mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

I am not niave enough to believe replacing all men in power with women would instantly fix everything but it so often seems like it might not be a bad place to start

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

Congress plays a meaningful role in setting policy that shapes how many women pursue STEM degrees on all levels and enter the professoriate Biss’s target quit math He should not have negotiation power over policy that shapes our conditions bsky.app/profile/chan...

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t been following many primaries outside of NY this cycle, but a professor who had an affair with a student being the Democratic nominee in Illinois’s 9th CD sure does nothing to dispel the notion that both parties are run largely by predators who abuse what power they get

hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite

Thank you to the kind folks of Nashville who came together last week to build 100 HRT harm reduction kits for trans friends in the area 🙌 With supplies provided by an anonymous donor & Distribute Aid, these kits will support 100 people in accessing dignified and safe healthcare for a full 6 months

The regime will seem invincible until the day before it collapses.

God how annoying that people far less well off than you insist on making their presence known to you online & interrupting your experience of privilege. What pests. They should just go away & quit trying to survive, right? Their lives aren’t worth it like yours.

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.

“she had spent nearly six months in jail and because she was unable to pay bills while behind bars, she lost her home, her car and her dog…Lipps’ arrest is the eighth documented wrongful arrest in the United States tied to facial recognition, according to IBS Times.“

great piece that does not reflect well on anyone involved, including the state. this story is really sad because recovery options were already limited in Kentucky and now the biggest provider (and only option in many areas) is going to be gone because of their own mismanagement and greed

The night they killed her, police did not say her name. The first news reports led with an account of a shootout that left one officer wounded and one woman dead over a drug investigation. Today we know better, today we say her name: Breonna Taylor.

strongly on this team

I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger. It should be where we start when we think about our communities.

human rights watch confirmed israel is illegally using white phosphorous over the city of yomur in lebanon www.saba.ye/en/news36643...

Lions, tigers, wolves, and many more wild animals represent 727 professional sports teams globally, yet these same species face unprecedented threats. A new initiative, The Wild League, aims to turn these iconic mascots into champions for conservation. Story by Liz Kimbrough for #Mongabay.

But we can’t admit that or we’d have to start talking about HOW they did it

This western propaganda that those backward Muslims and other assorted brown people are the only ones who will attack LGBTQ+ folks, has got to end. It's not only lazy; there are countless incidents of The Most Moral Country In The World murdering them the way they murder other minority groups.

Anyone else remember when Israel blew up the Evin Prison in August, killing over 100 transgender prisoners in the largest single-day slaughter of trans people in human history

I like how my guy here thinks they're dropping special bombs that only hit straight Iranians

One of those girls was my mom. She was locked away for 6 months, forced to work, and made to pay for her room/board. Three days after my birth, they got her signature on the relinquish papers and put her on a bus back to my grandmother's. I was sold to the next couple on the #adoption agencies list.

Despite the proven track record of misoprostol (hen the combo with mifepristone) to safely end pregnancy outside of a clinical setting, it would take decades of serious, persistent grassroots destigmatization work for the establishment, esp in the US to accept it, a now critical Post-Roe lifeline.

Self-managed abortion went from often deadly risks to now safer than taking tylenol. How it began: Brazilian feminists in the 1980s noticed on misoprostol, an ulcer medication, warnings not to take if pregnant as it could induce miscarriage. What if someone took it on purpose to end a pregnancy?

Thinking today about how the abortion access grassroots community completely up-ended the way our entire country talks about self-managed abortion, the fact that it's now standard protocol. It truly started from the bottom up, one of the greatest organizing stories of the last 40 years.

So "lawmakers will outlaw use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets"... just when health, climate & environment scientists are stressing the urgency of helping more livestock farmers OUT of food supply markets? And what a silly, pointless move!

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

this seems pretty sensible

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

My DMs are full of deleted accounts. We see you ban Palestinians by the hundreds, daily. Lie all ya want, people have literally published articles about this site's complicity in genocide.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

This is such good news for artists. Now companies would never in their right minds pressure you to use AI because you get to say: "We can do that as long as you don't want to own the stuff you make and ANYONE can use it for ANY reason without paying you for it." and they will NOT like that.

There will come a day when cocksucker is high praise and marketer is a horrific obscenity

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint filed with a religious freedom watchdog. www.rawstory.com/military-267...

I've been worried for months that one of the several extractavist projects purposed last year would reach this stage. The Black Hills are always at risk, but it has been especially bad in the last year. They plan on placing 18 drill pads on sacred land.

If someone is taunting a captive bonobo they should just let the bonobos teach them some manners (dismember them)

This post just made me extremely grateful for the caliber of people I am lucky enough to have as friends

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

THEY MURDERED 60 KIDS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU FREAK

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

Republican secretaries of state in Kentucky and West Virginia are telling the Trump administration to get lost on their demands for state voter rolls 👇

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org