Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
genuinely inspiring.
If words ever fail her, Norma's backup plan is bubbles.
This story is so cool. I've been following this dude's Instagram and watching as he made progress on this. blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/14/j...
One takeaway I have from this piece is that Democrats should renew their attacks calling out Miller as the mastermind behind this regime and the most dangerous person in The White House
we spent the last century reinventing the physical experience of womanhood to the obvious and vast benefit of humanity and I don’t think we should give any of that back voluntarily
one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”
Bicycling is an inherently safe activity. Cars make it unsafe, scary, and nerve-wracking and that's what prevents many people from riding. It's pretty simple!
Catherine Frieman
Great day for Greater Lowell Pride (and for making your own breeze)! 🏳️🌈
jamelle
Better late than never: Last night (after a 17-year run), I finally deleted the X/Twitter app, for good
This column explains why and questions the sanity of a world where Elon Musk can egg on a race riot on Tuesday, then become a trillionaire on Friday www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
The Brazil native's plan to run every Chicago street was thrown for a loop when he faced having to leave the country. With his immigration status resolved, hundreds help Barbosa complete the task Sund...
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Elon Musk’s climb to obscene undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.
www.inquirer.com
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Gravel Influencer
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Shaun Lintern
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
Rode a bike in a place that didn't allow cars and now I'm convinced we need this everywhere
