Usually when I read a Jez article and run off to hug my cat, it is because I have suffered further erosion of my faith in humanity and immediately need felid compassion. This time it was because that story made my heart flutter a little.

ditto

Good point. A family member is always saying loftily to me "They're never going to overturn Roe. Your rights are safe." UM, NO. It makes me awfully mad to hear that lofty dismissal of real possibilities that are manifesting as we speak. Roe v. Wade is a concrete, black & white, de jure entity. Reality is much…

Texas Jezzies UNITE. The most important thing now is sustaining momentum, interest, and energy. The other part of this is proliferating the names and positions of state gov't candidates through as many channels as possible in order to inform and impact potential voters. I agree this is a huge wake-up call and has…

Very tidily phrased, geriatriccase. It is so matter-of-fact, I'm bloody terrified. I admire your turn of phrase in several places in particular:

I would pay fangirl money to watch her pummel Sarah Palin in a debate on how government works.

What an eloquent, poised, clever Southern woman she is.

Toilet humor is the only humor in times of such crises. Why are you still grey?

Texas GOP has also gerrymandered the bejesus out of the state. "Will of the majority", my pet goat.

Good call on posting the "Don't Feed the Trolls" signage.

"Pro-birth" is what it amounts to. Slavering with hideous delight to sound important and meritorious by championing this new class of citizen: the "preborns".

That's truly blistering. Wow.

There were so many fucked up things about the word garbage he was spewing. Too much to address in a single letter. Did you catch his "show and tell" party on the podium, which involved a sonogram picture — sonograms having somehow suddenly become GERMANE for this skeezy male…

I'm all rage-frenzied out. We Texans have been glued to the Twitter feeds over the past two weeks in a near-frenzy state of fury. This is egregious, reckless, hateful, DANGEROUS legislation and the rhetoric that propelled it was so much hot air it's a wonder the bill didn't sail off into the sweet hazy heavens on…

Absolutely, yes.

"A woman walks around the chamber in those shoes, people know she's not afraid of anything."