Jill Filipovic
@JillFilipovic
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Writer, author, columnist, recovering lawyer, and yogi. I write about women's rights, US politics, and foreign affairs
Joined September 2008
A few times a year I co-host writing retreats (with daily yoga!) in beautiful places around the world. This spring: Kenya, Norway, and Greece. Join me?.
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I don't get it, this is like the #1 best person to sit next to on a plane. Won't talk to you, won't touch you, won't get wasted, definitely showered this morning, probably won't play videos out loud on his phone, 10/10 ideal seat mate.
You get on a plane and find your seat next to this person. What do you do?
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So they're going with "Kamala Harris is a childless slut" when their candidate has five children with three different women, cheated on his first wife with the second, cheated on the third with a Playboy model when the wife was pregnant & a porn star when she was postpartum, ok.
If you’re a man hesitant to bring up Kamala’s sordid sexual history, worried it might be ungallant, lacking in chivalry or otherwise “a bad look,” I want you to know: I’ve got you covered.
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"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them." -Germaine Greer.
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The study found that the most significant driver of the increase in infant deaths was babies who died of congenital anomalies. In other words, women were forced by Texas law to have babies everyone knew would suffer and die.
Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows
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Since Roe was handed down 49 years ago, "pro-lifers" in the US have committed:.-11 murders.-26 attempted murders.-4 kidnappings.-42 bombings.-667 bomb threats.-100 butyric acid attacks.-189 arsons.-663 Anthrax /bioterrorism threats.-25,000+ acts of phone harassment or hate mail.
The freakout you are witnessing from the left is very instructive. When Roe was handed down 49 years ago, pro-lifers didn’t riot, didn’t call for SCOTUS to be burned down, didn’t threaten the lives of justices, didn’t try to stack the Court. 1/ 🧵.
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In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.
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The two women in charge of this debate telling Vance his time was up and him simply ignoring them, talking over them, and disrespecting them is the most revealing part of this debate so far.
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I'm sure the French are very upset that their world-famous art and culture are not appreciated by US conservatives who just 10 days ago displayed their own cultural finest: Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, Amber Rose & their Jesus: a convicted felon who cheated on his wife with a porn star.
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So today’s convention theme is “men who married well.”.
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Abortion bans kill another woman. On the day of her baby shower, Nevaeh Crain went to the ER bleeding & feverish. She was diagnosed with sepsis, a deadly infection - but her fetus still had a heart beat. She was sent home. After her 3rd ER visit, she died.
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To put this in terms JD Vance can understand, people use “IVF” as shorthand for "fertility treatments" even though IVF is only one of many fertility treatments -- kind of how people might use "couch" as shorthand for different kinds of seating including loveseats and sofas.
Today it came out that Tim Walz had lied about having a family via IVF. Who lies about something like that? .
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Shoutout to whatever Supreme Court clerk just risked their career giving us this heads up and a last chance to show just how much of an unmitigated, divisive, ugly shitshow it's going to be if the Court overturns Roe. I doubt it will make a difference. Thanks all the same.
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I know it's not nice but I can't stop laughing at this tweet.
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This is the most spectacular relationship problem I have ever read, shut down all the advice columns now.
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Narrator: It was the exact position of the Republican Party.
Oklahoma lawmaker on Alabama IVF ruling: "This is not the position of Republican Party"
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Michelle Obama has to be the most talented politician to have never run for office, right?.
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The abortion debate in the US is so frustrating because the question of what decreases the abortion rate is a solved one. We know how to make abortions less common: Reliable affordable contraception + good sex ed. But pro-lifers don't want to do what works, so we're stuck here.
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Honestly if I were in Biden's shoes I would absolutely quit. What's the upside here? He loses and everyone blames him and his legacy is destroyed. He wins (v unlikely) and he has to do a super stressful job until he's 86 or until he dies, whichever comes first, under even more of.
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The "Biden was negotiating this deal an hour before he said he was dropping out" is so resonant because it's a reflection of a man working for his country even when he knows it will bring him no personal benefit. And because you can't imagine Trump doing it.
Biden took a bunch of questions from the press on the tarmac in a rare move.This prisoner swap will be an important part of his legacy- Biden deeply involved in negotiations, was on the phone trying to secure deal one hour before he announced he was dropping out of race @ABC
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Ok, Gus Walz standing up, sobbing, and yelling "that's my dad!" has sent me over the edge. 😭.
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I think a bunch of power-hungry misogynists pretending to be virgins who systemically covered up thousands of child rapes maybe shouldn’t be making the rules about morality and human dignity.
BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity
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I’m positive this will be my most-hated tweet of the day but taking a dumb and awkward picture when you’re a kid is just not that big of a deal, the Daily Mail shouldn’t have published it, and none of us should care.
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These women standing up on stage telling the stories of the worst moments of their lives are heroes — and they shouldn’t have to be here.
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Just hit me that (as far as I know?) this is the first time a nominee for president has had a different last name from their spouse -- the first time the female half of a couple vying for the White House kept *her* name in marriage. Kind of awesome we're not even discussing it.
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"If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that's the same thing as having an affair," Waters says. Emma is his second wife. Waters married her after having an affair with her.
jesse: if i found out my wife secretly voted for harris, "that's the same thing as having an affair. that violates the sanctity of our marriage. that would be D Day"
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Sex is among the most popular recreational activities in the world, but I do hope that the conservative movement continues to be honest about their aims here, which are shared by no one except a handful of sad men with I imagine much-sadder wives.
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I… absolutely expected Tucker Carlson to become an outlet for nazi apologists?.
Didn't expect Tucker Carlson to become an outlet for Nazi apologetics, but here we are.
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I have no strong feelings about who Kamala picks for VP except to say that in a group of five men there is close to a 100% chance that at least one of them has a career- and potentially campaign-ending skeleton in their closet and I can only hope that they have the good sense to.
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I’m unclear on what Harris was supposed to do here, after meeting with Uncommitted and hearing them out. Just… stand around at her own rally nodding in agreement while people screamed at her?.
The clip circulating of Kamala talking to protestors doesn’t look great but the full context is important. She met with the group before the rally and responded better the first time they interrupted her. People get flustered and frustrated
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So no, pro-lifers didn't riot; they screamed "baby killer" at scared women. No, they didn't call for SCOTUS to be burned down; they burned down abortion clinics. No, they didn't threaten the lives of justices; they took the lives of doctors, nursers, women, and security guards.
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There are millions of men whose lives would have been much worse without abortion. Men who wouldn't have found their big loves, wouldn't have their kids, wouldn't have been as successful, wouldn't have taken big risks. Many of them don't think about it. Some don't even know it.
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I despise Ted Cruz, but his daughter is 13, is not in elected office, and the normal teenage stuff she posts on TikTok is not a matter of public concern. She should absolutely be left alone.
Ted Cruz’s daughter says she disagrees ‘with most of his views’
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Another example of real statesmanship and "Trump would never": Sharing credit, giving thanks to others, and making clear that a lot of people went out on a limb to make this happen -- instead of just taking 100% of the credit.
President Biden: "The toughest call on this one is for other countries. Because I asked them to do something that was against their immediate self-interest. Really difficult for them to do. Particularly Germany and Slovenia."
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Just fascinating how fast Team "Fuck Your Feelings, Snowflakes" became Team I Will Outlaw Making Me Feel Any Emotional Discomfort Whatsoever.
A Florida bill that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.
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My kingdom for news outlets to stop saying "underage women" when there is no such thing -- those are girls, you can call them "girls" -- and "sexually abused" when they mean "raped.".
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Can progressive groups please, please stop doing this radical chic bullshit? Glorifying rape and murder isn't it.
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It tells you everything that Vance emphasizes the difficulties faced by his wife as a “working mom” when he was a working dad to those exact same kids and appeared to face no difficulties.
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The question in this trial was whether a very specific set of clearly very lawyered words met the very high bar for defamation. Unfortunately the jurors addressed a totally different question, which was: “who do we like better, Johnny Depp or Amber Heard?”.
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This is possibly my favorite Reddit board, I know it’s wrong to laugh at the parents of the Amberleighs and Kazdens of the world, but the apparent growing inability of people to recognize boring normal names in a sea of Lundyns and Mhykes is my favorite.
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As the "Herschel Walker paid for an abortion" news cycle continues, worth noting that Herschel Walker's exes and his son have accused him of domestic violence, but assaulting women is apparently so standard among GOP politicians that it has barely registered in the news coverage.
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Yes it is generally the case that if you kill your victims, they can't testify against you.
“Believe all women” was always an absurd overreach: woman should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required. The same is true of the allegations out of Israel. But also, this isn’t a “believe women” scenario bc no female victims have offered testimony.
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. and they 100% stacked the Court, which is precisely how this draft opinion was written.
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@asymmetricinfo Feel free to read the words of “pro-life” activists and politicians. They are indeed very gleeful about passing these laws, and make no apologies for their very predictable outcomes.
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For context, "pro-lifers" have killed more people than there are Supreme Court justices.
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So much disinformation and just galaxy-brained responses to the Israel-Hamas war, but "here's a video of the hostages smiling and waving, obviously Hamas treated them very well and they were happy to be in Gaza" is just such next-level insanity I don't even know what to say.
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This is our new #prolife dystopia: A woman was arrested for "chemical endangerment" for using drugs while pregnant. The problem: She wasn't pregnant. So officers released her, but told her if she gets pregnant IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS she'll be re-arrested.
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I know it's a totally different calculus because the right-wing rule is that men get to do whatever they want, but when you're already contending with legions of pissed-off pro-choice women and 99% of Americans have sex before marriage, this just may not be the way.
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I love the reasoning that a teenager "lacks the maturity to have an abortion" but is apparently mature enough to raise a human child.
A Florida judge decided that a teen's grades weren't good enough for her to get an abortion.
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After limping along for two pandemic years, does it feel like the wheels have just finally fallen off of… everything?.
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Such a good (if unintended) encapsulation of the moral asymmetries of the left and right. The example of left wing obnoxiousness that alienates voters is saying “pregnant people.” The right wing example is gleefully passing laws that force a ten-year-old rape victim to give birth.
Today someone asked me what the Republican equivalent of "pregnant people" was: a signal of in-group loyalty and perfect ideological consistency that alienates normal voters. The answer is: stuff like this.
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@asymmetricinfo @NYCdisinterest I dunno, one girl every week in a single US state seems like a lot of children, some of them likely rape victims, to force into childbearing.
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@asymmetricinfo “She would have had the baby, and as many women who have had babies as a result of rape, we would hope that she would understand the reason and ultimately the benefit of having the child,” Bopp said in a phone interview on Thursday.”.
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A 14-year-old whose behavior showed repeated cries for help should not be tried as an adult. The adults who kept guns in the house where the troubled 14-year-old could get them should absolutely be tried as adults.
Georgia officials want us to know that the 14-year-old boy who shot and killed two teachers and two students will be tried for murder as an adult, as if that will make us feel better. What about the actual adults who armed him?
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If you think America should deport people for saying things you don’t like, then you’re the one who hates what America stands for.
Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for—so his removal should come as welcome news. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that.
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This is bad news for marriage *rates* but not at all bad for marriages (or at least not bad for women in them). A lot of women would prefer to be single than to be tied to a man who doesn't respect women's basic bodily autonomy, votes for racist conspiracy theorists, etc.
1. NEW: Growing ideological polarization between men/women spells bad news for marriage as. ✔️ Y men moving slightly Right. ✔️ Y women moving strongly Left. & “fewer Americans willing to date/marry across aisle.”. My latest w/ @lymanstoneky @TheAtlantic .
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I think Joe Biden seems like a thoroughly decent, very kind person and I imagine he is going to feel very, very bad after this debate. I have to wonder if this will be a pivotal moment for him (even privately) when he realizes that running again was a huge error.
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I'm continually appalled by the argument that criticizing Hamas or calling them terrorists is anti-Arab racism. Seems worse and definitely more racist to suggest that a band of homicidal misogynist fundamentalists are representatives of Arabs or Palestinians?.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…
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By the same token, men who have never been and can never be pregnant should never be in positions where they can make or interpret laws related to abortion or reproductive rights more broadly. The concerns of women will always be abstract to them.
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At some point I'll write longer on this, but I think part of the reason the Biden-must-go story has been so huge is that a lot of commentators / voters / even members of the press feel angry and betrayed. Many of us largely trusted Biden's team when they insisted he was fine. The.
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I get it, power is great, but have you tried unlimited naps?.
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The VP choice does not have to be perfect, it just has to not be a massive fuck-up.
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the "at a casino" bit just really does me in. Like, she avoided vaccinated people everywhere else in her life -- didn't go to the grocery store or the movies or out to eat -- but just couldn't resist the casino, and has regretted it ever since.
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Kind of jarring that Trump announced his candidacy yesterday and not a single news story I've read on it mentions the fact that he's been accused of sexual assault or harassment by at least 25 women, and has admitted, on tape, to assaulting women. Just. a total non-issue.
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You should all feel preemptively bad for my husband, who is facing a near future of incessant questioning: “do you want some pwingies, for the room?”.
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How many men are sitting in elected office, running companies, caring for their much-loved kids, going on big adventures, working their way up, making their art, writing their books, appearing on your television screen because they didn't become fathers before they were ready?.
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It's also not surprising that when states pass laws criminalizing doctors for saving and preserving their patients' lives, a lot of doctors get scared and leave the state, in turn leaving patients with fewer options and worse care - all of which drives up mortality rates.
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This is what it means to live in a "pro-life" nation if you're a pregnant woman: Judges, not doctors, get to decide if you deserve life-saving care, even if one of those judges was arrested 37 times for protesting at abortion clinics. This is a misogynist dystopia.
NEW: The Texas Supreme Court rules against Kate Cox. Cox had already left the state to obtain an abortion her doctors believed was medically necessary. She is just over 20 weeks pregnant and has had to go to the ER multiple times.
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Why does anyone oppose paid family leave when it's so obviously beneficial for children, parents, and families? Because paid family leave increases gender equality. And that further erodes the male monopoly on power, money, and independence.
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Serial child rapist people knew was raping children for several decades finally going to jail.
R. Kelly, the former R&B singer long accused of sexually abusing minors, is likely to spend much of the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years for sex trafficking and racketeering.
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Good work everyone who voted for Trump or Jill Stein in 2016, or didn’t vote, or undermined Clinton from the left because the Supreme Court doesn’t really matter and it’ll be fine. Abortion vigilantes in Texas thank you for your support.
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@omarsultan I'm not sure a president who will be 86 when he leaves office, in whom big majorities of voters lack confidence, and who has been behind Trump in the polls and is now *way* behind, is doing what is best for the country by refusing to bow out.
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I would bet, though, that most of them don't think about the abortion their partner had as saving their lives, too; I would bet they don't think about it much at all. And many of them are the beneficiaries of abortions they still don't know about.
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I'm picturing her sitting at the nickel slots, mean-mugging anyone who sits down next to her, sniffing to see if she can smell the Moderna on 'em.
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When a woman is forced to carry a doomed pregnancy to term, she spends months visibly pregnant as strangers congratulate her, ask when she's due, ask "is it a boy or a girl?" She endures the pain and risks of childbirth to have a baby that is dead or dies soon after.
Doctors gave Nancy Davis a devastating diagnosis: The fetus she's carrying, because of a rare and fatal condition, will not form a skull. Yet she's been told she can't get an abortion, since the condition isn't among the exceptions to the state's ban.
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Biden's speech also stands in such sharp contrast to Trump. Biden is lucid. He touts and proposes specific policies. He shares specific anecdotes to bolster those proposals. He is a president with ideas and accomplishments, not just grievances and bizarre culture-war rants.
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This is exactly what the Biden administration tried to fight with their EMTALA rule. The admin said that ERs have to treat and stabilize very ill women - even if treatment / stabilization requires a pregnancy termination. Texas and other states fought the law in court. Texas won.
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Usha is no doubt the more likable half of the Vance power couple, which is why she’s being trotted out to smooth over her husband’s awful comments. But she’s also a woman who has benefitted from feminist and liberal change - and is now helping pull the ladder up from other women.
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This is a study of what happened to women having miscarriages in Texas after Texas passed its strict anti-abortion law. 28 patients were unable to receive necessary care; they saw infections, hemorrhaging, admission into the ICU, and a ruptured uterus requiring hysterectomy.
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I'm not saying that men need to talk about someone else's abortion. I am saying: This is your fight, too. Get in it.
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Nothing is more embarrassing than adults who are “picky eaters”.
we’re cancelling each other over FOOD takes today, post your cancellable FOOD take.
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And one lesson from Vance is don't pick someone who was a prolific blogger or podcast guest. They definitely cannot remember every dumb thing they said and there's not enough time to find it now, but there surely is before November.
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Men voting for Trump are taken seriously when they say it's because "the economy" and the price of gas and eggs, while women voting for Harris because abortion are "single-issue voters" even though having a kid means more gas, more eggs, and roughly $1 million in other expenses.
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Pro-lifers often point to all of the people who don't exist because of abortion. But here's how life works: A ton of people DO exist because of abortion, contraception, etc, who wouldn't have existed had their parents been forced into parenthood earlier.
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Trump: I will be a literal dictator. Trump's team: We will arrest and prosecute journalists and our political opponents. We are dead serious. Pro-Trump media: The crybaby liberal media are intent on portraying Trump as a dictator.
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It’s incredible how much damage men who abuse women cause, and how much violence we could prevent if we didn’t still treat domestic abuse like a minor interpersonal conflict.
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Just about every paragraph in this piece is jaw-dropping but holy shit, can you imagine running over and killing a child, getting only a ticket as punishment, and then having the nerve to contest it? .
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It's kind of amazing how you can read just about anything on the ills and horrors and challenges America and Americans are facing today, and when you dig into the root causes, like 90% of the time it's "Ronald Reagan." .
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Coming now: The "both of you have told lies" part of the debate, where Walz is asked about saying 35 years ago that he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen but in reality wasn't there until two months later, while JD Vance has intentionally lied about an entire community of.
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Terry McAuliffe, a moderate Dem running on a moderate platform, lost his race. India Walton, a socialist, lost her race for mayor of Buffalo to a write-in candidate. Michelle Wu, a progressive, won her race for mayor of Boston. I dunno, maybe it's more complicated than ideology.
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Making Gaza Great Again with. an AI-generated video we didn't watch super carefully before we posted it.
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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This is a very good question. I mean, are we better off when women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots, or when they are not? Who can really say.
Would the left have been better off if Hillary had won?.
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Also: Huge gratitude to @propublica for dedicating such significant resources to this project, which has involved digging through medical files and I imagine lots of sleuthing to find these stories that haven't been reported and that powerful conservatives want hidden.
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I am personally fascinated by the women who vote for abortion rights who are dating / married to men who oppose them. Some things are simple differences of opinion. And some strike to the heart of what you believe *about your partner*.
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When you're so pro-life you'll murder women who don't comply with your demands.
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This is so cruel and pointless. Texas and other "pro-life" states force women to carry doomed pregnancies for months, to field congratulations and questions about whether it's a boy or a girl, to go through the pain and risk of childbirth, only to watch their babies die.
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At the third and final ER pregnant teenager Nevaeh Crain went to - vomiting, feverish, bleeding, having already tested positive for sepsis and being sent home - doctors insisted on *two* ultrasounds to confirm fetal demise before they would admit her to the ICU.
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Just a little reminder that Matt Taibbi is a pig who terrorized women and relished in misogynistic attacks, and co-wrote a book in which his 30-something coauthor bragged about sex with teenagers and threatening to kill his girlfriend if she didn’t abort.
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