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Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms
www.austinchronicle.com
September 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
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Research finds that, for many women, ADHD symptoms worsen before their period. Stimulant medication feels less effective at this time, too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/missed-and-masked/202608/why-is-my-adhd-worse-before-my-period
Why Is My ADHD Worse Before My Period?
Do your ADHD symptoms worsen before your period? Research suggests that menstrual cycle hormones can affect ADHD symptoms, mood, and even medication response.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Research finds that, for many women, ADHD symptoms worsen before their period. Stimulant medication feels less effective at this time, too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/missed-and-masked/202608/why-is-my-adhd-worse-before-my-period
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"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"
September 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"
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Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
September 12, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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Women have been socially deprived of laughter throughout history, viewed as a threat to the male hierarchy. Even today, women's laughter is more scrutinized in public life--just think of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
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Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas
Traditional patriarchy has always told women not to laugh. Today, female laughter still disturbs a male-dominated world
psyche.co
September 12, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Women have been socially deprived of laughter throughout history, viewed as a threat to the male hierarchy. Even today, women's laughter is more scrutinized in public life--just think of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
psyche.co/ideas/why-wo...
psyche.co/ideas/why-wo...
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we keep having this debate on whether AI is a real problem or a bunch of marketing schemes in a trench coat.
but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos!
but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos!
AI is a threat to humanity in that it's the largest mass surveillance and hacking system we've ever built that all companies will have to rely on for security that demand endless growth energy and resources in a planet drowning in fossil fuel pollution
September 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
we keep having this debate on whether AI is a real problem or a bunch of marketing schemes in a trench coat.
but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos!
but we SHOULD be focused on the resource drain: we don’t need LLMs! we need water! we need energy! we don’t need datacenters running diesel generators to make dancing pug videos!
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Literally normalizing reproductive coercion out in public
JD Vance: "The Second Lady said, 'Well, you can have one of two things. You can be VP, or you can have a fourth child.' Ladies and gentlemen, I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both."
August 24, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Literally normalizing reproductive coercion out in public
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'Somewhere in a Beijing collection sits a fragment of a child’s lower jaw that has spent the past three years quietly annoying everyone who studies human origins.' 🏺🧪
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from China refuses to fit neatly into the human family tree — and a reconstructed million-year-old skull is now suggesting our major ancestral branches split hundreds of tho...
The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path.
scienceblog.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
'Somewhere in a Beijing collection sits a fragment of a child’s lower jaw that has spent the past three years quietly annoying everyone who studies human origins.' 🏺🧪
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Always happy to add new Denisovans. This is quite a record now from ancient proteins, five sites that span a geographic area encompassing all of China. These people had remarkable stories we are starting to understand how to tell.
www.johnhawks.net/p/new-deniso...
www.johnhawks.net/p/new-deniso...
New Denisovans from China’s southwest
The site of Bianfu Cave provides evidence that this group spanned all of China during the later Middle Pleistocene.
www.johnhawks.net
September 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Always happy to add new Denisovans. This is quite a record now from ancient proteins, five sites that span a geographic area encompassing all of China. These people had remarkable stories we are starting to understand how to tell.
www.johnhawks.net/p/new-deniso...
www.johnhawks.net/p/new-deniso...
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Study (N=9,500) finds women who played at least 3 years of high school sports are
- 50% more likely to hold leadership roles
- 37% more likely to aspire to sr leadership
- 35% more likely to have negotiated their salary
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- 50% more likely to hold leadership roles
- 37% more likely to aspire to sr leadership
- 35% more likely to have negotiated their salary
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e.l.f. Beauty and Parity Release “Girls Who Play Change the Game”, Connecting Girls' Sports Participation to Long-Term Workplace Impact
One of the largest and broadest studies of its kind, the study reveals the connection between the skills girls learn playing sports and women's careersOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- e.l.f. Beauty ...
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September 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Study (N=9,500) finds women who played at least 3 years of high school sports are
- 50% more likely to hold leadership roles
- 37% more likely to aspire to sr leadership
- 35% more likely to have negotiated their salary
@elfcosmetics.bsky.social
investor.elfbeauty.com/stock-and-fi...
- 50% more likely to hold leadership roles
- 37% more likely to aspire to sr leadership
- 35% more likely to have negotiated their salary
@elfcosmetics.bsky.social
investor.elfbeauty.com/stock-and-fi...
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🚨🚨 Denisovans in southwestern China. I repeat: Denisovans in southwestern China! 🏺🧪
Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets
Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.
www.sciencenews.org
September 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
🚨🚨 Denisovans in southwestern China. I repeat: Denisovans in southwestern China! 🏺🧪
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST
Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C.
In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is
BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD
Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic
Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C.
In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is
BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD
Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic
September 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST
Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C.
In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is
BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD
Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic
Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C.
In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is
BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD
Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic
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13 days. No bed. No shower. No toothbrush. That's what ICE did to Rami after grabbing him off the street.
Hear his story in Episode 3 of Fractured, a new docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement.
Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-iLNwlO
Hear his story in Episode 3 of Fractured, a new docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement.
Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-iLNwlO
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September 8, 2026 at 4:21 AM
13 days. No bed. No shower. No toothbrush. That's what ICE did to Rami after grabbing him off the street.
Hear his story in Episode 3 of Fractured, a new docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement.
Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-iLNwlO
Hear his story in Episode 3 of Fractured, a new docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement.
Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-iLNwlO
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Five years on, the Taliban's repression continues in #Afghanistan.
Women and girls are denied their rights. Critics face persecution. Accountability remains overdue.
Renew the UN expert's mandate and urgently operationalize the new accountability mechanism.
Learn more ⤵️
Women and girls are denied their rights. Critics face persecution. Accountability remains overdue.
Renew the UN expert's mandate and urgently operationalize the new accountability mechanism.
Learn more ⤵️
September 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Five years on, the Taliban's repression continues in #Afghanistan.
Women and girls are denied their rights. Critics face persecution. Accountability remains overdue.
Renew the UN expert's mandate and urgently operationalize the new accountability mechanism.
Learn more ⤵️
Women and girls are denied their rights. Critics face persecution. Accountability remains overdue.
Renew the UN expert's mandate and urgently operationalize the new accountability mechanism.
Learn more ⤵️
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President Trump’s threat to sue a liberal think tank attempts to transform defamation law into a modern-day Sedition Act that could be wielded against journalists.
The dangerous new twist in Trump’s latest defamation threat
Trump’s saber-rattling against a liberal think tank over its report on his administration’s deployment of the National Guard is an attempt to turn criticism of government policy into personal…
freedom.press
September 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
President Trump’s threat to sue a liberal think tank attempts to transform defamation law into a modern-day Sedition Act that could be wielded against journalists.
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They live in the data center capital of the world – here’s what they think
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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September 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
They live in the data center capital of the world – here’s what they think
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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‘THE ODYSSEY’ is set to become the first film ever to pass $500M on only IMAX screens.
September 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
‘THE ODYSSEY’ is set to become the first film ever to pass $500M on only IMAX screens.
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NANCY SAYS SOLIDARITY FOREVER ✊✊✊
September 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
NANCY SAYS SOLIDARITY FOREVER ✊✊✊
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The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this:
When the tech barons’ predictions about the future fail to come true, they don’t have to give the money back.
When the tech barons’ predictions about the future fail to come true, they don’t have to give the money back.
Jensen Huang just claimed the Singularity hit and we have achieved AGI.
So two years from now, when we don't have fusion power and intergalactic travel etc because The Singularity is a fantasy, I assume everyone will admit they've been had.
So two years from now, when we don't have fusion power and intergalactic travel etc because The Singularity is a fantasy, I assume everyone will admit they've been had.
September 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this:
When the tech barons’ predictions about the future fail to come true, they don’t have to give the money back.
When the tech barons’ predictions about the future fail to come true, they don’t have to give the money back.
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The Lady of Elche.
This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain.
From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain.
From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
September 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The Lady of Elche.
This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain.
From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain.
From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Menopausal women who masturbated 3-4 times per week for a couple of months tended to experience improvements in their sleep, mood, and overall well-being. Self-pleasure is self-care! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-of-sex/202510/self-pleasure-is-self-care-for-menopausal-women
Self-Pleasure Is Self-Care for Menopausal Women
New Kinsey Institute research finds that self-pleasure is an effective tool for managing various symptoms of menopause, including sleep disturbances and mood changes.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Menopausal women who masturbated 3-4 times per week for a couple of months tended to experience improvements in their sleep, mood, and overall well-being. Self-pleasure is self-care! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-of-sex/202510/self-pleasure-is-self-care-for-menopausal-women
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‘THE ODYSSEY’ has passed $1 billion internationally.
The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.
The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.
September 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
‘THE ODYSSEY’ has passed $1 billion internationally.
The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.
The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.