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Long day and I almost forgot! But today's excerpt from Standing Room Only is about how James Talarico is getting MAGA men to show their asses.
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- Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans. This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
- There's genuine confusion about why the Christian right wants to ban IVF. "Don't they want women to be mothers?" folks ask. No. They want women to be second class. Forced childbirth is one weapon. But so is denying motherhood to others. My explainer.
- As I wrote Thursday, "Normal people, of course, do not feel defensive when someone points out that Nazis tend to be violent. But for the MAGA crowd, that accusation stings in an incredibly personal way."
- Democrats need to start talking up the Michigan miracle. Because Whitmer's party is providing a real roadmap towards saving this country. She's not falling into all the traps Democrats often fall into.
- A new cache of Ken Chesebro documents has been released by @TPM. It's a doozy. It also underscores why it's critical that Jack Smith try his "January 6" case this year. The public needs to know how sprawling the coup was. It wasn't just one day.
- Taking a closer look at Erin Hawley, who argued against abortion pills at the Supreme Court. She's not just another Republican woman building a career by stepping on other women. Her lack of empathy for other women was so chilling I literally gasped. salon.com/2024/03/27/of-…
- Replying to @AmandaMarcotteThe power trip is in getting a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman to give it all up to be your wife. So of course you want to show off to the world that she submits to you. And if she's the one doing the work, even better. The money is a nice bonus.
- Replying to @AmandaMarcotteIt also helps explain something that troubled me as I wrote this, which is why these "traditional" men will let their supposed housewives have what is actually a full-time and lucrative career as an influencer. Because it's about status.
- The details in the lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani are hard to read. But it's important, because the "right" to abuse women and be a debauched racist without consequence is the MAGA definition of "freedom." That's why they're so afraid of "cancel culture."
- As Pete Hegseth inches closer to admittedly publicly what he obviously believes — that women shouldn't have a right to vote — I want to re-up the article I wrote about this in December. It's about Hegseth's church and how radical they are.
- One thing I really enjoyed about this book is how @lyzl explains how single mothers often have more free time and less work than married mothers. I have heard this from so many mothers I know: Leaving your husband is a good way to get him to co-parent. salon.com/2024/02/20/a-m…
- The crowd's laughing at rape during Trump's CNN town hall is just the tip of the iceberg. In this deep-but-readable dive, I look at how the religious right is abandoning the "protect women" pretense. Their misogyny is bolder, more shameless.
- Boy, the right's outrage over this removes what lingering shred of doubt remained that they're just super super super racist. I mean otherwise, what's the argument here? That tapdancing is too new-fangled for the White House?A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite. Enjoy! 💕
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