodies is part and parcel with fascism. You're not going to reclaim democracy this way.