Jackie Ellison

Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks: 9780593811399 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families. Education is a powe...

i dont think i ever shared that preorders are open! really the first book of its kind, the history of the US government’s removal of Indigenous children, from colonization to today

“Our expert ethical analysis does not support withholding gender-affirming care from minors.”

As pediatric bioethicists, we wrote this analysis of the ethical shortcomings and flawed conclusions driving the two proposed bans on gender-affirming care.

www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/g...

Ebooks cost public libraries money. Public libraries should be properly funded.

It always astonishes me that so many people who are aware of American history absolutely do not take seriously the empirical fact that movements actually*change*what is possible during the course of their political activity.Why is the “sensible”position the rejection of this basic,evidentiary fact?

This week on "Sunday Morning" (Jan. 11) A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.

If you’re up for watching a Sunday show, I’ll be on CBS Sunday Morning, through which I discussed with Erin Moriarty my research findings on the scope and impact of health insurance coverage barriers in the U.S., which deepen administrative burden and inequity. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/thi...

Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after state high court strikes down bans - WyoFile Wyoming Supreme Court rules two bans passed by state lawmakers are unconstitutional.

The Wyoming Supreme Court has struck down a total abortion ban and a medication abortion ban, ruling that they are unconstitutional. Neither ban was ever enforced; abortion has been and remains legal in Wyoming wyofile.com/abortion-rem...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual

@arrianna-planey.bsky.social @amandaykong.bsky.social in @jamanetworkopen.com :

There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

I’ve written a lot about birth and freebirth and have my own history with “natural” birth and it’s hard… these women have done such harm AND we have to better address a failure in the medical model and the actual abuse that led so many women to them. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Yesterday, striking baristas took action at Starbucks’ biggest distribution center that serves the entire east coast.

Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!

Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Incredibly depressing to see this story wrap up by quoting a lawmaker who says, “we have to allow for more exceptions,” when the entire story is evidence that exceptions don’t work, especially for a Black woman like Tierra Walker who was already at higher risk of dying due to medical neglect

#OtD 10 Nov 1970 Puerto Rican radicals from the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over 600 people, including health workers, joined them to publicise the flagrant disregard for human life in NYC hospitals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8235...

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

New study finds more generous state safety net policies w/ fewer administrative barriers are linked to better birth outcomes, esp for marginalized groups. Very relevant finding in current policy environment!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @gabeschwartz.bsky.social @npwf.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social

More than 420 state bills attacking key public health protections have been introduced in 2025. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

Please call your state's elected officials!

Dwayne Dixon reinstated! Excellent work on direct action @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social (us!). Power to the people✊.

A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe New research documents the myriad ways pregnancy outcomes have been criminalized in the post-Roe legal environment.

In the two years following Dobbs, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social recorded more than 400 cases of pregnancy criminalization. How to do we hold people's fear of being criminally punished for abortion alongside the data? My story:

appointment was moved to monday

You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
cup.org/4nfM2IM

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Red flag in this wasteful move: a USAID spox falsely claimed that birth control pills, IUDs, and arm implants cause abortions.

“The administration will no longer supply abortifacient birth control under the guise of foreign aid.” 🚩🚩🚩

another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that

Everyone’s grown so used to abortion bans and most experiences are out of sight and out of mind, but they’re terrible. Every day I interact with people who have been degraded and abandoned. Not sleeping, suffering. Handing me their last dollar. Driving for hours. Sick.

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

Why the Left Should Not Care About Population Decline
By Leslie Root

1. It's a fake problem based on long-run population projections that assume things will remain as they currently are
2. And things not remaining as they currently are is kind of our whole fucking deal

Ohio Planned Parenthood Workers Demand Executive Pay Cuts Before Proposed Layoffs The staff union says it’s worried that laying off clinical employees could lead to delays in time-sensitive patient care, like emergency contraception. The national federation has also recently cut st...

ICYMI: Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio could lay off 20-30% of its clinical staff as soon as this week, the workers' union tells me. The union is asking PPGOH management to commit to exec pay cuts before laying off any patient-facing workers.

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