I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

While Americans go hungry, President Donald Trump was partying it up.

The president spent Friday night hosting a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween celebration at Mar-a-Lago, just hours before tens of millions of low-income Americans were set to lose access to food stamps.

Make your voice heard!

Use your rights or risk losing them!

Get out there and vote!

#IVotedinAdaCounty #babevote
#YourVoiceMatters

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Until 1964, an employer could refuse to hire someone just for being a woman. Until 1965, it was legal for a doctor to refuse to prescribe birth control for married women. Until 1972, it was legal for a bank to refuse to let a married woman get her own account. Until 1972, it was legal for a doctor to refuse to prescribe birth control for single women. Until 1974, it was legal to refuse to sell a house to a woman. Until 1988, it was legal for landlords to refuse to rent a unit to a woman with children. Your granny didn't stay married because her generation had a stronger moral compass than people today. She stayed because society LITERALLY stole away all her independence. Think about that the next time someone wants to go back to "the good old days". It was only good for men ..... and only for men of a certain demographic, if you catch my meaning. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Too many today don't realize how recent women's rights and liberation really are. And we're on the cusp of losing it all.

Virginia Guiffre.

Don't forget her.

Honor her life and memory.

Release the Epstein Files.

One more push: please help spread the word about my crowdfunding effort to support Arabic-language access to ancient Gazan literature & financial support for a Gazan translator!

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Reports of ICE ads on #Spotify were noted in early October. People began calling for boycotts immediately.

Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.

And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏

#BoycottSpotify

We live in the richest country in the world, and our billionaire president has to be forced by a court of law to feed our people.

Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”. Montague R. Leverson, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 1895 Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 2025 Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias" "That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..." "The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine". Falsely state that vaccines cause death "Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox". "This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..." Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence "...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..." "Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science". Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination" "They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.

Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

Opinion | Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America? Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.

FDA restricts use of kids' fluoride supplements citing emerging health risks The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.

First RFK Jr. wanted to take fluoride out of water and has had some success in Republican jurisdictions that think scientific evidence is for chumps.

But that wasn’t enough harm for him, so now he’s restricting kids’ access to fluoride supplements.

... just really really tired

Slow and steady jog today around the neighborhood

#running #runningpunks

Once again, Idaho in the news. Always for something stupid, terrible, or both.

Should I do a poll on which ones this gem hits?

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I’m the first congressional candidate to be indicted under the second Trump administration.

But if things keep going the way they are, I won’t be the last.

That’s why I need to fight these charges with everything we’ve got. Help us do that here: katforillinois.com/legal

from the spooky tutorial series: how to draw pumpkin cat 🎃

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Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World

Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.

Banning VPNs sets a dangerous precedent.

It gives governments and corporations more power to decide when and how we can practice free speech, while eroding privacy and limiting access to information.

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist. The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has ...

NEW: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.

By @audreydutton.bsky.social

House candidate Kat Abughazaleh calls her indictment for protesting a "political prosecution” “This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish anyone who speaks out against them.”

Trump’s DOJ unsealed an indictment against six protesters—including Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, for allegedly impeding an ICE officer outside of a detention facility.

The move is a stunning continuation of Trump’s weaponization of judicial and police power to crush dissent.

CC: Brad Little

I know I keep harping on about the fact that I was on food stamps at one point, but I feel like it’s incredibly important for me to be loud and unashamed about this since the life I currently live (which I love) was made possible by them.

Happy Halloween from Elvira this spooky #whiskerwednesday!

#catsofbluesky

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify