Carol J Adams
caroljadams.bsky.social
Carol J Adams
@caroljadams.bsky.social

author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory" and other books. Activist. Check out "Protest Kitchen" as we cope with Republican rollbacks to climate protection. Vegan cook and recipe collector. caroljadams.com .. more

Carol J. Adams is an American writer, feminist, and animal rights advocate. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals. She was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2011. .. more

Biology 27%
Agriculture 23%

file this under schadenfreude
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

We have had a lot of practice!
Look, the Times was obviously unable to confirm at time of publication what the brown liquid that looked like diarrhea and that appeared to have been dumped from an AI-generated jet fighter by the president of United was intended to represent in his mind.
NYT sanewashing extends, apparently, to sparing NYT readers from a description of Trump's literal shit.
Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down

It was great to be among so many people willing to do the next thing and the things after that to try to resist these right wing misogynistic terrorist thugs.
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

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Even in a digital era, the choices editors make about the Sunday front page say a great deal about their priorities
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

#NoKings Dallas. The artist @suecoe.bsky.social gave me permission to have her incredible "Unpresidented" (2017) made into a poster, and it's so powerful, it became a popular one to photograph. I'd point to Sue's name with the hopes that people learn about her work!
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Mourning the death of the visionary writer and poet Susan Griffin, whose "Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her" conveyed the rage, the insight, the lyrical possibilities of ecofeminism. susangriffin.com/women-and-na...
Women and Nature – Susan Griffin
susangriffin.com

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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Some wiseadvice for what we can be doing in the US right now. ginaglantz.substack.com/p/80-and-angry
80 and Angry
WHAT TO DO
ginaglantz.substack.com

You can tell he's emotional too! And why not? "This is a movement; this is an achievement of a whole society."
“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

Her ignorance is not benign, nor was what she saw—the naturalizing and normalizing of female reproductive oppression." I know we are struggling with so much disinformation and manipulation of our viewpoints, but I expected more of @thenewyorker.bsky.social than such fawning over captive pregnancy.

and farrowing crates the majority of female pigs are confined in? (Minnesota, unlike a few other states, has banned neither.) It appears she can follow a chocolate chip cookie from inception to consumption, but cannot stop to ask, why was this moment of voyeurism staged? 5/

by artificial insemination to induced birth for entertainment. Does Goldfield know that many states had to amend their bestiality laws because farms practices including forced impregnation so closely resemble those outlawed acts? Did Goldfield wonder how it was that this sow escaped the gestation 4/

because 'the staff… just induced an enormous sow' at the Minnesota State Fair, but shouldn’t Hannah Goldfield register a slightly more educated insight into what she has just witnessed and why? That sow's pregnancy was manipulated from
beginning to end, from being forcibly impregnated 3/

The New Yorker chose not to print my letter in response, which asked: "What sort of naive food culture writer does the New
Yorker have on staff? Perhaps the average 'bacon,' 'ham,' or 'pork chop' consumer might assume a naïve 'oh gee' pose when they realize they are 'lucky' 2/

Why would the @newyorker.com publish this embarrassing, inane, ignorant comment by their food writer Hannah Goldfield who visited "the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals" and wrote "(If you’re lucky, the staff will have just induced an enormous sow.)" 1/
At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.
Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
Many of the staffers at Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar start as teen-agers. Some of them are committed for life.
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Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

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One of the biggest and most scandalous cover-ups in recent history is the Trump Administration's handling of the Epstein Files.

What's in there must be so damning that Trump is willing to burn down the country rather than let Americans see it.
Finally, a major media outlet will be headed by a true free speech warrior who got her start trying to get her professors fired
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

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It is not the least bit surprising that the dude who played with Trump’s hair before the 2016 election wants to “avoid politics” now.
a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man
ALT: a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man
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Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.

She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.

In a world of Republican sycophants and autocratic wannabes, be--in your very own way--a Jane Goodall. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com