Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States.
“You cannot keep looking to 13% of the population to keep this damn country on track”
Again, take Black/Brown activists (specifically Black/Brown Women/Femmes) out of it, there has NOT been an effective PUSHBACK on Conservatives/(white) Ev*ngel*cals from white people. Specifically from non-Conserv/non-Ev*ngelic*l WW. On a national level. There just hasn’t been.
If the person organizing is Black/Brown, they’re immediately marginalized. Ppl LOVE looking at protests in other countries & saying ‘why can’t America do that’ but when Black/Brown activists & orgs DO protest, EVERYONE (including white progressives) chastise them as not being…
…civil enough. Or nice enough. But take those same Black/Brown activists out of it. Where are the white ppl who are against these things?? Where are they??? The 2020 protests were so meaningful bcuz we were all out in the streets *together*. But folks have to police their own…
…backyards. THAT is what is missing. THAT is why we’re still here. You cannot keep looking to 13% of the population to keep this damn country on track. Yes that 13% have done amazing things because we were FORCED to. But now here we are. The same way there was NO planned…
…organizing from white parents to push back on racist white parents about CRT. So racist white parents (with the help of media) got to set the narrative. Your *collective* inaction over the centuries & decades have us here. And the rest of us have to suffer. The actions …
…and votes of cons*rv/evang*lical WW have harmed *all* women & girls. And that’s the fucked up part about this. Makes no difference how long & hard Black/Brown/Indigenous girls/women have been fighting for our lives & the rights of our children, bcuz of the racial makeup…
…of this country, it is WW who set the tone for how girls/women are treated in this country. The same country where WW came here & watched the genocide of Indigenous ppls (WOMEN & CHILDREN) and the enslavement of kidnapped Africans (WOMEN & CHILDREN) but didn’t buck up until…
…Black Men were given the right to vote before them. And we *celebrate* that movement as a “women’s movement”. But it was a WW’s movement…in reaction to racism. We’ve heard how BW were treated during that time. It wasn’t about ALL women. It was about WW making sure BM …
…didn’t surpass them. And that’s the diff. Because of where we are on the racial hierarchy, EVERYTHING Black ppl have fought for & accomplished, has helped EVERYONE. Even sometimes (most times) more than us. So here we are. Because of decades of silence & complacency…
…thinking your whiteness was going to save you & made you different or more protected than everyone else, so you had no skin in the game. Well looks like that time is over. Now you’re fucked too. Like the rest of us.
The final paragraph of the three liberals' Dobbs dissent:
"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent. "
The 3 dissenters warn that more is coming. They write that the conservatives' approach in the Dobbs ruling "places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage."
If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control
So, as I understand the Supreme Court, the government can arrest and jail you without Miranda rights, execute you even if your lawyer screws up, force you to have a baby, and use tax dollars to support religion.
But it can't protect your right to vote or keep you safe from guns.
The fact that media organizations are instructing employees not to make public comments about the elimination of a fundamental constitutional right for 50% of the population tells you why the modern media is not capable of helping protect democracy from what is happening.
President has signed the gun safety bill – first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. Now departing for Europe for #G7 and #NATO summits – this as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on into its fifth month.
“Make no mistake: Today’s overruling of Roe v. Wade is the culmination of a deliberate effort over decades
to upset the balance of our law. t’s a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court.
“While today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade puts at risk the health and lives of women across America, most states in this country still recognize a woman’s right to choose. Here’s what you should know.”
“if you live in a state that restricts abortion, today’s decision does NOT prevent you from traveling to a state that allows it.”
“If a state or local official tries to interfere with you exercising this basic right, I’ll do everything in my power to
fight that un-American attack.”
“My Administration will protect a woman’s access to medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration, like contraception and mifepristone, a FDA-approved drug that safely ends an early pregnancy
of up to ten weeks and is commonly used to treat miscarriages.”
Abortion providers scramble to help women as state bans spread
“Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder and C.E.O. of Whole Woman’s Health, talks with Rachel Maddow about the hardships her clients face in the wake of the Republican Supreme Court’s striking down of Roe v. Wade,
and the effort to get abortion services to women who live in states with bans already in place.”
Rachel Maddow reviews how abortion was not a partisan issue until Republicans and religious groups
saw a political advantage to exploit, making the overturning of Roe v. Wade by a Republicanized Supreme Court the product of a 40-year political project.
“To those seeking abortions around the country: Know that you are welcome here, and that we will make every effort to ensure our reproductive services are available and readily accessible to you.”
This is about the raw exertion of power by five right-wing judges who have absolute, near veto-proof authority over the rest of the country. Today, millions of Americans had their right to bodily autonomy stripped
because of this radical, activist court.” (Chris Hayes)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion:
“Supreme Court doesn’t get the last word. In a democracy, we get the last word. It’s time to get in this fight and it’s time to make real change on behalf of everyone in this country.”
“As the keepers and stewards of this land,
and as citizens and descendants of our tribal nations,
we state very clearly, these systems were never built to protect our peoples.
From forced sterilization of our women and relatives capable of becoming pregnant to the implementation of the Hyde Amendment, this is yet another attack on the sovereignty of Indigenous people. What we are witnessing now and what we know will continue to happen to all women and birthing peoples in this country, is that striking down Roe is dangerous and will cost countless lives. There is no scenario where women and birthing people will not be put at further risk. It creates a stark choice about how to care for women during this time.
Our inherent sovereignty as Indigenous women and people
determines that we must decide our own fate,
and not allow the state to define these outcomes on our behalf. Upholding Roe v. Wade is the very least this country could have done, after centuries of the systemic oppression of anyone not white, male and Christian,”
said Ms. Foundation for Women’s Indigenous Women’s Advisory Committee in a statement.
We’ve had a series of orchestrated shocks and we’ll have to stay conscious.
Am guessing that No-justice Thomas will double down while we’re sorting it through…Bannon’s dream to keep piling on the outrage, wipe out our resistance and keep us disoriented.
Responding to the cover up in Uvalde, getting a handle on all the evidence around Trump trying to use the DOJ, next day we’re hit with SCOTUS. No mistake about the timing…from the right wing extreme offensive.
An excerpt from a book I borrowed from my daughter’s bookshelf:
Women Who Run With The Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
NYT bestseller list for 2 years ~ 1992
ballantinebooks.com
“Why this intruder which, in women’s dreams, most often takes the shape of an intrusive male, seeks to attack the instinctual psyche and its wildish knowing powers in particular, no one can say for certain. We say it is the nature of the thing. Yet we find this destructive process exacerbated when the culture surrounding a woman touts, nourishes and protects destructive attitudes toward the deep instinctual and soulful nature. Thusly, these destructive cultural values—-to which the predator avidly agrees—-grow stronger within the collective psyche of all its members. When a society exhorts its people to be distrustful of and to shun the deep instinctual life, then an anti-predatory element in each psyche is strengthened and accelerated.”
We women who have chosen all our lives to run with the wolves, no more being ‘ladies’ ~ it is time to put on our marching boots, and get out into the streets ~ yet again ~ for ourselves, for our daughters, our granddaughters and great-granddaughters..
Because if we don’t do it, who will?
Big hugs all around
This book needs to become a best-seller again, for all those who may have missed it 30 years ago.
In the US, teachers buy their own chalk while cops get Captain America shields to protect themselves from women who want healthcare https://t.co/2ijFhbKg5a
“This is the smoking gun.”
“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen,” said Trump,
according to Donoghue’s notes.
“This is the smoking gun,” (former AG) Holder wrote.
“Coupled with other testimony demonstrates Trump’s substantive involvement and corrupt intent,
requisite state of mind.”
(The Hill)
1. Mutual aid – donate to orgs that offer support for women seeking abortion esp those who need to travel to another state.
2. Make sure the ppl especially young ppl around you know that you are available to help confidentially if they need abortion care.
3. Attend peaceful protests happening across the country. Mobilizing empowers us & reminds us & them of our potential power.
4. Flood the offices of your state reps NOW (strategic visits, phone calls, texts, tweets) and tell them to oppose any state restrictions on abortion.
5. Organize at the local level with groups focused on strengthening the voice of progressive women and girls to advocate.
6. Make sure your D.A. knows that how you will vote in their next election if they participate in prosecuting women who seek abortion care or those who assist.
. If your neighboring state prohibits abortion, form groups who can help women from those states access travel & care in your state.
8. Register & vote in every election this year (primary, special,general) & for every office (sheriff, D.A., school board, House & Senate).
9. Express your alarm abt the Supreme Court’s actions w/your representatives in Congress. They need to hear your concern and your expectations.
10. Decide today that you will never give up fighting for the country you want for yourself, your children, your community. Decide it. Then no matter what happens, you won’t be swayed or paralyzed.
“Reading cases in which Justice Clarence Thomas struck down a New York conceal carry gun law and Justice Samuel Alito reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated a 50 year-old constitutional right,
I find myself on one hand compelled to parse through the irrationalities, specious reasoning, abuses of history,
and frankly bad faith arguments. It’s hard to believe Alito and Thomas are considered brilliant human minds and that they are in a position to make important decisions about the lives of Americans.
We have to recognize that the Supreme Court is now currently operating
not just as an enabler
of domestic terrorism in America
but rather as a chief terrorist organization
and a chief purveyor of anti-intellectualism in American culture.
It is more interested in taking rights from Americans,
cultivating fear, controlling the population,
and killing independent thought and reasoning
in an effort to define American culture and identity
according to white male supremacist values dominant and operative
in a earlier America.
Let’s start with this last one.
How is the Supreme Court killing reason and thought and returning us to a white male supremacist value system?”
“When it comes to Thomas’ ruling on firearm regulations,
try to imagine a world in which most places you go in your daily you see people carrying firearms.
Does that make you feel more secure?
It might make the person with the gun feel more powerful and safer,
but imagine the rest of us.
A world with guns constantly present is a security-state that keeps us constantly insecure,
which is a state of terror,
not a state of freedom from fear.
But this is where the Supreme Court is bringing us—to a national life of less safety,
more fear and insecurity,
less rights,
and more state repression.”
End the sale of weapons of war to civilians, duh.
—They want you to look here – no, no, look there!
—Conceal or not..ballistic blankets..arm disrespected teachers..cover up failed police armed to the teeth.
Go to the source, stop making excuses, stop selling weapons invented and intended for rapid-fire killing.
The Radical Right of which SCOTUS has become part and parcel of, would like to do away with the 14 Amendment to the constitution…Just as SCOTUS continues to derail the VotingRightsAct…they continue to embellish the 2nd Amendment..all to achieve the agenda of the Radical Right https://t.co/KEyzOkPN8a
— PrettyFoot💃🏾 is vaxed-boostered-wears a mask😷 (@PrettyFootWoman) June 26, 2022
Good morning, I have to share this story with y’all. A man replied to a comment I made in a thread on Facebook saying emphatically that the ONLY way a woman can get pregnant is from rape. I kid you not. Honest as a ‘heart attack.’ #stupidity
For a White House eager to show meaningful progress on bipartisan measures that will make a difference,
there’s a growing list of success stories.
(Steve Benen)
“President Joe Biden signed into law the most sweeping legislation aimed at preventing gun violence in 30 years at the White House on Saturday shortly before departing for Europe for a series of meetings with world leaders. Biden called the signing of the legislation a “monumental day” and said it was proof that Democrats and Republicans could find common ground on important issues.” (nbc)
“The legislation creates resources for red flag grants to every state. Those that choose not to approve red flag laws will get related funds for other crisis prevention programs.
It closes the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” restricting the gun rights of non-spouse dating partners who are convicted of domestic abuse.
It makes new investments in mental health services and school-safety measures.
It brings new clarity to laws regarding licensed gun dealers, as a way to strengthen the existing background-check system.
It expands the background-check system for gun buyers under 21, allowing up to three days to conduct checks, and an extra 10 days if there are signs of concern.
It creates new criminal penalties for firearm straw purchasing.
But this modest, narrowly focused bill passed, it’s likely to save lives,
and it’s a breakthrough unlike anything Americans have seen in a generation.”
Jane Goodall is a primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
The Gombe chimp observation, which Jane began in 1960, is the world’s longest running continuous wildlife research project.
“We are not the only beings on the planet with personalities, thoughts, and – most importantly – feelings.”
“The nonverbal body language is the same for chimpanzees as it is for us. They use the same gestures and postures in the same context.”
Using stories from her remarkable life, research, and career, “The Book of Hope” (2021) explores questions like:
How do we stay hopeful? How do we inspire hope in the next generation?
Jane Goodall, now 88, world renowned activist and researcher said yesterday:
“I see our species at the mouth of a very long and very dark tunnel,” she said, decrying rampant environmental destruction, prejudice, greed, poverty and war. But there’s a “little star” at the end of the tunnel: hope. To reach it, she said, humankind must struggle to overcome any obstacles in the way.
Hope isn’t just wishful thinking, it’s about action.”
A beautiful, green outdoor event, so diverse, beautiful children, over a thousand people.
A flashback to summer days of yore, the grace and kind affection between all the people there.
I was about 30 yards behind and to the side of Ms. Goodall, who answered a few questions after her presentation. Literally the crowd went wild…!!!
Grateful to have a photo of her with my daughter at around 8 years,
who had been willing to drive 7 hours and over winter mountains to hear her speak.
@VP is spelling this out very clearly for everyone. If you want anything done, you need to elect the candidates who support those positions. Not sit at home on Twitter trying to depress voter turn out. https://t.co/fRYW8SdQqM
Last week, @BarackObama stopped by the Obama Presidential Center construction site to tour the work underway and meet with some of the people who are helping bring the South Side campus to life. pic.twitter.com/SzGspSBN7C
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 27, 2022
The next administration will decide if reproductive rights are respected or banned entirely in Pennsylvania.
Republicans have already made their plans to ban abortion pretty clear.@JoshShapiroPA and I trust the women of Pennsylvania to make decisions for their own body.
“Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Aid Access, talks with Rachel Maddow
about lessons women living under repressive governments have learned about using medication abortions,
and how doctors with that experience are helping American women facing new abortion bans.”
“When people say we’re going back to the days before Roe, there’s no such thing as a time machine — we have a very different pharmaceutical landscape.”
imo,
a nation without universal healthcare, universal childcare, or paid family and medical leave,
with one of the highest maternal mortality rates among our peer nations, cannot be forced to give birth.
Young women and their mothers have been using abortion pills for quite some time elsewhere. Remember reading an article describing women taking a little time off, a mourning process, a gentle acceptance of reality
as it is. imho non wealthy women here deserve to be fully informed, ready with the pills in their dresser drawers, and ready to act early on in the pregnancy.
Fossilized white guys in Congress have zero-zero-infinitely less than zero, to do with it.
Majority vote in House, but 2/3 vote in Senate to impeach Supreme Court Justice. We must work on that 2/3 of Senate. Some of current members are a band of creeps, crooks, bought and paid for by dark money and unethical, amoral, members of Senate and secret groups that want their way. All of them showing they don’t believe in the Constitution, democracy, starting with you Mitch McConnell.
imo,
a note about an astonishing emergency hearing today by the Jan 6 Select Committee…
Trump knew his supporters were armed with AR-15s,
He wanted the metal detectors taken down, so this supporters could come into the Elipse where he was speaking.
Because said Trump, those armed supporters were: “Not there to harm him”.
“If they were not there to harm him, who were they there to harm?”
(Chuck Rosenburg)
This community is weeks removed from the 6 year remembrance of the Pulse massacre, the deadliest attack on LGBTQ people in American history. And teachers are being told to peel rainbow "safe space" stickers from windows.
Clarence Thomas is 74. Samuel Alito is 72. Who do you want in office when they die? That should be the SOLE factor affecting your general election vote from now until they die.
— Jen Psaki stan account (@AngryLawyerLady) June 26, 2022
Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Remarks at Weekly Press Conference
JUNE 24, 2022
“This morning, the radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans’ rights and endangering their health and safety…Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party – their supermajority on the Supreme Court – American women today have less freedom than their mothers. With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom.”
“I’m gonna say this before things get out of hand on legal SCOTUS. B/c it is true that many brilliant attys & profs, especially women, have been predicting this moment since 2018. The voices of the “calm down” folks (largely men) were given greater prominence and credibility.”
Plus Trump’s plan to walk to the Capitol with armed supporters…which was actually in his speech.
“I’m the effing President, take me up to the Capitol now !!”
“We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we do it.” (Cippolone)
“I don’t effing care if they have weapons.” (Trump)
“They had many kinds of weapons.” (Cheney)
“What was he going to do? Break and window and storm the building?” (Rachel Maddow)
—-How would Trump have ended with Pence, a confrontation?
Trump was the center of the plot to use the force of the federal government if necessary to stop the peaceful transfer of power, obstruction of electoral count, intent to violence.
“Trump doesn’t want to do anything about the rioters at the Capitol.”
(Meadows)
There was a pre-game discussion about the “Hang Mike Pence” chant at the WH.
Later, Trump said “Mike deserves it.”
“But you cannot throw yourself a surprise party.” (Ari Melber)
“Pull up a chair and have a listen; the stories will curl your hair.”
Hutchinson delivered these details calmly and clearly. The only moment she looked particularly stricken
was when shown a tweet that Trump published at 2:24 on the afternoon of Jan. 6 in which he threw the vice president to the salivating wolves rampaging through the Capitol.
“As an American, I felt disgusted,” Hutchinson said.
– entertain expansion of SCOTUS
– end the Senate filibuster
– repeal the Hyde Amendment
– codify Roe, same-sex marriage, right to contraception, and interracial marriage
Hello TOD family! Am finally back stateside after almost 3 months away! And Jaysus & WTF! Trying to catch up w/ all the WTF’s. Wasn’t able to connect to certain sites while away, did send email to NW to let y’all know I was a-okay, and couldn’t access TOD!
Now am trying to catch up on everything TOD! How the heck are y’all? Much love💞
The Obama Diary 
Unbelievable!
Truth!
Justin Trudeau issued a similar statement. Amazing that our country has now gone back at least 50 years.
“You cannot keep looking to 13% of the population to keep this damn country on track”
Thanks for posting all of those – I will definitely check each one out!
bin laden and taliban: Mission Accomplished. And we didn’t even had to lift a fucking finger. #selfdestruction.
Secede and Survive.
Scott Dworkin
@funder
4h
Everyone needs to vote in more Dem Senators so we can steamroll the BA filibuster, protect Roe and the American people. Let’s get to work!
No, the system where you ‘judge’ till you die is broken. And steeply fucked up.
Yup. Value your effing vote in every effing election in every effing year in every effing level.
Fucking fifth columnists. Enemies of democracy.
@WestWingReport
President has signed the gun safety bill – first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. Now departing for Europe for #G7 and #NATO summits – this as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on into its fifth month.
8:57 AM · Jun 25, 2022
President Biden:
“Make no mistake: Today’s overruling of Roe v. Wade is the culmination of a deliberate effort over decades
to upset the balance of our law. t’s a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court.
“While today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade puts at risk the health and lives of women across America, most states in this country still recognize a woman’s right to choose. Here’s what you should know.”
“if you live in a state that restricts abortion, today’s decision does NOT prevent you from traveling to a state that allows it.”
“If a state or local official tries to interfere with you exercising this basic right, I’ll do everything in my power to
fight that un-American attack.”
“My Administration will protect a woman’s access to medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration, like contraception and mifepristone, a FDA-approved drug that safely ends an early pregnancy
of up to ten weeks and is commonly used to treat miscarriages.”
Abortion providers scramble to help women as state bans spread
“Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder and C.E.O. of Whole Woman’s Health, talks with Rachel Maddow about the hardships her clients face in the wake of the Republican Supreme Court’s striking down of Roe v. Wade,
and the effort to get abortion services to women who live in states with bans already in place.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/abortion-providers-scramble-to-help-women-as-state-bans-spread-142819909568)
Rachel Maddow reviews how abortion was not a partisan issue until Republicans and religious groups
saw a political advantage to exploit, making the overturning of Roe v. Wade by a Republicanized Supreme Court the product of a 40-year political project.
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-40-year-political-project-achieves-goal-with-supreme-court-ending-roe-v-wade-142816837724)
“To those seeking abortions around the country: Know that you are welcome here, and that we will make every effort to ensure our reproductive services are available and readily accessible to you.”
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City
This is about the raw exertion of power by five right-wing judges who have absolute, near veto-proof authority over the rest of the country. Today, millions of Americans had their right to bodily autonomy stripped
because of this radical, activist court.” (Chris Hayes)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYuN2drTGJU)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion:
“Supreme Court doesn’t get the last word. In a democracy, we get the last word. It’s time to get in this fight and it’s time to make real change on behalf of everyone in this country.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-on-ending-of-roe-supreme-court-doesn-t-get-the-last-word-we-do-142808133926)
“As the keepers and stewards of this land,
and as citizens and descendants of our tribal nations,
we state very clearly, these systems were never built to protect our peoples.
From forced sterilization of our women and relatives capable of becoming pregnant to the implementation of the Hyde Amendment, this is yet another attack on the sovereignty of Indigenous people. What we are witnessing now and what we know will continue to happen to all women and birthing peoples in this country, is that striking down Roe is dangerous and will cost countless lives. There is no scenario where women and birthing people will not be put at further risk. It creates a stark choice about how to care for women during this time.
Our inherent sovereignty as Indigenous women and people
determines that we must decide our own fate,
and not allow the state to define these outcomes on our behalf. Upholding Roe v. Wade is the very least this country could have done, after centuries of the systemic oppression of anyone not white, male and Christian,”
said Ms. Foundation for Women’s Indigenous Women’s Advisory Committee in a statement.
(https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/we-will-never-ever-stop-having-abortions)
“I will never forget that abortions were banned before AR-15s.” (T.A.)
“before AR -15s”. ? that implies AR -15s will be banned someday.
imo
We’ve had a series of orchestrated shocks and we’ll have to stay conscious.
Am guessing that No-justice Thomas will double down while we’re sorting it through…Bannon’s dream to keep piling on the outrage, wipe out our resistance and keep us disoriented.
Responding to the cover up in Uvalde, getting a handle on all the evidence around Trump trying to use the DOJ, next day we’re hit with SCOTUS. No mistake about the timing…from the right wing extreme offensive.
An excerpt from a book I borrowed from my daughter’s bookshelf:
Women Who Run With The Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
NYT bestseller list for 2 years ~ 1992
ballantinebooks.com
“Why this intruder which, in women’s dreams, most often takes the shape of an intrusive male, seeks to attack the instinctual psyche and its wildish knowing powers in particular, no one can say for certain. We say it is the nature of the thing. Yet we find this destructive process exacerbated when the culture surrounding a woman touts, nourishes and protects destructive attitudes toward the deep instinctual and soulful nature. Thusly, these destructive cultural values—-to which the predator avidly agrees—-grow stronger within the collective psyche of all its members. When a society exhorts its people to be distrustful of and to shun the deep instinctual life, then an anti-predatory element in each psyche is strengthened and accelerated.”
We women who have chosen all our lives to run with the wolves, no more being ‘ladies’ ~ it is time to put on our marching boots, and get out into the streets ~ yet again ~ for ourselves, for our daughters, our granddaughters and great-granddaughters..
Because if we don’t do it, who will?
Big hugs all around
This book needs to become a best-seller again, for all those who may have missed it 30 years ago.
💙🕊💛
And absent during white terrorists resurrection. Fucked up country alright.
President Biden Announces Actions In Light of Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
JUNE 24, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-actions-in-light-of-todays-supreme-court-decision-on-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization/)
“This is the smoking gun.”
“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen,” said Trump,
according to Donoghue’s notes.
“This is the smoking gun,” (former AG) Holder wrote.
“Coupled with other testimony demonstrates Trump’s substantive involvement and corrupt intent,
requisite state of mind.”
(The Hill)
Huffington
“So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.”
Republican 40-year political project achieves goal with Supreme Court ending Roe v. Wade.
Sherrilyn Ifill
What can you do?
1. Mutual aid – donate to orgs that offer support for women seeking abortion esp those who need to travel to another state.
2. Make sure the ppl especially young ppl around you know that you are available to help confidentially if they need abortion care.
3. Attend peaceful protests happening across the country. Mobilizing empowers us & reminds us & them of our potential power.
4. Flood the offices of your state reps NOW (strategic visits, phone calls, texts, tweets) and tell them to oppose any state restrictions on abortion.
5. Organize at the local level with groups focused on strengthening the voice of progressive women and girls to advocate.
6. Make sure your D.A. knows that how you will vote in their next election if they participate in prosecuting women who seek abortion care or those who assist.
. If your neighboring state prohibits abortion, form groups who can help women from those states access travel & care in your state.
8. Register & vote in every election this year (primary, special,general) & for every office (sheriff, D.A., school board, House & Senate).
9. Express your alarm abt the Supreme Court’s actions w/your representatives in Congress. They need to hear your concern and your expectations.
10. Decide today that you will never give up fighting for the country you want for yourself, your children, your community. Decide it. Then no matter what happens, you won’t be swayed or paralyzed.
WRRAP: Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
(https://wrrap.org)
https://www.baltimoreabortionfund.org
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/abortion-access
Black Reproductive Justice Org. (https://blackrj.org)
https://www.sistersong.net
https://nwlc.org
https://reproductiverights.org/?df=y
https://www.aclu.org/issues/reproductive-freedom
Opinion:
SCOTUS Unleashes Reign of Terror on Americans
“Reading cases in which Justice Clarence Thomas struck down a New York conceal carry gun law and Justice Samuel Alito reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated a 50 year-old constitutional right,
I find myself on one hand compelled to parse through the irrationalities, specious reasoning, abuses of history,
and frankly bad faith arguments. It’s hard to believe Alito and Thomas are considered brilliant human minds and that they are in a position to make important decisions about the lives of Americans.
We have to recognize that the Supreme Court is now currently operating
not just as an enabler
of domestic terrorism in America
but rather as a chief terrorist organization
and a chief purveyor of anti-intellectualism in American culture.
It is more interested in taking rights from Americans,
cultivating fear, controlling the population,
and killing independent thought and reasoning
in an effort to define American culture and identity
according to white male supremacist values dominant and operative
in a earlier America.
Let’s start with this last one.
How is the Supreme Court killing reason and thought and returning us to a white male supremacist value system?”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/06/26/scotus-terror.html)
“When it comes to Thomas’ ruling on firearm regulations,
try to imagine a world in which most places you go in your daily you see people carrying firearms.
Does that make you feel more secure?
It might make the person with the gun feel more powerful and safer,
but imagine the rest of us.
A world with guns constantly present is a security-state that keeps us constantly insecure,
which is a state of terror,
not a state of freedom from fear.
But this is where the Supreme Court is bringing us—to a national life of less safety,
more fear and insecurity,
less rights,
and more state repression.”
Libretti: (politicus.usa)
End the sale of weapons of war to civilians, duh.
—They want you to look here – no, no, look there!
—Conceal or not..ballistic blankets..arm disrespected teachers..cover up failed police armed to the teeth.
Go to the source, stop making excuses, stop selling weapons invented and intended for rapid-fire killing.
Good Morning TOD….the messages from the Obamas are always uplifting and hopeful…but they also tell us to get engaged…I’m so grateful for them
Good morning, I have to share this story with y’all. A man replied to a comment I made in a thread on Facebook saying emphatically that the ONLY way a woman can get pregnant is from rape. I kid you not. Honest as a ‘heart attack.’ #stupidity
For a White House eager to show meaningful progress on bipartisan measures that will make a difference,
there’s a growing list of success stories.
(Steve Benen)
“President Joe Biden signed into law the most sweeping legislation aimed at preventing gun violence in 30 years at the White House on Saturday shortly before departing for Europe for a series of meetings with world leaders. Biden called the signing of the legislation a “monumental day” and said it was proof that Democrats and Republicans could find common ground on important issues.” (nbc)
“The legislation creates resources for red flag grants to every state. Those that choose not to approve red flag laws will get related funds for other crisis prevention programs.
It closes the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” restricting the gun rights of non-spouse dating partners who are convicted of domestic abuse.
It makes new investments in mental health services and school-safety measures.
It brings new clarity to laws regarding licensed gun dealers, as a way to strengthen the existing background-check system.
It expands the background-check system for gun buyers under 21, allowing up to three days to conduct checks, and an extra 10 days if there are signs of concern.
It creates new criminal penalties for firearm straw purchasing.
But this modest, narrowly focused bill passed, it’s likely to save lives,
and it’s a breakthrough unlike anything Americans have seen in a generation.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/bill-gun-violence-biden-scores-another-bipartisan-win-rcna35454
Background Press Call by a Senior Administration Official on President Biden’s Second Day in Germany
JUNE 27, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/06/27/background-press-call-by-a-senior-administration-official-on-president-bidens-second-day-in-germany/)
Readout of White House Meeting with Global Reproductive Rights Leaders
JUNE 27, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/27/readout-of-white-house-meeting-with-global-reproductive-rights-leaders/)
New legislation finally promises help to veterans exposed to burn pits
Merrigan: (https://www.wsav.com/news/new-legislation-finally-promises-help-to-veterans-exposed-to-burn-pits/)
“Giuliani, Eastman, Meadows, members of Congress, Giuliani’s associates and the RNC were involved in this
fake electors scheme.” (Katie Phang)
Jane Goodall is a primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
The Gombe chimp observation, which Jane began in 1960, is the world’s longest running continuous wildlife research project.
“We are not the only beings on the planet with personalities, thoughts, and – most importantly – feelings.”
“The nonverbal body language is the same for chimpanzees as it is for us. They use the same gestures and postures in the same context.”
Using stories from her remarkable life, research, and career, “The Book of Hope” (2021) explores questions like:
How do we stay hopeful? How do we inspire hope in the next generation?
Jane Goodall, now 88, world renowned activist and researcher said yesterday:
“I see our species at the mouth of a very long and very dark tunnel,” she said, decrying rampant environmental destruction, prejudice, greed, poverty and war. But there’s a “little star” at the end of the tunnel: hope. To reach it, she said, humankind must struggle to overcome any obstacles in the way.
Hope isn’t just wishful thinking, it’s about action.”
imho,
A beautiful, green outdoor event, so diverse, beautiful children, over a thousand people.
A flashback to summer days of yore, the grace and kind affection between all the people there.
I was about 30 yards behind and to the side of Ms. Goodall, who answered a few questions after her presentation. Literally the crowd went wild…!!!
Grateful to have a photo of her with my daughter at around 8 years,
who had been willing to drive 7 hours and over winter mountains to hear her speak.
A million thanks, Ms. Goodall.
30 feet !!!
https://january6th.house.gov/legislation/hearings/06282022-select-committee-hearing
06/28/2022 SELECT COMMITTEE HEARING
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 – 1:00pm
January 6th Committee:
“The Select Committee will convene a hearing tomorrow,
June 28 at 1:00pm
to present recently obtained evidence
and receive witness testimony.”
Glad to see this!
Take a breath! Happy news, for a change!
Decades to construct.
A week to destruct.
A self inflicted 9/11. bin laden laughing his ass off in his sea grave.
OMG
“Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Aid Access, talks with Rachel Maddow
about lessons women living under repressive governments have learned about using medication abortions,
and how doctors with that experience are helping American women facing new abortion bans.”
Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Abortion Bans
Demand for medication abortion is surging, setting the stage for new legal battles.
“The method, known as medication abortion, is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration
for use in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.”
Pam Belluck: (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/health/abortion-medication-pills.html)
“When people say we’re going back to the days before Roe, there’s no such thing as a time machine — we have a very different pharmaceutical landscape.”
imo,
a nation without universal healthcare, universal childcare, or paid family and medical leave,
with one of the highest maternal mortality rates among our peer nations, cannot be forced to give birth.
Young women and their mothers have been using abortion pills for quite some time elsewhere. Remember reading an article describing women taking a little time off, a mourning process, a gentle acceptance of reality
as it is. imho non wealthy women here deserve to be fully informed, ready with the pills in their dresser drawers, and ready to act early on in the pregnancy.
Fossilized white guys in Congress have zero-zero-infinitely less than zero, to do with it.
Correction…or guys on the SC, or guys, period.
1 pm ET
The Jan 6th Select Committee convenes a Hearing
to present recently obtained evidence
and receive witness testimony.
Majority vote in House, but 2/3 vote in Senate to impeach Supreme Court Justice. We must work on that 2/3 of Senate. Some of current members are a band of creeps, crooks, bought and paid for by dark money and unethical, amoral, members of Senate and secret groups that want their way. All of them showing they don’t believe in the Constitution, democracy, starting with you Mitch McConnell.
imo,
a note about an astonishing emergency hearing today by the Jan 6 Select Committee…
Trump knew his supporters were armed with AR-15s,
He wanted the metal detectors taken down, so this supporters could come into the Elipse where he was speaking.
Because said Trump, those armed supporters were: “Not there to harm him”.
“If they were not there to harm him, who were they there to harm?”
(Chuck Rosenburg)
Chuck Rosenberg.
Literally, thugs and mobsters were running us of a unchecked for four years with zero consequences till date.
God bless murkkka indeed.
@hbecerraLATimes
Trump attacked Secret Service agent in attempt to reach Capitol on Jan. 6, aide testifies – Los Angeles Times
FACT SHEET:
President Biden’s Maternal Health Blueprint Delivers for Women, Mothers, and Families
JUNE 24, 2022
Must read: (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/24/fact-sheet-president-bidens-maternal-health-blueprint-delivers-for-women-mothers-and-families/)
Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Remarks at Weekly Press Conference
JUNE 24, 2022
“This morning, the radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans’ rights and endangering their health and safety…Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party – their supermajority on the Supreme Court – American women today have less freedom than their mothers. With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom.”
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/62422-8)
Pelosi Calls For Filibuster Elimination While Laying Out Agenda To Restore Choice
(https://www.politicususa.com/2022/06/27/pelosi-filibuster-choice.html)
Sherrilyn Ifill:
“I’m gonna say this before things get out of hand on legal SCOTUS. B/c it is true that many brilliant attys & profs, especially women, have been predicting this moment since 2018. The voices of the “calm down” folks (largely men) were given greater prominence and credibility.”
Lol. Bill’s girls are smart and funny unlike the trumptramps.
https://ibb.co/72rg9Hj
https://ibb.co/Cvp4ksv
That was some #J6 hearing today! Whew!
YES it was….
Confirming what we already knew….
Incredible…
Plus Trump’s plan to walk to the Capitol with armed supporters…which was actually in his speech.
“I’m the effing President, take me up to the Capitol now !!”
“We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we do it.” (Cippolone)
“I don’t effing care if they have weapons.” (Trump)
“They had many kinds of weapons.” (Cheney)
“What was he going to do? Break and window and storm the building?” (Rachel Maddow)
—-How would Trump have ended with Pence, a confrontation?
Trump was the center of the plot to use the force of the federal government if necessary to stop the peaceful transfer of power, obstruction of electoral count, intent to violence.
“Trump doesn’t want to do anything about the rioters at the Capitol.”
(Meadows)
There was a pre-game discussion about the “Hang Mike Pence” chant at the WH.
Later, Trump said “Mike deserves it.”
“But you cannot throw yourself a surprise party.” (Ari Melber)
Horrible! Every single minute of what happened.
Duly noted…
Vice-Chair Cheney: “Do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America?”
Flynn: “Fifth”
FACT SHEET: The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid
JUNE 29, 2022
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/29/fact-sheet-the-2022-nato-summit-in-madrid/)
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson
“Pull up a chair and have a listen; the stories will curl your hair.”
Hutchinson delivered these details calmly and clearly. The only moment she looked particularly stricken
was when shown a tweet that Trump published at 2:24 on the afternoon of Jan. 6 in which he threw the vice president to the salivating wolves rampaging through the Capitol.
“As an American, I felt disgusted,” Hutchinson said.
Givhan: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/28/optimistic-melancholy-bennie-g-thompson/)
Actions recommended by AOC
on The Late Show:
– entertain expansion of SCOTUS
– end the Senate filibuster
– repeal the Hyde Amendment
– codify Roe, same-sex marriage, right to contraception, and interracial marriage
(Colbert interview)
imo,
we have no choice but to see what is appearing, and play the hand we have with confidence.
Hello TOD family! Am finally back stateside after almost 3 months away! And Jaysus & WTF! Trying to catch up w/ all the WTF’s. Wasn’t able to connect to certain sites while away, did send email to NW to let y’all know I was a-okay, and couldn’t access TOD!
Now am trying to catch up on everything TOD! How the heck are y’all? Much love💞
so good to see you Gazelle, where were you? You’ll be noticing the latest.
Hello BRP! Was on The Continent (Africa). 💞
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced he will officially retire at noon on Thursday.
Eff! Please have someone else ready, + maybe 10 more added to SC.😷
Remarks by President Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg | Madrid, Spain
JUNE 29, 2022
Institución Ferial de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/06/29/remarks-by-president-biden-and-nato-secretary-general-jens-stoltenberg-madrid-spain/)
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