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Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.

(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)

Great obit—no paywall.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.

Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.

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Will nasal vaccines consign injections to history? Nasal vaccines could offer protection against airborne pathogens at their point of entry into the body.

Vaccines save lives.

“… the promise of nasal vaccines is that they could induce mucosal immunity along with a systemic immune response.”

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

YouTube video by KATU News The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon

It's exploding whale of Florence, Oregon day! Everybody shout hooray!

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Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: It's a bad deal. Everyday life - making it better and more affordable - must always be our bottom line. For months, I’ve been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket - so much that some will lose coverage altogether. Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news. Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.

No health care, no deal.

#Massachusetts to resume full #SNAP payments today even as regime declares it would rather starve children than stop terrorizing American cities
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

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The Catholic bishops of Texas, including Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, have issued a statement addressing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Pope Leo:

We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.

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

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.

She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

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@theguardian.com #ICE

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

Now what will I do on my lunch hour???? 😘

Rest up!!!!!!

Re: w6, is the typo his first name or the missing comma between his first and last name 🤣

I logged back in on my phone to be here for this

I love all of you people

We are going to build lives worth living, in communities and states worth living in, in a country worth living in, in a world worth living in

An unopposed Boston Mayor Wu celebrates re-election victory Her victory became inevitable in September when she crushed her main opponent in the city's preliminary election.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu celebrated her re-election Tuesday. The victory became inevitable in September when she crushed her main opponent in the city's preliminary vote. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...