Vicki Larson
@omgchronicles.bsky.social
Journalist, mom, author of "LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work" & "Not Too Old for That," co-author of “The New I Do.”
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Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.
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"the teenage girls who increasingly say they aren’t thinking about marriage are the smart ones. They shouldn’t be thinking about marriage at 17—that’s not the basis for a good marriage or a good life." msmagazine.com/2025/11/20/h...
Actually It's Good That Fewer High Schoolers Want to Get Married
Actually It's Good That Fewer High Schoolers Want to Get Married. Why worry that 17-year-old girls don't want to wed?
msmagazine.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"the teenage girls who increasingly say they aren’t thinking about marriage are the smart ones. They shouldn’t be thinking about marriage at 17—that’s not the basis for a good marriage or a good life." msmagazine.com/2025/11/20/h...
"if marriage is to remain the solid contract it once was, then today’s young women expect, & deserve, a better deal from those in their dating pool. The ability to banter, a healthy relationship with sex & a baseline respect for women would be a good place to start."
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Jobs, porn and manfluencers: the real reasons girls don’t want to get married
For the first time American teenage girls are less likely to desire a wedding than boys. Can anyone blame them?
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"if marriage is to remain the solid contract it once was, then today’s young women expect, & deserve, a better deal from those in their dating pool. The ability to banter, a healthy relationship with sex & a baseline respect for women would be a good place to start."
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
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Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.
New Reports Bring Global Solutions to Bolster U.S. Lawmakers in the Fight to Protect Reproductive Freedom - O'Neill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, released Beyond Borders, a groundbreaking report series that examines how countr...
oneill.law.georgetown.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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Thanksgiving in Wisconsin shouldn’t require math homework, but Trump’s price surge means families are counting pennies, chasing sales, and putting food back on the shelf. Every aisle’s a reminder he broke his promises and your budget.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thanksgiving in Wisconsin shouldn’t require math homework, but Trump’s price surge means families are counting pennies, chasing sales, and putting food back on the shelf. Every aisle’s a reminder he broke his promises and your budget.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
"For so many women, there’s a delicious liberation in being able to consider what we want at last, rather than what everyone wants from us."
www.the-independent.com/life-style/l...
www.the-independent.com/life-style/l...
Why ‘walkaway wives’ are leading the charge in midlife divorce
A new report shows that more women than ever are walking away from their marriages because they have ‘just had enough’. But, while husbands are left in shock after an ‘out-of-the-blue’ divorce, Flic E...
www.the-independent.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"For so many women, there’s a delicious liberation in being able to consider what we want at last, rather than what everyone wants from us."
www.the-independent.com/life-style/l...
www.the-independent.com/life-style/l...
I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but a friend was over for dinner the other night and I didn't even vacuum. That is freedom!
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but a friend was over for dinner the other night and I didn't even vacuum. That is freedom!
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Please join me in wishing President Joseph Biden a
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
Today Joe turns 83 years fierce
Thank you Joe for everything you have done and you are continuing to do for your love of the American People
Wishing you strength and love
My favorite photo of Joe
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
Today Joe turns 83 years fierce
Thank you Joe for everything you have done and you are continuing to do for your love of the American People
Wishing you strength and love
My favorite photo of Joe
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Please join me in wishing President Joseph Biden a
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
Today Joe turns 83 years fierce
Thank you Joe for everything you have done and you are continuing to do for your love of the American People
Wishing you strength and love
My favorite photo of Joe
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
Today Joe turns 83 years fierce
Thank you Joe for everything you have done and you are continuing to do for your love of the American People
Wishing you strength and love
My favorite photo of Joe
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By characterizing abortion as health care, international orgs have pushed back against abortion exceptionalism. The World Health Organization recognizes that “[a]bortion is a simple health care intervention.” Numerous countries have adopted laws and policies to align with WHO recommendations.
Global Approaches to Abortion as Health Care - O'Neill
The O’Neill Institute believes that the law is a fundamental tool for solving critical health problems.
oneill.law.georgetown.edu
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
By characterizing abortion as health care, international orgs have pushed back against abortion exceptionalism. The World Health Organization recognizes that “[a]bortion is a simple health care intervention.” Numerous countries have adopted laws and policies to align with WHO recommendations.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️⚧️
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Worth reiterating that the Coast Guard is part of DHS, not the military.
So if this is "acceptable" Coast Guard policy, it's also probably an acceptable policy at ICE, CBP, Secret Service, and other agencies under DHS if it's not already.
So if this is "acceptable" Coast Guard policy, it's also probably an acceptable policy at ICE, CBP, Secret Service, and other agencies under DHS if it's not already.
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Worth reiterating that the Coast Guard is part of DHS, not the military.
So if this is "acceptable" Coast Guard policy, it's also probably an acceptable policy at ICE, CBP, Secret Service, and other agencies under DHS if it's not already.
So if this is "acceptable" Coast Guard policy, it's also probably an acceptable policy at ICE, CBP, Secret Service, and other agencies under DHS if it's not already.
Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
www.who.int/news/item/19...
www.who.int/news/item/19...
Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
www.who.int
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
www.who.int/news/item/19...
www.who.int/news/item/19...
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These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
Why don't they understand—it's not political, it's justice for the victims who were trafficked!
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Why don't they understand—it's not political, it's justice for the victims who were trafficked!
A kiss is not just a kiss, evidently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
Kissing Has Existed for at Least 16 Million Years, Scientists Say
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A kiss is not just a kiss, evidently.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
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I went home to Southeast L.A. to cover the immigration raids there. And this week I've covered the raids in my adopted home of NC. Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--will give you hope like speaking to immigrant organizers and locals fighting back.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I went home to Southeast L.A. to cover the immigration raids there. And this week I've covered the raids in my adopted home of NC. Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--will give you hope like speaking to immigrant organizers and locals fighting back.
If you were present when a person in power said to one of your peers doing her job, "Quiet, piggy," would you stay quiet? Asking for women everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you were present when a person in power said to one of your peers doing her job, "Quiet, piggy," would you stay quiet? Asking for women everywhere.
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Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be:
They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions
They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be:
They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions
They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions
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HAYES: “2 female reporters asking obviously totally newsworthy Q’s — one gets called ‘PIGGY’ the other gets called ‘INSUBORDINATE’ because she didn’t bow and scrape to the Saudi King.”
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
HAYES: “2 female reporters asking obviously totally newsworthy Q’s — one gets called ‘PIGGY’ the other gets called ‘INSUBORDINATE’ because she didn’t bow and scrape to the Saudi King.”
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From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end
Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...