You’re right, it’s so much better when women’s rights are taken away BY ANOTHER WOMAN!

Just gives it that real PERSONAL TOUCH, yunno?!

https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1309608669487804416

Let’s also remember that this isn’t about Amy Coney Barrett being Catholic. It’s about her being a religious extremist who belongs to a small fringe group, People of Praise, that demands exclusive loyalty and obedience from its members and that many Catholics reject.

Yes. I do NOT want to hear cynical takes about how it wouldn't have changed minds. Even if those takes are true—which I honestly doubt.

https://twitter.com/dcbigjohn/status/1303746726474510342

I'm just stunned.

How do you sit there with those tapes, for MONTHS, and day after day watch Trump minimize and deny.

Day after day watch his followers taking his cue and starting culture wars over MASKS, for God's sake, as the death toll climbs.

HOW?

This is terrifying.

Caveat: It's important to note that this is the wording of the question: "Do you believe that the QAnon theory about a conspiracy among deep state elites is true?"

This wording doesn't touch the full scale of how nuts QAnon is. 1/

https://twitter.com/DrewLinzer/status/1301242419514494976

"Deep state" conspiracy rhetoric has been mainstreamed in the GOP, so maybe some voters are "just" responding to rhetoric they're familiar with from party leaders, and don't actually know enough about QAnon to know how nuts it is. HOWEVER: 2/

I NEED y'all to witness the emotional blackmail I am subjected to every time I dare to get up from the couch to do anything other than play with him. 😂

(Sound up!) AND, for that matter, the emotional blackmail I am subjected to WHILE I am on the couch but could theoretically be playing with him.

Wowww.

So for the last few months, I've had this *very* persistent and pretty dumb, but also seemingly sweet and well-intentioned, reply-guy in my mentions. Something seemed a little off about him, but I still engaged him politely on occasion.

Tonight...THIS arrived in my DMs. For comparison, this is how he talked "in character." (I sent him a DM once asking him to stop spamming w/ identical messages or I'd block him. He was apologetic, so I didn't. He'd occasionally pepper my DMs with inane questions after that, most but not all of which I'd ignore.)

I'm seeing two officers, troops, whatever they are with Blue Line flag scarves, two with skull scarves that I'm told might be RW iconography? That includes one wearing both. #DCProtests Pics:

Wow. THIS is their explanation for kettling hundreds of peaceful protesters and reporters, gassing them, laying siege to them in private homes, and assaulting one of the homeowners.

https://twitter.com/Curious_Kurz/status/1267844524614787072

That “info on social media” included livestreamed video, tweets/photos from reporters who were kettled, tweets/firsthand accounts from multiple people sheltering in houses, and the homeowner’s first-person account of being assaulted by police & having teargas shot into his home.

How

how

HOW

is ANYONE still considering reopening ANYTHING in the next month???!!

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1255407317895524353

And this is GERMANY!

One of the countries that fucked up their response THE LEAST!!

How do you think this will go in the US, where every day for the past six weeks has been like

Oh thank god

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1242898540248137728

Well, wait, this isn’t so great though

https://twitter.com/taragolshan/status/1242902160523878408

I won't lie. It's pretty devastating to have to postpone our honeymoon a second time—this time, the night before we were scheduled to leave. (The first time we hadn't quite made reservations yet, but were fully planning to right before @DanteAtkins lost his job.) 1/ Even after New Zealand announced a 14-day self-isolation requirement, we really thought we'd be able to make it work. It seemed driving around the South Island and sight-seeing in nature by ourselves really wouldn't have violated the letter or the spirit of the requirement. 2/

Dems had the chance to nominate a once-in-a-generation political and intellectual talent, and elect our first woman president to boot.

The worst part is, most of them WANTED to. But they were too scared and paralyzed by Trump, and too gaslit by the media, to follow their heart. And sexism played a big role in this.

More-sexist voters were less likely to support Warren—and less-sexist voters may have been influenced by fears about OTHER voters being sexist. dataforprogress.org/blog/3/5/sexis…

So Warren got a late start to this rally because she had to start by saying hi to the overflow crowd **from the overflow crowd** The packed, VERY enthusiastic crowd in the main event

What fresh hell is this?

1) Adoption is not actually an alternative to abortion. Deciding whether to parent is related to, but VERY DISTINCT FROM, deciding whether you are willing or able to allow your body to be used to gestate an unwanted pregnancy.

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

https://twitter.com/CrawfordStuff/status/1226976994866405377

2) Many folks call themselves pro-life but are actually pro-choice, bc they hate abortion but don't want to ban it. They're fine.

But this guy is former SBA List. He's POLITICALLY "pro-life"—which means actively working to restrict women's freedoms.

No room for that. None.

THIIIIIISSSSSSS

wonkette.com/will-someone-p… I am so GODDAMN TIRED of cable pundits (and Democrats and even progressive advocates) who are COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of clearly, forcefully explaining why the right wing's “9-month abortion” fever-dream is complete bullshit, and why it’s offensive to even suggest that it’s a thing.

Over the years, I’ve come to realize that the entire Republican Party is an abusive boyfriend.

Let me explain. (thread) He (the GOP) tells you that if you’re suffering, it’s your fault. (Poor people just need to work harder.)

He gaslights you. (The entire Trump administration, the entire theory of trickle-down economics.)

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