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Abortion bans and the “pro-life” movement killed Texas woman Josseli Barnica. She was miscarrying and refused an abortion because the fetus still had a heartbeat, leaving her uterus open to infection — three days later, an infection killed her. propublica.org/article/jossel…

you don't say...

"In practice, a handful of voters in US swing states have more power to determine the speed and scale of planetary overheating than billions of other people on Earth" -- Sally Rooney irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

If you are just learning that Biden is a hypocrite this week, I don’t know what to tell you…

Now that Jason is stepping down to pursue other interests – including, happily, writing regularly for the New Statesman – I am pleased to be taking the reins for a spell as acting editor. With our superb team, I know the NS will remain essential reading pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media…

Billboards in Reykjavik paused advertising during the first three days of 2025 and instead showed only pictures of Isabelle Hupert.

i think i speak for everyone here in los angeles when i say we desperately need a link to that mike davis article, or even just a joan didion quote. every little bit helps ❤️

"A diplomat briefed on the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas credited progress in the talks in part to the influence of President-elect Donald Trump, saying it was 'the first time there has been real pressure on the Israeli side to accept a deal.'"

the most unattractive thing a man can do is use ChatGPT

Awkward for Lammy who wants more ‘liberal outrage’ on Sudan but then finds out that more of that outrage actually means he has to answer questions about UK arms sales to the UAE who is supplying weapons.

A draft of a tweet I never posted in December: Lotta people are going to suddenly care about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza now that it's Trump committing the war crimes

The day when everyone will have been against this seems to be approaching

Israeli soldiers tell Haaretz.com they were ordered to shoot at Gazans gathered at aid-distribution sites: "It's a killing field, live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars... our form of communication is gunfire." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

“I have no ideological position on this conflict. I approach it simply as a lawyer and a historian. But I sometimes wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if the current level of Israeli violence in Gaza is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is not

"According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 600 people have been killed by Israeli forces while trying to get aid since May." 🌎 Megan Gibson: A stable future for Gaza is a distant prospect newstatesman.com/international-…

I wrote something about Britain for a change.

"When everyone is a terrorist, no one is" — newstatesman.com/politics/socie… (This was an entirely predictable chain of events.)