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“Smith thought about her daughters — the one she already had, and the second one she was now expecting. She was maybe 28 weeks pregnant when they decided to leave the state.”

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

“After becoming pregnant again in 2023, Smith worried about what health care she would need in Idaho and whether she’d be able to receive it.”

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Want to know what doesn’t lead to fatal complications or immune amnesia?

The vaccine.

Measles is no joke. There’s the risk of fatal complications, some of which only emerge years after the initial infection. A measles infection also causes immune amnesia, which causes your immune system to forget how to fight off known pathogens.

I never thought I’d want to burn a book, and yet, here we are.

The women’s hockey team has done more with less.

They are still the brunt of the jokes, and they are still expected to be the bigger/better people.

It’s gross, and it needs to end.

US Olympic gold medalists Hilary Knight and Quinn and Jack Hughes appear on 'Tonight Show' Jimmy Fallon made fun of Jack Hughes for getting a tooth knocked out before scoring his Olympic-final overtime goal and praised Hilary Knight for winning at her fifth Games as the U.S. gold medal-winn...

I am so tired of women being expected to cover for men’s bad behavior. The Hughes brothers still haven’t apologized for laughing at the women’s team, and yet the women are still expected to make nice with them, and act like what the men did was OK.

I feel attacked

A grumpy long haired cat is sitting patiently on his human’s lap, in a coffee shop. The cat is wearing a dinosaur hat.

I went to a local coffee shop this morning, where I met this icon

Dunkin' Is Testing a Jaw-Dropping New Menu Item—and I'm Not Afraid To Cross State Lines To Try It Dunkin' is testing an all-new, ultra-large size at select locations. Here's everything to know about the new Dunkin' bucket of coffee.

48-ounce bucket of coffee = the 'writer's size'

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Cats Actually Know Each Other's Names, Study Suggests Cats were confused by humans calling their feline friends names that didn’t match, in a study of 48 kitties out of Japan.

Yes, but do they recognize the million nicknames that you've given your cats?

US men’s hockey team gets backlash for phone call with Trump who made joke about inviting women’s team The U.S. men’s hockey team is receiving criticism for conversations in the locker room after winning the gold medal at the Olympics.

Laughing while someone makes fun of your (enormously) talented women colleagues is shitty behavior, and also a really good way to lose an enormous amount of goodwill.

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How Often Do You Fart? This 'Smart Underwear' Can Keep Track, Because Figuring Out a Baseline Is Important for Science Researchers have launched a study to find a typical range for flatulence, which has been harder to measure than you might expect

The “Fitbit for farts” study is in such high demand that they’re now putting people on a waitlist while they try to expand enrollment.

(Come for the lulz, stay for the cool science! Nice explanation from Smithsonian Mag of how transformative this could be for GI health science.)

An orange cat is lying on a blanket, with his paws stretched out. He has a very derpy look on his face.

I think I broke my cat

I really don't want to speak ill of the dead... but James Van der Beek's wife was anti-vaxx and while he was fundraising for treatments he never made clear if it was an issue that he didn't have health insurance vs the treatments were of the kind (untested) insurance wouldn't cover.

Artificially Large Skier Penises Should Stay Legal | Defector To ski jump is to momentarily become a god. The track is narrow and slick, and the athletes plummet down the sloped hill at almost 60 mph. They leave the track and take up, up, up into the sky, where ...

There’s a penis scandal brewing in the world of ski jumping.

Sometimes, the stories just write themselves.

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HE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE

This Dallas Stars Player Might Be the Biggest Green Flag in the NHL From autographing a fan’s cat drawing to scoring goals “for his cat,” Dallas Stars player Jason Robertson is winning hearts everywhere.

And in another installment of “athletes who have the right priorities in life,” NHL player Jason Robertson dedicates all of his goals to his cat.

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Ilia Malinin gave his first Olympic gold medal to his cat after U.S. figure skating team win You've got to admit, this is quite adorable.

I mean, who else would you give your Olympic medal to?

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“So in summary, hockey is speed, skill, chaos and trust issues. Played on ice. With knives on your feet.”

“If the game is tied, we go to overtime, which is just hockey, but louder and scarier.”

“You are also allowed to fight in hockey. The refs do not stop it. They just wait until both players are tired and emotionally satisfied.”

“If you break a rule, you go to a penalty box, which is basically a glass room where adults sit alone and rethink their life choices for two minutes.”

“There are rules in hockey. You would not know this watching hockey.”

“The game is played in three periods because two periods would make sense and hockey refuses to do that.”

“The other five players skate around chasing the puck like it owes them money and insulted their family.”

“There are six players on the ice per team. One of them is the goalie, whose job is to block a puck flying at the speed of a bad decision. They do this with their body. On purpose.”

“The goal is simple. You take a small rubber puck that is like a small, angry cookie, and you try and put it in a net while six other people try and stop you using violence that is somehow legal.”

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“Hockey is the sport where people looked at ice and thought, yes, this is where we should run at full speed.”

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“You keep the potential boss’s habits in mind,” is a hell of a way to say, “I know this guy is a predator, and I’m perfectly okay with sending potential prey his way.”

Whoever this woman is, I hope she’s okay, but I fear that she’s not.