Nothing in reality fits neatly into human-derived categories, including what we call biological sex. In science, we make models of the world to help us understand and communicate. But a model is not the thing it represents. To think otherwise is error, and hubris.

On trans rights as reproductive rights: “Anxiety about trans people & reproduction, & the laws & rules that it produces, cut both ways… The objective is to control the means of reproduction. That’s usually the goal of movements that purport to protect women & girls.”

AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:

In the late 1960s, Richard Cash, a young public-health researcher, showed that a simple cocktail of salt, sugar and clean water could check the ravages of cholera and other diseases. The innovation saved an estimated 50 million lives. He has died at 83.

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a crime to intervene in her miscarriage Via @propublica:

I'm a socialist voting Harris 😩 Here's why 🧵 - Dems are all the ol' capitalist America problems that we're used to, from AOC to Dick Cheney. Trump is christian qanon billionaire fascism. We can beat capital, fascists kill us pretty quick. Hard to build revolution if we're dead

We tell ourselves that if we have money we’d be brave Jeff Bezos has $204 billion and he’s a coward

Naval Academy disinvites historian @ruthbenghiat from a history department lecture under pressure from the Heritage Foundation--founders of Project 2025. Intended lecture was what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule through history

If you actually seriously give a single care about climate change or the environment, you will not vote for Jill Stein. We don’t have another 4 years on Trump to waste. Fight to win, not to lose. #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue

Higher social support tied to more breast cancer screening #radiology #mammography #breastcancer @AmericanCancer https://t.co/fX17JGuCjq

News: First wave of COVID-19 increased risk of heart attack, stroke up to three years later https://t.co/B2ICfyxWzY

This is what things looks like at 1.5 degrees of warming. Think about what it looks like at twice that, which is where we’re headed unless we do a *lot* more very quickly.

Not a cold.

A year (!) of writing in one tweet: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all hostages now. Cease fire. Let the aid flow. Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are leaving. Without hope for a shared future this does not end.

We often talk about being coerced into assisted suicide by relatives but the real danger is being coerced by circumstances. From social care to pain relief, “I want the choice to die” will only truly be a free choice when society gives desperate people a genuine alternative.

Transphobia is just copy-pasted homophobia and I'm sick of it

This exchange should be studied for a long time. The interviewer read the book, not to gain new insight, but to get angry that it wasn't written from the perspective he preferred. He expected Coates to crumble under his onslaught. But Coates didn't. That's what makes it powerful.

This week in key Covid publications: —Young, healthy individuals with mild cases had objective cognitive deficits at 1-year that they did not perceive —Older, hospitalized adults with severe Covid had an equivalent of 20 years of decline in cognitive performance at 1-year