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“You have really, really, really high demand for babies & children. You have really low supply & I’m using this market language because I think it’s important to understand the ways that [adoption] is a market-shaped system.”
I'm so gd glad feminism is finally starting to look at #adoption critically. This is WAY overdue, but I'll take it!

I'd Be an Adoptee Teen Mom All Over Again - Ms. Magazine
A teen mom's take on Relinquished book by Gretchen Sisson: "Thirty years later, would I still make the same choice to keep my baby? Yes."

The RTA has applied for a USDOT Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods grant with the help of local leaders and state legislators. If awarded, it will be used to prepare our major corridors for BRT by funding capital construction studies.
This would be the biggest step forward for regional transit infrastructure, Oakland Transit notwithstanding, since the RTA's first push back in 2016. Grants will be awarded later this week 🍿

Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200 others sign a letter to AI developers and tech companies decrying "predatory" AI that steals voices, replaces artists, more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/musicians-letter-ai-replace-artists<…

Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI
Pearl Jam, Katy Perry and Smokey Robinson have all signed an open letter.

An interesting one for #MusicWomenWednesday - sometimes as I'm watching TV, I use Shazam to take note of a song so I can find it later.
Isobel Waller-Bridge is a modern classical composer for TV and movies, and her cool song "Bloom" was in whatever I was watching. That led me to her whole 2015 EP, 'Music for Strings'.
I'm not a fan of your older regular c…

Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200 others sign a letter to AI developers and tech companies decrying "predatory" AI that steals voices, replaces artists, more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/musicians-letter-ai-replace-artists<…

Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI
Pearl Jam, Katy Perry and Smokey Robinson have all signed an open letter.

'Void': Judge approves Michigan GOP leader removal - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/void-judge-michigan-leader-removal/

'Void': Judge approves Michigan GOP leader removal
A Kent County, Michigan judge on Tuesday officially confirmed the ouster of Michigan GOP Party Chair Kristina Karamo following weeks of infighting over the party's finances, Politico reports. Karamo has spent days publicly opposing the MIGOP's decision to remove her last month, but according to the ...

Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200 others sign a letter to AI developers and tech companies decrying "predatory" AI that steals voices, replaces artists, more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/musicians-letter-ai-replace-artists<…

Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI
Pearl Jam, Katy Perry and Smokey Robinson have all signed an open letter.

"A hundred years ago, in the fall of 1922 and winter of 1923, the Bolsheviks expelled hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Russia, forcing them to leave the country on what became known as the “philosophers’ ships.” (…) A century later, Russia’s artists are once again leaving, this time because of the war in Ukraine and political persecution at home." (source:

‘After Russia’ In a new album, exiled popular musicians revisit the Russian émigré poetry of 100 years ago — Meduza
A hundred years ago, in the fall of 1922 and winter of 1923, the Bolsheviks expelled hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Russia, forcing them to leave the country on what became known as the “philosophers’ ships.” Many of the exiled writers and poets continued to write in Russian, destined never to meet their readers back in their home country. A century later, Russia’s artists are once again leaving, this time because of the war in Ukraine and political persecution at home. To c…

Former Michigan House leader, wife plead not guilty to misusing political funds (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-house-exlawmaker-charged-913f125eee550fadf896edbc9e06a5a9
http://www.memeorandum.com/240502/p59#a240502p59

Cowboys don't even have to bother looking into rising NFL free agent and that's great news https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_dont_even_have_to_bother_looking_into_ris…

Cowboys don't even have to bother looking into rising NFL free agent and that's great news
You just know a large amount of NFL teams have one name in mind in the latter stages of free agency ahead of the 2024 regular season:  Jake Bates, kicker for the UFL Michigan Panthers.  Bates has been an absolute beast in the spring league formed by the merger of the USFL and XFL, nailing field goals from 52, 55, 60, 62, and 64 yards out. He's also happened to go 12-for-14 in field goal attempts. Fortunately, the Dallas Cowboys will be able to avoid the bidding war for Bates' services, who is…