I’ve tracked how women’s groups have dealt with Platner: re-fucking-luctantly. Emily’s List never endorsed him. Reproductive Freedom For All never endorsed him. Planned Parenthood *JUST* endorsed him 2 weeks ago-only *after* he finally used the word “abortion.” (They withdraw, obviously).

I remember! I was so grateful that day to find angry, supportive people who understood—like @andi.publichearth.com. I won’t speak for anyone else but to me it feels like we fight an unending, invisible war everyday. That was a bad fucking day; one silver lining is finding out who’s got your back.

Totally random but I'm reading a drug patent case that got swept up in one of my google alerts and I decided I want to become an expert in this area of the law. Seems like a cool niche. I wonder if there are any certifications. I love a test.

This is not a “vote for collins” platform. This is a “please know your facts before you support another uneducated man” platform.

My lesser known and vastly unpopular lecture about the Kavanaugh confirmation and boy math. Susan Collins was never the deciding vote. Joe Manchin — the DEMOCRAT — also voted yes that day. Change her vote, and it would have been a tie. 49-49. Pence would have been the tie-breaker. Blame Manchin.

“Nasty, empty pair of overalls.” 🎯

The whisper network got a lot of shit circa 2017-18 but you know what would prevent catastrophes like this? Listening to the goddamn whisper network. Women having epistemic authority with respect to sexual misconduct, imagine that.

When I questioned the language politicians use to police my fucking body it’s not a cute theoretical exercise; I want to know exactly what they’re planning when they are in power. Assholes.

“Dobbs overruled Roe” “Democrats failed to codify Roe” Does anyone stop to think about what actually happened to women four years ago? Men took a settled federal constitutional right OUT OF OUR HANDS, AS WE WERE USING IT. Here one day, gone the next. WE WERE FREE, and then we weren’t.

I’m just reading old comments from the astroturfers - “but Platner said he’d codify Roe” - and it’s worth reminding everyone: YOU CANNOT CODIFY A FEDERAL RIGHT THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. Anyone who tells you that is LYING.

It’d be nice if he didn’t stay in public Discourse.

I don’t have to look *them* up. I keep track. One of them is impossible to ignore, because that’s how well-known he is.

I forgot about Liz Warren in my previous list. Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ruben Gallego, Ro Khanna, Pod Kill America, probably Ezra Klein. Who else was a full throated early supporter?

Fuck this man

The perfect median Bluesky user schadenfreude: just 4 days ago, Jon Favreau revealed on Pod Save America that he was heading to Maine to canvass for Platner and mocked those of us who have expressed our concerns He’s now on X pretending he’s been concerned about this guy all along 🙄

Fuck Ro Khanna, Fuck Ruben Gallego, Fuck Bernie Sanders. Fuck Pod Killed America.

The best time to have made this statement was... any time in the last 10 months. The second best time is today.

“Over the past several weeks…” NO. Women have been telling you to NOT TO ENDORSE PLATNER SINCE LAST AUGUST.

I’m *shocked* to hear about the Platner allegations. This is BRAND NEW information!!

apropos of nothing I think KBJ’s dissent in BPJ is depressing, for both trans & cis women. she worked with what she had—not a whole hell of a lot. title ix should never be a GOAL. it’s offensive when men state so confidently that women should be grateful for patriarchal control of their bodies.

flock decimating civil liberties, but narcissistic boomers like my parents hear: “you can’t speed on the parkway anymore, flock’s trackin’ you all the way to the shore!”

incarceration, or a uterus.

In all 50 states, people are getting the care they need, on their own terms, every single day. That's a freedom we're here to protect.

This article states reports started coming in on Tues; I believe the heat wave didn’t start until Wed. Why that matters? Had GEO/ICE allowed the state to inspect its concentration camp the *multiple* times its tried to, maybe the AC would be working right now and people would be suffering less.

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The heat today, and the last few days, in New Jersey has been unbearable — even with air conditioning. The AC HAS NOT BEEN WORKING IN DELANEY HALL ALL WEEK. It’s 555om now and more damaging thunderstorms are predicted for Essex county tonight; GEO group is responsible for people’s lives.

I know Sam Alito isn’t retiring. He’s not done with abusing women.

Today, the Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced legislation that would make it a crime to interfere with reproductive healthcare services and protects healthcare providers. Assemblywomen Speight, Park, Quijano & Peterpaul sponsored Bill A2218. Hear Asw. Peterpaul’s personal testimony.

These women deserve the thanks from women across this nation for getting New Jersey’s shield law passed in the legislature, and I was especially moved by Assemblywoman Speight’s opening and Assemblywoman Peterpaul’s mid-discussion argument yesterday. Legendary. Thank you. 🎉

I don’t care enough about Bluesky assholes to make this point gracefully but look at all of you worked up about cases where you got a least partial wins and STILL no one gives a fuck about what these cases mean for women in this country. It’s unfuckingbelievable

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

To this point, yesterday, NJ assemblyman Paul Kinatra (R) claimed to have spoken with “hundreds” of people who’ve detransitioned since childhood. In reality, he spoke to ONE. And that was AFTER he claimed to have “done his homework” because he was sick of women + trans activists “attacking” him.

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

What do you have to do to get a tom kean jr vacation?

It boggles my mind that reporters who’ve been writing about post-Dobbs litigation since AHM still don’t understand the Administrative Procedure Act. Like, you could have gone to law school, be licensed in at least two separate states by now but you can’t even master the APA. Not sending your best.

The biggest mistake women in America continue to make is re-posting men like Qasim Rashid. Good grief.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

YES IT PASSED 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Jesus Christ get the fucking NJ assembly under control. The shield law doesn’t promote death. What the fuck

The NJ republicans are fucking disgusting. Paul Kinatra is a disturbed fucking individual

NJ 2260 / A2218 discussion underway; NJ shield law. www.njleg.state.nj.us/live-proceed...

In good news: #NJ #S2260 #A2218 are on the calendar for TUESDAY! 👏 The question that’s nagged at me since the language was amended is whether the bill does enough. In light of #Wolford #Hemani, I’m esp concerned. And #CA3 asked Koons/Siegel for supp briefing in that big 2a/sensitive places case. 🤨

Now that Missouri women can get the abortion pill at their Planned Parenthoods in St Louis, Columbia, and Kansas City, they should make sure to do so — especially before November. In the event Amendment 3 passes, you’ll have four plus months of records showing that women used mife and miso.

these pictures make me gag.

Did you know that abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures in the United States? It’s even safer than consuming Tylenol.

The unfortunate irony of the post-Dobbs era is that it seems that television has become both more willing to name political barriers to abortion access while simultaneously promoting narratives that further stigmatize abortion.

I mean, objectively, if you could take the patriarchy and misogyny and sexism out of it, it’d be fucking laughable to expect women to vote for Democrats. What do they ever do for us? They don’t acknowledge us, our lives, our injuries, the laws that affect us, our bodies, our interests, our rights.

One thing that’s not costing new jerseyans money and not increasing the budget — the law that would have protected women, transgender people, and reproductive providers. Why? Because the “free press” launched an attack on it the day before the vote. The bill still hasn’t passed. #abortion #NJ

Codify Roe has got to go. The procedural point (about 60 votes) could be remedied. But you still couldn’t codify Roe! (1) Casey replaced Roe’s trimester framework entirely in 1992. Codify Roe” consistently presents Casey’s floor as if it were Roe’s ceiling — weaker protection than the name implies.

Polls show a majority of Americans support reproductive healthcare access. But public debate on repro rights still overlooks the lives shaped by abortion access, contraception, IVF, miscarriage care, maternal healthcare or sex education. We're correcting the record: msmagazine.com/thelifeibuilt/