This is an important read by a researcher who has investigated the many deceptive and harmful practices of unregulated pregnancy centers in the US. It's astounding what these fake clinics are allowed to get away with.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

Given the discourse, I’m reminded of this classic paper that’s still influential among sociologists of race and ethnicity. It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative. Jobs are the paradigmatic example.

*watches white men complain about ‘meritocracy’ while watching incompetent white men burn the US to the ground*

The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage

This article is 21 years old! "'I Did Not Get that Job Because of a Black Man...': The Story Lines and Testimonies of Color-Blind Racism" A lot of guys think this because they were let down easy by the recruiter. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The My Voice, My Choice campaign gets a vote on Wed. in the European Parliament. It would enable women from EU countries that restrict abortion to have free abortions in another member state. It's expected to pass but the European Commission ​must still decide whether to adopt the proposal.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.

People are going to die

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides. The Coke cost more on the Black side.

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

On December 30, 1975, Minneapolis became the first city to adopt a trans-inclusive LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ordinance. Fifty years later, the U.S. still lacks similar protections on a federal level. https://bit.ly/4aAEWLF

This is also part of the goal of the (ostensibly) pronatalist policies being discussed and enacted.

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shopping freeze at Home Depot in Manhattan this afternoon in protest against the company allowing ICE to stage & target people seeking work at Home Depots across the country. An estimated 300 activists purchased & returned ice scrapers, copying activists in Los Angeles. Ended with a rally outside.

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

New from me at @motherjones.com: Senate Republicans blocked the Democratic plan to extend ACA tax credits while trying to pass (and failing too) health saving accounts plans, which @mirandayaver.bsky.social told me, are not useful for poor and middle-class folks. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules. Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe

there's like a curve graph for how the badness of UI relates to consolidation and competitiveness in the market. is there like a named law for this yet

Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT

“If actually implemented by auditors, [the] memo would effectively suspend numerous protections under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act for trans and intersex people.” It sickens me that transmisogynists ever convinced anyone they care about rape. This is a transparent call for sexual violence.

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

“If actually implemented by auditors, [the] memo would effectively suspend numerous protections under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act for trans and intersex people.” It sickens me that transmisogynists ever convinced anyone they care about rape. This is a transparent call for sexual violence.

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

A lot of people ask why deepfake sexual abuse is legal—in theory, it’s not. But why perpetrators aren’t often held to account follows the exact same patterns of inaction regarding all forms of sexual abuse

Care for the caretakers

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

A trend I’ve noticed over the last few years is that a lot of the surprise breakout successes in entertainment involve women’s friendship. But if you read interviews with production, they’ll give all the credit to one of the men on screen, completely oblivious to the audience’s actual response.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

The federal vaccine committee has voted to end the recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic. Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

We shouldn't have armed and masked men stalking the streets for victims to kidnap even if they did "do something wrong."

NYTimes euphemism thesaurus has a new entry for misogyny.

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about what's at stake for chronically ill contractors and freelancers as Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits expire. When you're already sick, the possibility of not being able to afford health insurance at all is terrifying. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

The case for a stock trading ban

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

I have a similar approach to accommodations. Because it's not only students with disabilities who need them. Sometimes it's a student who has suffered a sudden death in the family, an illness, an assault, or other event that derails their academics. Hence, accommodations are actually for everyone.