A memorial to all the folks who died during the Egypt protests.

U.S. responds to #Egypt’s #jan24 revolution

Mubarak Resigns, Setting Off Wild Celebrations in Egypt

Egypt celebrates as Mubarak resigns -- Al Jazeera English, with lots of links to other stories and video.

The Next Step for Egypt’s Opposition
By MOHAMED ELBARADEI

Egypt's historic ( Read more... )

Election 2010 Voting Information - Share Widely

Today, November 2nd, is Election Day! Make sure to get out and vote. Voting is pretty simple, but if you have any questions, here's an outline of helpful information. Please share this information widely--forward this email, and post it on Facebook and Twitter(Reading this on your mobile phone? You ( Read more... )

There were several articles about which I found myself ranting, so I've pulled them into a separate post. It's very likely I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this one, but I think it's stuff that needs saying.
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At Last - Emergency Contraception for Military Women ( Read more... )

And since I'm finally using Facebook enough that I bothered to update my profile today, I'm going to toss here what I wrote there, for reference, and to give the new folks a bit of context for my random ramblings:

( more about me than you want to know )

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the ( Read more... )

A whole run of interesting and infuriating articles on feministing and feministe recently, especially as relates to clinic escorting, and to murderous fuckwad Roeder.

On "voluntary manslaughter" and the encouragement of future murderous fuckwads -- I cannot begin to express the extent of my rage over Dr. Tiller's assassination, or over the fact ( Read more... )

Four husbands under Islam
A Saudi woman courts controversy by fantasizing about polyandry

A judge could determine Friday whether to allow an Oklahoma law to go forward that will post information online about women who get abortions in the state -- an act critics say would be harassment and an invasion of privacy."It requires doctors to ask and submit answers to at least 37 intensely personal questions. There are details in those ( Read more... )

To show their support for a detained Iranian student leader, who was photographed in women’s clothes he may have been forced to wear, these men posted photographs of themselves wearing similar clothes on the Web.

Like I've said before, I don't think things are over in Iran by a long shot.