@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@santiagomayer_ ("Santiago Mayer") wrote:
You know how SCOTUS said Maine couldn’t exclude religious schools from their voucher program?
Maine just changed the guidelines to exclude schools that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@highroadsaloon ("ScottyJohns") wrote:
I said to my wife "Do you think anyone will commit suicide because they could not get an abortion?"
She instantly replied "yes."
Then she added "there will be all those boyfriends and husbands that murder them because they couldn't get one too" and that shook my fucking world.
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
No one will be untouched by this decision, but we know who will be hurt the most by overturning Roe. Low-income women. People of color. Mamas working 3 jobs to take care of the children they already have.
I’m angry—and I’m determined to fight back.
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
Now more than ever, at a time when we are witnessing anti-2SLGBTQ+ rhetoric in our world, there is a need to support all families. Without our 157 participants, our #FamilyPride would not have been possible. We look forward to many more celebrations together. #HappyPride
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
The Supreme Court decision calls into question other rights that we thought were settled.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@HalSparks ("Hal Sparks") wrote:
Ps. Social Security is next…
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@jadedcreative ("Jay Arnold") wrote:
MINI THREAD
For the people screaming Republicans will not cut or “sunset” Medicare and Social security this is for you.
This is not new. Ryan got it to the floor. They’ve been trying to cut these “entitlement” programs forever - Rick Scott put in writing they will do it. 1/3
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
Dem leaders must tell voters the plan:
What’s the *actual* need? Which specific seats are we focused on? WHAT votes do we need & WHERE (what states + races?)
And, what’s the return? What is Biden/Congress ACTUALLY willing+able to do at 52/60 seats?
Be honest. Details motivate
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
For the moments when we DO insist on elections, we must be PRECISE with what we need and we will do with that power:
How many seats does the party need to Codify Roe?
Dems must SAY THAT. Not just “go vote” or “give us $6 to win.” That is demoralizing, losing, unfocused nonsense
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
So let’s wake up everybody! What’s good Democrats! If you don’t like what I’ve laid out here, then please present YOUR plan instead of little “why we can’t” lists!!
Let’s cut the handwringing and get moving! Chop chop! No more showtunes till November unless it’s for GOTV!!
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
The President & Dem leaders can no longer get away with familiar tactics of “committees” and “studies” to avoid tackling our crises head-on anymore:
- Restrain judicial review
- Open clinics on federal lands
- Court expansion
- Expand Fed access/awareness of pill abortions
- etc
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
to confront the Court’s structure (and core gerontocracy problem of lifetime appointments) via public appeal. While he did not succeed, that check came from the ppl & Congress, NOT scotus.
The ruling is Roe, but the crisis is democracy. Leaders must share specific plans for both
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
Past Presidents, from Lincoln to FDR, understood the dangerous stakes of allowing an unchecked Court overreach its authority and threaten our democracy.
Lincoln ignored the court to issue the emancipation proclamation.
FDR, in the plunges of the Great Depression, also sought…
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
In a legitimacy crisis, the solution Biden + Dem leaders must offer can’t just be one of voting, but of statute & authority.
Compared to Exec + Leg branch, checks on Court overreach and misconduct are little to none. Leaders must share their plans for Roe AND a rogue court.
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
- 1 justice’s family (Thomas) was paid by right wing groups for years and he never disclosed it, violating Federal law
- Same justice’s spouse participated in 1/6 and he used his SCOTUS seat to vote to keep potential info related to his wife from investigators in Congress…
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") replied to a tweet by @AOC:
- 2 justices stand very credibly accused of sexual assault
And that’s the tip of the iceberg.
Election or not, the Supreme Court has a legitimacy crisis and the public reaffirms it: 75% of the US public reports lacking confidence in SCOTUS, & those numbers were *pre-Roe ruling*
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") wrote:
Here’s how Dems can + must do more than wait for an election.
Let’s start w/ why:
- 7 of the 9 justices were appointed by a party that hasn’t won a popular vote more than once in 30 years
- 1 of those seats was stolen
- Several lied to Congress to secure their appointment…
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A creationist sent me their code for simulating evolution. It's really, really stupid.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/25/i-get-email-for-the-programmers-out-there/
@briantylercohen ("Brian Tyler Cohen") retweeted:
@NoLieWithBTC ("No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen") wrote:
NEW: Samuel L. Jackson just called out Clarence Thomas’ hypocrisy for calling to overturn same-sex marriage and contraception but not interracial marriage, which was decided on the same grounds: “How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!”
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
@formulamaja ("m 🏳️🌈") wrote:
After an attack on a gay bar in Oslo last night, Pride was officially cancelled but people spontaneously gathered and marched to the bar to leave flowers. Seeing people crying, cheering and being courageous to go to the streets is the most beautiful thing I witnessed. ❤️
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jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@jilltwiss ("Jill Twiss") replied to a tweet by @jilltwiss:
"I want women to get to be whole people, but even more than that, I want norms"
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@Kevinliptakcnn ("Kevin Liptak") wrote:
The White House today on calls to expand the Supreme Court: "That is something that the President does not agree with. That is not something that he wants to do," Karine Jean-Pierre says aboard Air Force One
@briantylercohen ("Brian Tyler Cohen") replied to a tweet by @briantylercohen:
If you don't think you can have an impact by persuading just a few people to vote, remember that in Wisconsin, Biden won the 2020 election by a margin of just 3 people per precinct.
Make it your mission to persuade just 3 nonvoters to turn out in November.
@briantylercohen ("Brian Tyler Cohen") wrote:
Just spoke to a (not particularly political) friend in Ohio. He brought up SCOTUS and told me he's spoken to friends/family who haven't voted before. They're voting in November.
@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") retweeted:
@JoshuaPotash ("Read Wobblies and Zapatistas") wrote:
What we need to leave behind, urgently, is the idea that politics is something we do every four years. Politics is a constant struggle. Politics happens at our jobs and our neighborhoods and our housing. It shapes our lives everywhere, all the time, and we need to act like it.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@HalSparks ("Hal Sparks") wrote:
This is the closest thing to “denazification” the Russian forces have done…. “Operation Boomerang” is a complete success 👁👁
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This is reportedly footage of a failed Russian air defense system missile launch from Alchevsk, Luhansk Oblast.
https://t.me/faceofwar/20692
@travisthetechie ("Travis Smith") retweeted:
@ericlaw ("Eric Lawrence 🎻") wrote:
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If you asked the founding fathers what they thought they'd be like "why the fuck are you still using a constitution from 200 years ago? We figured it would last 20 years tops." https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1540525715208257536
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@JoyAnnReid ("Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷") wrote:
Beschloss: This is not a Supreme Court majority that’s seeking to heal the country. They’re saying “look at how much power we have, even though just a third of the country shares our views” and we’re gonna “shove it in your face.” Pure Trumpism.
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@11thHour ("11th Hour") wrote:
.@BeschlossDC: “This decision was intended to throw scalding acid into the face of people who feel strongly about abortion rights. It was intended to shock.”
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@BetoORourke ("Beto O'Rourke") wrote:
Ran the Pride 5k in beautiful Houston with some amazing people — great runners and fierce advocates for equality!
@briantylercohen ("Brian Tyler Cohen") wrote:
As far as SCOTUS goes, the number 9 is not sacrosanct. It's not in the Constitution. McConnell himself changed that number to 8 just a few years ago. If we pretend there's no recourse here, we hand far-right theocrats a victory by playing by rules that they refuse to play by.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
All these corporations coming out and saying that they’ll support their employees through abortions… how about your bitch asses use your lobbying power to stop this instead of creating a system where your employees would have to tell you that they wanna get an abortion
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@gerrycanavan ("Gerry Canavan") wrote:
all the national democrats have already decided this decision is permanent and abortion access is now a state by state issue by best. it took less than four hours
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@ChrisMurphyCT ("Chris Murphy") wrote:
Let’s be 100% clear. If Republicans win control of the House, Senate and White House two years from now, they will pass a national abortion ban. And no matter where you live, no matter how pro-choice your state is, women and doctors will be locked up for practicing health care.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
RT if you’re ready to elect a pro-choice majority.
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
"As Ann Telnaes’ aptly simple cartoon puts it, the McConnell-packed Supreme Court has shown its lack of concern for the dignity and humanity of women."
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@ComicStripOTD ("Mike Peterson") wrote:
Rum, Romanism, Rebellion and the end of Roe v Wade. Click here - https://bit.ly/3OCCTsF - to join @AnnTelnaes @gallenhuck @AndyMarlette @PatChappatte @deAdder #Berge @thePatByrnes @MarshallRamsey @warrencartoon @adamzyglis & @mluckovichajc #AbortionBan #RoeVsWade #RoeVWade
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@discarddungeon ("Nova 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈") replied to a tweet by @discarddungeon:
Lincoln and Congress also just... completely ignored the ruling. They stopped giving a shit and disregarded everything the Supreme Court had to say on the subject of slavery and started passing laws to ban it anyway, despite this being in direct violation of Dred Scott. 4/8
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@discarddungeon ("Nova 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈") replied to a tweet by @discarddungeon:
For one thing, in 1863 President Lincoln and his allies in Congress expanded the judiciary, adding more Supreme Court Justices to try to counteract its partisan state. The exact same thing that many people have been begging the Democrats to do now. But that's not all. 3/8
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@JoeBiden ("Joe Biden") wrote:
The President needs to stop blaming others and do his job.
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") retweeted:
#Abortion @scotus #kacanaugh by @AnnTelnaes #maga #kag #tcot #uspoli
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:
Uh, did he just say the quiet part out loud?
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@JohnCornyn ("Senator John Cornyn") wrote:
Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1540340642848690176
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@AugustJPollak ("August J. Pollak") wrote:
Democrats absolutely should be held accountable for this. This was the first and only ruling in a lifetime they literally had two months lead time on and it has become very clear the only thing they had prepared for day one response was fundraising emails.
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@Sadie_ATL ("sadie") wrote:
Don't forget that Democratic leadership read us poetry and sang us a hymn instead of... doing anything in the weeks between the leaked draft and the release of the Dobbs ruling.
How's progress on the ERA going, y'all? Uh huh.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@Sifill_LDF ("Sherrilyn Ifill") wrote:
The guns are part of it. Every D.A., dr, nurse, woman who chooses to defy or resist these terrible state laws will know that many around them are armed & unhinged.The inchoate threat of violence is critical to oppression just as lynching reinforced voter suppression & Jim Crow.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@AnandWrites ("THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas") wrote:
A reminder that, without a single Republican vote, Democrats could choose to abolish the filibuster and codify Roe v. Wade into law, and it is an active choice not to do it. And an active choice by party leaders not to publicly browbeat every last holdout.
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@BernieSanders ("Bernie Sanders") wrote:
Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@tinysnekcomics ("alex") wrote:
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@Public_Citizen ("Public Citizen") wrote:
Reminder of corporations funding anti-abortion political committees since 2016:
Coca-Cola: $2,624,000
Comcast: $1,869,600
AT&T: $1,472,800
CVS: $1,380,000
Walmart: $1,140,000
Amazon: $974,700
Verizon: $901,100
Google: $525,700
T-Mobile: $343,400
Spread their shame.
@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:
@loconte ("Noelle LoConte, MD") wrote:
I am an oncologist. I have had patients that needed to get an abortion to allow safe treatment of their cancer. Abortion absolutely is a part of healthcare.
@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:
@nhannahjones ("Ida Bae Wells") wrote:
Many companies are stepping up and offering travel and other assistance for their employees to get abortion access but women should not have to share this private health decision with their employers in order to access what yesterday was a constitutional right.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@ayobrobro ("⚔️brodiereed⚔️") wrote:
Democrats ten years from now:
The right for women to vote is ON THE BALLOT
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@april_anita ("April") wrote:
If I knew the original source, I would credit.
@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:
@SamuelLJackson ("Samuel L. Jackson") wrote:
How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
Signal is a good place to chat with friends
I hate MAPAC so deeply and it’s such a clear signal of what actually matters to leadership. A completely different story than the heartfelt messages they send us after Bad Stuff Happens. And they just keep doing it!
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@GossiTheDog ("Kevin Beaumont") replied to a tweet by @GossiTheDog:
MSPAC should be disbanded, it makes a mockery of everything MS says it stands for — espoused values should mean something.
Explore the data yourself.
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@Bronwen85 ("Bronwen🌹🏳️🌈") wrote:
If anyone is wondering what that famous women's rights activist JK Rowling had to say about Roe today, the answer is nothing
The concept of burning down police precincts had my vote for November
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@generalperiwin1 ("Emperor Periwinkle") replied to a tweet by @BokononsProphet:
@BokononsProphet Burning the 3rd precint polled higher than Biden's popular vote percentage.
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@CharlieCrist ("Charlie Crist") wrote:
Today’s ruling makes clear that Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied to Congress when they testified under oath that in their view Roe v. Wade was settled precedent.
Perjury is a crime.
If perjury is found to have occurred, the correct remedy is impeachment.
@sam_d_1995 ("sam") replied to a tweet by @the_transit_guy:
@the_transit_guy TxDOT is singlehandedly responsible for 0.5% of global carbon emissions, which is absolutely nuts when you think about it
@DaxAeterna ("Dax: do we cast off tomorrow") wrote:
You're probs being flooded with Dems begging for money so they can pretend they did something.
Instead give your money to @AbortionFunds! I specifically recommend @DCAbortionFund, they provide so much funding for people who have to travel from FL, GA, NC, MS, AL to DC.
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
Ok I don't post a lot of these but it 100% nailed The Golden Girls as puppets
@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:
@mhdksafa ("Mohamad Safa") wrote:
When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women
@SethMacFarlane ("Seth MacFarlane") wrote:
E-book based on my script for the show, or audiobook read by the one and only @boxleitnerbruce!
@SethMacFarlane ("Seth MacFarlane") wrote:
Due to Covid shutdowns, we had to scrap one episode of The Orville: New Horizons. It was an outlier—a conceptually experimental story. Rather than let it vanish, I decided to adapt it as a novelization. Available digitally July 19, you can pre-order here! https://books.disney.com/book/the-orville-sympathy-for-the-devil/
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
apparently my boyfriend is planning for his funeral?!
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firecoals@queer.party ("ember 🍁🌸🌼🌻💄") wrote:
@SethMacFarlane ("Seth MacFarlane") retweeted:
@GavinNewsom ("Gavin Newsom") wrote:
Abortion is legal in California.
It will remain that way.
I just signed a bill that makes our state a safe haven for women across the nation.
We will not cooperate with any states that attempt to prosecute women or doctors for receiving or providing reproductive care.
@JamesUrbaniak ("James Urbaniak") wrote:
I want you to know: we are watching TV
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@VP ("Vice President Kamala Harris") wrote:
I know there are women out there who are afraid. To those of you who feel alone and scared: I want you to know the President and I are fighting for you and your rights. We are in this fight together.
@girldrawsghosts ("Tranny DeVito") wrote:
being a millennial feels like living in a video game where each level you have to fight through a new era of history, but the boss is always just ronald reagan wearing a different hat
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") replied to a tweet by @DreamingInCode:
Stonewall was unlawful and violent.
Say what you want about Suffragettes or the Black Panther Party, or contemporary radical groups, but they raised the temperature and forced the conversation.
As in chemistry, some reactions just won’t catalyze below a certain temperature
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@OlufemiOTaiwo ("Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò") wrote:
When Lincoln signed laws from Congress outlawing slavery (1862) and issued the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), he defied SCOTUS' infamous Dred Scott decision (1857). The New York Times' comment: "Nobody pretends this act is constitutional, and nobody cares if it is or not."
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@SamtheNightOwl ("Sam 👁️") wrote:
supreme court precedent this, supreme court precedent that...
there's precedent to just ignore the supreme court, and more people should know that
@gaywonk ("Carlos Maza") retweeted:
@deviIette ("devilette") wrote:
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Intel is postponing the groundbreaking ceremony for its planned chip-making facilities in Ohio because the US government hasn’t yet provided it with funding, the company confirmed to The Verge (via The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal). The ceremony, which was originally set to take place on July 22nd, has been delayed indefinitely in a likely bid to push the US government towards passing the CHIPS Act.
Intel announced its $20 billion plan to build two semiconductor plants in New Albany, Ohio earlier this year, noting that its expansion to potentially include up to eight plants will “depend heavily on funding from the CHIPS Act.” The CHIPS Act reserves $52 billion in funding for semiconductor companies, including Intel, to...
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") replied to a tweet by @DreamingInCode:
Yes, radicals can be annoying even to folks on their side of the spectrum, but you don’t see that causing republican schism. They just roll their eyes and keep going
People don’t change their minds due to some obnoxious radical—but they do use them to justify pre-existing biases
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:
I’ve found it: The very worst take.
“Attention liberals: you’re being too annoying. Be cordial with your scheming abusers”
Look, building coalitions is important, but so is having some backbone. People respond to standing up for yourself. Milquetoast centrism achieves nothing.
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@VividVoid_ ("Vivid Void") wrote:
The left has been losing for fifty years and will continue to lose until it forces out the radicals, stops needlessly abusing its own people, stops alienating potential allies, and starts working to build a durable political coalition focused on results, not purity.
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
If you’d like to know how I’ve been doing I just finished The Office for the fifth time in two years.
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
Nancy Pelosi in an email asking you for $7
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It’s all very bad
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") retweeted:
@washingtonpost ("The Washington Post") wrote:
From the House floor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said, “I think it’s important for us to also tackle this myth that this is somehow about babies or children or life,” after the Supreme Court released its decision overturning Roe v. Wade in a 6-to-3 decision.
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vkc@mspsocial.net ("vkc // Veronica Explains") wrote:
@RikerGoogling ("Riker Googling") wrote:
is my replicator spying on me
@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") retweeted:
@mathewfinch5 ("mathewfinch") replied to a tweet by @gaywonk:
I have a sudden urge to replay the Bioshock series.
Rapture was a mesmerizing place.
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") retweeted:
@nataliesurely ("Natalie Shure") wrote:
The connection isn’t always obvious to people, but the path for reorienting power and politics in this country runs through the labor movement
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
This is a health care crisis.
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
favorites so far:
Aruna dan Lidahnya is a story about a food critic who travels to various regions and uncovers a political conspiracy. the food looks amazing and the scenes of the Indonesian countryside are beautiful.
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (cw: violence, sa) works as a kind of criticism of the hyper-violent revenge films I saw on tv when I grew up in Indonesia in the 90s; it's really weird but somehow the way it criticizes toxic masculinity within that context holds together well.
Lost in Thailand (Mandarin): this one is just fun and lighthearted about a businessman trying to beat his rival to finding the man who can fund his work. it's rather silly but the settings really took me back.
tried watching 36th Chamber of Shaolin which is supposed to be a kung-fu masterpiece but Amazon only has an English dub which is absolutely cringe; I couldn't last five minutes.
@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:
@inthesetimesmag ("In These Times") wrote:
After key bills on climate and housing stalled in the legislature, left-wing organizers with @DemSocialists and @WorkingFamilies are working to topple Democratic incumbents and build a united front in Albany.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-york-progressives-dsa-wfp-assembly-climate-eviction-primary-election
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@GinaForAustin ("Gina Hinojosa") wrote:
Ain’t no one saving us. Not the courts. No appeal. No executive order.
It’s done.Only we can save ourselves.
Today’s action:
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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
been sick the last week so i've been watching a bunch of films in Mandarin and Indonesian and i honestly think for language learning purposes it'd be cool if the subtitles could have a "literal" version of the translation that left the idioms intact
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
The first Pride was a riot
@pareene ("'Weird Alex' Pareene") wrote:
I legitimately don't have this power
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@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
My message to the American people: You have the power to elect leaders who will defend and protect your rights.
And as the president said, with your vote, you can act. You have the final word.
So this is not over.
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
If the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade feels like a personal attack, it’s because it is. Extremists are trying to send us back to the days when women had no control over our own bodies and our own futures. But I’ve got news for them: we still have the power to fight back.
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@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
America if you need emotional escapism content to escape our hellscape- I literally got to visit The Brady House and I couldn’t believe it. Brady Bunch is my escapism. https://youtu.be/S9y1TSIO4CQ
@AOC ("Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez") retweeted:
@ohheyjenna ("Jenna Amatulli") replied to a tweet by @ohheyjenna:
AOC just called on Biden to open abortion clinics on federal lands “right now”
@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
The tyranny is that we have allowed Supreme Court justices to be approved with only 50 Senate votes, yet we still allow legislation to require 60. Now with an extremist court that is legislating from the bench, our democracy is at stake: THE FILIBUSTER MUST GO.
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@NeolithicSheep ("Shepherd") wrote:
AND WHILE I'M ON A TEAR if you're cis and het no more of the "love is love" shit. I need to hear you say "gay people deserve human rights" "trans people deserve human rights" "I support gay marriage". I need you to actually say the words instead of acting like we cannot be named.
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@GBBranstetter ("Gillian Branstetter") replied to a tweet by @GBBranstetter:
The civility game is a trap. Whataboutism will always benefit reactionaries more than progressives because destruction benefits from stagnancy and dissonance. Pointing out their hypocrisy does not hurt them. I repeat--POINTING OUT THEIR HYPOCRISY DOES NOT HURT THEM. It helps them
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@GBBranstetter ("Gillian Branstetter") wrote:
The same extremists who overturned Roe are going to try and change the conversation to civility--they're, in fact, already trying to do so. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HELP THEM.
Talk about abortion, the harms of being denied it, and the lives of people who need it--and don't stop.
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@evan_greer ("Evan Greer") wrote:
Tired: posting about how you’ll pay for your employees abortion care related travel
Wired: stop collecting location data that will be used to criminalize low income abortion seekers who don’t make six figures at Google
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@thecimonalisa ("CimónAlisa") wrote:
Women trying to withhold sex to avoid pregnancy will just be met with more violence and thats a scary thought.
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@helpmeskeletor ("David Lo Pun-ch Nazis") replied to a tweet by @helpmeskeletor:
Also if you stop fighting for them they get taken.
@jonathanarehart ("Jonathan Arehart") retweeted:
@helpmeskeletor ("David Lo Pun-ch Nazis") wrote:
Don’t be tricked into thinking your rights were debated for or handed generously to you by oppressors because you were nice to them or voted for them.
Someone fought for them - they’re all written in blood.
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@C_Stroop ("Chrissy Stroop") wrote:
Roe being overturned is the worst sort of “I told you so” moment. There was never a real question of why white evangelicals embraced Trump. He did what they wanted.
Will the press start treating the Christian Right like a serious threat to democracy and human rights now?