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What happens to kids matters for the rest of their lives—maybe especially for cardiovascular health, with increasing evidence for sex diff’s. We’re not going to solve maternal deaths in the US without caring about little girls, y’all! bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Margie Orford

Rabbi Alissa Wise & Israeli-Born Novelist Ayelet Waldman Arrested Trying to Bring Food to Gaza democracynow.org/2024/4/29/rabb… via Democracy Now!

Gerard Depardieu is in custody in Paris over two sexual assault allegations. However more than a dozen women have made allegations & this is no doubt just the tip of the iceberg #GerardDepardieu #CrimeAnalyst

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PEN America is one out of more than 150 chapters who are members of PEN International ... as Hari Kunzru pointed out too. So, riven as the centre is at the moment, there remains robust spaces for free speech where calls for a ceasefire in Gaza are not seen in opposition to this.

Important context for this drama is that PEN America is an outlier in its position on Palestine. PEN South Africa were so concerned about its inaction that in March they took the highly unusual step of writing to the American org pensouthafrica.co.za/letter-to-memb…

PEN is an international organisation with many chapters, of which PEN America is just one. Each chapter has to sign up to the principles of the PEN charter. Within that limit, members decide policy. A change in administration of one PEN club is by no means the ‘end of PEN’

BREAKING: Tamir Morag of Channel 14 reports that the Israeli government has received word that the top echelon of the Israeli government and IDF will receive idictments from the ICC within the next week or so.

The individuals to be indicated include Netanyahu, Gallant, and

so I finished a thing! a free thing done out of love and promises, but still I finished it! baby steps back towards not feeling totally ashamed of myself for not writing another book by yesterday

OMIGOD - even Jesus will probably reach his acceptance limit with Russell Brand sidling up to him

Oh god please no. Publishing, you don't have to do this.

Time to hide people!
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

what happens to one if one gives up? anyone who has done it please report! It has to be better than not giving up. PERSEVERANCE being the most over-valued vice

tea is a sin and should be banned. ONLY COFFEE OR WINE OR WATER

“Writing and sex, creativity and love should be entwined, but I did not yet know how to weave them together. It felt then as if it had to be one at the expense of the other: writing or sex, creativity or love.'

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A French book publisher arrested in London on terrorism charges has been awarded “substantial” damages by the Metropolitan police. Ernest Moret was detained at St Pancras station in April last year on his way to the London book fair. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a… La fabrique éditions

I could use my lovely blue tick to go off on some thousand word diatribe about how beyond awful these low-lying scoundrels are, but instead I’ll just stick with: register to vote, make sure you have the right ID to vote, and vote.