People seem to forget that the city councillor/alderman/secretary of state today is the state senator/governor/congressman/president of tomorrow.

Not with turtleman and two Democrats pretending to be Republicans in the Senate.  It really irks me that even with a majority, slight though it is, Democrats can’t get things through the fucking Senate.  And I loathe turtleman.  On principle I try to avoid wishing bad things on people, but if he got hit by a truck…

It’s a straw man, and it’s always been a straw man. What woman would want a doctor giving her an abortion against their will? No court is going to order such thing anyway because it would likely violate the RFRA, and this bill doesn’t touch that.

To be clear, Collins is concerned that doctors who have particular religious beliefs will be forced to perform abortions against their personal convictions

I get that national news is covering this, but all three of my local news stations are covering it like it was a girl from Indianapolis.

This is what I’m struggling with. How many women go missing in this country all the time because of the men in their lives, but why are we watching the murder of a young, petite, blonde woman?

How about for every Gabby Petito story Jezebel publishes, you publish two stories about BIPOC women who are missing and/or murdered?

only a scant 20 to 30 percent believed that the landmark abortion rights decision should be overturned

The problem has never been public opinion in general. The problem, at least in my state, is that the people who want to see Roe overturned vote in every fucking election, and the Texas legislature is dominated by lawmakers who only need their votes.

Uhhhh you know modern filibuster are always assumed to go on potentially forever. There is no after a filibuster in the senate. It's either get rid of it or they need 60 votes. 

We cried when Trump was elected and were told he “couldn’t do that much damage.”

Yeah that was a red flag for me too. It’s a total cop-out and much as I hate to complain about America’s Benevolent Dad his need to play it safe and appeal to all sides all the time is really eroding his charm.

If you’re going to do apocalypse by climate, at least have the balls to have it be something else than a solar flare we can’t control.

Though I also look at the argument from the other side too. If the anti-abortion position is that abortion is murder full-stop, then why does the rape or incest caveat even matter?

Can we also get rid of the judgemental and shaming “even in cases of rape or incest” caveats?

Democrats suck when it comes to messaging.  They need to get with the fucking program and quit letting the GQP control the narrative.

White Christian Supremacy never cared about the children. Only about making life hell on earth for women they deem whorish.

The gauntlet has been thrown down. I predict this will go all the way to the Supreme Court, where the spineless conservative justices will have to actually rule on it instead of handwaving away that it’s too novel an approach. This law is bad in so many ways, and I am glad he is taking a stand. Also that at least one…

On a related note, it’s worth remembering that covid infections in pregnant women increase maternal mortality, miscarriage, and sundry other complications for mother and child.

Yet I suspect that many of the so called “pro-life” advocates championing the Texas law are among the ranks of the unvaccinated and oppose…

It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now.