October 10, 2023

Fighting Misinformation: There has not been an election in Gaza for 17 years

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1711440875706884125

I see some folks on this hellsite claiming whatever happens to Gazans in the coming days is on them for electing Hamas.
1) There hasn't been an election in Gaza for 17 years.
2) It's literally the same unhinged argument Bin Laden made to justify killing American civilians.


https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1711441062198157683

"So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates." - Osama Bin Laden murderous screed in 2002

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1711468660345254061

Gaza’s 2+ million population are mostly children, who live under blockade in what Israel’s own former intelligence chief has called an open air prison.

The overwhelming majority live in poverty.

Many suffer lifelong psychological and physical trauma.





Children don't vote. They do die though, when brutalized and oppressed.

October 9, 2023

So Nicole is out again.

October 9, 2023

In 2007 Jimmy Carter wrote a book about Israel called "Peace Not Apartheid" and

everyone called him an anti-semite.

October 9, 2023

the killings at the music festival - we need to refer to it as the "Tuberville Massacre"

make him own the consequences of his actions

October 5, 2023

Essential thread on the dangerous oligarchs behind most of the GOP fuckery in Texas

https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1709749588188348745



https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1709749597671755944



https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1709749612788023610



https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1709749618370646396



https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1709749623307264318




There's more --- read it here

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1709749588188348745.html

October 3, 2023

Trying out more repro rights talking points - that bust the existing frame on abortion

All based on Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion by Gabrielle Blair.

After reading her book it seems so simple and obvious! Truly brilliant and groundbreaking.

Break the loop centered on "when life begins" and legislating a woman's body.

Refocus on the reality, practically and biologically, that abortion is about the men.

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Birth control for women is:

- hard to access
- hard to use
- expensive
- medically risky
- painful (internal exams, device implantation)

Birth control for men is:

- easy to access
- easy to use
- no/low risk
- reversible
- effective
- virtually painless

So why is the burden for pregnancy prevention on women? Why are the regulations on women?

Because a man's pleasure and convenience is valued and mandated above all. By default. Automatically. Without a second thought.

Women should suffer through pain and risk so that the man isn't bothered.

It's time we re-set this narrative to something that actually makes sense.

October 1, 2023

our lazy media ran with incomplete information about the Bowman incident, see this

for the rest of the story

https://twitter.com/TrumpIsTheEnemy/status/1708348648625692954

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1708307856364032191

https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1708305191575900440


This door is unlocked on weekdays, but today is Saturday and Bowman was rushing to get to the Capitol for the vote. So he was confronted with this for the first time, thought he could unlock the door and get out to go vote.

September 29, 2023

Here's a link to the votes on today's bills, if you want to see how a Member voted

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes

September 23, 2023

Re that Colorado "gag order" on trump: Sworn To Secrecy: Trump's History Of Using NDAs

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/595025070/sworn-to-secrecy-trumps-history-of-using-nondisclosure-agreements

Sworn To Secrecy: Trump's History Of Using Nondisclosure Agreements

As a businessman, Trump routinely required employees to sign agreements promising not to reveal secrets of the Trump Organization. He did the same during his presidential campaign and the post-election transition period. And according to the Washington Post, Trump has imposed the same confidentiality requirements on some senior members of the White House staff.

....

"When people are chosen by a man to go into government at high levels, and then they leave government and they write a book about a man and say a lot of things that were really guarded and personal — I don't like that," Trump told the Washington Post in 2016.

Reporter Bob Woodward asked Trump if he thought such agreements were "airtight."

"I think they're extremely airtight," Trump said. "Let's put it this way: it's so airtight that I've never had ... you know, I've never had a problem with this sort of thing."


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September 23, 2023

We are not going to beg for the "rape and incest" scraps from their

fascist, woman-hating, sex-punishing, extremist, fringe, authoritarian, retrograde Handmaid's Tale table. #GOPGilead


Just saying.

My body. End of discussion.