Happy holidays, hoping for a relaxing break for all

1970—no fault divorce finally legalized, female suicide rates drop 20% 1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances 1993—Marital rape finally criminalized Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.

This entire weekend

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I liked the part where the president suddenly sang, "Because I knew you...I have been changed for good."

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

@schiff.senate.gov hey weenie. All your voicemails are full. How can you be trusted to represent 12 million people if you can’t figure out a voicemail system from the 21st century?

The FDA is reversing a 2003 decision that put a stringent warning on hormone therapy products for menopausal women, saying that the treatments offer heart, brain, and bone health benefits. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/f...

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I just called my reps with @5calls.org It's fast, it's easy. They have scripts you can use if you're nervous. Please, let your voice be heard. 5calls.org

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

Looks like people do NOT like being fired, kidnapped, and starved

Also, Nigeria is the only African nation to publicly decline to take third-country nationals from ICE.

“last year, women working full time made 81 cents on the dollar compared with men, the widest pay gap since 2016” www.wsj.com/economy/gend...

This is bad. Very bad.

Berlin, Germany- No Kings!

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

RIFed: NCIPC: National Center for Injury Prevention & Control - comms & policy (Not clear on what else @NCIPC was RIFed - much was already RIFed earlier) All that important violence prevention stuff? Suicide. Drowning. Youth Violence. Concussions in sports. Community violence. NCIPC’s focus 👆

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

I, too, have been frustrated by the line outside Voodoo Donuts, but it seems pretty childish to declare war on it

This is going to be in my head all day. IYKYK

Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Them: I like your shirt! Me: As a former Midwesterner I am legally obligated to tell you that I got it on sale.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.