In 2016, New York City Council passed an ordinance making tampons and pads free to those incarcerated in city jails, the first law of its kind in the country. But in 2021, the city’s Department of Correction quietly stopped distributing free tampons.

Update: I filled up my van for $101 at the cheapest place in town. #AreWeGreatYet

Iran knows a Strait beats someone not playing with a full deck.

if you want to decrease fraud in Medicaid, it is not the end user that you wish to scrutinize it is the home care agencies the durable medical equipment companies it is the provider offices that scam the system not the patient not the medicaid/medicare user it's THEIR rich buddies skimming cash

It was 86° at 1pm in Bakersfield CA. A tractor driver runs a water sprayer along the edge of a citrus orchard. This is important work as it keeps the soil and trees properly irrigated. It's hot work as the cab is open and doesn't have AC. #WeFeedYou

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The Asshole in Chief is bored with the war he started

Tore up bits of lawn to plant wildflowers and pumpkins. It’s so hopeful to put seeds in the ground! #gardening #TinyJoys #UnlawnAmerica

"We must learn to resist a singular focus on ICE as a rogue agency, looking instead to how the sprawling border policing apparatus has been built up over years as a bipartisan effort. We certainly do need to abolish ICE, but that cannot be the only goal." - @harshawalia.bsky.social

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are all empty terms without the true belief of and dedication to making the disabled community a true part of the larger community.

Listen, I was born poor and rural. My high school mascot was a literal hillbilly. I understand white trash culture. I can say with complete confidence that this is white trash culture. 

I once trotted the Nat Turner fact in a conversation about white supremacist violence snd even my colleagues were like “what the fuck, Flowers.” Y’all don’t know the depths of the depravity of colonizers.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

This inspiring QUEEN.

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

Me in March: The hops are sprouting, and I am going to be brutal and thin them! The hops in May:

6 Greenville, SC residents, including at least 3 cops have been arrested & charged with child sex trafficking AGAIN—not immigrants, not trans people, not drag queens, not Black or brown people. And we will not hear Trump or any MAGA politician acknowledge this. These were cops. How deep is the rot?

Cruelty towards the poorest and most vulnerable among us seems to be how they get their kicks.

i’m sure there’s a perfectly innocent reason that first one needed to be specified in the campground guidelines.

That part

In exchange for thousands of acres of property, data center developers promise jobs, infrastructure, and much-needed municipal revenue. Here’s the gag, though: The jobs are temporary, the infrastructure is useless, and the revenue is diminishing and offset by monster tax breaks.

Our friends at the Trans Law Center & Familia TQLM created a guide on how to report on queer and trans migrants. Here are their tips on how journalists can tell the stories of these communities with accuracy, dignity, and care (additional resources at transgenderlawcenter.org/journalist-resources).

The entire GOP are treasonous traitors who have betrayed America

It’s an ecosystem! I removed the fencing from the native perennials and some critters nibbled a bit. But the plants sprouted different stems to compensate! #Gardening 🌱 #TinyJoys

Donald Trump claims he can't attend son Don Jr.'s wedding this weekend because of the war with Iran. Funny, Donald found time for 14 golf days since the war started. #Priorities And the average wedding ceremony takes less than an hour. Whereas an average 18-hole round of golf takes 4 to 4.5 hours.

I filled up for $66 today at the cheapest place in town.

1/ Emily has spent more than half of her life living as who she is. She has always been well aware of who she is. So I ensured that she was raised and loved by me for exactly who she is because let’s be honest if I didn’t that would make me her 1st bully and I would be loving the wrong kid.

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Since Trump took office, more than 6,200 children have been arrested by DHS. Yesterday, advocates gathered on the Mall to shine a spotlight on the horrors of child detention—with an installation featuring hundreds of teddy bears and paper dolls, symbolizing the sheer scope and scale of the crisis.

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

In just over 20 years this has gone from scifi narrative to open national policy.

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Coming to you from this AmericanStudier’s hometown of Cville, here’s my 276th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude by Gabriel García Márquez #BookSky I've sent out talking points to start the discussion of 100 Years of Solitude. I'll send out more each day for about a week. To join check the hashtags or pin/like the feed (go to link; click on 3 dots)

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe has a baby beaver cam live, and it’s super cute! #nature m.youtube.com/watch?v=hy76...

I let a little volunteer tree grow in the yard and it’s big enough for a little house finch to perch on this morning. That makes me unexpectedly happy. #birds #gardening #TinyJoys 🌱

Everyone who participates in online discourse would benefit from knowing that authors/journalists don’t control the titles or graphics of their pieces in newspapers and magazines.

Before Mother’s Day, a group of senators raised the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing people in immigration detention. “There are virtually no legal safeguards for pregnant women in federal custody.”

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Child who woke me with cool ranch-scented breath: The person in our house who is going to die first is you, Mom. Because you are the oldest. #HappyMothersDay

#HurricanePreparedness 🌪️ 1/2 ♿ 10. Disabilities (visible & invisible) People with disabilities face disproportionate risk due to reliance on equipment, medications, and accessible services.

SO. The plan was something different, carefully detailed leaves and stuff… And then I saw some vid of someone painting trees with q-tips. Fuck the plan, I needed to try this. And it's hella fun~. #drachenmagier #art

Mother’s Day and its radical roots remind us that we cannot ensure bodily autonomy, the right to have children, the right to not have children, and the right to parent the children we have in safe and sustainable environments without an end to genocide and war.

Looking forward to summer ☀️

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia after touring the Dilley ICE jail: "There is nothing humane about Dilley. Children are being held in jail while women with no criminal history are denied basic dignity, medical care, and hygiene products. "A jail is no place for children. This baby jail must be shut down."