I just love him - what an amazing response 😂

omg and people wonder why the fertility rate is dropping 🙄

absolute gold 😂

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

“With fewer protections and more paperwork, LGBTQ+ Americans face a Medicaid coverage cliff” 19thnews.org/2025/07/medi...

The testimony we heard from paediatricians for our report with @rcpch.bsky.social was heartbreaking: 'We hear of parents who make the [milk] powder stretch for the week. And instead of the usual five scoops, they put in three or four because the tin needs to last.'

literally leaving people to die - horrid, awful and depraved policy.

DOGE has a plan to catalogue the private data of everyone in America, including our bank accounts, health records, Social Security numbers, and more. This could allow the government to spy on us like never before. Tell Congress: Keep DOGE's hands off our data.

Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed. For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.

If they truly valued the people, they would value educating the people. Teachers deserve better and we deserve better as a country. #teacher

Applying for this job was one of the best decisions I've ever made! Drop me a message if you're interested and want to learn more about our current team and how it all works.

ah yes - my favorite technique: the slow slicer

Writing tip: if you're struggling to to cut a paragraph, footnote it until you're ready to let go

an absolute must read.

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too." A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT

This is Susan. She has a smile that could light up a room, and independently finance the local orthodontist. 12/10

Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the criminal cases of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and also a prosecutor in the recent trial of Sean Combs, was fired Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.

The only thing rising faster than your bills is water bosses’ pay. Affinity Water’s CEO is pocketing £1.6 million while the firm leaks billions of litres every year. Time for public ownership.

“Nobody has a guide for being human that shows you a manual of all the ways that are normal to act... [I was] looking for that authoritative source that goes, ‘Yes, this was certainly the right way or the wrong way or the abnormal way to act.’” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/how-ai...

Bad news for families struggling to afford essentials: millions already face hunger &hardship. Rising food & fuel prices ramp up pressure on families and the food banks &charities trying to support them. Bad news for government: stagflation very difficult to tackle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

Andrea Gibson's poems touched the lives of millions of people around the world. We honor their memory and unique voice.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb

beyond excited to share that i’ve been working with usborne publishers on their new line of puberty books for children! two of the three books are out now!

4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family. Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.

We should be wary of scientific priorities that frame disability as a problem to “cure” instead of a reality to support. Read more on our Substack from @dramandar.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/philadel...

"ICE is arresting people based on accent" is an absolutely wild sentence to read

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

DOGE can now view and edit a USDA system that manages billions of dollars of government payments each year. Farm loan application records often contain sensitive personal information like someone's financial history. Our government is playing fast and loose with our privacy and our livelihoods.

wow. literally ignoring calls for help. the inhuman depravity knows no limits.

heck yeah. more of this please!!

hm, shame. Anyways, here's a link to bookshop.org which is having a sale of its own.

For any attorneys general who may have been living under a rock and missed that immigration agents are staying masked, and why that is a problem, hopefully this helps:

NEW: Our FOIA lawsuit revealed ICE is planning to construct new detention facilities in Colorado. This comes after President Trump signed a bill allocating $45 billion for ICE expansion.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

so exciting to see this new research out!! such a timely & important subject when so many people are trying to define what ‘women’s interests’ are

you can win every school bake off by simply buying a professional cake and saying it’s your own

New #CallForPapers! This issue will document existing & emerging aspects of domestic/care work & intimate #labour, their intersections with #gender & #migration, and the policies and practices that enable or prevent the exploitation of care workers. See antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

this is absolutely bonkers - you’re telling me that my partner (born in Scotland, UK citizen their whole life) would be ineligible for benefits because *checks notes* they live with me? a us citizen?

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Home Office announces ‘nationwide blitz’ on asylum seekers taking jobs … Or they could allow asylum seekers to work and contribute their skills to society, pay tax and have the chance to support themselves, but I guess that would just be too crazy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

A must read to understand how the law change in Texas banning all abortion is impacting maternal care and risking women’s lives who are undergoing a miscarriage.

exactly. it is a death center in florida.

This is exactly what we have been warning about. E-visas aren't ready to be enforced this way. For too many people they will lead to a loss of recognition of their status, loss of ability to work, and even loss of ability to rent. There needs to be a rethink www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I really do think that if any other president used the word “shylocks” it would be on the home page of NYT.