"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

perjury for sale!

Ever get the sense that we’ve all been in a male cult? That it’s not “internalized sexism” or, as I say in Eve, female participation in culture-making that tweaks repro patterns, but maybe it’s actually just… worship? (Reading Shamanism by @manvir.bsky.social , who doesn’t say that, but… 😂🫠)

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social ( #momsonmars )

It’s giving Poland 1942

In case y’all are ever wondering, women and girls have been living under the dual state since… well not forever, but maybe the start of States. Remember that on this, another morning of men.

I’m so so so so bored of having to think about the sex lives of wealthy men. The enduring cruelty of it all is unsurprising. But also… just feels like wrinkly old genitalia are just whacking our faces every morning. Like let me have my coffee, people! (Plus I miss democracy.)

Easily the maddest I’ve ever been that I’m not in New Jersey. Get thee to Princeton people!

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

There are approximately 1000 research groups on the #NIH campuses, including Steve Rosenberg's research group, which develops groundbreaking T-cell therapies for cancer. Effectively all of those groups were suddenly prohibited from buying any (!) supplies last year. That is on the leadership.

Noting that 2-year construction projects are conveniently timed to next major election cycle / avoiding embarrassment for the rest of term / stunning to close on nation’s 250th celebration

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

Today in women & femme health research: cool stuff! Also today: emails from schools telling parents lockdown procedures for ICE will follow standard protocol for active shooters. #allhealthispublichealth #healthisalwayspolitical

Quietly clocking the “so I fire some guys and then it’s still cool to fund the gestapo” vibes

Man they really want a civil war—they want it *so bad*—and Walz is giving out donuts and chocolate. Bravo.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Single moms for the win, even in Africa y’all!

If you've heard anyone make claims such as 100 South Koreans will only have 6 great-grand-children, here's why that claim is population scaremongering: generations exist in families, not populations

Black women republicans. Latino ICE agents. Usha Vance having sex with JD Vance ON PURPOSE. We live in wild times. Stay safe out there, y’all.

Now is the time to invite your friends over, friends. Our guest room is gonna be occupied here in the PNW for a while! And the other room. And the couches. And if that runs out, the floor.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Today we honor MLK Jr. The dream of true community lives on.

Dude doesn’t understand that Norway isn’t Sweden 🫠 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Guess the elephant party thinks T* is “too big to fail” like they wanna illustrate sunk cost fallacy by taking down the whole world order…

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

“…in the Capital Ballroom of the Royal Sonesta Hotel, the students donned dark blue robes, signed the University of Austin register and, in return, received a copy of The Odyssey.” 😂😂😂💀

In case you’re bewildered at the horrors that be this week, the reason it Feels Good to Do Good is because the human body evolved to be interdependent. Witnessing unjust harm feels *awful* when your brain’s working right. Helping make others safe feels *great.*

Thinking about how obstetric violence was always about covering for an insecure patriarchy… eg the “husband stitch” is there to make up for y’all’s lack of girth? 🤔📏

Extremely telling that they voted to say, by a majority, “nah Venezuela was fine I guess” and are *fully aware* that Minnesota was chosen because of George Floyd

FYI, yes, Renee Good is in my next book—not a bandwagon, not virtue signaling, and not only her, but because when it comes to women’s health, it matters that being-in-the-world is, for so many, always already a condition of threat. And conditions of threat do things to human bodies over time.

First wives club killin’ it, as usual.

“By the time the killing starts, you will know”

It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”

Okay. Look, I was bored of being “ball girl” after the Daily Show since so many failed to get the joke in the UK… but to put this thing to rest, here’s a paper from December: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

“You need cowards to do this: people who will sell out their colleagues and their principles to promote their own safety or advancement, even as they claim they are doing it because they have no choice.“ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Sounds like somebody got a kickback from Big Cow… www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

TIR tradwives are just a really boring take on Maggie Gyllenhaal in Secretary.

Qanat tech could be really important in the southwestern US as the Colorado River dries up. Or… most of Arizona and lower California could move.

We've been focused on childhood vaccination lately due to RFK Jr.'s crusade against them, but vaccines given in adulthood are crucial too. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

In NYC the ceiling caved into my Harlem bathtub, caked with mold. Landlord said it was technically inside my apartment so I had to clean it up. My whiteness said No and Lawyer so they did it—a week later. (I showered at the Y.) Roomie took ‘em to court for slumlording multiple times.

Getting so tired of puppet governments, of the little beasts who argue for them, of the Reasons, of the “well you know…” No, it’s not “better when it’s us.” No, it’s not rare, and yes, “we already…” But more are dead today and my heart is tired.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

"While children in California, which does not allow for nonmedical vaccine exemptions, are vaccinated against measles at 96 percent, there is not a single county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah or Wisconsin whose kindergarten rates meet herd immunity protection."

Fun fact: a snake’s esophagus has long folds so it can stretch and its trachea is compressed when it swallows. Maybe this is why MTG’s voice is so raspy.

I’m… not sure where aspiring Gigachads are going to find an all-white, all-male hospital to perform these procedures. The US hospital system, and the medical community in general, cannot function without women of color, from world class surgeons to the gal who throws Chad’s bloody rags in the bins.

It’s astonishing that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has this level of insight about the administration he currently serves. /s

A piano, a hot dress, a hot husband, and lights on a tree. Check and mate. Happy holidays, kids!