Archaeologist. Boat Person. PhD. Happy CC Prof. Sewn boats rock.
Staci Willis
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And we are live!
Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...
Texas’ attorney general said we weren’t dead enough for an abortion — that our doctors were right to deny us care.
I saw the headlines and read the brief stories that were very short on details. Her name was Persia and she deserves justice. Moved to hear the words from her loving family about her life.
1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.
Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.
They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
The Barbed Wire
Brian Phillips
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
5/ For five straight days, she laid in a hospital bed, waiting for her situation to get dire enough that doctors — and the hospital's lawyers — would act.
Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.
I'm working on a column about the tech annoyances that drive us crazy, and I want it to be as universal as possible, so tell me yours!
E.g. scanning a QR code to read a menu, never receiving the one-time passcode they supposedly texted you, "verify you're human" by IDing tiny motorcycles, etc.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice.
Give it a read:
