Chelsea Mumm

Today would have marked 52 years of Roe as the law of the land. But Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-abortion extremists to get it overturned.

This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.

We must keep fighting for women’s rights.

the reason to explain that elon musk gave a nazi salute isn’t because it will win votes. the reason to do it is because elon musk gave a nazi salute at a presidential inauguration and that should be in the public record

Iowa: I've created a document of all #ialegis committees and contact information for each. #iapolitics

Your voice matters!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I do believe that TikTok is a useful platform, but a very unimportant reason that I want it to live on is seeing Gen Z discover and make fun of artists that us Millennials inexplicably made popular in the 2010s. See: the Trey Songz discourse.

Great new tool from @propublica.org. In a shock to no one, Iowa's public schools are 73.4% white and private schools are 82.6% white. I'll be curious to see how these data change once they reflect Iowa's private school voucher program going into effect.

My current state senator and recent mayor are really setting the bar for idiocracy. It’s not enough that Ankeny was already a Moms for Liberty hotbed.

You will never be good enough to belong Pete Hegseth and the role of women in the military and public life

"It’s easier for the American imagination to hate a qualified woman than it is to hate an unqualified man." - @lyz.bsky.social

Boom.

These states already restrict abortion. Their legislatures could push it even further. Donald Trump has been inconsistent in saying how his administration would approach the issue, but state lawmakers aren’t waiting for him.

“We’re going to see more attacks on providers.”

I wrote about new efforts to restrict abortion — especially in Texas, where it is already illegal, and whose legislative session began this week.

19thnews.org/2025/01/abor...

One edit to the TikTok ban: Please just let us have Ruth Codd. You can kill the rest of the app, but leave her be.

This Christmas, I reached my highest form: half-asleep on the couch watching football with the dads.

I wonder what the great Barbara Mack would have to say about this.

December 2016: Who knows,
Maybe we’ll get lucky and it won’t be so bad.

December 2024: The government has decided to un-eradicate Polio.

AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...

Lordy, this is depressing. Great reporting, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social www.opb.org/article/2024...

A cool use of AI to help short-staffed newsrooms pick up on stories and sources. I'm curious about timeliness and thoroughness, though. I used to cover education. School boards are not always the best at quickly uploading meeting minutes, and many are not detailed.

Always stories to tell on the South Coast.

Interesting reporting out of my old home, Coos Bay, Oregon. And with a familiar, vocal character - Rob Taylor. (Thought you'd want to read this, @larryiii.bsky.social)

What Alice Munro Knew The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Devastating read, damning account of what it means to protect an abuser. What Alice Munro Knew www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

Okay but this person you’ve never met is now in desperate need of a book she didn’t know she needed until tonight, so…

A sweet golden retriever lies on her owner’s chest, staring up lovingly

A very sleepy dog sleeps next to the front door, totally unbothered

The puppy curls up on one of her THREE beds, annoyed that you have awoken her from her day of napping

The golden retriever needs more than one day to recover, thus throwing herself upon her owner in order to draw out the morning cuddles

If she had jeans to unbutton after Thanksgiving dinner, she would have.

Might need another pumpkin bar to make it through this Cyclone game.

if even your mom thinks you’re an abusive piece of shit maybe it’s time to go live in a bunker www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

a man wearing a baseball cap and glasses is standing under an umbrella in a field . ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap and glasses is standing under an umbrella in a field .

Which of course prompted some Christopher Guest tonight

A very good girl named Stella, the best English cream golden retriever that ever was

Always best in show in my mind:

Midwestism: If you look bewildered in the grocery store the day before Thanksgiving, a mom will share her turkey wisdom with you.

YouTube video by Brian Henigin WKRP Turkey Drop

A must-see every Thanksgiving: the WKRP turkey drop. youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ?...

If you have trouble accessing, I’m happy to send you the PDF!

I wonder if this particular Oregon law is still in place (or enforced): When I was reporting there, I was allowed to sit in on closed meetings. I couldn't report what was said, but those discussions provided valuable context that informed my reporting outside the meeting.

Open meetings and records are so important, especially as local news is eroded further and further. Residents deserve to have a light shone on their local governments.

Interesting story. My major prof and I conducted a study on news coverage of women's political firsts after the 19th was ratified. Media's gendered stereotypes of women politicians persist despite women's advancements in the political arena. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....