“Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, but they do kill people. They kill women, in higher numbers, but in many of the same, preventable ways, that these women were dying before. All of which was completely and utterly predictable.” - @amylittlefield.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

Absolute must read by @lexmcmenamin.com on the Prairieland defendants: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thanks @zinnedproject.bsky.social for bringing these resources to communities, K12 + college educators. Grateful to @murray.senate.gov + staff for this week's hearing. Dobbs started in the South, but so too are so many innovative + sophisticated mutual aid networks started by BIPOC communities.🌿

MUST READ! A new study, this article explains, underscores that legal restrictions on abortion can't be viewed in isolation but must be analyzed w/in the context of their cascading effects on patient safety, healthcare equity, clinician roles, & system sustainability. bioengineer.org/variations-i...

Texas’s abortion ban forced Samantha to carry a very wanted, but non-viable pregnancy to term–denying her the health care she needed and putting her life in danger.    This is the reality Republicans created.

“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @404media.co. www.404media.co/madison-squ...

Abortion bans kill women. More from @alexismjpp.bsky.social at today’s forum to hold Republicans accountable for the chaos and pain they have unleashed on American women.

I will not let Republicans off the hook for the pain they have caused and the chaos they have unleashed by overturning Roe v. Wade.   You voted to confirm Trump’s SCOTUS nominees? You own this chaos and suffering.

Never forget it was a Democrat who laughed in our faces when we demanded impeachment of Clarence Thomas. "Get real," said Sen Dick Durbin This is real: "Comstock is still on the books." And Thomas’ explicit invocation of it, in the context of mifepristone’s legality, sets a dangerous precedent..."

Science and education of future scientists is at stake. So is university knowledge-production. All Hands On Deck: DPH Actions to Stop Proposed OMB Rule. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/all-h...

From exporting spyware to surveilling activists – how democracies became the new digital authoritarians theconversation.com/from-exporti...

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

In my interactions with police at city council meetings and community meetings, the police far too often don't even understand how the technology that they are buying works, despite paying thousands or millions in taxpayer dollars for it.

this American Diabetes Association debacle is increasing my admiration for the humanities professional organizations (MLA, AHA, ACLS) that are fighting the federal government over its dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities—and they're winning in court.

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

“The future being built is one in which the camera is no longer just a camera, the phone is no longer just a phone, and glasses are no longer just glasses. They are portals into identity systems. They make the face a query and turn public presence into searchable data.” 💀

Our first full length documentary film "After Oil" will be premiering at the NY African Film Fest this May 24th at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. The film traces the politics of energy in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara. africasacountry.com/after-oil

as many of you will remember, I dug into detailed local reporting about a different ICE victim every day of Lent to meditate on their stories, and when you read them all lined up some clear patterns start to emerge. the starkest to me was that every employee of GEO Group should be sent to The Hague

This fall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will decide whether or not to keep Pat Smith on the city’s police oversight board. Under Mayor Eric Adams, Smith served as the board's interim chair and overturned nearly 50 percent of his investigators’ charging guidelines.

OPINION: "So, what do we do next? We start with what we know for certain: If the vote had no power, they would not be attempting to suppress it," Lakeisha Hood Moïse and Kamilah A. Pickett write.

For those in Houston, this upcoming exhibition opening on June 12 and running through July 17 looks very interesting. houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

"Mifepristone is safe and effective — hundreds of high-quality studies have made that overwhelmingly clear. Citing junk science, the Trump Admin initiated this review with the politically motivated goal of making abortion pills harder to access.” —@reprorights.org Liz Wagner https://bit.ly/4vxCeO5

Illustration by /atomicsharkie

Access to safe, respectful maternal health care is a human right. But abortion bans and restrictive, discriminatory laws across the U.S. are fueling a maternal mortality crisis that is needlessly claiming thousands of lives. So what would it really take to reverse this terrifying trend?

Vital thread 👇

The Green Party in Belgium calls the Justice Minister's abortion proposal 'grossly inadequate.' It would extend the abortion limit to 14 weeks but experts had recommended 18 weeks. The plan would reduce the mandatory waiting period from six days to two, when it should be abolished entirely.

#ReproductiveJustice #BodilyAutonomy

benny johnson’s wife? huh.

Pride in the South is its own kind of brave. Reproductive justice and queer liberation are the same fight — your body, your life, your call. Queer and trans Southerners need abortion care too. People are safely accessing care from home, wherever they live. southernwoven.com/en/learn

🦀 After the federal government demoted patients who need abortion to save their lives to “thoughts and prayers,” status, Maryland passed its OWN law to ensure that those patients are given emergency abortion care, NO MATTER WHAT. buff.ly/2KmyCMD

It’s #SerotoninSunday! 🌈💫💪 🩺 Illinois passed a law to protect patients from anti-abortion little Big Brothers, who would love nothing more than to rifle through your medical records like a diary to rat you out. buff.ly/pQuFqBt

"Bipartisan" means "Please don't expect us to use power". My whole generation of post war Dems got infected with this conservative neoliberal indirect approach to governance, and it's time for them to move on.

If the president throws a tantrum when he's pressed about his lies about election fraud and walks away from the interview, your response should be to remind your viewers of all the ways in which those lies were dismissed by the courts. Not promise to give him a do over after he's had nap time.

Indeed. www.lawdork.com/p/dems-post-...

More than 10,000 lawyers have left the federal government since the beginning of 2025. Trump has replaced them with criminals.

Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together | Binairfer Nowrojee

Happy #AANHPIHeritageMonth! 💜 According to @napawf.org#AANHPIHeritageMonthresearch, 84% of AAPI women agree that people should be able to make their own abortion decisions without government interference. Our voices matter. Our votes matter. And in 2026, this fight is ours to win. https://bit.ly/4u4bqnm

For another lesson on racism & dispossession, see "How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in 20th Cent." by hs tchr & @rethinkingschools.bsky.social author @ladyofsardines.bsky.social on systemic roots of wealth inequality today. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ho...

Commentary of the week: f Mississippi was ground zero for Freedom Summer in 1964, Tennessee may well be ground zero for Freedom Summer 2.0 and the fight to redeem democratic possibility in America, writes columnist Rev. Earle Fisher, of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis.

It shouldn't be easier for ICE to deploy pepper spray and riot gear than to provide medical support and quality food.

Just completed a congressional oversight visit with members of the New Jersey delegation. Delaney Hall should be shut down. This is not America.

PS: Science and democracy work using similar methods. This is why Vought hates them both. Lots more on his public administration approach with @donmoyn.bsky.social here

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President Trump's administration is suing four states over their refusal to issue undercover license plates to federal agents, the latest front in the wider struggle between the White House and Democratic-led states over the Republican president's immigration crackdown. https://to.pbs.org/4o3pQmw

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵