Society

More density would also narrow racial pay gaps, while a decline in density correlated to surges in wealth inequality

Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at Politics and Prose, an independent bookshop and venerable Washington institution, but still has time to explain his arm tattoos.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has published official guidelines that address how to showcase women athletes without overly sexualizing the camera angles.

A federal judge tossed out the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to access West Virginia’s unredacted voter rolls, which marks 13 straight court losses for the department’s floundering effort to seize sensitive voter data from every state.

These facts lead to the inexorable conclusion that the “settlement” terms, the individuals who signed the “settlement” as well as the putative beneficiaries of the “settlement,” demonstrate a shared, unitary interest.

The Justice Department can’t access New York’s unredacted voter roll, a judge said in handing the federal government yet another loss in court in its quest to obtain the lists from all 50 states.

Women’s health is chronically underfunded, under-researched, and misunderstood – receiving just 2% of private healthcare funds globally. In fact, most clinical trials were not required to include women until a ruling change in 1993. Consequently, the male body has been treated as the default in medical research, despite substantial physical and biological differences between men and women.

I visited a landfill in Norway today. Almost everything is sorted, and properly sorted waste can be disposed of free of charge. Unsorted residual waste costs money to throw away.

Heres the rest.

Interesting read. A lot of it certainly rang true for me, especially dealing with identity outside of parenting and keeping adult contact over summer!

1.4 Mission Statement The mission of the company is the well-being of all people. To accomplish this goal we will operate business ventures designed to generate income through which we can secure our own well-being and consequently become empowered to help others.

I had the boardwalk between the house and the summer cottage replaced, but with twist - literally: both ends of the boardwalk now gently rise up and meet the house’s backdoor and the cottage’s terrace level, so there are no steps anywhere. Also, it’s wider than regular, commercial boardwalks. You could say it’s a boardwalk with accessibility in mind.

“We’ve gone through, we’ve cut as thin as we possibly could cut in this 10-year program but I’ll expand on that a little bit more,” Lewis told council. “If we cut capital program, we reduce our level of service. There’s no two ways about it, that is the effect. We will reduce our level of service; we’ll risk additional water main breaks; we’ll risk additional water loss. We don’t want another water main break like we had at Riverside Park. That’s a significant risk. We would increase the risk of boil water advisories.”

Last week’s 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was a major historic leap for mothers around the world, in both the developing countries and in advanced economies. Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur for Violence against Women and Girls, its Causes and Consequences presented an astoundingly thorough report titled Violence Against Mothers.

Florida’s “anti-woke” restrictions on the way university professors teach about race and gender violate the professors’ First Amendment rights, a panel of Eleventh Circuit judges decided.

A federal judge in Ohio ruled against the Trump administration Monday, citing bigoted comments President Trump and Vice President JD Vance made about immigrants.

Julie Shayne has spent the better part of her teaching career navigating campus politics made complicated by being a woman.

Same s tuff everywhere it seems

A report of the fourth year of fighting for the anti authoritarian support group in the war in the ukraine region, “solidarity collectives”

The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, also known as ARCC, aims to normalize abortion by putting a simple message where drivers can see it – on a billboard at the side of a busy road. Located at the intersection of Wharncliffe and Southdale Road in London, ON, the new 10 X 24 foot billboard proclaims, “Abortion is healthcare.”

Because the last time a Liberal PM built a pipeline it was too divisive and costly, this PM will checks notes do exactly the same thing again.

Russian cybercriminals managed to hack into a Quebec municipality’s water treatment plant systems and had the ability to wreak havoc on the crucial infrastructure before getting caught, according to Canada’s cyber spy agency.

From the linked PDF:

The legitimacy of the party of order has its material basis in the smooth reproduction of normalcy: simple things like the logistics of food and medicine, keeping the lights on and the hospitals open, keeping homes and dignities safe from violation. Legalism flows from this, and tamang proseso from that. Experiencing the insecurity of rupture and insurrection, how else would one imagine engaging with the state other than through the legitimate processes? To break with the party of order, then, means to challenge the material basis of its legitimacy and legality—for the logic of the insurrection to answer the hard questions of how to overcome specific limits, communizing food, safety, and care.

Maybe some hopecore.

Abolitionist lit from Singapore