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The greatest, and sickest irony of the @GOP's new political strategy is that they are appealing to the most prurient fears of white Christian parents, while passing bills and maintaining alliances that normalize child brides and rape as a legitimate means of procreation.
If Democrats were anything like Republicans, they'd long ago have begun calling them the pro-rape, pro child marriage party and accusing them of forcing women to be child-birthing slaves of the state, while banning the teaching of what slavery is to keep the chattel docile.
I genuinely fear that before long, America will look a lot more like Russia or Hungary or even Afghanistan than any one of y'all can imagine. Because Republicans are aggressive in their pursuit of social and political control, while just about everyone else is pretty disengaged.
What will Texas Republicans empower private citizen bullies to do next, now that they've enacted laws letting (potentially armed) thugs "watch" (Black and Latino) voters, prompted Texans to spy on women and file lawsuits for a $ bounty against anyone helping them end a pregnancy?
Will Texans be prompted to spy on teachers to ensure they are not teaching the true history of slavery and are only upholding the prim dignity of the white founding fathers? How about urging citizens to inform on and sue parents who send their children to school masked?
Texas is basically a small Soviet Republic at this point, with neighbors spying on neighbors, hoping to collect a cash bounty, in addition to being an apartheid state for nonwhite voters. What woman or POC could possibly feel safe there? To say nothing of the gun proliferation.
when you RT BLM but design RCTs that put poor people in the Global South through evangelical training to 'evaluate' if that is a way out of poverty.
cc @ingridharvold @DivDecEcon
cc @ingridharvold @DivDecEcon
incidentally, this validates Global South/heterdox econ critiques of RCTs not only for its hugely problematic ethics, but its dismissal of structural accounts of poverty
and if you think, ah, just 'scientists' observing, think again 
A thing happening that's probably gonna get lost in this week's news slog: Senate Republicans are about to confirm a lifetime federal judge who opposes fertility treatments.
IVF and surrogacy have “grave effects on society," Sarah Pitlyk has argued. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pi…
IVF and surrogacy have “grave effects on society," Sarah Pitlyk has argued. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pi…
Got a copy of a letter @SenDuckworth sent to all 99 of her Senate colleagues urging them to oppose Pitlyk's confirmation, citing her own struggles with infertility and ripping Pitly's "deeply insulting" views on fertility treatment. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pi…
@SenDuckworth Sarah Pitlyk claimed that fertility treatments and surrogacy have “grave effects on society" like "diminished respect for motherhood" and "commodification of gestation and of children themselves."
She's only 42. Up for a lifetime federal court seat. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pi…
She's only 42. Up for a lifetime federal court seat. huffpost.com/entry/sarah-pi…
It's DAY THREE of the Kavanaugh hearings. Gather round, friends for another full day of shenanigans I'll be here all day!
Miss day two? Here's a quick recap
rewire.news/multimedia/pod…
Miss day two? Here's a quick recap
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Today's format is largely the same. Members of the Judiciary Committee get to question Kavanaugh. Unlike yesterday's 30 minute rounds are shortened to 20 minutes
Grassley gavels the proceedings to order
Says yesterday's hearing shows Kavanaugh has a strong command of the law
Says yesterday's hearing shows Kavanaugh has a strong command of the law
