We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Gold star to the student who wrote in my teaching evals that I should provide a paragraph summary of each reading in case they don’t want to do them. I respect the honesty my dude

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered” RIP Tom Stoppard

I love Detroit

21 fucking Obgyns were involved in her care. She was hospitalized three times before 9 weeks. This was murder, pure and simple - a conspiracy to just try to keep her body operating long enough to get her to viability.

I don't often talk about having been a victim of sexual assault in my childhood and adolescence, but I will say now that everything I've been through in trying to rebuild my sense of self and become a functioning adult is burning in my chest with raw fury at seeing the stupid cruelty of these people

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

like this is a child rape auction. our president participated and was photographed in a child rape auction

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m... by @karmvirpadda.bsky.social "What emerges is a chilling picture of how deep-seated misogyny, disguised as grievance and moral outrage, can escalate ideological violence."

Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.

This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.

After resigning in disgrace, Cuomo attacked the women he harassed with vexatious, punitive legal filings meant to bankrupt and humiliate them, and threatened to sue them for defamation. He wanted them to shut up. At great personal risk, they didn’t.

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

A fun game: see how long it takes your male uber driver to bring up his divorce

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

@umich.edu Senate Motions passed with overwhelming majorities -- unprecedented margins and an unprecedented 40.7% participation rate. An utter triumph.

I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action. She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound. This is what bans do.

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

The popular DNA test kit company 23andMe announced it has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. And while the company has promised to continue protecting customer data amidst a possible sale, Wirecutter’s tech experts think you should delete your data now. nyti.ms/4cbxsgQ

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD: If you can afford to do so, get abortion medication NOW for any needs you or someone you know might have. It keeps for two years. Have it on hand. The laws are changing quickly.

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues

They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant

The gutting of the Department of Education is directly related to the goal of increasing birth rates. Too many people are going to college and getting advanced degrees and not enough people are popping out babies at 22. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Gary Peters pick up your phone and hear from your constituents challenge

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

If you need to unleash some anger and pettiness today you should email [email protected], the representative trying to make a name out of himself for stripping gay people’s rights

This kid deserved better than what their parents condemned them to.

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist

I have called Peters every day for weeks and never once gotten through to someone. Very excited for the voicemail I’ll be leaving tomorrow

This is *insane*

This is a very good reminder to keep your cats indoors. (Er, unless you're leashing them or keeping them on a cat patio.) I know that cats are very special little libertarians who demand their freedom to roam, but keeping them indoors keeps them and you safe. Please and thank you.

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

U.S. Navy has paused all Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) training, per Navy memo leaked to me

I miss my grandma so much.

Todays calls

According to a study by the survivor advocacy group Know Your IX, 40% of women students who report sexual violence to their schools wind up dropping out, transferring, or taking a prolonged leave of absence. 40%.

Should universities double down on DEI? If excellence is the goal, the answer is simple: 100% yes. A synopsis of the science explaining why 👇🏼 www.freep.com/story/opinio...

"I encourage researchers to take risks and submit daring work to Social Psychology, even when they fail or might fail in the future." Editorial from @akfetterman.bsky.social, the new Editor-in-Chief of Social Psychology (@socpsyjournal.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1027/1864...

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.