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"Abortion rights advocates delivered a stark warning to the Biden administration’s top health official in a private meeting last week: It’s time to take seriously “fringe” threats that could wind up blocking abortion access across the country.

Driving their anxiety is a Texas lawsuit brought by conservative groups seeking to revoke the decades-old government approval of a key abortion drug."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/05/abortion-pills-texas-lawsuit/

#Abortion #AbortionRights #WomensRights #USA #USPolitics #Texas

not now sweetie, mommy's post got 8 boosts. we about to be mastodon famous.

True story.

US officials now confirm the government is moving ahead with plans to shoot down the #ChineseSpyBalloon.

The unrelenting pervasive nature of white history as the default leads to most people forming unconscious ideas about roles we can each play. It is incredibly and sadly common for people to believe that white European society is the pinnacle of civilization, as evidenced by… [waves all around] Never mind that Steve Jobs’ father was Syrian, clearly white people invented technology, right? Never mind that mathematics was developed far from western lands, to the point that we now study algebra, or الجبر al-jabr, developed while Europe was mired in tribal warfare.

It’s a vicious cycle: if you believe that everything you see was invented by white people, then you believe that white people invented everything, because each set of false information reinforces the other.

Wypipo, open your eyes! Here’s a popular meme image of just a few things invented by Black people, and the full list is so much longer. This list is so long mastodon won’t let me put the entire text description in the alt tag, so I’ll add it as a reply to this post.

#BlackHistoryMonth #blog #nerdery #history

Good Morning!

The lowest ever recorded temperature in the US was hit today in Mount Washington, New Hampshire wind of -78°C (-108°F)! It even *looks* cold!

Video via: https://www.mountwashington.org/

#weather #cold

@MicheleV_AK Funny how these idiots pray to the most prolific abortionist in the universe. An imaginary sky monster who indiscriminately kills some 23M fetuses in the womb every year. That’s 44 abortions per minute. I guess their god doesn’t like competition.

Happy #caturday

One bummer about Mastodon that is probably worth noting, since I get questions about it all the time, is that Mast doesn't support videos as large as the ones supported by Twitter, so posting them here can be a bit of a chore. Hopefully someday that capability gets beefed up.

The House of Representatives votes to remove Rep. Omar (D-MN) from the foreign affairs committee.

Indirect evidence of gravitational waves was obtained 56 years later, in 1974. The decaying orbit of binary pulsar PSR 1913+16, discovered by Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, was consistent with general relativity's predicted rate of energy loss via gravitational wave emission.

LIGO made the first direct detection of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015 – the echo of two black holes that spiraled into each other over a billion years ago.

Image: SXS Collaboration
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