the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Huge thanks to @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com of @autonomynews.co for giving me the chance to reflect on a decade of patient advocacy 🙏💓

I'm working on a piece I'm slightly behind on for @liberalcurrents.com on reconstruction. And I'm always struck by the fact that we only needed the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act because the state and federal governments just ignored the Reconstruction Amendments.

There’s nothing “science-based” about this FDA review. There are 100+ high-quality studies demonstrating the safety of mifepristone. There’s no conflicting evidence about health or safety — it’s a clown report from anti-abortion orgs that’s not peer-reviewed & has about 48 internal validity errors.

I research sexual and reproductive health all day every day and @autonomynews.co is my go to source for what the hell is happening in our world

MAGA wants to reduce opportunities for women and increase opportunities for quacks. Chiropractors, a male-dominated woo-saturated field, still qualify, while female-dominated evidence-based professions are shut out.

If he knows they’re unpopular then he should be fine with the broad public disgust. The fact that he’s not and he can’t defend his work on the merits shows that he knows he’s wrong, he just wants us to thank him for fucking us over.

Clarence Thomas is set to become the second-longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. His legacy is marred by ethics scandals that highlight the lack of accountability for justices. It's past time to reform the Court. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

*to the tune of Midnight Sun* “There’s never ending things to doooo oooo oooo oooo”

Having an abortion in Texas.

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

This is a ruling purporting to halt telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone NATIONWIDE. Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit for a decision by Monday, May 11. That they dropped it on a Friday afternoon feels intentional to keep it in effect for longer. Expect emergency appeal to SCOTUS shadow docket

This mife decision is fuuuuuucking bullshit. People will still be prescribed abortion pills but it will be a more miserable experience. Mife is safe and it represents PROGRESS in abortion provision.

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.

Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.

I have genuinely enjoyed telling people here in AZ that one big reason we’re moving back to NYC is to pay more taxes.

No, it’s not a painting—these surreal skies are real! This is a rare ‘fire rainbow’ spotted over the Rocky Mountains, created when sunlight hits ice-crystal clouds at just the right angle. Seeing a fire rainbow requires extreme luck.

People say 'the work speaks for itself'. Maybe that's true for some things, but it is never true in organizing. You absolutely need to share the work, often and always. There are new people coming of age daily and also most organizing is not visible to most people.

Doors were supposed to close at 4 for the Turning Point event that had announced starting time at 5. I got in a few after 4 and this is the scene:

“Make them get their own lawyers so we can have our libraries” needs BILLBOARDS who’s got cash?

We pay that much in lawsuits and settlements every year in NYC. Make them get their own lawyers so we can have our libraries.

Exactly what Kate said. Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.

13yo: I learned why communism failed. [tells me] Me: [Deep existential sigh] 13yo: Is that wrong? Me: [Checks traffic on Waze]. Okay. We’ve got some time. The first thing to understand is that communism has never been tried… [30 minutes later] And that’s why LENIN-ISM failed.

I’m late to this but wow, a must read. BRAVO @tinavasquez.bsky.social

Watching the astronaut press conference live from SPACE and so touched by the intelligence and lovingness and sincerity of these people 💚👨‍🚀

Felt this in my elder millennial white girl SOUL

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

What do your tweens call you? I am currently “Like girl,”

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

!!!!!!!

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

If you haven’t gotten to watch it yet, please go to Instagram and watch @doula_cherise skillfully break down bodily autonomy for pregnant people. It’s a masterclass!

I swear to god dancing with the stars you people better not try it

NYers—what are the best sources for finding apts these days (besides knowing someone)?

it sounds like the good guys have the numbers on this one but, dude, Alito is so far gone. soooo far gone. brain fully melted, leaking out onto the dais, forming a puddle of racist Republican goo

And while I know that sounds like crazy pants bullshit to come up at a Supreme Court hearing... remeber that Alito watches Fox News all the time and is NO DIFFERENT than your racist uncle who does the same.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

“Fascism is constantly and deliberately shrinking the definition of who is considered a person. Art, especially art made by and for marginalized populations, does the opposite. It expands and complicates our understanding of the human condition.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

When you love a quote so much you gotta immediately open up the canva @prisonculture.bsky.social

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

The American Medical Association was formed by white men who wanted to push midwives out of the abortion business. It wasn't about religion. The abortion moral crisis is entirely concocted.

White women have always been on the frontlines—often even architects—of conservative, white supremacist political organizing. But when we organize *against* white supremacy we are belittled and shamed and that is not an accident.

Access to safe clinical late-term abortion is a public good.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

we've updated our Safe Travel to DC Under Occupation document with more information for ICE presence at Dulles & DCA airports; English & Spanish versions available on our help page. we keep us safe!

This is so unhinged if you actually read it. #AbolishDemConsultants