Norah MacKendrick

As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are defined as: “an exogenous chemical, or mixture of chemicals, that can interfere with any aspect of hormone action”…

Take, for example, this position statement from the largest professional organization representing endocrinologists. These people study the endocrine system. Are they feeling chill about environmental chemicals? Nope. #endocrinedisruptors

A New Type Of Phobia Is Spreading Through American Households — And MAGA Is Partly To Blame The fear tactic strikes a nerve with both conservatives and liberals alike. Here’s what you need to know.

Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky

Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC News The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is...

It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.

Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

‘Historic’: how Mexico’s welfare policies helped 13.4 million people out of poverty Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador

It can be done.

Was talking to a friend about Chicago. She was there last year for the DNC. I’m headed there soon. 5 minutes after hanging up, my head exploded 🤯 when I realized that circus happened only LAST year. Not a decade ago, which is how it feels in my bones. 💀Dang, fascism moves quickly.

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?) ⬇️

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.