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Nancy Gage
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Roz Chast groupie.

Feminist lawyer in pursuit of public health & human rights.

Unless we know each other, do not bother with DMs.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/violence-against-women

https://www.who.int/groups/violence-prevention-alliance/about
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ngage.bsky.social
Now with alttext.
God @thegodpodcast.com Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn't allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that's gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!! October 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM @ Everybody can reply
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Documentaire allemand :

Le 6 novembre, à la gare centrale de Francfort/Main.

Les fournisseurs de sandwichs et cafés, ou la Deutsche Bahn AG même, laissaient juste aujourd’hui installer les sapins de Noël sur les toits de ces petits magasins vis-à-vis les voies.

Ce matin à la grande librairie 👇
À droite une fillette qui porte les écouteurs cherche un bouquin de devinettes avec sa mère (qui n’est pas sur la photo). À côté deux wagons encore emballés pleins de gigantesques décorations pour un très grand sapin de Noël.
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Ah Agnès, c’est plus que merveilleux ! Suis arrivée trop tard, ce soleil n’y était plus.

#UnJourPlusieursPhotos
#Photovember
Sign in a TGV showing the train’s current speed. It was 303 kn/h at that moment. Sign in a TGV showing the slow zig-zag route the train was taking to get from Frankfurt/Main to Paris Est train station. The train was delayed, due to arrive at 17.12 rather than 16.52. Some people collected in front of train departures and arrivals signs at dusk outside the Paris Austerlitz station, waiting for the platforms to be announced. Others leaving the station appear to be having trouble getting passed them. A glass high rise with a trapezoidal shape & offices lit up on nearly all the floors is towering above the scene. Platform 3 inside the station at area V. Green lights embedded in the platform shining the way. Local trains parked to the right. A night train off to the left.
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Der Internationale Tag zur Bekämpfung v Gewalt gegen Frauen am 25.11. steht bevor. DESHALB diese vorzügliche Veranstaltung der #Strafrechtskommission des @juristinnenbund.bsky.social mit

Doppellesung durch die Autorinnen Manon Garcia, @clemm.bsky.social

& Diskussion mit @dclbi.bsky.social.
Wo, wann, mit wem alles: Patriarchale Gewalt und die Rolle des Strafrechts - Doppellesung und Diskussion Veranstaltungsdetails Veranstaltungsort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 (Hauptgebäude), Raum 2097 Veranstalter: Strafrechtskommision, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin Datum: 26.11.2025 Uhrzeit: 19:30 Uhr Am 25. November 2025 ist der Internationalen Tag zur Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und wir machen auf das Phänomen der geschlechtsspezifischen Gewalt aufmerksam. Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einer besonderen Doppellesung mit Manon Garcia und Christina Clemm und einer anschließenden Diskussion über patriarchale Gewalt, Frauenhass und die Rolle des Strafrechts ein. Die Autorinnen… (Siehe nächstes Foto!) Veranstaltungsbeschreibung durch den Deutschen Juristinnenbund: Am 25. November 2025 ist der Internationalen Tag zur Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und wir machen auf das Phänomen der geschlechtsspezifischen Gewalt aufmerksam. Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einer besonderen Doppellesung mit Manon Garcia und Christina Clemm und einer anschließenden Diskussion über patriarchale Gewalt, Frauenhass und die Rolle des Strafrechts ein. Die Autorinnen werden Teile ihrer Bücher vorlesen und gleichzeitig ins Gespräch mit Dilken Celebi kommen. Sie ist Vorsitzende der Strafrechtskommission des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes und befasst sich ebenfalls mit der strafrechtlichen Erfassung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt. Im Gespräch werden sie sich der Frage widmen, wie sich patriarchale Gewalt verstehen lässt, welche Ausmaße und Formen sie annimmt, wie eine Gesellschaft darauf reagieren kann und welche Rolle das Strafrecht in diesem Kontext einnehmen kann oder muss. Wir freuen uns auf einen inspirierenden Abend, der zum Nachdenken anregt und zum Austausch einlädt. Ihre Teilnahme unterstützt wichtige Debatten rund um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Schutz vor Gewalt.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ngage.bsky.social
And you were wondering what a minimum of eight extra large sized boxes crammed full with 810.000 signed petitions and a delegation of leaders in public health and women’s reproductive health and women’s rights and other advocacy leadership taking overseas flights to Europe could possibly accomplish?
Screenshot of the black & white photograph accompanying this Ms magazine article with an expansive caption; several individuals gathered together in the background are standing behind multiple very large, taped up, cardboard boxes piled on top of a large conference table, most of the boxes are still unopened. Here is the photo’s caption: FMF [Feminist Majority Foundation, https://feminist.org] delegation visits Roussel Uclaf in Paris, France, in 1991 to deliver thousands of petitions asking the company to release RU-486 to the U.S. market. Those pictured from left to right include Dr. Catherine Euvrard (Roussel Uclaf), Dr. Myron Allukian (president, American Public Health Association), Dr. Judith Resnick, Peg Yorkin (FMF), Patricia Ireland (NOW [National Organization for Women]), Dr. Eduoard Sakiz (Roussel Uclaf), Eleanor Smeal (FMF), Ariel Mouttet (Roussel Uclaf), Allan Rosenfield (dean, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health), Dr. Carl Djerrasi (Stanford University) and Dr. Diane Robins. (Jennifer Jackman [FMF director of policy and research])
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
ngage.bsky.social
@artefr.bsky.social reporting from Germany where more than 60 women in the arts, research, political contexts … have addressed an open letter to the German chancellor demanding that he institute & reenforce policies securing women’s rights & safety without firing up racist diatribes.
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L'actu en Europe Lettre à Merz : des femmes réclament plus de sécurité en Allemagne 3 min (vidéo) disponible du 28/10/2025 au 04/11/2025 En Allemagne, plus de soixante femmes issues du monde de l'art, de la recherche, de la politique et de la société civile ont adressé une lettre ouverte au chancelier Merz. Elles y appellent à renforcer la sécurité des femmes, sans alimenter de discours racistes. Parmi leurs revendications: une justice plus rigoureuse, davantage de lieux de protection et un meilleur éclairage des espaces publics. Pays: France, Allemagne Année: 2025
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Unfortunately when a country (the executive branch) signs but does not ensure that its legislators confirm the obligations under an international agreement (that’s called ratification), it will not be subject to the agreement. As a rule, the US co-authors intl agreements only not to ratify them.
International Criminal Court member states A remarkable 123 countries are ICC member states, voluntarily becoming party to the Court's founding treaty, the Rome Statute. Most of Europe, Latin America and Africa are states parties to the Rome Statute. Yet big gaps remain in the Middle-East North Africa and in Asia in particular - and major powers such as China, India and the United States remain outside the system. USA-map and explanation: The United States of America has signed the Rome Statute, but has indicated it does not intend to ratify it. The US has partially incorporated Rome Statute offenses into national laws, and has an observer status during the Assembly of States Parties.
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ngage.bsky.social
This kind of information needs alttext.

Here you go, @seadogdean.bsky.social - 💡🔦🙏🙏🙏 for sharing all these states’ increases in health insurance expenses unless the republicans solve the impasse.
Three pictures (of the speaker of the US House of Representatives, the 47th president & the vice president) on a black backdrop, long text which Seadog Dean @seadogdean.bsky.social posted on Oct 25, 2025: DOZENS OF STATES JUST RELEASED AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PREMIUMS FOR NEXT YEAR. THIS IS WHAT MILLIONS OF FAMILIES ARE FACING IF REPUBLICANS CONTINUE TO DO NOTHING. A FAMILY OF FOUR MAKING $130,000 IN MAINE WOULD FACE AN INCREASE OF $16,100 IN ANNUAL PREMIUMS NEXT YEAR. IN MARYLAND, A 60-YEAR-OLD COUPLE MAKING $85,000 PER YEAR COULD PAY AN ADDITIONAL $13,700. IN MINNESOTA, A 60-YEAR-OLD COUPLE MAKING $85,000 PER YEAR THE COST MIGHT BE $15,500 MORE. IN NEVADA, A 60-YEAR-OLD COUPLE MAKING $85,000 PER YEAR COULD PAY AN ADDITIONAL $18,100. IN KENTUCKY, A 60-YEAR-OLD COUPLE MAKING $85,000 PER YEAR COULD FACE AN INCREASE OF $23,700. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING TO STOP!
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Re-amplifying with this snapshot of my friend, a soprano, yesterday. About to shake the foundations of the bldgs in Frankfurt/Main, Germany with her VOICE.
My friend Elizabeth N, a soprano, with tambourine in her hands and about to sing at the #NoKings solidarity protest in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. What you see is an air filled unicorn and Elizabeth’s comparatively small hands holding her tambourine. A man is talking into a microphone next to her.
October 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Sorry Halloween, I am with
@t-shelter.bsky.social 100%.
@t-shelter wrote: In solidarity with the courageous AmphiFa Frogs of Portland, tell that American capitalist crap called Halloween to go fuck itself. This is a screenshot of the skeet of 4.03 pm today after, as it turns out, I was the first to like it (at 4.13 pm).
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
ngage.bsky.social
For increased readership, amplifying the memorandum from the physician to the president @ the White House with #alttext.
PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE MEMORANDUM October 10, 2025 TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY FROM: Sean P. Barbella, D.O. PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness. Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters. In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations. President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction. SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Very, very instructive thread. 🧵
With #Alttext for good measure.
Using Melanie D‘Arrigo‘s own eloquent wording: „…photo of masked, armed men [in military gear] pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community [in Chicago]…“
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Amplifying with #alttext as far as that is possible.
The image lists ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES FOR THE NOVEMBER 4, 2025 ELECTIONS state by state. It is unfortunately not possible to copy the table for this alttext. Register to vote or check your registration at WhenWeAllVote.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ngage.bsky.social
This is setting the record straight about what longstanding human rights based policy the Democrats are insisting on maintaining & thanks @bingley567.bsky.social so much for sharing these images from X.

Amplifying with #alttext.
#Alttext forever
Always take a few seconds to add #Alttext
There are three pieces to this post copied from X: 1. JD Vance: "There's a lot of emergency healthcare at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens. That was funded by the federal government. We turned off that funding because of course we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed and then have those hospital services go to illegal aliens." 2. Tweet copied by Some Call Me Tim @timotjb I've worked in hospitals for two decades. He is referring to longstanding federal law that requires emergency departments to stabilize a patient before turning them away. This has nothing to do with present Democratic demands. It has to do with human beings not watching other humans bleed out 3. Tweet by Ben Yelin @byelin I may be a bleeding heart but I think it's good to not just let any human being die when they need emergency care.
October 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Morgenröte im Südhessischen.
Rot werdende Blätter an einem noch niedrig gewachsenen japanischen Ahorn und rechts davon, höher wachsend, einem Busch, im Kontrast viel hoch gewachsener sehr üppiger grüner Rasen voller sog. Unkraut und rechts vorne befinden sich gelbe Blüten an einer Pflanze dessen Name mir entfällt.
October 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Jesse, please use alttext for your brilliant, bitterly spot-on, graphically beautifully crafted communication. 🙏
@jesseduquette writes in legible majuscules, black ink on white background, WE PAID REPARATIONS TO SLAVE OWNERS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR WE LET THOSE SLAVE - OWNING CONFEDERATES BECOME TEACHERS, JUDGES, AND COPS WE SENT THE FBI TO MURDER 2I-YEAR-OLD FRED HAMPTON WHILE HE SLEPT WE DROPPED A BOMB ON A BUILDING IN PHILADELPHIA WITH CHILDREN INSIDE WE ALLOWED MASSACRES OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM TULSA TO ROSEWOOD TO OCOEE TO BONANZA OF COURSE OUR GESTAPO INVADED A HOME BELONGING TO BLACK FAMILIES WITHOUT A WARRANT AND DRAGGED THE CHILDREN OUTSIDE, NAKED AND ZIP-TIED
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Good luck figuring out your area’s soil type. It has hopefully not changed with the #shutdown.

Your screenshots are over the top worthy of an alttext for everyone to appreciate, thanks so much for sharing
@rigoflo76.bsky.social & @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 👇💡🙏✍️
@rigoflo76 writes I was just trying to find out the soil type for my area and here is this dumbass message …. SMH Below that text is a screenshot of their computer screen showing a website page of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service with a notice written on an extra text-block highlighted by a brown background. The notice text: Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people. A screenshot for context; @rifoflo76 was responding to @joycewhitevance who had pointed to the DOJ’s own Hatch Act violation on the DOJ webpage where the Hatch Act is explained (…which generally prohibits DOJ employees from engaging in partisan political activities and speech). At the top of Joyce’s screenshot of her own computer screen showing the DOJ Justice Management Division page on the Hatch Act, there is a new statement highlighted with a light blue strip: “Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated. Please refer to the Department of Justice's contingency plan for more information.”
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Just a little amplifying photo with some amplifying #alttext.
Snapshot of a mischievous, smiling Jimmy Kimmel, below him of RFK, Jr speaking at a microphone. The accompanying text reads: “"ACCORDING TO A NEW POLL FROM QUINNIPIAC, A WHOPPING 57% OF REGISTERED VOTERS SAY THEY ARE NOT CONFIDENT IN INFORMATION COMING FROM HEALTH SECRETARY ROBERT KENNEDY, AND THE OTHER 43% TOOK HIS ADVICE AND DIED." JIMMY KIMMEL
September 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Amplifying #WithAlttext of course.

Devastating.
The Telegraph Featuring an opinion piece by PM Keir Starmer, there are pictures of him, decidedly not smiling, above this headline and lead sentence: The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It's time to give communities back control Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right Keir Starmer 25 Sep 2025, 10:30pm
September 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
ngage.bsky.social
#ampliflyWithALTTEXT
Meddley of NYT headlines from one day, from the “today” tab Trump Justice Dept. Closed Inquiry Into Border Chief for Accepting Cash Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity Trump Is Expanding the National Guard's Role. Some Former Generals Worry. Trump Demands That Bondi Move 'Now' to Prosecute Foes His demand came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of his most-reviled adversaries, Letitia James and James Comey.
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Amplifying this modern history lesson with #alttext.
#AlwaysAlttext
#AlttextForever
Tyler Bowyer @tylerbowyer X.com This is the first documented time in modern history that the sitting President & Vice President will honor any citizen by attending a memorial together outside of a former President. As such, it will be the first time that both will speak at one. Thank you @POTUS @VP! For CK. Readers added context This is not true. While in office Obama and Biden attended many funerals and memorials together including for Daniel Inouye, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Beau Biden, Dorothy Height, and the Big Branch miners.
September 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ngage.bsky.social
To put my two cents in, if I may.

La politique aux ÉU ne s’intéresse pas de tout aux sciences, pas plus que la justice américaine et ceci depuis longtemps.

@arielcomedy.bsky.social explique ce phénomène de façon très claire :
Ariel Elias à X, aka Twitter in 2022 @Ariel _Comedy Tomatoes are the most patriotic plant. Because botanically, tomatoes are a fruit. But according to an 1893 Supreme Court ruling, they're a vegetable. And there's nothing more American than a legal decision that disagrees with science. 11:45 AM • 10/3/22 • Twitter for Android
September 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Amplifying this procedural suggestion with

#alttext.
btuckertime on X, fka Twitter Look, Tom Homan has not had a trial and has never been proven guilty. So let's all take a step back and do what he would do - send him to a secret prison in El Salvador until we can figure this out. 4k liked 71 comments 385 retweets 76 something else - don’t recognize the symbol
September 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ngage.bsky.social
Amplifying this snapshot of #JimmyKimmel on his tv stage with #Alttext
YouTube.com/The Ring of Fire Experts Warn Kimmel Suspension Could Constitute Illegal 'Jawboning' First Amendment scholar Evelyn Douek condemned ABC's decision to yank Jimmy Kimmel from the air, calling it a blatant example of "jawboning," where government officials pressure private companies to silence speech. She argued the Trump administration's FCC strong-arming ABC was far more alarming than past disputes over social media moderation, raising urgent concerns about the use of federal power to muzzle political satire.
September 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
ngage.bsky.social
Once again, #amplifying with #alttext

Sept 21 deadline, stay put or rush back IMMEDIATELY, do not pass go, do not collect $ 200.

To pay $ 100,000 or not to pay $ 100,000 ?
IMPORTANT ADVISORY: New travel restriction for H-1B visa holders Hi all--We have now reviewed the actual text of today's Presidential Proclamation on H-1B visas, which you can find here: Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers - The White House. Here's what you need to know: First, the proclamation is structured as a travel restriction. Beginning at 12:01 am eastern time on September 21, 2025 (so, 9:01 pm Pacific time tomorrow), individuals will not be able to enter/return to the U.S. in H-1B status unless their petition has an additional $100,000 payment associated with it. What you need to do: • If you are in H-1B status and are in the U.S., you should remain in the U.S. for the foreseeable future. We know this may interrupt your travel plans. But the critical thing is to stay in the U.S. in order to avoid being denied reentry. • While the proclamation doesn't reference H-4 dependents, we also recommend that H-4s remain in the U.S. • If you are in H-1B or H-4 status and are currently outside the U.S., we strongly recommend that you do what you can to return to the U.S. tomorrow before the deadline. The Proclamation was released within the last 30 minutes, so we realize that there isn't much time to make sudden travel arrangements. But again, we strongly encourage you to do your best to return. I will be updating this post later this evening with a form for people to fill out if they are currently outside the U.S. with an H-1B visa. We want to be able to follow up with each individual and provide support and guidance as they try to return within the next 28 hours. The proclamation does not impact any other visa statuses. There is other content about the pause in processing H-1B petitions for individuals who are outside the U.S. At this time, we do not interpret this to immediately impact extensions of H-1B status or changes of status to H-1B as long as you are currently in the U.S. …..
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM