DazzlingDiatom
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In case of interest, I write about the political economy of gestational labor (i.e., the class relation undergirding evil cases like venture capitalist Cindy Bi's prosecution of her hired surrogate over stillbirth) in Full Surrogacy Now [https://www.versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now] >
I know I already posted this, but this story by Emi Nietfeld is the absolute most bonkers, rage-inducing thing I’ve read in a while (and a substantial part of my job is to read bonkers, rage-inducing shit every day) www.wired.com/story/the-ba...
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
www.wired.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In case of interest, I write about the political economy of gestational labor (i.e., the class relation undergirding evil cases like venture capitalist Cindy Bi's prosecution of her hired surrogate over stillbirth) in Full Surrogacy Now [https://www.versobooks.com/products/711-full-surrogacy-now] >
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This kind of travesty is made possible through extremely lax homeschool laws, which allow abuse parents like these to disappear their kids and cut off their access to any official or professional who could spot a problem and intervene.
An Oklahoma man was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse after his 11-year-old stepdaughter gave birth at their home in Muskogee.
Oklahoma man arrested after 11-year-old stepdaughter gives birth, mother charged with enabling abuse
Dustin Walker was charged with sexual abuse of a child under 12, while the child's mother, Cherie Walker, was charged with enabling child sexual abuse, according to court documents.
nbcnews.to
August 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This kind of travesty is made possible through extremely lax homeschool laws, which allow abuse parents like these to disappear their kids and cut off their access to any official or professional who could spot a problem and intervene.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
July 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
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The only way to protect children is for them to have the freest possible access to information (which includes the *dangerous* stuff), the best possible education on how to use that information and the freedom to act on that information themselves. This is exhaustively proven by abuse research.
July 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The only way to protect children is for them to have the freest possible access to information (which includes the *dangerous* stuff), the best possible education on how to use that information and the freedom to act on that information themselves. This is exhaustively proven by abuse research.
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National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.
www.importantcontext.news
July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
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“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fan...
www.thecrimson.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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This Candy Basslet (Liopropoma carmabi)—which I photographed her in the Steinhart Aquarium’s Twilight Zone exhibit—is a vivid reminder of the hidden beauty thriving in mesophotic reefs. Rarely seen, but impossible to forget. 🌊🔦 #TwilightZoneExhibit #HiddenDepths
July 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This Candy Basslet (Liopropoma carmabi)—which I photographed her in the Steinhart Aquarium’s Twilight Zone exhibit—is a vivid reminder of the hidden beauty thriving in mesophotic reefs. Rarely seen, but impossible to forget. 🌊🔦 #TwilightZoneExhibit #HiddenDepths
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At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
I think it should be noted that homeschooling is the privatization and monoplization of care, with all the issues that entails. It's taking the social childcare provided by school systems and privatizing and monopolizing it in the hands of the family units.
July 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I think it should be noted that homeschooling is the privatization and monoplization of care, with all the issues that entails. It's taking the social childcare provided by school systems and privatizing and monopolizing it in the hands of the family units.
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“Removed nuance”
July 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Removed nuance”
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People now have "anti-child" and "anti-kid" in their bios. We are cooked. You can't...you can't live with that kind of hate and stay a person. That's the kind of impersonal hate fascism thrives on. The hell is wrong with people.
July 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
People now have "anti-child" and "anti-kid" in their bios. We are cooked. You can't...you can't live with that kind of hate and stay a person. That's the kind of impersonal hate fascism thrives on. The hell is wrong with people.