Dr. Megan Faragher

Southwest Ohio to lose two health clinics over federal, state budget Medicaid cuts • Ohio Capital Journal Southwest Ohio is going to lose two reproductive health clinics due to the federal budget changes to Medicaid, a loss that could mean more abortions will happen, according to the leader of the clinics...

"While the budget changes bar health providers who perform abortions from being a part of Medicaid, the clinics being closed did not offer abortion services.

Their services included tests for sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, cancer screenings..."

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How else do you explain how I went in for a mammogram and came out a billionaire?

Going to sign up for spurious care in the American health care system so I can be a billionaire.

Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.

Orwell in the news these days.

Also today I tried to give my cat a treat and the kitten was nearby.

She’s such a meanie now. 😢

Wore my union shirt at the architecture tour and it’s such a joy to hear people who deeply sympathize with the faculty plight there - former staff, students, faculty you meet on the streets.

Also learned the statue is the exact length of the Wright first flight! I had no idea!

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

a little girl is standing in front of a shelf with the words take me now please take me now lord .. ALT: a little girl is standing in front of a shelf with the words take me now please take me now lord ..

Just a composition faculty who must teach argumentation in the age of censorship and AI, looking at their syllabi for revision like..

Rerunning that old (now unfunny) soviet era joke:
Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev are on a train. Train stops moving.
Stalin: “shoot the engineer!” Train still stuck.
NK: “rehabilitate the engineer!” Still stuck.
Brezhnev, pulling down the window shades: “Comrades! The train is moving!”

Having academic freedom has been a blast, y’all.

Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president accused of ‘firing the messenger’ as he makes claims without evidence about Erika McEntarfer

“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, including those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild. “When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot." --from Orwell's Roses

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

In other news the negroni bar a half mile from my house not only has amazing happy hour prices, but it has a great porch and serves coffee in the morning, so I think I’ve found a new thing.

In the age of the lowest birth rates ever, someone really should republish Woman Alive by Susan Ertz.

If anyone would do it I would happily write the intro.

This is my sales pitch.

Into the big void.

Looking forward to the 5pm news flash that Maxwell will run the Department of Labor from her light-security Texas prison facility.

They were talking about more children in the workforce, after all. They certainly will need options for employment beyond the cornfields! And what a record she has!

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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The Worker’s View: SB1 throws Central Ohio Technical College union contract into turmoil – Matter News While the college and the faculty union have traditionally operated as partners, new state legislation ostensibly geared toward rolling back DEI initiatives has left the two groups at an impasse.

This is what happens when politicians recklessly pass laws to advance their own anti-public education agenda. Longstanding local working relationships are destroyed. Educators and students are harmed. matternews.org/voices/the-w...

I have found this rising generation of lit scholars to be unfailingly smart, funny, self-effacing, unpretentious.

Inevitably joyful to hang out with.

And today I realized why.

They are utterly absent of careerism, because none of them think they will have careers.

On the upside, America will inadvertently earn a gender studies degree soon when this is all in the news and people are 🤯.

The Worker’s View: SB1 throws Central Ohio Technical College union contract into turmoil – Matter News While the college and the faculty union have traditionally operated as partners, new state legislation ostensibly geared toward rolling back DEI initiatives has left the two groups at an impasse.

"I think the intention is to silence faculty voices." —
Biology Professor & United Faculty of COTC President Martin Schmerr talks to @matternews.bsky.social about SB 1 and the fight for a fair contract at COTC.

the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

I saw this for the first time thanks to a friend and wow wow. What a loss.

Unsuccessfully trying to capture the texture of Curtis Barnes Sr.

And a cat exhibition is on! 🐱

Good to be zoning into an audio book while meandering around with art.

Such lovely vibes.

Memories!!!!!

Nope. Can’t see me behind the headboard. I’m invisible!

Pour one out for every professor in Ohio, Texas, Indiana, Florida, for whom ALL OF THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

These aren't new heights - they're extant working conditions in the states governed by people who disparage higher education, despite benefitting from it personally.

It's such a bad question.

Ohio today, if you're wondering about Brown.