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Carol J Adams

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author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory" and other books. Activist. Check out "Protest Kitchen" as we cope with Republican rollbacks to climate protection. Vegan cook and recipe collector. caroljadams.com .. more

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Carol J. Adams is an American writer, feminist, and animal rights advocate. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals. She was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2011. .. more

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

Her ignorance is not benign, nor was what she saw—the naturalizing and normalizing of female reproductive oppression." I know we are struggling with so much disinformation and manipulation of our viewpoints, but I expected more of @thenewyorker.bsky.social than such fawning over captive pregnancy.

Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

and farrowing crates the majority of female pigs are confined in? (Minnesota, unlike a few other states, has banned neither.) It appears she can follow a chocolate chip cookie from inception to consumption, but cannot stop to ask, why was this moment of voyeurism staged? 5/

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

by artificial insemination to induced birth for entertainment. Does Goldfield know that many states had to amend their bestiality laws because farms practices including forced impregnation so closely resemble those outlawed acts? Did Goldfield wonder how it was that this sow escaped the gestation 4/

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

because 'the staff… just induced an enormous sow' at the Minnesota State Fair, but shouldn’t Hannah Goldfield register a slightly more educated insight into what she has just witnessed and why? That sow's pregnancy was manipulated from
beginning to end, from being forcibly impregnated 3/

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

The New Yorker chose not to print my letter in response, which asked: "What sort of naive food culture writer does the New
Yorker have on staff? Perhaps the average 'bacon,' 'ham,' or 'pork chop' consumer might assume a naïve 'oh gee' pose when they realize they are 'lucky' 2/

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 7h

Why would the @newyorker.com publish this embarrassing, inane, ignorant comment by their food writer Hannah Goldfield who visited "the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals" and wrote "(If you’re lucky, the staff will have just induced an enormous sow.)" 1/

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29d

At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.

Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair

Many of the staffers at Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar start as teen-agers. Some of them are committed for life.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

One of the biggest and most scandalous cover-ups in recent history is the Trump Administration's handling of the Epstein Files.

What's in there must be so damning that Trump is willing to burn down the country rather than let Americans see it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Finally, a major media outlet will be headed by a true free speech warrior who got her start trying to get her professors fired

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

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Isa Leshko ❌👑 @isaleshko.bsky.social · 7d

It is not the least bit surprising that the dude who played with Trump’s hair before the 2016 election wants to “avoid politics” now.

a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man

ALT: a man in a suit and tie touches the head of another man

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 8d

Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.

She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 8d

In a world of Republican sycophants and autocratic wannabes, be--in your very own way--a Jane Goodall. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11d

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 12d

the other [the calf] is often deprived even of the colostrum, the first milk from their mother, because even that has been monetized." /2 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

5 Dairy Myths Experts Want to Correct

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 12d

My comment on the Times article: "One thing for sure: plant milk is healthier for the cow and her calf. The one is reproductively exploited for several years and then herself sent to become hamburger /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

5 Dairy Myths Experts Want to Correct

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13d

Like the abusive ex boyfriend who declares that the woman is a hateful bitch, and the worst person to ever live, who nevertheless keeps seeking her out by, say, showing up at her job.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13d

Is it too obvious to point out how gendered this is: that the right sees themselves as a collective husband or father, trying to enforce his right to the attention, care, and comfort provided by his wife and mother—that is, American liberals?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13d

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Ken Starr, whose report helped impeach Bill Clinton, is among the names mentioned in the latest Epstein document drop.
In 2008, Epstein suggested Starr explain his role, even drafting language for him: “I don’t mean to put words in your eloquent mouth…”

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Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com · 16d

"Autism didn't exist before Tylenol"

Look literally every single Jane Austen character has a touch of neurodivergence

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 16d

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18d

Charlie Kirk's grieving widow had just left the stage moments before the fireworks for Trump kicked off.

Just so wildly and blatantly inappropriate for a memorial service for someone else.

Fucking nuts.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 18d

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 18d

Hmm. I didn't notice! Maybe we earn them in the real world by being anti-fascist!

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 18d

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

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Carol J Adams @caroljadams.bsky.social · 18d

Still pondering the fact that today's New York Times "Spelling Bee" puzzle allows the word "antifa."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

"US Tiktok users would be asked to shift to new app" controlled by Trump friends Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Good fuckin' luck with that.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23d

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27d

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

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