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⚾️ On Saturday, Jen Pawol will make history as the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. It comes 28 years after the NBA first broke the gender barrier for in-game officials and 10 years after the NFL hired its first full-time woman official.
🐊 A federal judge said the construction of “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida must stop for 14 days while she considers arguments that building and operating the immigration detention facility would harm the environment. (Gifted link)
Health
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A student-run birth control delivery network was banned on campus, but members found a way to keep helping
DePaul University in Chicago has long banned the distribution of birth control on campus. But a group of students, the “Womb Service,” has kept up a contraceptive delivery network for classmates at off-campus locations for the past three years.
Their service confidentially provides students with supplies like condoms, emergency contraception, pregnancy tests, and more. They receive about 25 orders a week. They also host mini education sessions about sexual health and wellness — something group members quickly realized a lot of people did not have.
Recently, the university revoked its status as a student organization, meaning they couldn’t meet or advertise on campus, making it more difficult to reach people who need the resources they provide — both education and contraception — and recruit more people to help, but they’re committed to continuing to support students.
Why is this good news?Everyone deserves access to reproductive health care, and that includes contraception. College-age students are the most vulnerable to unintended pregnancy, which can prevent them from completing their degree — derailing their entire life, especially for those from lower-income families.
Ghana launched an AMBER alert system to help locate missing or abducted children.The system was launched in collaboration with Meta, which will display all the necessary information about the missing child, like a photo description, location of the abduction, and other relevant and available information to aid in immediately identifying the missing child.
In what’s perhaps the biggest animal welfare victory of the 21st century, global fur production has collapsed
In 2014, more than 140 million minks, foxes, and other animals around the world were farmed and killed for their fur. Just a decade later, that number dropped dramatically to 20.5 million.
Pressure on major fashion brands to stop selling fur and on lawmakers to ban the production and sale of fur were instrumental in bringing about this rapid decline. It also demonstrates a shift in public perception of owning or wearing fur products.
While there are other animal welfare concerns that remain, largely in meat production, the decline of fur production reminds us that progress is possible.
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