‘Any military that turns away talent makes itself weaker’: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defends women in combat as Pete Hegseth threatens to remove them

The Mary Sue

‘Any military that turns away talent makes itself weaker’: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defends women in combat as Pete Hegseth threatens to remove them

Current Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin defends women in combat after Pete Hegseth suggested removing them.

The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s

Open Culture

The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s

When Jon Pertwee reincarnated into Tom Baker in 1974, the Fourth Doctor of the popular sci-fi show Doctor Who ditched the foppish look of velvet ja...

It was always rough to be a woman on Twitter. It’s even worse on X. "If you can’t even post about your greatest accomplishments without enduring heaps of harassment, what’s the point of a social network at all?" Indeed.

Vox

Why did the internet lose its mind about a woman getting a PhD?

Harassment against women on X has never been worse.

Ireland Rejected the Far Right. The Election Conspiracy Theories Have Already Begun. Ireland’s far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale.

WIRED

Ireland Rejected the Far Right. The Election Conspiracy Theories Have Already Begun

Ireland’s far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale.