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May 17, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1. For those bemoaning what the future will be under the GOP lunacy on abortion - we're already there.

Pence's Indiana shows the drive to criminalize pregnancy. A severely depressed woman, Bei Bei Shuai, attempted suicide. In a sane world, this would lead to psychiatric care...
2...in GOP-ville, this resulted in criminal prosecution and imprisonment. You see, Bei was pregnant. At that point in Indiana, she no longer was a person, just an incubator. The fetus miscarried as a result of the suicide attempt. So she was charged with "murder."....
3...she was denied bail. Denied bail for attempting suicide. She was in prison for 435 days - about 1.5 years. (Meanwhile, Brock Turner was being sentenced to 6 months in prison - or 3, given time served - for sexually attacking an unconscious woman.) Bei had no money to pay...
4...for a defense, so a lawyer took her case and went public with it, seeking contributions for her defense. Prosecutors filed a motion seeking that the defense lawyer be admonished for tainting the jury pool by saying what had happened. Ultimately, Bei pleaded guilty to a....
5...misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served - a year and a half.

Or....Purvi Patel. She was arrested and charged with feticide and child neglect because she had a miscarriage. The evidence: Prosecutors found a text message where she discussed her doubts about having the...
6...baby and discussed taking an abortion drug. After the miscarriage, she was arrested. There was no evidence of the drug in her system. No evidence of drug at all.

But....she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. For having a miscarriage. Fortunately, not...
7...everyone in Indiana is a flaming idiot. On appeal, ta three judge panel said, essentially, "WTF is this??!!?" The court ruled that the law was never intended to cover self-induced abortion, so even if she had taken the drugs, it didn't matter. I don't know how much time she..
8...served in prison.

Here is the problem - when you have people who seriously argue that THIS (see attached) is a baby, it is impossible to have a rational discussion. They say "life begins at conception." Why? Sperm are alive. So are ovums....
9...shouldnt teenage boys across America be arrested for genocide? The sperm is a potential person - so is the zygote. Yes, both are ALIVE, but they are not life. But until we start addressing the assertions of fact that are just opinion - "life begins at conception" - the war...
10...on these fundamentalist absolutist who care nothing about torturing babies so long as women are locked up for pregnancy will not have begun.

When they say, "Love begins at conception" - always reply, "Prove it."

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In just three months, Trump has:
1. Wrecked decades-long relationships with USA's best allies, who now have said that relationship is over.
2. Sent global stocks markets into a tailspin.
3. Sent bond markets into collapse.
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...5. Lied to courts & refused to abide by rulings, in what could be the greatest breakdown in Constitutional government since founding.
6. Ignored due process before shipping someone to a torture prison.
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9. Threatened the independence of the federal reserve.
10. Demanded that the federal government get to determine what private colleges teach.
11. Crippled the FDA, CDC..../3
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People looking only at the stock market are missing the full magnitude of Trump's economic incompetence. His "yes-no-maybe" idiocy with tariffs is leaving equity investors with no sense of which way to go. But worse is the bond market..../1
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Make no mistake: The "Haitians are stealing your pets to eat them" lie is a variant of the blood libel that Jews have faced for centuries: In that, Jews are stealing Christian babies to use their blood bake food (Matzah).

Trump and Vance are lying about legal residents..../1
....accusing them of stealing beloved members of the family, and eating them. The point of the Haitian Blood Libel is the same as the original Blood Libel: To create an "other," to unify the hateful and ignorance against an imaginary enemy in their midst, all to seize power.../2
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The appeal filed by Jack Smith on Judge Cannon's dismissal of the classified documents cased underscores an embarrassment that should not exist in modern times, things that were evident in her ruling. Cannon is clearly either stupid or corrupt..../1
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