Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

David Drake’s works "often carried inscriptions, even though it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected on his systemic separation from his family members... “I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.”"

I know SCOTUS literally already said that it was open season on any kind of Brown folk but this is another in "the irony of the error proves the stupidity of the whole entire concept".

BREAKING: Infant Formula Company Tied to Botulism Outbreak Had Known Problems A Pennsylvania plant run by the company, ByHeart, was shut down this year after inspectors found mold, a leaking roof and more than 2,500 dead insects in a food production area. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/h...

Incredible. Jess has been on this story for YEARS. The victim's mother recently told her – in a quote that was shown to the state's Pardon and Parole board, contributing to their clemency recommendation – “They should let him live. I don’t think they should execute him.” The governor listened.

More than 3,500 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) have been reported in Texas so far this year, according to state figures, roughly four times the number as last year and the highest since 2013.

At least 89 Gazans, including children & elderly, are receiving medical treatment in Israel. Most have been in Jerusalem for this purpose since before the war. But Israel abruptly decided to send all Gazan patients back to Gaza next week. Unless third countries take them ASAP, many will die 🧵 1/

Colombia suspends intelligence sharing with US over strikes on Caribbean boats The move ends decades of cooperation on law-enforcement in the region LATEST for PWS by Adriaan Alselma www.piratewireservices.com/p/colombia-s...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Brightest northern lights I’ve ever seen in Minneapolis! The reds, greens and blues above Downtown Minneapolis from across Bde Maka Ska.

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

It started here in New Jersey. With a raid in Newark that detained a veteran. We thought it was a shocking, isolated event. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. As @yunao08.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social wrote, "No veteran or military family should live in fear of deportation and separation. Period"

No one ever scrutinizes the Laiquendi even though their reaction to seeing humans for the first time was “get these things OUT of our forests”.

Thinking about Tolkien and Gender again; there’s something very interesting about his portrayal of women as healers given how the state of medicine in England was changing in his time. Women as nurses weren’t unheard of but war + the nascent NHS supercharged their entry into the field in a new way.

🚨ALERT: 4 people have been detained in Bladensburg this morning, on or close to Baltimore-Washington parkway. All from work vans. Park police were involved. We recommend staying clear of this area. 1/

"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program" but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"

No kings, only this queen

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources

"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

“More people could have died in the past week in El Fasher, and this is without hyperbole, than died in the past two years in Gaza,” says Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, who joins Mehdi remotely.” zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10077

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

My wife was once asked “why can’t your husband make more money” while she was negotiating salary for her 5th promotion in 5 years at a Fortune 500 company. The year was 2001.

(No laughing here)

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social : “Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts. Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

here is a mockup

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

This is just obscene insult to horrible injury at this point. Parents count on head start to be there to get their kids prepared for kindergarten, while also being a type of childcare so the parent can provide a living.

The government shutdown has forced providers of the early learning and child care program for lower-income families to close across the country. From @the74.bsky.social:

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Norm might've spoken this into existence, it's his fault

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

One night recently, I got a Signal message Would I be interested in seeing an internal Trump admin memo? I said yes (duh). Then, I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. The memo shows how the VA is making access to health coverage header for just one group: Male vets w/ breast cancer….

“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while,” Raymond said. Jesus.

Maryland is one of the few states where Dems could redraw their House map to respond to GOP gerrymandering. Every seats on this hypothetical map is at least Harris+10. Contrary to some Dems' concerns, this is possible while *adding* a third majority-Black seat davesredistricting.org/join/fc524d3...

Power outage: Before and After from satellite...

Tolkien’s dedication to his prehistory bit was such that I think if showed reconstructions of premodern Brits (ie the Cheddar Man) he would be convinced to make all his mortals dark-skinned. The hottest elves are still going to look like his wife though—implications of that just aren’t great.

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

“It is likely that thousands are being killed at the moment, and many thousands more are at risk if the RSF is not restrained.” Massacres under way in Darfur after militia captures besieged city, reports say: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #KeepEyesOnSudan

Not just CECOT. I feel like this isn’t getting enough attention.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.