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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 22h

Those who want to rule forever start by trying to silence the women. #resist

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

As Democratic Institutions Erode, Women See a Loss of Rights

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking as The Mothership of course I'm glad to be joining a group of lovely people dedicated to protecting the world's children.

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People

The Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues fosters cross-disciplinary research and dialogue on critical and emerging global children's issues.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 16d

Let's do some medical research into all the problems we can link to men and male behavior. Also: autism is part of natural human diversity.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

Autistic moms feel shamed and stigmatized by Trump’s Tylenol warning

Trump's remarks linking Tylenol to autism are a return to an era when mothers were blamed for children developing the disorder.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 16d

Leaving prison has costs. "Money in hand is the key to breaking cycles of incarceration."

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Why we’re giving incarcerated women cash relief

We’re the first project to give women in prison recurring cash support. Our long-term goal is prison abolition

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 22d

Wise words from the #femisphere

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 23d

Every single one of them got that vaccine.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 23d

#Shero

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

And now, @washingtonpost.com has fired me, the last Black staff columnist left.

All for doing my job — condemning political violence, critiquing empty rhetoric and noting America’s tolerance for violence and hatred coming from white men.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 23d

What's the one thing all the violent extremists have in common?

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Want to stop political violence? Start by addressing hostile sexism.

In her new book, an expert on violent extremism lays out evidence that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — so national security officials need to do something about it.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 24d

Here's what I'll be doing today. It'll be livestreamed on ICRW's Instagram. #ArtIsResistance

The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 26d

The antidote to democratic backsliding isn't to pull our punches. It's to increase our demands for #genderequity and political #inclusion. #InternationalDayofDemocracy

The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 26d

Democracies have seen slow but steady increase in numbers of women and gender-diverse individuals in political leadership roles. So why are we now facing so much backsliding? Oh . . .
#IDD2025

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Democracy Can’t Survive Without Gender Equality - ICRW

As we recognize the 18th International Day of Democracy, the reality is stark: democratic governance is on the decline. Both the International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy 2025 and the Freedom Hou...

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · 28d

We could do this everywhere, including the United States. IF we cared more about our children than we did about very old, very rich men.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...

A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · Sep 12

Shelley Hall miscarried at 10 weeks — then had to prove it to strangers before getting lifesaving care. Texas’ HB 7 would turn her nightmare into law, letting anyone sue over abortion pills. Project 2025 allies want to ban mifepristone nationwide, endangering millions.

Read more:

Project 2025 September 10th Update

This week, GPAHE examines how Texas is putting Project 2025’s stance against women’s reproductive rights into practice with heartbreaking consequences. We’ll also look at Project 2025’s policies of re...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 10

RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence.

Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this.

We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.

Kennedy commission child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said violence could be fault of antidepressants, social media and video games, but not guns.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Sep 10

We can never stop organizing, especially not when we make progress. #NiUnaMenos
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What Is a Democracy without Women’s Rights?

During four decades of democratic governance in Argentina, a lot has been achieved in terms of women’s rights and gender equality. More recently, however, in every regional meeting bringing together f...

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 26

This doesn't need to happen. Not only do we know how to prevent these deaths, it's actually cost-effective to do it. So we have to assume it's because someone benefits from letting this happen.
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Mississippi declares public health emergency over rising infant mortality rate

(CNN) — The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · Aug 22

President Trump’s continued power grab in the nation’s capital, and his threat to expand his militarized takeover to other Democratic-led cities, is setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits him prominently against a familiar political foe: Black women.

Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump's political power grab

“This is in many ways a political warning, a political message, to say to these Black women and other Black mayors and other women of color mayors, ‘Your leadership can be challenged, too.’”

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 21

Get offline, read a book and talk to your neighbors (taking my own advice immediately)

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is fascinating!! Researchers simulated a social media platform populated entirely by OpenAI chatbots and found none of their interventions could stop the platform itself from turning into a polarized, hellscape full of echo chambers. futurism.com/social-netwo...

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wrote a thing. #careeconomy #genderequality

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Reflections on Care: Lessons from the Past, Demands for the Future

What if national economic statistics captured the value of care labor? What if caregiver earnings reflected the real value of their labor…

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love this and am glad Erica Chenowith managed to sneak into the usually unbearable Foreign Affairs! "Misogyny and authoritarianism are not just common comorbidities but mutually reinforcing ills." www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/chi...

Revenge of the Patriarchs

Why autocrats fear women.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · Aug 15

Christian nationalism has moved from the margins to the center of political power, shaping laws, dismantling public institutions, and now linked to deadly violence. In response, a broad coalition of citizens is pushing back to defend democratic values and the separation of church and state.

Summer Awakening: Americans Push Back Against Christian Nationalism

In the face of a deadly political assassination and a sweeping rise of Christian nationalism across government institutions, America is waking up. From church assemblies to city newspapers, and from t...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Aug 15

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ask yourselves why men in power would want our children to die of preventable diseases. Who benefits? And should we look the other way when the rules are different for themselves and their own children?

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 15

Predictably, RFK Jr. isn’t helping.

Anti-vaxxers are making excuses for the CDC shooter

RFK Jr. isn't helping.

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The Mothership @mothership2024.bsky.social · Aug 16

Worth a read. Giving children stories shouldn't be controversial.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 16

Many readers now think of Margaret Wise Brown titles like “The Runaway Bunny” as tranquil introductions to storytelling. But the books, like their author, were radical for their time.

The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”

Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art.

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