Jackie Turner

What It's Like to Have Your Period in Prison Even at a women’s prison, your menstruation care needs may not be met.

"We are only allowed to own seven pairs [of underwear] in total. In order to exchange your state-allotted pairs for new ones, you must submit to a bunk search and an officer must verify to the property officer that you do not own more than seven pairs."

reminder that in 1971 a full 85% of the NYPD went on a highly publicised work stoppage, resulting in no appreciable increase in crime during those five days of one of New York's most troubled eras. further, a 2017 pause of "broken window" policing saw major crimes *drop* in NY

this is 100% a bluff

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

The guys I went to film school with who now work in corporate marketing are stoked but I think it’s safe to say I am not in their bubble anymore 😂

Measles cases have soared by 20% worldwide in the past year, with 742 cases in the UK alone. In August, shortly after a 10-year-old girl in Liverpool died from the disease, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health stated that the UK’s child vaccination rates have not met the World Health Organisation’s target of 95% since 2021. This rather undersells the situation. Sky News reports that “the England-wide rate for the final quarter of 2024/25 for MMR was 88.8%, down from 92.7% 10 years ago” and that “uptake in some local authorities is as low as 60%”. Far be it from me to weigh in on an issue that has become so politicised, as merely a parent who wants my children and those of others to stay alive, but I have a sinking feeling. A feeling exacerbated by a single red box on a perfunctory form and the idle chatter of concerned parents who no longer get their vaccine sceptic news from insane websites and specialist cults, but from prime-time appearances by the country’s most prominent politicians and journalists. A feeling that our children might wonder how we all lived through a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime global virus that killed millions, was effectively cured by the single most rapid and successful vaccination programme in history and which, immediately afterwards, gave way to anti-science posturing that drove vaccination rates to historic lows.

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Help Maysara and his family evacuate Gaza Hi everyone, my name is Finn and I'm fundraising from Canada to help my friend Maysara and his family leave Gaza. For nearly two years now they have been subjected to constant bombardment and impossib...

Hey all, my friend @swolesome.bsky.social is trying to raise money to help Maysara and his family evacuate Gaza. Swolesome has been raising money to help if you can share or donate. chuffed.org/project/1493...

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"A terrorist affiliated with the governing Republican Party attacked a religious minority gathering in the border province of Michigan, the latest in a string of political violence as American dictator Donald Trump seeks to consolidate power ahead of planned elections next year."

Trans Legal Clinic: free legal advice in the UK http://www.translegalclinic.com

FYI

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday | CBC News Israel will indefinitely close the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan from Wednesday, days after reopening it following a shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers.

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday.

The closure of Allenby effectively seals off the non-Jewish population of the West Bank from the outside world, as IDF attacks and settler pogroms accelerate.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

They’ve just gotta start delivering the cocaine in egg cartons and then the T administration can call it job done.

🥦🎶 Does regenerative agriculture need a musical? 🎶 🥦

Kath Dalmeny of @sustainweb.org insists that all economics should all serve climate, nature & health ... and then breaks into song 🎶 in this #FoodTakes video with
@rebelwrit.bsky.social

Watch the full video here: buff.ly/SQ8LRwK

Trans rights are human rights.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

This makes me so angry. The fu**ing damage this does.

The WSJ walked back its report that cited sources claiming bullets recovered in the Kirk shooting had been "engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology."

The UK is implementing a nationwide trans bathroom ban without debate or even passing a law through parliament.

web.archive.org/web/20250905...

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up

Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

"Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is"

Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

If I was the Associated Press and it was not immediately clear why more troops are being deployed against civilians in the nation's capital, I would probably like, ask someone how come

Trans people actually commit crimes at a much lower rate than cis people but, you know, that stuff is irrelevant

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

“Official figures show that 90% of rape perpetrators are known to victims, one in two rapes are by partners/ex-partners, and one woman is murdered by a partner every four days in the UK.”

🌳 Think of the Oak Trees 🌳

In the latest #FoodTakes, Carina Millstone of @foodrise.bsky.social suggests that we think of the oak trees 🌳 and the other species in land use decision making.

Filmed at @britishecologicalsociety.org by @rebelwrit.bsky.social

Full video: buff.ly/TGwXVFd

👢 Stick your wellies on! 👢

Jennifer Dodsworth of @oxfordgeography.bsky.social makes the case that taking a walk in someone else's shoes (or wellies!) can help us understand other perspectives and build a better food system w/ @rebelwrit.bsky.social

Watch the full video: buff.ly/J82FIVV

“Bought and paid for by Big Tree 🌲“ is getting put on all my content from now on

the single best piece of advice my mother gave me before going off to college - apart from “club soda with a slice of lime looks like a gin and tonic” - was “the minute you meet someone who seems cool, ask them out for coffee immediately. everyone wants friends and is scared to make the first move”