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Founder of SA Feminist Film Festival. Feminist and fighter for equity. Working hard against fascism. Enjoy reading and contemporary art. Will travel at the drop of a hat. Love being a grandma

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How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.

What fetal personhood means:
“If you had a law that said we’re going to pass an unequal amendment that makes it official that women do not have the same rights as other people, I think people would be pretty upset. This is the world we’re going to live in.” - Mary Ziegler

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let's be clear about what Donald Trump just did.

He froze $10 billion in federal funding for child care programs, foster care, and family assistance — not because the programs failed. Because the states that depend on them voted against him in 2024.

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People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

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10 hours ago

ICE agents stopping people for speaking Spanish.
Families told to carry papers.
Judges begging ICE to follow basic law.

That’s not “border security.”
That’s authoritarian creep.

If the system runs on racial profiling, the system has to go.

Abolish ICE.

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Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth.

#25thAmendmentNOW

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There is absolutely no bottom.

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

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Trump said that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d have high prices and a war with Iran. He was right! I voted for Kamala Harris and now we have high prices and a war with Iran!

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I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

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Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

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Gaslight | Elaine Blair The case of Gisèle Pelicot, who for more than a decade was violated by her husband and dozens of other men, should mark the end of the regime that puts on women the responsibility for avoiding assault...

Shoot men into space... dot-com.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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How the Spurs have transformed their biggest weakness into a strength Don't look now, but the Spurs have been the NBA's top 3-point shooting team since the All-Star break, and they host another hot-shooting team, the Charlotte Hornets, at the Frost Bank Center...

Since the All-Star break, no team in the NBA has shot the ball better from 3-point range than the Spurs.

It is appears the team has turned its biggest weakness into a strength.

Is the improvement real, or product of a small sample size?

www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs... via @expressnews

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3 days ago
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Majority of Americans Continue to Say Abortion Should Be Legal in All or Most Cases | Pew Research Center A 60% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share is down slightly from the last few years.

Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 60% of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases - down slightly from a few years ago. With a patchwork of differing state laws now in effect, perceptions of abortion access vary by where people live.

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2 days ago

I put a relative in the ground today. All I could think about while looking at the casket was all the people crying and in pain.
Then I see the US President post how "honored" he is to be killing Iranians. Iranian children.
I have lost a child so I understand that pain.
Hell is too good for them.

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3 days ago
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Men Do Not Vote Like They Care About the Legality of Abortion Dr. Michal Raucher is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on reproductive health and rights. She is also an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. In January 2026…

Nearly half of women who said abortion should be legal also said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views (43%), compared with just 32% of men. That's a significant gender gap.

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Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.

Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.

But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

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Maasdam: What we’re doing overseas — spending billions of dollars a day. In two weeks, we probably spent $25 billion. We had an Ayatollah Khomeini to start, and now we have a new Ayatollah Khomeini. And how is this making things in my district more affordable for people? It’s not

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3 days ago

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

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1 week ago

As a Spurs fan, I have a special place in my heart for Derrick White!

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Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed. Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could ha...

Nearly $1.3 billion in local, state or federal government grants were awarded to 1,259 crisis pregnancy centers in total between 2019 and 2024 (in the US). These centers are doing real harm to pregnant people, as this report documents.

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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

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Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

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😡😡😡😡

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So disappointed in Gov Polis. Take a stand, she broke the law.

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McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

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Senate Republicans just voted to block our War Powers Resolution & allow Trump's regime-change war of choice in Iran. Once again, they're contracting out their constitutional duties to Donald Trump, despite the will of their constituents.

Shameful.

www.axios.com/2026/03/04/i...

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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

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We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

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I'm not okay with the not-very-subtle racism of calling a white male a "choir boy" and a black woman a "street fighter".

Do better.

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Same. Incredibly disappointed, loved being able to vote for Crockett but can’t keep having TX be a Republican state

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