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Today is #BandcampFriday, when Bandcamp waive their fee and artists keep their proceeds. ✨ There’s a lot of lovely new faces here on my page! 👋 If you’re into Scottish folk music, Scots language and song or would simply like to support an independent artist, can I please signpost you to download my compilation album on Bandcamp? 🏴🌸
32 full band songs telling Scotland’s stories, songs, traditions and folklore in both Scots and English.
🎶🔗→ https://ionafyfe.bandcamp.com/album/iona-fyfe-digital-download-compilation
And ahead of her new album in September, Rhiannon GIddens with Justin Robinson for fresh new old-timey music
https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com/album/what-did-the-blackbird-say-to-the-crow
Second #BandCampFriday score: Big Thief's new album:
Relatively modest #BandCampFriday haul this month. Different music for different moods.
Transcendant music from the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
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Included in Missouri's Amendment 3 is a provision banning #transgender care for minors.
Keep in mind, Missouri already passed a law banning #gender-affirming care for #trans kids. That's all such care, including hormonal. Gender-affirming care for cis kids using the same medications and procedures (such as puberty blockers) is of course, still allowed, because these treatments are safe and are administered thoughtfully by trained professionals. This ban absolutely should be overturned, but won't be anytime soon by our GOP legislature.
So why include the ban on the already-banned transgender care for minors in Amendment 3? Because that's the only way they think the #AbortionBan will pass (openly admitted in an organizing meeting).
Once again, the GOP is using #transphobia to further their agenda of oppression. Don't fall for it! Don't be transphobic!
Vote NO on Amendment 3 this November in #Missouri.
With Amendments 4 and 5 reduced to ashes, time to move on to the next terrible idea put on the ballot by the #Missouri #GOP: Amendment 3, on the ballot in November.
Vote NO on Amendment 3.
Amendment 3 would remove the constitutional right to #abortion care that Missourians voted for in 2024, returning abortion control to our GOP legislature (which passed an abortion ban ahead of Dobbs, so giddy are they about controlling pregnant people's bodies).
Under Amendment 3, abortion would be "protected" only in cases of "medical emergency" or fetal anomaly (and we've seen what avoidably tragic results that's produced in other states) or in very limited cases of rape and incest up to 12 weeks. It's is, for all intents and purposes, an #AbortionBan.
AND, icing on the cake, GOP legislators are trying to use #transphobia to get the abortion ban to pass...
Great piece by Jason Okundaye arguing for a progressive critique of institutional diversity practices “capable of scrutinising how for many organisations and corporations symbolic representation has been a substitute for deeper reform, leaving it vulnerable to just this kind of backlash”
“Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a mascot, one who was particularly expedient for an institution that had been regularly embarrassed by its historic record on race: too few black students (in my cohort at Cambridge matriculating in 2015 there were only 15 black males out of 3,449 students); single-figure black academics (which is still the case); allegations of institutional racism. Independent of the merits or pitfalls of his own scholarship, what success looked like for Arday in this role was limited; what accountability could look like if misconduct occurred was constrained by him being a vehicle for Cambridge to signal its institutional progress.”
There’s a newly launched drive to unionize Harvard’s professional librarians and when the organizers asked us what issues we might want them to address, I said I wanted protection against being required to incorporate AI hallucinations in my work, a profound violation of my professional ethics. https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
Included in Missouri's Amendment 3 is a provision banning #transgender care for minors.
Keep in mind, Missouri already passed a law banning #gender-affirming care for #trans kids. That's all such care, including hormonal. Gender-affirming care for cis kids using the same medications and procedures (such as puberty blockers) is of course, still allowed, because these treatments are safe and are administered thoughtfully by trained professionals. This ban absolutely should be overturned, but won't be anytime soon by our GOP legislature.
So why include the ban on the already-banned transgender care for minors in Amendment 3? Because that's the only way they think the #AbortionBan will pass (openly admitted in an organizing meeting).
Once again, the GOP is using #transphobia to further their agenda of oppression. Don't fall for it! Don't be transphobic!
Vote NO on Amendment 3 this November in #Missouri.
With Amendments 4 and 5 reduced to ashes, time to move on to the next terrible idea put on the ballot by the #Missouri #GOP: Amendment 3, on the ballot in November.
Vote NO on Amendment 3.
Amendment 3 would remove the constitutional right to #abortion care that Missourians voted for in 2024, returning abortion control to our GOP legislature (which passed an abortion ban ahead of Dobbs, so giddy are they about controlling pregnant people's bodies).
Under Amendment 3, abortion would be "protected" only in cases of "medical emergency" or fetal anomaly (and we've seen what avoidably tragic results that's produced in other states) or in very limited cases of rape and incest up to 12 weeks. It's is, for all intents and purposes, an #AbortionBan.
AND, icing on the cake, GOP legislators are trying to use #transphobia to get the abortion ban to pass...
GOP politicians in #Missouri wasted so much time this legislative session pushing these measures onto the ballot, against widespread and fierce opposition. They were told, over and over again, that these were bad ideas and why they were bad ideas. Nevertheless, they persisted, and have received their comeuppance.
It's the GOP, so it's not like they would have spent the time coming up with proposals that would improve lives and opportunities for Missourians, but there is so much that could be done by a legislature interested in the business of government, rather than doing the bidding of dark money donors.
Good news out of #Missouri this primary #election! Voters resoundingly rejected both Amendment 4 and Amendment 5, which had been placed on the ballot by our GOP-dominated legislature in an attempt to strip more power from voters (GOP politicians hate voters. They ❤️ donors).
Amendment 4 would have made it nearly impossible for citizen-initiated ballot measures to succeed, while keeping the current, lower bar for legislature-initiated measures.
Amendment 5 would have phased out the state income #tax and gave the legislature the power to replace the revenue through raising/creating sales taxes on all goods and services. The rich would pay less tax and the legislature would decide who wins and loses in this sales tax free-for-all.
Both measures went down in flames.
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
They didn't just lose; they lost in *every* county. Not just every congressional district. EVERY. COUNTY.
The exhibitions I curate couldn’t happen without the work my colleague Susi Barbarossa does to make sure rare and fragile materials are safely displayed. In this post she takes us behind the scenes of constructing a cradle to show a book with a large foldout map of the Siege of Yorktown. https://preservation.library.harvard.edu/news/2026/07/unusual-support
Science populariser Ethan Siegel tries his hand at the history of astronomy of the Early Modern period on Starts with a Bang, and fails miserably 'histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/no-ethan-kepler-did-not-change-his-mind/
One thousand people gathered in Overland, #Missouri (near #StLouis) on Sunday night in a vigil for Glendy and Nixon Perez, the asylum-seekers from Guatemala who were murdered after Nixon's deportation and Glendy's self-deportation. They left behind three children. All courtesy of #ICE, this administration's racist policies, and Congressional cowardice on #immigration.
It's primary day! Vote!
MO:
•CD 1: Cori Bush
VA:
•CD 1: Salaam Bhatti
•CD 8: Mo Seifeldein
MI:
•US Senate: Dr. Abdul El Sayed
•CD 7: William Lawrence
•CD 11: Aisha Farooqi
•CD 13: Donovan McKinney
•CD 12: Rashida Tlaib
•AG: Eli Savit
Share your picks! Let's elect working class leaders to office!