Kate Clancy

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Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation. Writing about pregnancy loss next. 🏳️‍🌈 www.kateclancy.com

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I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

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Does @kateclancy.bsky.social ever NOT knock it out of the park? Reproductive justice requires not just abortion access or good pregnancy care, but also understanding what causes pregnancies to go wrong. And it requires a community of protecting each other from infections that harm pregnancies.

Period 36: It's complicatedbuttondown.email So it’s been a while – between activism, parenting, book writing, and professoring it’s been hard to prioritize the newsletter. Here and on Bluesky, I feel...

Thank you so much! I really need to write another newsletter this week, this time on heavy metals in our tampons (sigh).

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

Just brilliant. You are so brilliant. I'm so sorry you had to write this. And thank you for doing it.

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they want and need everyone to believe that it is hopeless and that nothing matters and that nothing will ever get better, but, like, they’re wrong. they’re liars. they lie, depression lies, this whole thing is a fucking con to get you to think that submission is better than liberty.

these people cannot win and they know it, their entire schtick is pretending that the reich on the march will keep everyone quiet and scared, but, again, we do not have to believe them, and if we do not, they lose.

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Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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Some great titles listed in this thread! I would also recommend: – Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Therí Alyce Pickens – Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk – Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai – Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Disability Reading Thread for Disability Pride Month. Drop your favorite books. ♿️ 📚

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jd vance looks like if a baby got old but not in the normal way

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If you write SFFH/speculative fiction of any kind, this is a very useful book. There's a new edition. It's playful, but serious. Specific. Full of art and some articles by some of my faves in genre. Readable and essential. I've bought it like 4 times to give away.

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Also I think we can dispense with the “he’s on vacation” because he’s posting pretty consistently on Threads now. Good work white posters, driving off two progressive Black columnists with national reach. You did it!

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Trump is a reprehensible piece of shit, but the choice of J.D. Vance as his VP shows he's willing to balance out his ticket expand his base with another reprehensible piece of shit.

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This is my cat"Zaatar" Zaatar died because of the war here, and I couldn't even help him because everything is scarce, even medical care for animals. I lost my dearest possession and my closest friend. I don't want to lose anyone else. Please help me to save my family🍉🇵🇸❤️ gofund.me/6d3bce17 #freeGaza

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Gift link to the longform the WaPo did awhile back about assault rifles, and I thank Heidi for reupping it:

Remind me again of how Rs feel about gun control and AR 15s? wapo.st/4cX2TdR

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Dems are like someone tried to kill the game show Hitler coup guy, so we can't say anything bad about Nazis now and must surrender the country.

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Here are some flowers my six year old picked 🥰

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"In a city where 54% of families don’t own a car, it’s unjust that people with disabilities must spend disposable income on private transportation because of the continued inaccessibility of the subway."

For anyone who cares about public transit accessibility, check out the latest essay I published by Jessica Murray: Backing Out of Congestion Pricing Hurts New Yorkers with Disabilities the Most disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/07/14/b...

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The rules of the game: Nothing Republicans say about Democrats, no matter how deranged — such as Mark Robinson saying that “some people need killing” — will be considered out of bounds, yet standard political rhetoric from Democrats will be treated as incitement to violence.

Today's newsletter: Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: GOP's Attempt to Silence Legitimate Criticism www.readtpa.com/p/rewriting-...

Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: GOP's Attempt to Silence Legitimate Criticismwww.readtpa.com Republicans revive the familiar tactic of misconstruing Democratic rhetoric as an incitement to violence.

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Same stupid motherfuckers made Tressie nope out of here. Being an asshole to Black people online because you’re ineffective at helping people in the real world isn’t praxis, actually.

It's all so self-defeating, and will accelerate this place dying on the vine. Bouie's among the handful of brilliant columnists fighting the good fight at major outlets. (One could argue that he's the best of his generation.) Don't drive him off for having the audacity to interact with you!

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Before it was Jamelle, it was Tressie, before it was Tressie, it was all those black folks y’all chased away before this app was even fully open to the public. I can’t PAY a lot of my friends to try BlueSky because of what they’ve heard about y’all. It’s not a person; it’s a proven pattern.

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God fucking damnit. It's our loss. Bouie loses nothing but a headache he didn't need. Fuck this.

The worst reply guys in the business finally got what they wanted.

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If someone told you, "Many of America's top reporters spend a lot of their day in a chat room run by a 'great replacement' believing white supremacist and where many posters are Nazis" you'd be alarmed. That's basically the situation now.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

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Dipping back into Twitter to lurk on assassination stuff and truly, from the bottom of my heart, unless you have massively curated lists, no one in media or politics should be microwaving their neurons on there.

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Well hot damn. Makes sense given what we've been seeing with H1 blockers reducing severity of acute covid, but still--wow. Researchers used embryonic stem cells and exposed them to covid virus plus a battery of common drugs. Every single H1 they tested helped prevent covid infection.

The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 | mBiojournals.asm.org In addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can utilize alternative cofactors to facilitate viral entry. In this study, we discov...

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As we're seeing with interest in Trump's Project 2025 the media is desperate not to have this conversation because an election fought on the issues would wind up being a boring rout for Democrats

the country is in a really grim place, and it would be really great if the national conversation were "who's foreign policy do you like" or "wow what great economic ideas the two candidates have, but I prefer this one instead of that one", but alas, that is not where we are

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oh FUCK this

Yikes yikes yikes chicagoreader.com/news-politic...

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Ever get overwhelmed with the myriad nightmares we've created for ourselves to plague our collective existence? You ever wish you were like, idk, an abyssal sea cucumber? Join me to explore the lives of the denizens of the deep to escape... all this for a bit. www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all—not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead.”

In the US, counting the dead in Gaza has become a gruesome political gamewww.motherjones.com The House passed a ban on citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty counts, saying the numbers are pro-Hamas “propaganda.” But researchers say the Ministry is not even counting all deaths.

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Sea level rise has killed the last population of Key Largo tree cactus (P. millspaughii) "what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country" 🧪 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/firs...

First local extinction in the U.S. due to sea level risewww.floridamuseum.ufl.edu The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key ...

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So wise