With one stroke of his pen, Biden could’ve granted this 10-year-old Uvalde victim’s father “compassionate release” to attend her funeral despite being jailed for a drug offense. Biden refused, so Eliahna Torres’ dad was forced to watch a livestream from prison.

Many, many things are terrible right now, but today I had the pleasure of marking a student essay that cited @DrSamanthaEge's Florence Price research and that cheered me up considerably. 🌻

THREAD. A quiet catastrophe is unfolding in Los Angeles. A group of judges met in secret and decided to require a cash bail schedule starting on June 30. I have been unable to find a single news story about it, so I'll explain what's happening and why it matters.

also, quick q: pitocin (which u know…is a crucial ass drug given to induce fucking LABOR) is also an abortifacient. so what’s the plan for that one? yall gonna ban pitocin too? how u gonna get the (live) babies out?

If you find that you've been transformed into a white cow, a laurel tree, or a bubbling fountain, you may be experiencing symptoms of long OVID.

White people—especially white women—need to start practicing NOT talking to police. They are not being friendly when they pull you over. They are trying to glean information and find foundation upon which to arrest you. “Am I being detained or am I free to go?” Practice it.

Something important just happened. People illegally caged pretrial in Prince George's County, MD risked retaliation & *sued* the jail where they're *currently jailed.* The lawsuit is powerful. One of clearest I've read. Reads like a Twitter thread. I've posted it for you below.

This week the UK Government quietly removed ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international statement on human rights. #abortionrights are in trouble

When we say that holding trans women to impossible biological standards for womanhood will also affect cis women, this is what we mean. It's no surprise that black women, who have a history of being excluded from white supremacist feminine standards, are targeted.

Why do I have to keep telling white dudes with PhDs who do electronic music that Halim El-Dabh did concrete before Pierre Schaffer? This should not be my job.

Undergrad --> PhD --> Postdoc --> PI --> bakery shop owner Who else is thinking of this academic path?

Please can we stop calling them “soft skills”? They’re not soft. They’re actually quite hard, because otherwise everyone in leadership positions would have them. Just because something is difficult to quantify, doesn’t make it soft.

I used to wonder how many of these stories people needed to hear before they realized how dangerous abortion bans are. Now I realize they *do* know, they just don't care if women suffer or die. npr.org/sections/healt…