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Not that you asked, but I’m in the uniquely devastating position of being unable to have kids the “usual way” (sex). My doctor gives my husband and me a less than 10 percent chance of things “working out naturally” (also, sex). (He loves air quotes.)

I’m done crying over it. You know what I’m going to do now? IVF. That’s right: in-vitro fertilization, which you oppose for some reason. Still, that won’t stop me.

I can’t wait to trample your freedom with my own personal decisions. There’s going to be so much trampling up in here, and by “here,” I mean my uterus. But also up in your rights, somehow, in a way I’m not totally clear about.

We’ll start with some tests. I will be in stirrups up to the knees as a dye is injected into my hoo-ha. It will hurt like a mother. Did I choose infertility? No. But trying to have a kid in this incredibly difficult and painful way? Damn straight.

A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium.

The post She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking About Gaza. appeared first on The Intercept.

Dr. Soma Baroud's life was dedicated to healing the wounded in Gaza. Her tragic death in an Israeli airstrike on October 9 is a reminder of the relentless violence faced by Palestinians, even those who save lives. This is the story of a sister, a healer, and a martyr

The post “Text Me You Haven’t Died” – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza appeared first on MintPress News.

The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people.

The post The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users appeared first on The Intercept.

It was William Shakespeare who, in Troilus and Cressida, wrote, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” And yet, in the polarized news cycle since Hurricane Helene ravaged the southeastern United States and the hurricanes have kept coming, we’ve heard a tale not of shared humanity, but of ruin, discord, and political polarization. Hundreds are dead from that storm — the deadliest to hit the mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — hundreds more are missing, and hundreds of thousands of residences are still without power or clean water. And in addition to the staggering human loss and physical damage, a hurricane of misinformation and division has continued to pummel the region. There’s Elon Musk’s politicized deployment... Read more

An experienced fixer for journalists covering Haiti, Jean often unexpectedly finds himself on the subject side of stories. After his son was kidnapped and his house taken, Jean decided to move his family out of Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic. In the new book, The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille, Jean tells us the story of this struggle to relocate, another change of country in his search for a better life.

In lawsuits filed across the country, attorneys who worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat are alleging rampant voting fraud.

The post Trump’s Big Lie Attorneys Are Back appeared first on The Intercept.

Dear Television Executives,

It is time to make a lesbian season of Love Is Blind.

Let me be clear: It is my sincere belief that Love Is Blind—in which contestants date each other through a wall, get engaged through said wall, and only see each other once they’ve said yes—is the best reality show ever made. I hope there are one thousand seasons and that I’m watching it on my deathbed. I want the last voice I ever hear to belong to Tammy, a twenty-two-year-old sales associate / model / DJ from Kentucky on her fifth tequila soda, saying, “I just feel like I found my best friend.”

But by having people fall in love without ever seeing each other, you have appropriated lesbian culture, and it’s only fair that you give us something back. After all, if it wasn’t for lesbians, we wouldn’t even have the concept of forcing all of your friends and family to meet the new love of your life, only to break up with her a few days later.

With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.

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