B C continues to find new ports

Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.

(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)

Great obit—no paywall.

Is... is this... am I having a terrible dream right now???

Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).

Don’t break the picket line!

I STAND WITH UNIONS

Anybody explaining to me that the NYT is fucked up or how or whatever ... I am aware. Please do not bother. Especially laypeople, don't explain journalism to me ...

Transphobia is popular because it *works* and what it's accomplishing isn't merely the destruction of trans lives (which is ... bad) ... but the mental hijacking of those who fall for it.

The point of the transphobia is runs right through the dry creekbeds that are peoples' transphobic hearts — a bigotry they'd rather not acknowledge perhaps, especially those "nice" white liberal types who think they're good people.

cis media types who think like spreading misinformation in the spirit of just asking questions (about trans people, and other antagonized minority groups) ... no. YOU are the problem, sorry.

cis folks who've convinced themselves they're martyrs while they're killing trans folks, by antagonizing us, by outlawing our healthcare, so forth ... no. you're assholes.

if you think there's some 'reasonable' reason the cis media has antagonized trans healthcare providers so intensely ... no. that's just some brainwashing you fell for.

anybody who thinks there's some 'reasonable' reason we've banned trans women from sports or whatever ... no. that's just some brainwashing you fell for.

yes AND all the transphobia brainwashing was also just this

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

"And so, after consulting with friends a little more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging some emails with the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot"

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

Once upon a time, I traveled to Seattle to visit a partner, and discovered @fridaytea.com. The partner is no longer in my life, but Friday absolutely is! If you are a tea lover, you should ABSOLUTELY be supporting this amazing company. 🫖

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

"a tiktok DJ?" Put some respect on schmoyoho's name

DING DING DING THIS RIGHT HERE

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life" is a STUNNING line. 🔥🔥🔥

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CAPTAIN!! Miss you!! ❤️🏴‍☠️

I can't describe how much I am looking forward to this year's Desert Bus. Time for the internet to realize its absolute best potential for the 19th year in a row. 🚌

Folks who knit/crochet: Boston Food Not Bombs is seeking donations of hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as yarn that they can use to make hats:

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As a trans woman, I love the way my allies treat Harry Potter casting announcements as if those actors died in a plane crash.