#Huffpost

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

When most people in the U.S. think of the history of abortion, they think about white women like Margaret Sanger, a nurse who opened America’s first birth control clinic and founded an organization that later became Planned Parenthood. Fewer people think about Mildred Campbell, a Black midwife from Washington, D.C., who provided abortions in the late 1800s. Or Marie Leaner and Sakinah Ahad Shannon, two Black members of the Jane Collective, a group that provided abortions to women in the late 1960s and early 1970s before federal abortion protections existed. Or Toni Bond, one of 12 “founding mothers” who created the framework of reproductive justice in the 1990s. Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone are hoping to change that with their new book, “Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.” Bracey Sherman and Mahone offer a more complete history of abortion in the book, which includes many of the women of color who were so critical to the movement but whose names were erased by whitewashed media tropes and racist arbiters of history.

“In so many ways, the media has this history of cosigning the racist, sexist, misogynistic tropes about Black women and other people of color,” Mahone told HuffPost. “This book is our platform to right those wrongs. We’re writing our experiences back into the history of abortion.” Bracey Sherman, a biracial Black woman, and Mahone, a Black woman, have both had abortions and understand how isolating it can be to not see oneself reflected in the abortion stories that media and history choose to tell. Bracey Sherman has been working toward writing this book throughout her long career in reproductive justice, during which she founded the abortion storytelling organization We Testify. And Mahone, a journalist who has covered the intersections between race, class and reproductive rights, is keenly aware of who typically gets to tell abortion stories.

HuffPost’s Alanna Vagianos interviewed Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone, authors of a new book called Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.

The book discusses the history of abortion access that is too often ignored in discussions about reproductive health and abortion: the white-centric history of abortion that downplays women of color and their roles.

[republikkkanorcs]

HuffPost.

[gamer2002]

Out: deep fakes are dangerous because trolls will make POTUS look bad

In: deep fakes are a legitimate way of POTUS communication

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

(via Rep. Chip Roy's Question For Republican Colleagues Backfires | HuffPost Latest News)

MAGA Republicans and the Sedition Caucus (aka Freedom Caucus and former tea baggers) unintentionally reveal their lack of focus on legislation or any other activities their constituents expect from a representative government.  

Their agenda is to follow Trump’s orders without question in his pathetic attempts to distract from his fraudulent business activities, criminal conduct and the fact that he’s a fake billionaire.  

[thoughtportal]

Trader Joe’s is facing a litany of union-busting charges before the National Labor Relations Board. The agency’s prosecutors have accused the company of illegally retaliating against workers, firing a union supporter and spreading false information in an effort to chill an organizing campaign.

But in a hearing last Tuesday, the grocer’s attorney briefly summarized a sweeping defense it intends to mount against the charges: The labor board itself, which was created during the New Deal and has refereed private-sector collective bargaining for nearly 90 years, is “unconstitutional.”

The argument would appear to fit inside a broader conservative effort to dismantle the regulatory state, which has taken aim at agencies tasked with enforcing laws to protect workers, consumers and the environment.

The exchange, a transcript of which HuffPost obtained through a public records request, came at the start of a trial to determine whether Trader Joe’s violated workers’ rights. Trader Joe’s’ attorney, Christopher Murphy of the law firm Morgan Lewis, informed the judge, Charles Muhl, that there was “one final thing” the grocery chain wanted to add to its defense before proceedings began.

[the-wacky-planet-of-fielder]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-instagram-banned-nathan-fielder_n_5b4f9cdfe4b0169b6e70ac24

[raeonthearoace]

I really hate how news sites will say someone was "taken down" or "torn apart" when they actually mean some people said mean things about them on Twitter.

[thestylesindependent]

“Harry’s House” by Harry Styles

Of his third solo effort, British pop superstar Harry Styles confessed to Better Homes & Gardens that it was the first time “it doesn’t feel like my life is over if this album isn’t a commercial success.” He didn’t have much to worry about, however — “Harry’s House” was a hit straightaway, with all 13 of the album’s tracks landing in the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 in its first week. And it’s a musical success, too — the tracklist moves between big, body-moving songs like “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” and “Late Night Talking” to quieter, lyric-focused numbers like “Matilda,” an ode to resilience and chosen family, and “Keep Driving,” an evocative string of images that conjures a past relationship. Styles’ sound feels of the moment, but also like any given song could slot into another decade seamlessly. All we can hope for is future invitations into his space. — Capewell

Harry's House is one of HuffPost's top 12 albums of 2022!

[itmightbemikey]

front page of the huffpost

[friendraichu]

“You’re using up resources needed for sick people!” Ben was told.

“This is what we call a boozer,” he overheard.

A doctor told him, “This is the last time I’m going to save your life!”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

For decades, pregnant people have been arrested, charged with various crimes and jailed for their pregnancy outcomes.

A 27-year-old white woman from Tennessee attempted suicide while pregnant in 1986. She survived, but the fetus was stillborn. She was arrested, charged with criminal abortion and held on a $5,000 bond. She pleaded not guilty for reasons of insanity. In 1999, Regina McKnight, a 22-year-old Black woman from South Carolina, gave birth to a five-pound stillborn baby. McKnight was drug tested after the birth and arrested in the hospital for “homicide by child abuse” because she tested positive for cocaine. Although it was not conclusive that the cause of the stillbirth was due to her drug use, McKnight was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the jury deliberated for only 15 minutes. Gabriela Flores, a 22-year-old woman from Mexico, managed her own abortion using pills in 2004 in South Carolina because she couldn’t afford a fourth child or the $700 in-clinic abortion on the $1.50 an hour she earned picking lettuce. Her neighbor found out about her abortion and called the cops, who initially wanted to charge Flores with homicide and seek the death penalty. Flores eventually pleaded guilty to an illegal abortion and spent a total of seven months in jail.

These are just a few of the stories included in Grace E. Howard’s new book, “The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood,” in which she analyzes 1,116 pregnancy-related arrests that happened between 1973 and 2022 in Tennessee, South Carolina and Alabama. Although the cases vary from self-managed abortion to substance use and miscarriage, each person was arrested for crimes against their own pregnancy. “The criminal prosecution of pregnant people for crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they carry relies on a legal understanding that pregnant people occupy a different, lower space in the United States’ system of law,” Howard, who uses she/they pronouns, writes in her book.

Howard, an associate professor of justice studies at San Jose State University, traces pregnancy-related prosecutions throughout history, specifically highlighting the intersections between drug use, race and class. “We’ve been taking rights away from folks because of their pregnancies, but we haven’t been naming it,” they told HuffPost. “What I try to do in the book is to trace out the places where pregnancy has been considered an exception to the norms.”

[...]

How does fetal personhood play into pregnancy criminalization?

Currently, fetal personhood seems to be the primary motivating factor or at least the justification for criminalizing pregnancy. This idea that we need to protect these unborn children from their mothers who don’t love them, who won’t take care of them, who won’t do right by them — fetal personhood is a big part of that. Now that Roe v. Wade is gone and there is no federal protection that maintains a pregnant person’s rights before viability [around 24 weeks of pregnancy], it’s so much easier to put fetal personhood in the law when you don’t have to worry about viability being the determining factor.

Even before Roe came down, the pregnancy police existed, according to Grace E. Howard’s new book The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood.

[msclaritea]

'What on earth are the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, and the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, doing in a men-only club in 2024? It’s more than two decades, for heaven’s sake, since the then Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith – not one of nature’s more radical progressives – rejected honorary membership of the Carlton Club on the grounds that the Conservatives’ oldest gentlemen’s club denied full membership rights to female MPs. It took seven years of arm-twisting, but eventually the club surrendered, accepting that leaders couldn’t be seen publicly condoning its practices. Though perhaps “publicly” is the relevant word, given that some Garrick members seemingly didn’t see the problem until they were outed and exposed to female colleagues’ ire.'

If Iain Duncan Smith is more progressive then you (20 years ago!), you need a kick up the backside

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/garrick-club-row-women-men

You can go fuck yourself and yes, I just saw all of the sudden dust up over the Garrick Club, conveniently kicked up in the last couple of days. What should I assume, then? That the Team Z network found out ahead of time that Benedict would be going there and created said controversy. You people are nothing but a bunch of parasites. What I'm wondering right this minute...is who put Rishi Sunak up to getting involved.

Because The Guardian, The Standard, The Telegraph, Huffpost, etc are ALL rags that you all have used to go after him, before.

Hey, Ben. if you were invited beforehand to the club, whoever invited you, might be behind this.

[informationatlas]

Mice Can Sing!

Rodents, often viewed as simple creatures, exhibit surprising complexity in their behavior. Mice and rats display human-like traits such as laughter when tickled, empathy by sensing each other's pain through facial expressions, and even an ability to discern artistic styles like Picasso and Renoir. 

Studies reveal that male mice produce intricate ultrasonic vocalizations, or "songs," to communicate with females. These songs vary in complexity depending on social context: when males can't see females but only smell their urine, the songs are louder and more intricate; however, when in the presence of females, the songs become simpler but longer.

Researchers at Duke University have found that female mice show a preference for more complex mating calls, indicating their effectiveness in attraction. This suggests that male mice invest more energy in attracting females when they can't see them, but once in close proximity, they focus more on mating behaviors. The study aims to explore the brain mechanisms behind these vocalizations and whether mice can learn new songs, potentially shedding light on communication disorders like autism. Published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, this research underscores the complexity of rodent behavior and its implications for understanding animal and human communication.

(via Yes, Mice Can Sing. And You Won't Believe How Much They Sound Like Songbirds | HuffPost Impact)

[whaddahelk]

Just finished reading the leaked Elon deposition (links attached). If anything, this illuminates how much of a disconnect there is in Musk’s mind about how his actions (as one of the most powerful men in the world) affect others. There’s a cold, concerning lack of empathy in the way he speaks about his defamatory comments, and a person who thinks like that shouldn’t be in power.

Direct quote from Musk: “People are attacked all the time in the media: online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life.”

An easy statement to make on a comfy $187.3 billion. This is in reference to a 22 year old, Jewish college student, Ben Brody, who was accused of being involved in Neo-Nazi brawl. A student who had to move his whole family out of their home because of the hate and threat of violence surrounding them due to Musk’s inaccurate claims.

I hope Ben Brody gets his $1 million in damages, and more. We must hold these capitalists accountable.