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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
An important note: there has LITERALLY NEVER been an American majority that wanted abortion to be illegal. Not when Roe was decided in 1973 and not now. The Republican SCOTUS members & their sponsors at @Heritage & the @GOP are defying the American people. news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abor…
The vast majority of Americans DO NOT WANT to live in Gilead. No matter how desperately Clarence, the beer guy, Scalito, Gorsuch and Amy want them to (who knows what Roberts wants). And we will not relent to it quietly. Women are going to fight back. Bet on it.
Also important to note: first this Court came for the voting rights of Black folks, indigenous people and other people of color. Then they came for Muslims who just wanted to visit their families in America. It's the least surprising thing EVER that they have now come for women.
If we're going to fight Gilead, the majority needs to act like a majority and FIGHT BACK. I hope women of conscience stand up and run for every daggone office in this country, from school board to judge to sheriff to the Congress in 2022. A million woman march: but to the polls.

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
4 Dec
Gotta say; of all the things that shook my core this week, Amy Coney Barrett’s cold-blooded calculations about how convenient it would be to cast off a child born via uninvited trauma after nine months of anxiety and psychic horror was provably the most disturbing. Who is she???
I’ve given birth to 3 children; one conceived while I was on birth control. And the story of each pregnancy is an emotional and physical journey. That a woman — a mother — could think the easy way out is to carry and bear a child and just drop it off at a firehouse is horrifying.
And an adoptive mother at that! Does she think her children’s birth mothers gave them up without emotional expense? I honestly can’t get my mind around it. Religious extremism is a hell of a drug, and not one I want deciding the rule of law in my country. wsj.com/articles/amy-c…
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2 Dec
A few things that stand out to me here… 1. Note that Tuckums admits that the nanny is not named yet he goes on to assumes she’s “non-white,” while also calling her a “servant.” She may be, but HE doesn’t know that. Apparently to Tuckums, all “servants” and nannies are non-white.
Except when they’re not. The late Princess Diana was once a nanny. And also was white, last time I checked. And she was no “servant.” Being a nanny is not some low class servitude. It’s legitimate, responsible work done by mainly women of all races. news.amomama.com/203143-princes…
2. Tucker clearly doesn’t respect that work or it’s responsibilities. I’ve never used in-home childcare, but I’ll bet Tuckums had a FLEET of nannies as a snotty little rich kid and likely uses them now as his… checks notes: “non-white servants.”
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1 Dec
Amazing that a handful of arch-conservative religionists on the United States Supreme Court are poised to place the bodies of more than 106 million women, and every woman going forward, into the custody of mostly male legislators in the states… in a “modern” country in 2021.
And they’re doing this over the objections of three-quarters of Americans; who can do nothing about it, as this handful of right wing extremists are permanently endowed with uncheckable power. If that is not a religious dictatorship and ultra-minority rule, I don’t know what is.
The United States is in a deep, deep slide; away from democracy, away from religious ecumenism, and for women in this country: away from bodily autonomy. And the same forces demanding this Talibanism, also demand that Americans open their bodies up to death by guns and COVID.
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30 Nov
I find it hilarious that right wing Twitter thinks it’s such a massive own to point out that Democrats used to be the right wing, racist, pro-KKK party in the South, like those of us who actually embrace history don’t know that. The reversal of the two parties is part of history.
The Republican Party truly had noble origins. Frederick Douglass once said that for Black folks (Negroes back then) the then-Grand Old Party was like the ship and all others the sea. But when Black folks joined, a kind of neighborhood white flight ensued… blackpast.org/african-americ…
This history is readily available to anyone who cares to look it up. Unfortunately it is rarely taught in schools. And what passes for the Republican Party of today is doing everything it can, including fomenting book-banning, to keep it that way.
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24 Nov
Travis McMichael has been found guilty on all counts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. All counts, down the line.
Greg McMichael guilty on all but one count.
William Roddy Bryan not guilty on two murder and one assault counts, but guilty on everything else.
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24 Nov
Watching the Kyle Rittenhouse interview with @TVAshleigh. He is exceptionally well coached. Striking that he expresses no emotions about killing 2 men & injuring a 3rd. He has a set answer he repeats. His only nightmares per this interview, are about the dead men "attacking" him.
Banfield keeps coming back and gently but firmly trying to elicit some sort of regret from him about killing two people, but he gives her nothing. Maybe it's because of potential civil litigation against him by the families of the dead, but it's striking. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/k…
If you know anyone who's been in combat, you know that taking a life leaves a person with profound and deep regret, even if they believe they had to do it. Yet Banfield also strikes out when she asks if Rittenhouse has any feelings of empathy for the families of the dead men.
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