Reposted by Daniel Patterson
POV: You got asked about the new
CDC director hunting for “hidden abortions.”
“On the one hand, Amy, I want to make a joke about this, because ‘find the hidden abortion’ sounds like a terrible board game that JD Vance makes his kids play on a Friday night.”
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“Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
Reproductive rights activists are alarmed over a pledge by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to institute nationwide abortion restrictions. Blanche, whose confirmation for attorney general is curre...
![Rich was the first to admit that City College catalyzed "a profound change in [her] conception of teaching and learning." On first arriving, she had hoped to discover an unlikely Shakespeare buried among mediocre students, whose gifts she could help cultivate. But immersed in the SEEK community, she came to see "compensatory" (or "remedial") education as part of a broader "movement for social change," the goal of which was to "break down false barriers of class & color to make all education truly open to all people who want it?" There, she realized that the "veins of possibility" run through all students and that the political potential of teaching lies not necessarily in mentoring a select handful of highly skilled individuals but in developing teaching strategies that would benefit all, regardless of their previous academic training, ability, or interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5vbws4haz2jg7ohvxiwpwkdm/bafkreigthwo47hmrvewgq2re7wgrslnnp7cjyodh37picjfgvigdp23pa4)
