Norah MacKendrick

Food Rescue Grows in Response to Federal Funding Cuts Pantries providing free groceries to New Yorkers in need are increasingly relying on unwanted excess from wholesalers at the Hunts Point Produce Market.

State & local programs make it easier for food pantries to access fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste. Some ingenuity and hard work at play after devastating federal cuts. #food #foodinsecurity #foodbank

Donate to Support Striking Legal Service Workers, organized by Association of Legislative Employees The Association of Legislative Employees (ALE) is raising fun… Association of Legislative Employees needs your support for Support Striking Legal Service Workers

You can donate to their strike fund here: gofund.me/95d8a3fc #calunion

UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla: “We cannot sustain the high levels of attrition, burnout, and turnover in our workplaces. This is a fight for justice for poor and working-class people all over New York City.”

More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...

A photo of a picket line

Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders

Buy Canadian boycott still strong 6 months into U.S. trade war Six months after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Canada, the boycott of American goods and travel is still going strong.

Went home 🇨🇦 recently and got to try new products because of this boycott. Learned that it's okay to buy 🇺🇸 if:
1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it).
2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes

The real fertility crisis UNFPA State of World Population 2025

So, a rising age at first birth & rising shares of people who childless at a given age - & thus low birth rates - aren't a *cause* of all these problems cited by pronatalists. They're a *symptom* that contemporary society is not functioning in a way that lets people achieve their family goals. 9/

Can’t read the news right now, so am going to do this instead (or throw my phone in the river?) ⬇️

I’m not an expert on this but a colleague tells me that this policy was in place under Trump 1.0. What’s different is that this seems to be a warning. There is NO reason to believe that they will use this provision to go after “criminals” only.

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

NPR reporting explains this all more clearly: www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for civil offenses Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases

The police state + ethnic + ideological cleansing accelerates: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This morning, my kids—teenagers—who have grown up under Trump 1.0 and 2.0, were hopeful about political leadership. That’s a first! I don’t take these hopeful moments for granted. #mamdani #NYC

This is going to shift in a couple of years, LET ME TELL YOU.

But also maybe read some Betty Friedan? She had something to say about this.

‘Less Burnout, More Babies’: How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women

Okay, I guess. If you reject feminism, then, yes, cooking all the family meals from scratch and having lots of babies while your man gets an education and goes out to work can be understood as "liberating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

Monsanto Papers | Declassified Secret Documents The Monsanto Papers: catalog of all declassified Monsanto secret documents detailing ghostwriting, scientific manipulation, EPA collusion. Updated 10/5/17

An overview of internal Monsanto docs are here. Some may disagree with the premise of the discovery. Fine, but the contents of these files give clear evidence of a cover-up and manipulation of peer review: www.wisnerbaum.com/toxic-tort-l...

(Though like all comments they get a little nasty towards the end)

Do something good for your mental health today by looking at this post and reading the amazing comments. 💚🧡

Why would Monsanto hide evidence of harm if it was harmless? And why the successful lawsuits against Bayer? (Serious questions, not trying to be a jerk.)

I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Image of a hand drawn cat saying, being cool is a prison! Do something embarrassing. It’s okay to be vulnerable. You can be weird. Everything matters and you matter and YOU GOT THIS!”

May I present further evidence of how the Left has radicalized students in dangerous ways. Subversive graffiti in a bathroom at Rutgers University! #liberals #radicalleft #academiclife #empathy

Banner in the side of a building in Brooklyn with a painting of the classic blue and white diner to-go coffee cup, with text: Don’t Rank Cuomo. Around the cup, text reads: Tired of chaos and corruption? NYC Election June 24

You love to see it:

“In order for a family to eat a diet of mostly homegrown or even just homemade meals.... that's going to be a lot more work for women and mothers especially.” Dr. Norah MacKendrick ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY AND AUTHOR

SELF magazine has a great cover story on MAHA. This movement would love nothing more than for women to be back in the kitchen and away from public life. They’re gunning for a world of traditional gender roles for men and women, which they see as “natural”. www.self.com/story/how-th...

Never would have guessed that my book would be relevant because of what's happening on the far right. I was happy to talk to Erica Sloan of @self.com who does a nice job here of tracing the problematic threads of #MAHA. MAHA + MAGA want to send women back to the 19th Century.

Yup, a lot to unpack. The thing is, our exposure to some chemicals in our food and consumer products are making us sick. That claim is based on solid evidence. But make no mistake, this administration is going to kill us all—by decimating public health and fueling the climate emergency.

1. A lot of good science supports what he’s saying.
2. Stephen Miller is creating a white supremacist police state
3. There are good sources of information on chemicals in food (but not from RFK Jr.)
4. The damage they’re doing to public health will kill us faster than the chemicals in your Doritos.

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

hey! Haymarket is making our book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement FREE in ebook form for the next 12 days!

hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...

The same day the Hard Fork posts a very friendly interview with a former DOGE employee, @propublica.org actually investigates his specific work ... and finds that it was poorly done (none of which came up in the Hard Fork pod) www.propublica.org/article/insi...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology