Rebecca Traister
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A good morning for reading suggestions to help process fury. Because I wrote it, I’ll start with my book, Good and Mad, about the history & political power of women’s anger, now in paperback (& on sale in hardcover). BUT WAIT THERE’S LOTS MORE:
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I’m of the opinion that masses of people booing the president on one of the stupidly few occasions he’s ever been forced to interact with them is in fact an extremely valuable moment for our global standing & anyone who cares about America’s reputation should thank that crowd.
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Just thinking about the wave of death threats against Anita Hill after her 1991 testimony, and about how Christine Blasey Ford has had to move multiple times and how the safety of their families never seemed to be a top concern for civility enthusiasts.
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"What claim will you have? That you rule over a destroyed society? That the ashes belong to you?"
@aoc
on the nihilism of white supremacist violence.
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Passive voice is for when the state does violence. Active voice is for when a protester does? Got it.
Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye.
Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone.
Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her.
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In 2010 when Ginni Thomas left a voice mail for Anita Hill saying "I would love you to consider an apology and a full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband" it was exceedingly clear that she was bananas and also extremely bad.
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I wrote about the warped framing of
@AOC
as disruptive, norm-shattering and savvy and how it contrasts with the invisibility of Yoho’s opportunism and ambition:
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This is BONKERS. The president elect, instead of aggressively condemning the party working to overthrow his election (the one he still makes noises about working with) is asking an economically paralyzed nation--people who don't have food or housing--for money to help him? GTFOH.
Here's the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help.
If you're able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition.
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It’s the first week of October. A year ago this week, the Times broke the Weinstein story. Two years ago this week, the Access Hollywood tape was released. 27 years ago this week, Anita Hill announced she’d be willing to testify. 229 years ago this week, women rioted in Paris.
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You took a god damn three day weekend last weekend, you malevolent toad.
Leader McConnell reacts to Senate Democrats voting against even considering the
#coronavirus
relief bill:
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Amy Coney Barratt’s Rose Garden speech as super-spreader event is just hauntingly on-the-nose on about 15 different levels.
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I don't know what's going to happen in Georgia, but fact that it's close is a testament to work
@staceyabrams
has been doing for years and years. Here she was describing Georgia's path forward to me four years ago:
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“I am someone's daughter too.” Watching a truly natural political talent at the start of her career is extremely exhilarating.
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The ones who encouraged spread of the disease and blocked protection from its harm getting the vaccine first is like children’s fable level depravity. Real wicked sorcerer stuff.
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Also obviously: everything is on the table and clearly has been. Voting rights were gutted in 2013. Marriage equality. Griswold. Loving. Don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you such fears are silly or overblown.
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Barrett refusing to give an answer on a peaceful transfer of power seems bad.
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"Please stop asking why women don’t come forward. These women did. They believed that once the police, the FBI, the White House, and John Kelly knew what they knew, Porter would stop ascending in their ranks. They were wrong." Wow, Dahlia Lithwick:
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The
@thenation
ran Justice Sotomayor’s full dissent as its own piece and you should read every urgent word of it:
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DUE TO RISKS OF COMPLICATIONS, she had an ABORTION. In many states, thanks to a movement her family not only embraced but built a brand on and profited from, she would not have had the ability to manage the risks complications or get the care she needed.
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“A legal defense fund, backed by $13 million...to help...janitors, nurses & workers at farms, factories, restaurants & hotels protect themselves from sexual misconduct & fallout from reporting it.” Ok, THIS is a step up from black outfits at awards shows.
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“Protests turn violent” it says under video of an older man strolling by with a cane being pushed forcefully to the ground by cops dressed in riot gear. “Protests turn violent.”
Salt Lake City cops shove down an elderly man with a cane for the crime of standing along the street:
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Much of defensive reaction I’m seeing around Kavanaugh (& not just from the right) suggests that lots of people think a regular part of male development is the stage where boys drunkenly pin down young women & try to assault them. This is not a surprise, but it’s so depressing.
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These things keep happening over night. But they absolutely did not happen overnight. True of abortion, true of climate change. We wake up to individual horrors because so many were comfortable/powerful enough to sleep soundly through decades of alarms.
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We got our ballots today--great. Then I opened them. In the one addressed to me: a ballot & envelope bearing the name of another woman in another neighborhood. In the envelope addressed to my husband: a ballot and envelope bearing MY name & address.
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Pence completely dodging this abortion question is a big tip off that someone has informed him that keeping abortion legal is extremely popular, supported by large majorities, across this country
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The president, speaking of a man accused by multiple women of violent crime, can only speak of that man's talents, future, sadness. Men are the subjects, the people whose fates matter, who feel sadness and who are worthy of eliciting sadness. Women do not exist in this equation.
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I am still thinking about six minutes ago. Harris directly confronting Biden on busing/segregationists was historic, powerful, and unimaginable on a presidential stage until very recently, which is itself symptomatic of a world Biden is struggling to defend.
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The staff. Of the resort. Is trapped. And forced. To serve. This couple.
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Brian Williams just described Trump’s comments as “so dark, so false, so unlike anything we have seen before.” My man. The year is 2020. You have been seeing this, and broadcasting it, for five years. Like: do you remember his inaugural address? Birtherism? This is wild.
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L’shana tova. May her memory be a blessing. And may this year bring the drive and determination to fight like fury because everything depends on our willingness to do so.
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People on here asking where Ivanka is re Trump/Porter/domestic violence: she’s nowhere; she’s a lie and sham and always was and her job was always to enable her dad’s white patriarchal power full stop the end.
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The numbers of workers—clerical & domestic, who’ve been exposed by all these people in the past week....Their families, the healthcare workers who’ll be exposed, their families....people who’ll be bankrupted by hc costs, lost wages. The scope of the damage here is unfathomable.
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Women’s anger at male power abuse regularly presented as path to self-advancement for the women. Voicing fury at systemic degradation is read as opportunistic. Whereas men’s abusive behavior rarely understood as fundamental to how they attained & maintain THEIR power. But it is!
The NYT, which would not use the words when Ted Yoho spoke them, uses them tonight to quote
@AOC
--and it describes HER behavior, not his, as "disruptive" and a "norm-shattering moment," one that it implies is about "amplifying her own brand."
JFC.
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I love how the comedians who tell racist jokes congratulate themselves on the bravery of transgressing but the ones who confront Harvey Weinstein in their set get booed:
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Can't stop thinking about this "apology"--how white male misogynist fury gets smoothly recast as "passion" (& faith & love of country). I wrote about this in Good & Mad but if I had imaginatively drawn out a scenario like this I would have been like "nah, too on the nose."
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You could read Neil Gorsuch's new book or you could read my year-old book which argues that calls for civility are always designed to protect the powerful from challenge to their authority over the less powerful.
The U.S. faces a “civility crisis,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in his new book, titled “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”
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It’s the easily extracted concern for these grinning boys—amidst the deportations & family separations, the harassment & assaults, the low wages, poverty & incarceration, the shootings & police brutality, the lack of access to medical/repro care—that’s going to finally do me in.
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What the actual fuck is this whitewashing? “Leaders on impeachment” were
@RepMaxineWaters
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@RashidaTlaib
,
@AOC
&
@IlhanMN
. And they were treated as inconvenient troublemakers by Dem leadership for their correct, early, consistent (& appropriately profane) calls for impeachment.
These five freshman congresswomen changed history by becoming unlikely leaders on impeachment.
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Minor and personal but: intellectually I am unsurprised, mentally knew this was coming, have been writing about it for years, understand Roe has been insufficient for millions, etc etc. And yet: my teeth have been chattering uncontrollably for an hour. Bodies/minds are so weird.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is upset about "silence from the left" re Sam Bee calling Ivanka a "feckless cunt" for swanning around on social media, hugging her son amidst news of children being ripped from their parents by ICE. So I won't be silent:
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Genuinely, every day, we learn it was worse than we thought it was the day before.
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I’m on the Community Bookstore chalkboard and I don’t know whether to cheer or weep.
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So much of my work as an adult has been spent considering/working through the impact that the mishandling of Anita Hill’s testimony had on American politics, feminism and law; I’m quite honestly at a loss in the face of the possibility that we’re just going to do it all again.
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Imagine this: "One advantage Ocasio-Cortez has over some colleagues is that she consistently attends even the most mundane committee hearings, since she does not spend any of her day calling donors for money."
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I am not a Klobuchar fan, but so far she is the only Democrat to have spoken with anything like the urgency and fury appropriate to this situation. I cannot stand the calm, restrained normalcy of even the well articulated arguments being put forth by other Dems here.
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Just chewing on party leadership spending insane amounts of money to ensure a 150 vote win by an incumbent who opposes abortion and supports the NRA and then yells at everyone to vote for them so that they can protect protect abortion rights and fight for gun safety.
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Wow do men who have done bad shit ever love to talk about witch hunts.
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A genuine question: were men out there brought to tears or shaking visceral response by that? Because the messages I have from women, and what's happening in my own apartment, suggest that many many women were.
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In the actual moment, it turns out that I am just completely and totally gobsmacked that for the first time in American history the United States has elected a woman to the vice presidency. And that she’s a Democrat. And that she’s Black and of Indian American descent.
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This is fucking insane. And awful, And clearly leaked purposefully. And will be confusing and terrifying for patients who have upcoming appointments THAT THEY CAN STILL GO TO to get the care they need.
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When people screamed that this was what was going to happen they were called divisive & disloyal, infantalized & villainized by the very people who just let it happen exactly as the screamers predicted. This is a familiar story & a colossal, unforgivable, wholly immoral failure.
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No paid leave in practically the last place on earth not to have it, with a "Democratic" "majority," in the midst/on the heels of an economically devastating pandemic, the bleeding of women from a workforce, & a full blown crisis in care is just the grimmest fucking embarrassment
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I...don’t think that nominating a woman would stop sexism on the internet.
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"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent."
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When I profiled Warren in 2011, I talked to many of her former students (whom I contacted on my own, not via her campaign). They all spoke of her like this. My editors at the time did not want me to include a lot of what they said, because it was simply too over-the-top positive.
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There is a lot in this ad, but the main thing I’m trying to remember is if I’ve ever seen a political ad in which a man presents his physical strengths and political ambitions as partially derivative of women who came before him. (Both Giffords and his mom)
New: Mark Kelly, retired astronaut and the husband of Gabby Giffords, has just announced that he is running for Senate in Arizona against Republican Martha McSally.
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Rep. Barbara Lee is running for Dem caucus chair this month. There has NEVER before been a black woman in House leadership in either the Democratic or Republican parties.
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Oh my god Kris Kobach lost I thought my capacity for joy was gone an hour ago but Kris Kobach lost! Kris Kobach lost!
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When the voices of 20 women do not add up to the value of the voice of one man.
The general manager of the Met Opera claimed 20 women's accusations of sexual misconduct against opera singer Plácido Domingo are "not corroborated" and said his performances will go on.
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These images are just stupendous.
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Gotta say, Republicans & right-wing media are not doing a great job of ensuring that an entire generation doesn’t grow up politically driven & wholly determined to end them. Not a hell of a lot of foresight happening here.
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Breaking (gutting) news:
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When people demanded an investigation last year, they wanted an actual investigation, before a confirmation vote. They got a barely phoned-in sham. Now there’s been investigation, turning up corroboration and more, & he has a lifetime appointment.
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I cannot believe she has to do this and that we have to do this.
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It’s happening on all fronts, all around us, every day, the move backwards, the reversal of progress made over generations by mass social movements.
JUST IN: Trump to shift federal funding for teen pregnancy prevention to abstinence-focused programs
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Hi David Brooks do you know why people need abortions after 20 weeks? Have you ever spoken to anyone who's been through it or told you why or what it was like or how difficult it was?
How many progressive priorities are Democrats giving up just so they can have their way on abortion?
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Clayton County, you say. Oh, you know what I remember? Trump tweeting that "John Lewis should spend more time on fixing & helping his district, which is in horrible shape & falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results."
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Nothing spells thoughtful self reflection and remorse like finally managing to reach out just before your presidential run 28 years after the fact!!!
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In addition to being a demented lie, this is incredibly dangerous. The president is inciting violence against abortion doctors, clinic staff, patients, politicians and activists who support reproductive autonomy and justice.
Senate Democrats just voted against legislation to prevent the killing of newborn infant children. The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth....
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Wait, you guys...are things...not...fucking horrible? What is this feeling I am having? I am unfamiliar with it.
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Does the fact that Kornacki came back mean a) he thinks there will be a call or b) he is as incapable of making good life choices as any of us right now? This is the question I am asking myself as I decide whether or not to go to sleep.
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How on god’s green earth does this guy get dragged less than Pelosi?
Sen. Chuck Schumer tells reporters at his on-cam presser that Democrats’ position is $1.6 billion for wall funding - far less than the $5 billion Trump wants - but he won’t say if Democrats are shutting the door on anything more, saying he’s not going to negotiate in public.
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They have all caused me to instantly black out upon reading their headlines.
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“Send her back.” “Lock her up.” Punish her, harm her, take away her power as a signal of your own. This grows ever more chilling & dangerous while Dem leaders write letters re Face App, worry about moderate white voters & whine about having to defend women against brutal racism.
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Truly hope that this obliterates whatever was left of Biden's weird conviction that there would be any possibility of "working with" Republicans.
McConnell acknowledges that the election led victories to GOP senators and House members. But for presidential race, he says "no states have yet certified their election results" and Pres. Trump is "100% within his rights" to weigh legal options. He makes no mention of Joe Biden
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I am very, very solidly in the no-pity-for-Melania camp. But that clip of her fending off the hand-holding advances makes me slightly sick to my stomach. The look of disgust on her face and then the eventual surrender to his grip is just too real.
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10. Cause remember kids, SHS can say w straight & righteous face that a comedian being mean to Ivanka on TV is "vile" "vicious" "appalling" & "disgusting" but would apply none of those descriptors to administration she's fronting for, which takes CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS.
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Impossible to know if vow to impeach the motherfucker will turn out to factually correct, but it's certainly imaginatively correct. I therefore give it zero Pinocchios & a million dancing-women emojis on my scale of hilariously true things that women are finally saying out loud.
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Now is when the kids say “I’m dead,” right?
Instead of listening to Trump’s rant which will most likely include many falsehoods, I think I’ll take some time to read this.
#EndTheShutdown
#BoycottTrumpPrimeTime
#unapologeticallyMe
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Crime after crime
Crime after crime
Crime after crime
(Whispers)
Crime after crime
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The willingness of Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson to come forward, understanding full well the degree to which their lives will (once again) be remapped by forces more powerful than they, is simply remarkable.
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Not sure how to properly bid adieu to the kind of guy who dreamed, while drinking beer in college, of stripping America’s most vulnerable of their healthcare. So I’ll just say: adios, you small, small man. Your departure comes far too late for far too many.
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Every debate reminds me anew that maybe none of them wants to end Pete as much as Amy wants to end Pete.
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This tweet makes me think about how many of the framers who built this nation's government and economy around institutionalized white supremacy also had Black children.
If there were any doubt that Democrats were grasping at straws, Cory Booker asked a mother who adopted two Black children whether she is a white supremacist sympathizer.
#ConfirmACB
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😮 Brian Williams just described instances of cops behaving badly that you might have seen “on social media” as if he somehow couldn’t show footage of cops kicking & pepper spraying young people, knocking down old people, driving into crowds, on his very own “regular media” show.
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The Vice President elect’s message that “there is joy in it” is such an important note to hit. Amidst all that’s not fixed, all that remains terrifying and perilous, joy is part of what will keep people engaged, which is what they urgently need to do.
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Wow I had no idea how visceral the dystopian horror would be tonight: the weepy eye and the fly and the whooping sound of likely contagion. My god.
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This makes me genuinely breathless with fury. Anyone considering giving them a penny should instead immediately donate to a local food-bank, a bail fund, an abortion fund. PLEASE. Do anything other than pay the Democratic party to do the job you just literally elected it to do.
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There’s no piece I wind up reposting more often than this one:
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Again, just for emphasis and clarity: this is like the Holocaust.
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Imagine those for whom the sentiment “maybe don’t run for president” feels “punitive.”
Howard Schultz: "We shouldn't get to a place where there are people yelling from the rafters that because you have been successful, you are a bad person and we're going to be punitive to you. That's, to me, the antithesis of the spirit of the country."
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"Blow up our civics" is pretty fucking rich coming from Republicans of the Senate Judiciary committee, Ben Sasse! Footnote: Barrett got her seat on the 7th circuit because the senate blocked Obama's choice to fill the open seat for a year.
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This Gillibrand town hall on MSNBC is very good. My daughter’s commentary: “I think she’s like me and talks very fast because there’s so much she has in her head she wants to get out.” (This is a compliment)
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This was always where Republicans were going to go: away from BIRTH CONTROL. Not abortion. It’s not about “life.” It’s about returning women to socially & economically subjugated positions, stripping them of the repro autonomy that permits full participation in public spheres.
The Trump admin plans to allocate family-planning grants to groups that stress abstinence.
A new HHS doc favorably mentions “natural family planning”—which encompasses the rhythm method and other strategies for avoiding pregnancy without contraceptives.
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