A group of GOP AGs filed a brief in support of South Dakota’s ban on abortion “advertising”—a law so (deliberately) broad that even sharing information about abortion could send you to jail. Jessica Valenti
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Between 1563 and 1736, thousands of people in Scotland were accused of witchcraft. Approximately 2,500 were executed. Most were women. Media by Jess Anne Archist
Sir Patrick Stewart’s 1940-2026: his advocacy was a powerful reminder that domestic violence affects entire communities.
Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86. Stewart openly acknowledging that violence against women and girls is a men’s issue. His legacy lives on through his amazing acting achievements as well as his advocacy to end domestic violence and other human rights violations.
Study suggests that how men react to challenges to their gender-masculinity status depends in part on how they define manhood for themselves. Men who endorsed a flexible masculine identity showed less insecurity overcompensation.
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In memoriam: Dolores Huerta, who with Cesar Chavez founded what became the United Farm Workers, led strikes and boycotts that unionized many California table-grape growers, changing laws and the lives of thousands of migrant laborers . She was 96.
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ProPublica analysed 7 years of Texas hospital data and found that sepsis rates rose from 2.9% before the state’s six week abortion ban to 4.5% afterwards—120 in hospital deaths among pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023.
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This map shows the share of adults in each US state who said homosexuality should be accepted by society in Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study, published in February 2025.
Psychopatriarchy is a backlash against women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights— the authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity.
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