Jill Filipovic
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Writer, author, CNN columnist, recovering lawyer, and yogi. I write about women's rights, US politics, and foreign affairs
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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'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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.
21 South Carolina GOP lawmakers propose death penalty for women who have abortions
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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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Feeling profoundly disturbed by the people insisting the murder and kidnapping of innocents is anti-colonial "liberation," and by the people insisting that the appropriate response to a terrorist attack is brutal collective punishment that will kill and maim innocents.
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Yes, the super thin fit woman on the right has done absolutely no work to look like that. Do men really think this?
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It's even wilder than this. Heard's op/ed didn't say "a famous man abused me." It said: "two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out."
That is objectively true and not defamatory.
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100% unsurprised about the Rittenhouse verdict, but still sickened by the whole affair -- and most of all disgusted by how the right as cheered him on as a hero. It's one thing to believe he met the bar for self-defense. It's REALLY another to believe what he did was laudable.
This is why the verdict isn't the only thing at play. There are more serious implications:
"Once Rittenhouse fired his first shots, he and his attackers plausibly entered a context in which neither could be held legally liable for killing the other."
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Imagine the absolute (and justified) freakout if a blue state passed a law that paid any citizen $10,000 & covered their legal fees for suing any person they saw without a mask. Every Republican would be screaming about totalitarianism.
That's what Texas has done - but to women.
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Interesting. Perhaps a lot of doctors might start prescribing a particular ulcer medication, with a very clear warning: If you use this while you're pregnant, it will cause a miscarriage. This is an off-label use. It will cause a miscarriage if you use it off-label.
3rd and final case today is Ruan v. US. It's about whether a doctor who prescribed drugs which were then used for off label purposes is liable. Breyer, 9-0, court says the doctors are good.
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One of these things is at most annoying and self-righteous and comes only with the consequence of someone you find obnoxious saying “don’t say that.” The other is cruel and life-threatening, and the consequence is injured, traumatized kids and jail for people who would help them.
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"Ban abortion and contraception and IVF because sex should never be for fun" great slogan, please keep at it.
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Team Family Values reveals itself as Team Women Should Do All The Work.
Republicans fault Buttigieg for time off with newborns. Democrats say he’s showing the need for paid parental leave.
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The degree to which a whole lot of progressive people don’t seem to think human connection, socialization, and interaction is crucial for a healthy life seems surprisingly high! Seeing other people’s faces, kids playing together, sharing meals- these are huge things to give up.
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“Female attractiveness is defined by the things you don’t do.” Like… eat?
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I get this point but also if a 23-year-old HVAC repairman told an audience at a Trump rally in South Carolina that someone should assassinate Joe Biden, would any major newspaper decline to quote and identify him because he’s a private citizen? Should they?
Why did The Atlantic just target a 23-year-old student and non-public figure by full name in a way that seems intended to endanger them?? Extremely irresponsible
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Sorry but wtf. Students should be able to protest peacefully and in my view, schools should give them significant leeway. But protesters should not be able to demand privacy rights on the campus lawn and block other students ("Zionists") from entering.
“We have Zionists who have entered the camp” — Columbia students eject Jews from the quad
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Cops freed from even the obligation of telling you your rights. Radically expanded access to guns in the wake of a massacre of children. Denial of a death penalty plaintiff's request to so much as decide how the state kills him.
Conservatism is a culture of nihilism and death.
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People seem very confused that I said many men (and women) wouldn't have the kids they have if not for abortion. This is true. If you had been forced to have a child before you were ready, it's not like you would have wound up with the same life you have now.
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Earnest tweet alert: after a year and a half of isolation and absolute garbage, I am not sure I have felt better in my life than I did tonight walking through Brownstone Brooklyn on Halloween. Kids in costumes, a whole community out and making it magical together: nothing better.
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The Biden age discussion is fraught not because of "ageism" or "ableism" (we should discriminate on the basis of cognitive ability when it comes to the presidency), but because the other guy is in clear cognitive decline AND has a personality disorder and that's largely ignored.
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In Australia, the heartwarming stories are “we let a kid drive a motorcycle & gave him a puppy.” In the US it’s like, “this fifth grader sold her baby teeth and put in a 70-hour work week to pay off her father’s debilitating medical debt and buy the family a new tent to live in.”
This boy couldn't believe the furry gift on his shoulder – a new puppy. He was gifted the pup by police in Brisbane, Australia as he deals with the tragic death of his father. They also let him test out their police vehicles and meet one of their K9s.
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We hear a lot about death & disease from Covid. But in many developing nations, shutdowns & economic collapses may prove even more deadly. Has Covid set girls' progress back a generation, consigning girls & their future kids to live poorer, shorter lives?
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I can't overstate just how horrible the past few weeks have been. Pregnant women have been refused treatment, put in the ICU, put on breathing machines, forced into unnecessarily childbirth only to watch a wanted baby die, hemorrhaged, lost their uteruses.
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There is almost nothing funnier than absolute dweebs cosplaying tough guys.
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I'm sure I'm opening a giant can of worms here, but uh it seems fine to raise the retirement age very slightly in nations where populations are healthier and living longer?
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If Republicans actually believed abortion was murder, this would be disqualifying for Walker. But they do not believe abortion is murder; they do believe in patriarchal control, so this more or less lines up.
New woman coming forward to accuse Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion says it isn't because of politics.
"I am a registered independent and I voted for Donald Trump in both elections. I do not believe that Herschel is morally fit to be a US Senator," she says
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Lindsey Graham today: Introducing a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks, which would override the ability of liberal states to decide if abortion is legal and on what terms.
Lindsey Graham four months ago:
NEW: Senate Republicans led by
@GrahamBlog
are introducing a national ban on abortions later in pregnancy tomorrow.
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This whole thing is just so performative and bizarre, from the use of “Muslim hijabi” to emphasize, what? She’s a fragile devout woman? To calling Jews white supremacists to the fact that you know if anyone interrupted this lady’s five-figure-a-plate dinner parties, “righteous…
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You think abortion was a polarizing issue before? Just fucking wait.
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Get yourself Doordash and a dog, and please leave women alone.
All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him, and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.
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One really easy thing the US and every other country could do instead of this border-closing nonsense: Refuse to let anyone over the age of 5 get on an airplane without being fully vaccinated.
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Love to force poor women to have babies and then boot their kids from healthcare coverage. Pro-life governance at its finest (or at least its most representative).
More than 810,000 Texas children booted from Medicaid coverage
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They’re increasingly just saying it: they want to ban birth control, too.
Birth control is wrong not just because of the harmful side effects.
Birth control is wrong in its very purpose. It’s designed purposely to divorce sex from procreation. It has duped us into believing that casual sex is not only okay, but also an inherent “right.”
There is NO…
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My kingdom for a flight in which I don’t see or come into contact with anyone else’s feet.
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@JayShams
Because it can be really pleasant to sit at a bar, around other people but not having to actually talk to them, and read / drink / people-watch (also my favorite bars have food, so it's basically just going out to dinner by yourself, which ranks among the greatest things).
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I am a regular AITA reader and there's an emerging genre of letter-writers (almost all women) who apparently wake their partners up every. single. day. (several also pack their lunches and lay out their clothes). Is this a thing? Do adults really ask other adults to wake them?
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Or alternately, fuck you to the conservative Supreme Court clerk who did this.
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Trying to imagine how deranged and arrogant you would have to be to believe that you should get to force someone to carry a pregnancy, risk their life, and give birth against their will, truly cannot even get into that headspace, what absolutely sadistic people.
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Just so we're crystal-clear here: The DOJ is saying, "Federal law requires that hospitals receiving Medicaid have to treat pregnant women with serious life- or health-imperiling conditions, even if that health-saving treatment is abortion."
Texas is saying "Absolutely not."
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My hottest take on The View is that maybe having a bunch of randos mouth off on things they have no expertise on, and appear to have never even read a book about, is a bad model for a television show.
Whoopi was incorrect, but her vantage point was that of a Black woman in America who was speaking from a definition of race as she has experienced it. Why not educate her versus suspending her?
Also, Meghan McCain spent years being intentionally racist with no repercussions...
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Hi Joe we did that just two Novembers ago, it's why you're president so it's your turn now.
If the Court overturns Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose.
And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November.
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There are all kinds of legal things adults do that potentially put fetuses at risk of harm or death. Fetal personhood laws put pregnant women in a different category of person, vulnerable to prosecution for doing totally normal things. What if a woman falls skiing? Drinks coffee?
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Please God can we have a moratorium on radically under-qualified but radically over-confident men believing that they, or at least similarly under-qualified and over-confident men, should be president of the United States?
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I will never forgive the people on the left who let this happen — who used their platforms and podcasts to encourage it to happen. Instead of the revolution, we got an authoritarian court that will gut progressive legislation for the next decade-plus. Great work all around guys.
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Totally agree, which is why we shouldn't make child rape victims risk their lives by putting their small and under-developed bodies through pregnancy and childbearing -- the
#1
killer of adolescent girls worldwide.
...oh that's not what you mean.
Rape and incest are deeply tragic. They do not justify killing a child.
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Stanford’s incoming class is 22% white, 29% Asian, 7% Black, 17% Hispanic / Latino, 10% two or more races. Didn’t conservatives just bring a big affirmative action case claiming Asian students were being discriminated against? Now you’re mad because Asians are over-represented?
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