.@AyannaPressley: Pro-life laws hurt “our lowest income sisters, our queer, trans and nonbinary siblings; black, Latinx, AAPI, immigrants, disabled & indigenous folks. And none of this is happenstance ... These bans are rooted in a patriarchy and white supremacy."
.@GloriaSteinem: You know, Hitler's first official act was banning abortion
@GloriaSteinem@RepSpeier Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi: “Abortion is a blessing; abortion is an act of love; abortion is freedom”
Abortion activist Maleeha Aziz: Prohibiting taxpayer funding for abortion is "classist" and "racist" ... "it fills me with rage"
Rep. @RoKhanna: “Unpatriotic” for people to create the “false impression” that Margaret Sanger had racist motivations
@RoKhanna .@AOC suggests she was raped: “I speak about this as a survivor”
@RoKhanna@AOC Dr. Moayedi: “Our country is actually founded on reproductive control & coercion of enslaved Africans and of indigenous people. So this is actually a historical tactic in our country, and a method of upholding white supremacy, so that has not changed and continues today"
@RoKhanna@AOC Abortion activist Maleeha Aziz: “As we know, people get pregnant and not just women."
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Terrifying news: A dangerous contagion is sweeping across Washington. It’s a virus that specifically targets victims’ hippocampus, particularly impacting the area of the brain responsible for … basic math. See for yourself!
CNN’s @brianstelter: How should the “reality-based media” like CNN cover Republicans?
Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder: "My advice for the press corps is to drop the 'fair and balanced'” approach
@brianstelter WaPo’s @crampell: Media focusing too much on the pricetag of Dems’ $3.5T bill: “The bill itself will not cost $3.5T in the sense it will be entirely, or at least partly, paid for. So the actual cost will be smaller than that, perhaps zero, although I think that’s unlikely"
@brianstelter@crampell Stelter to @nhannahjones on school districts banning the #1619Project curriculum: “Is this just the ‘whitelash' in another form, Nikole? Some white Americans afraid to deal with reality?”
THREAD: It wasn’t only Twitter & Facebook that were trying to throw the election through their manipulation of information. Dozens of blue check progressives circulated fake news that the Hunter story was “disinformation.” These people should be shamed. 1)
2) @AnandWrites, who seems to have deleted the tweet. (Fortunately I saved a copy)
@AnandWrites 3) Journalist @WajahatAli celebrated the censorship of his media colleagues’ reporting on the false grounds it was “Russian disinformation”
Biden attacks GOP governors opposing his unconstitutional vax mandate: “This is the worst kind of politics, because it’s putting the lives of citizens of their states, especially children, at risk."
Biden on his $3.5 trillion climate/“infrastructure” bill: It’s “fiscally responsible” and “fully paid for”
Biden: My $3.5 trillion “infrastructure" bill will end inflation and bad weather