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Abortion Changes Among Residents of an Abortion Rights Protective State This cross-sectional study examines whether passage of a 6-week abortion ban in Texas in 2021 was associated with changes in abortion rates among Colorado residents.

New research confirms what advocates have said for years — abortion bans have reverberating effects on timely access to care everywhere, and protective laws in “Blue States” will not be enough to stop them.

Abortion bans are not just a “Red State” problem. They’re an everybody everywhere problem.

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Nepal Took a Risk on a $500 Million U.S. Grant. It May Now Regret It. (Gift Article) President Trump’s freezing of foreign aid provides an opening for China to portray America as an unreliable partner.

"President Trump’s freezing of foreign aid provides an opening for China to portray America as an unreliable partner." Helps when we are, in fact, and unreliable partner, ceding so much ground to China.
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Sam is a 24 year old Black trans man. He worked with disabled people in a group home. His family says he was kind, loving and worked hard. He travelled to NY for love.

Donate to Out of state living expenses for the family of Sam Nordquist, organized by Kayla Nordquist Hi, my name is Kayla. I am Sam Nordquist's sister. On Septemb… Kayla Nordquist needs your support for Out of state living expenses for the family of Sam Nordquist

Sam Nordquist’ family started a gofundme where the original goal was to pay for expenses to be able to search for him when he was missing.

Now it’s for expenses to deal with everything pertaining to his death after he was found to be murdered.

91% funded, link below.

Precarity | Cultural Anthropology Precarity is an emerging abandonment that pushes us away from a livable life. In a growing body of scholarship centered on social marginalization, the concept of precarity has come to name “the politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks . . . becoming differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death” (Butler 2009, 25). This term is nested within larger ontological questions of finitude and the ultimate precariousness of life. Understanding life as precarious suggests that social existence itself depends on interdependency through the care of others. The bodies and affective labor of other humans and nonhumans sustain our survival. We also come to depend on institutionalized forms of recognition, infrastructure that shapes our place in the world. When these systems of care and support are fragmented by the uneven impacts of capitalism and global forms of racism and exploitation, precarity emerges as an acute expression of precariousness. Precarity is thus fundamentally concerned with politics. It describes the way that the precariousness of life is exploited, how the lives of underemployed minorities, their struggles and suffering, are rendered abject and meaningless.

Most Americans are intentionally kept in a state of precarity. Fall in line and take no risks or end up houseless. I think they're treated so cruelly publicly as a warning to all of us on in this state. Even a small crisis is an existential crisis.

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Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

Donate to Help Keep Megan, Her Partner, and Two Cats Safe This Winter, organized by Megan Dross My name is Megan, I'm a trans woman in central Ohio. I live wi… Megan Dross needs your support for Help Keep Megan, Her Partner, and Two Cats Safe This Winter

just $158 left to finish out this fund and help get us through the rest of this month, everything and anything helps if you are able

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What a nightmarish practice. This harkens back to something Foucault observed in Discipline and Punish: the effect of these systems is to create a permanent underclass. Charging people for their jail stay can’t be seen as anything else.

DOT’s Plan to Distribute Funding by Birth and Marriage Rates Would Leave Communities Most In Need Behind If enacted, the new US Department of Transportation memo would prioritize funding to whiter, higher-income, more car-dependent areas over communities of color and people who walk, bike, or take public...

The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.

Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas

Similar stories popping up with USAID, where some employees have not had system access restored despite a court order.
This is the worst case scenario, and we're going to see if it's a blip or the end of co-equal branches of government.
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The destruction of the US federal workforce is also the destruction of a black professional class in and around washington DC. This is not by accident.

PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE
“Mr. Nazi Goes to Washington”

disappearing messages are cool and good

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America Goldman Sachs reports a surge in short bets against US stocks

Hedge funds are making a multi-billion-dollar gamble against the US economy, betting Donald Trump's presidency will result in a massive market crash that could devastate 401(k)s, pensions, and household savings across America.
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"I would not be here without trans girls"

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