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Huge congrats to Melanie McFarland for winning a Sigma Delta Chi award in Cultural Criticism for her Salon.com writing on late-night comedy in 2023, including a deep dive into gender and the host's chair, "A dude and a desk: Why women really don't get to host late-night TV," hailed by the judges as "a great blend of scholarship and commentary." https://lnkd.in/giPt3ubw

"The loudest voices within the AI doomer camp have been disproportionately responsible for launching and sustaining the very technological race that they now claim could doom humanity."

“You are cutting corners, you are eliminating safety procedures, you are sticking it to your employees, you are cutting back jobs because you are trying to squeeze every piece of profit you can out of this company,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. “You are strip-mining Boeing.”

Are dreams trying to send you a warning about your health?

"Not only is conflict natural, but conflict is surging." Salon spoke to author and educator William Ury about his new book, “Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In an Age of Conflict,” and why we need to rethink our understanding of conflict.

In the heart of Idaho, two pregnant women, Rebecca Vincen-Brown and Jillaine St. Michel, faced harrowing circumstances during a time when they were joyfully trying to expand their families. Their experiences as pregnant people took traumatic turns when they both learned that their fetuses were not viable. Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws made it impossible for them to terminate. For Rebecca, her initial joy turned to fear when a critical test result on the health of her fetus came back "inconclusive.” "From there, we held off on getting ready for the baby,” she told Salon. “I had hope, but at the same time, in your stomach, you kind of knew something wasn't right.” An ultrasound later detected “several fetal abnormalities,” and Rebecca learned that her fetus had severe genetic and developmental conditions affecting multiple organ systems. If the infant were even born alive, "swallowing, eating or anything like that outside of the womb would have been impossible," she explained. For Jillaine, she was filled with uncertainty and anguish when an anatomy scan uncovered abnormalities in the fetus's arms. As consultations progressed, Jillaine and her husband faced the grim reality: their fetus had severe genetic and developmental conditions. Turning to their doctor for guidance, the couple sought assistance in receiving abortion services. Instead, the doctor helplessly handed them a sheet of paper with a list of clinics in other states. The doctor told said, “I don't even know how updated this is, the laws are changing so rapidly in other places. This is the best we can do here because it’s illegal in our state.” Both women were forced to travel out of state and spend thousands of dollars to seek critical abortion care. "It was not a knee-jerk reaction, it was not a knee-jerk decision," Rebecca explained. “It was not a birth control decision. It was based on many tests.” Their stories underscore the ramifications of restrictive abortion legislation and how it affects families. "Every patient is a different person, and they have different thoughts about what they want to do. The key is to provide options," one advocate said. On top of navigating logistical hurdles, these women faced the profound grief of losing a child. They are grieving mothers. In a new reported story for Salon, Nicole Karlis details how Rebecca and Jillaine’s pregnancies — which were very much wanted — ended in grief, despair and in one case, profound physical trauma. Karlis explores the real impact of restrictive abortion laws in Idaho and beyond.

Salon’s Editor at Large D. Watkins has won a James Beard Media Award in the Beverage category! In his award-winning essay, “Navigating the new sober boom,” Watkins spoke to bartenders, friends, experts and more about what it means to live a zero-proof life. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e3x62HwG

"Essentially banks are betting against us stopping the climate crisis and our generation having a livable future." Many big banks try to present a green image, but the largest banks in the world are the ones abetting polluters.

According to a study from the Urban Institute, more than one in six adults reported using Buy Now, Pay Later Services over the past year, with 3.5% specifically using these services for groceries.

On Monday, a trio of Harvard health and environmental scientists found that school districts would save an average of $247,600 in costs for every one of the roughly 200,000 high-emission heavy duty vehicles they replace with an electric bus.