@eastbank_dc Lol there is no staffer in the security footage pic. Sometimes members genuinely get lost w/out staff. Maybe it was just easier to go the above-ground route 🤣
To be abundantly clear—this means pulling the alarm *could not have been part of a plan to delay voting*
Everyone who works on the Hill & specifically those who work in the Capitol (like all members of Congress do) knows this.
I work in Rayburn & go to the Capitol most days. It’s easy to get lost in the tunnels to (even if you’ve done it a bajillion times).
It’s often faster to just go outside & walk over.
During irregular hours, doors are often closed & getting out is confusing.
During odd hours you often come to an exit you normally use during the week/ daytime & it’s closed. Then you feel trapped & frustrated you can’t get out.
Have I ever pulled a fire alarm as a result? No. 🤣
But, I honestly can see how that could get confusing in a rush.
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Some don’t find out they are pregnant until they are too far along to use abortion pills.
Some don’t discover catastrophic fetal anomalies until much later in pregnancy.
Clinics are a must—but we can get to a point where pills are by far most common.
Even if you go in-person to a clinic (like Planned Parenthood) TODAY—it’ll most likely be a medication abortion.
The Dr. hands you pills. You take the first one (1 mifepristone) in front of them. Then you go home, take more pills (4 misoprostol) & the abortion happens at home.
Until now, mifepristone (the 1st pill used in most medication abortions) could be dispensed only by a few mail-order pharmacies or by certified doctors/clinics.
Now—patients w a prescription can pick mife & misoprostol up at any pharmacy (that agree to a certain set of rules).
You CAN do medication abortion with ONLY the 2nd type of pill (misoprostol) & that’s common in other countries.
Misoprostol is harder to ban since it's used for many other conditions, like ulcers, miscarriage management, etc.
So keep in mind mifepristone isn’t an absolute must.
White women are not "voting against their own interests."
They're making an astute political calculation that they have made successfully for decades.
They look around. They see who has power (almost exclusively white men). They side w power.
It's sick, but it's not stupid.
What IS stupid is to perpetually be in a state of confusion (every, single election) about why women's history DOES NOT coincide w progressive politics/ why the rise of feminism hasn't automatically spirited the majority of WW away from race loyalty & man worship.
In 1958, a woman named Marguerite Dice co-founded the ultra-right conspiratorial group The John Birch Society, along w Robert Welch (though she was, of course, never given credit & was credited only with providing refreshments.)