The Religious Right was born from the desire to maintain segregation in Christian schools. Most Religious Right leaders did not initially oppose Roe v Wade, but seized on it to deflect from their racism, make them appear to have a “moral” crusade, & gin up fanaticism. 1/
3/ “How much of antiabortion rhetoric is really about the unborn, and how much is a convenient and even cynical cover for white evangelicals to support, as they did, a white supremacist like Roy Moore, in Alabama, or Trump...?” - 2/5/18 politico.com/magazine/story…
4/ In their own words.

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29 May
“Where have all the ladybugs gone?” 9/20/18 1/ nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna9…
2/ “Last year, a study that found an 82 percent mid-summer decline in the number and weight of bugs captured in traps in 63 nature preserves in Germany compared with 27 years earlier.”
“It was one of the few, if only, broad studies. Scientists say similar comparisons can't be done elsewhere, because similar bug counts weren't done decades ago.” 3/
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Great piece by @JenAFifield about the potential upcoming ballot image audit in Maricopa County by Ray Lutz’s nonprofit, Citizens Oversight. 1/ azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
“The Senate would pay the nonprofit, and Lutz said it would also accept outside donations, but not from political organizations or ‘from crazies.’” 2/
“Asked specifically whether he would accept donations from the Republican nonprofit advocacy organizations that have been created to fundraise for the audit, he said he would not.” 3/
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28 May
Maybe it really is time for public hand counting, at least of federal races.
The problem is the length of America’s ballots. If we conducted state & county elections at a different time of year than federal, then hand counting would be more viable. 1/
The move away from precinct voting & toward large vote centers & vote by mail make hand counting less likely than it already it is. 2/
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FWIW, Lutz is no MAGA. He wants to do a ballot image audit. IMO, too many election integrity advocates are working w/ MAGAs. Part of the problem is that there is no one else; Ds refuse to even request robust manual audits of their own poll-defying losses. 1/
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We can debate whether it’s a good idea to do it in Maricopa. I honestly don’t know. I tend to think not but I’m unsure. 3/
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Before you’re born, you “have to go through a huge bucket of 7 billion slips, one for each human.”

“Dip your hand in & that is what you get - you cld be born highly intelligent or not intelligent,...healthy or disabled,... black or white, born in the US or Bangladesh, etc.” 1/
“You have no idea which slip you will get. Not knowing which slip you are going to get, how would you design the world?” - @DanRather (What Unites Us), discussing a thought experiment on empathy that successful investor Warren Buffett once discussed w/ a group of students. 2/
I highly recommend the new graphic novel version of @DanRather’s book, What Unites Us. 3/
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