And this is why I am glad I teach at a university in a blue state, and why I would never even consider teaching or living in a red state. And students should seriously consider abortion laws and access when deciding on which universities to attend. 

They’re not for less government, at all. What they want is unfettered capitalism and no labor or environmental protections, or better yet, laws that outlaw protections for labor and environment, anything they see as getting in the way of rich people making more money. But they want to legislate the fuck out of being…

I got lucky with all of it. Some of it is privilege, too, as I worked in the health care system for a few years during grad school (yes I’m actually a Dr. but not the health care kind), and developed an understanding of how the system works and how to speak in language that doctors get and don’t feel threatened by…

I use a life saving medication that can cause severe birth defects. My doctor trusts me to be responsible about my own reproductive health and issues. In fact my gyn when finding out about my medication asked me if I planned to get pregnant at some point, or if I wanted the option to get sterilized so I wouldn’t be at…

Seems like kind of a major omission to not tell people how to protect themselves from assholes who do this. For those who want to know:

On iPhone/iPad (iOS):

Go to the Settings app
Go to General
Go to Airdrop
Set to Contacts Only (or turn off Airdrop completely)

On a MacBook:

Open a Finder window
Click on Airdrop (left hand…

Psychopaths gonna psychopath.

Amazing that a cop can murder an unarmed Black person with impunity because they feel “scared” in the moment, but a doctor can’t make a lone, expert decision to save a patient’s life, most likely a Black woman’s life, given that Black women have such a high maternal mortality rate. Anti-choice extremists don’t care…

Hence referring to it as animatronic.

I’m pretty firmly and radically pro-choice, and agree that anti-choice extremists are historically and overwhelmingly the violent ones. However, there have been a couple of arson attacks on anti-choice groups by pro-choice groups since the draft opinion was leaked. The Guardian reported on one in early May. There…

Perhaps you didn’t read to the end, where the author says Collins wasn’t duped at all.

And aside from other lobbying organizations besides the NRA, gun manufacturers are major GOP donors. It’s mind boggling but typical of recent Jezebel commentary that these articles are so poorly informed and researched.

The NRA might be in the public discourse most, but it is not the only powerful gun lobby organization. For example, Gun Owners of America and the National Association for Gun Rights are much smaller budget-wise but have large memberships and are arguably more powerful than the NRA behind the scenes these days. They’re…

You should know that their current rebuttal to this is that a woman makes the choice to have sex which leads to pregnancy (which is why many anti-choice folks support rape exceptions). So they deny the analogy because she doesn’t just wake up pregnant.

Of course this makes absolutely no sense if you believe in the…

What a myopic hot take. Was the ACA perfect? No. But it has been life changing for millions of people with disabilities and chronic conditions, who couldn’t get coverage. It has hugely expanded Medicaid. It instituted limits on how much people could be charged out of pocket for medical bills. It wasn’t perfect but it…

Yep. Meanwhile a lot of Dems have been actively saying we need to legislate protection for reproductive rights for years while the GOP has been hard at work dismantling them.

For years now, I can’t read his name without seeing “Ross Douche-Hat.” You’re welcome.

Not a violation, it’s one of the few exceptions.

There is a HIPAA exception for reporting suspected criminal activity to police. Of course abortion is not and should not be a crime, but we are swiftly going back to the bad old days when women died and lost their ability to have children, and the GOP is perfectly happy about this. The politics of cruelty are alive…

They literally can’t get rid of the Hyde Amendment without 60 votes. And say what you will about the GOP, they’ve been extremely effective at playing the long game, mobilizing voters at the local and state level, taking control in those places, then changing the rules so they would retain a disproportionate level of…

I grew up in the anti-choice movement. I’ve seen this coming for 30 years. It’s entirely about restricting women’s sexuality and imposing a right wing theocracy. And all of that right wing authoritarianism has been exploited by cryptofascist plutocrats to gain support so they can push through increasingly regressive…