“From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period”

Just a reminder that the polices being rolled out in this national election have been rolling out in states for over 10 years (and sometimes much longer) - and many of them just flat out kill people, especially Black and brown folks, and other marginalized people. We don't have to wonder.

EMrlmrdlnz.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 10:25pm

Yep, here are the receipts

Pregnant women dying in Texas "skyrocketed" following state's abortion ban

A disturbing new report prepared exclusively for NBC News has found that the number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s d...

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25. The tipped minimum wage is $2.13.

There is no place without climate catastrophe because we are deeply interconnected. If we commit to not giving up on each other, we are also guaranteeing that nobody will give up on us. Our safety is in solidarity.

I think a lot about someone's quip about the heat dome over Portland that was melting rubber off power lines (paraphrased): "What a beautiful infrastructure we built for a world that no longer exists."

Today in "Wait, WHAT?" I learned that Gene Wolfe — recondite, abstruse SF/F author Gene Wolfe — invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips. It's on the company's own FAQ, which also implies his signature mustache may have inspired their ad mascot. www.pringles.com/en-us/faq.html

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Every American under the age of 29 has never voted in a presidential election where Trump was not on the ballot.

Public libraries, public universities—it shouldn't take a catastrophe to reveal the extent to which these places and institutions are vital community infrastructure.

I hate the "why aren't women having more kids" framing because it begins in the assumption that women's duty is to reproduce and their decisions are wrong. I'd love to see more "what do women want? whats keeping them from achieving it? how can we make that possible?"