Lauren Rankin
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Author of BODIES ON THE LINE.
@Truthout.org
Contributor. Abortion access is my jam. she/her
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Julianne McShane
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🚨🚨 SCOOP
@ms.now
: The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
https://www.ms.now/news/abortion-ban-veterans-affairs-va
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it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns it's the guns
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Danielle Kurtzleben
about 2 months ago
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
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There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism." There's no such thing as "conservative feminism."
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NBC News
about 2 months ago
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
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Mary
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“These videos aren’t produced by OB-GYNs or scientists. They aren’t based on medical information. By using a seemingly anodyne tactic in order to cunningly and covertly attack abortion rights, they are a sinister tool of anti-abortion propaganda.” —
@laurenarankin.bsky.social
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Abortion opponents have realized that they've lost public opinion among adults. Now, they're trying to brainwash children by mandating that schools show junk science videos about fetal development. And it's already the law in several states. My latest at
@truthout.org
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truthout.org/articles/gop...
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GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.
Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion, so they’re trying to brainwash kids instead.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-wants-to-mandate-fetal-development-education-its-anti-abortion-nonsense/
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Melissa Gira Grant
2 months ago
if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
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Prisonculture
2 months ago
the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.
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Autonomy News
3 months ago
NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.
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Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.
Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.
https://www.autonomynews.co/abortion-pill-reversal-is-a-hoax-its-also-a-powerful-right-wing-legal-strategy/
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund
3 months ago
Good news: y’all have already raised $300! Bad news: she’s measured further along and the cost has gone up. She needs a total of $3,400 now in addition to the $1,000 we already pledged. Our goal is now $2,500 to raise for her and we will cover the rest of the balance.
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Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through
@aidaccess.bsky.social
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Truthout
3 months ago
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
https://buff.ly/ajR145W
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Vaccine deniers have learned from abortion opponents that you can ban health care without actually making it illegal––stigmatize it and make it inaccessible. It's meant to make us distrust science and disbelieve what we see with our own eyes. My latest for
@truthout.org
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truthout.org/articles/fda...
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
https://truthout.org/articles/fdas-arbitrary-restrictions-on-vaccines-are-right-out-of-anti-abortion-playbook/
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Irin Carmon
3 months ago
Hi Bluesky! Have I mentioned my book UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy is out October 28? It tells a bigger story of reproduction in America through the experiences of five women, and it’s available for preorder now:
bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...
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Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
https://bookshop.org/p/books/unbearable-five-women-and-the-perils-of-pregnancy-in-america-irin-carmon/58ef27a6cc76796c
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Abortion opponents have firebombed and shot up abortion clinics. They've murdered 11 abortion providers and stalked, harassed, and terrorized untold others. I personally have been doxxed, threatened, and stalked. They aren't interested in talking to us. They hate us. They want us dead. Literally.
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s. e. smith
4 months ago
So many 'progressive' orgs behave like this and it sucks. People work here because they believe the work is important and they get treated like garbage while their employers talk a big public game about how great they are.
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The Board of
@apiaryps.bsky.social
just surprise-fired their entire staff (amazing, dedicated folks) and put the organization on "pause" because the Board hated that the staff demanded they live up to actual RJ values. I saw this firsthand working with Apiary. I'm disgusted but not surprised.
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Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a woman in Texas, and it doesn't quite pass the smell test. For
@truthout.org
, I wrote about how abortion opponents may have found a new avenue to attack medication abortion.
truthout.org/articles/wro...
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Wrongful Death Suit in Texas Poses New Threats to Medication Abortion Access
Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in the lawsuit filed this August by a woman in Texas.
https://truthout.org/articles/wrongful-death-suit-in-texas-poses-new-threats-to-medication-abortion-access/
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Dan Devine
5 months ago
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
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Interrupting Criminalization
5 months ago
"It’s time to think beyond the courts; not to abandon the judiciary as a tool, but instead to reframe what justice looks like, and how we can create it for ourselves and our communities."
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Autistic Science Person
5 months ago
This is a BIG deal and people need to be following this - If it goes to the Supreme Court, it could allow states to go over the FDA and ban whatever medication they want to ban. (including hormones/surgeries for trans people)
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A federal appeals court recently upheld West Virginia's insidious medication abortion ban. For
@truthout.org
, I wrote about what that means, its long-term implications, and why everyone who can get pregnant should purchase medication abortion now.
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Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?
If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-appeals-court-upheld-west-virginia-ban-on-medication-abortion-now-what/
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Don Moynihan
5 months ago
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
5 months ago
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord.
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The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
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Truthout
6 months ago
Adriana Smith, who was forcibly kept alive by the State of Georgia — against her family’s wishes — because she was nine weeks pregnant, was taken off life support on June 17 this year after her fetus was delivered via C-section. This is a direct result of the Dobbs decision.
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3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
https://buff.ly/IwZi5Pc
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Siva
6 months ago
Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation
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It's been three years since the Dobbs decision, and the horrors it unleashed would be unbelievable if abortion rights advocates hadn't been telling you this would happen for years. I wrote about what Dobbs has wrought for
@truthout.org
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3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
https://truthout.org/articles/3-years-in-horrors-wrought-by-anti-abortion-dobbs-ruling-are-apparent-to-all/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
6 months ago
Adriana Smith was brushed off when she went to the hospital in pain She was braindead within hours That was in February. Doctors performed a c-section on her on Friday. They kept her on life support for months in order to avoid violating Georgia's abortion ban
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Georgia’s Abortion Ban Just Forced a Brain-Dead Woman On Life Support to Give Birth
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs upended decades of settled law. Adriana Smith and her family paid the price
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/brain-dead-birth-georgia-abortion-ban/
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The crusade against trans kids isn't an attempt to divert attention; it is THE POINT. It's not a diversion to a trans kid in a state with a GAC ban. It's not a diversion to a trans adult who feels invalidated by this egregious ruling. Stop treating trans kids like pawns and FIGHT FOR THEM.
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ryan cooper
6 months ago
Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people
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Great reporting from
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. Time and again, Planned Parenthood has left abortion and abortion seekers out to dry. Surrendering abortion care and kowtowing to fascists won't save you, PP. Have some freaking gumption. Use your tens of millions of dollars of assets and DO SOMETHING.
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Maris Kreizman
7 months ago
I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.
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Jessica Valenti
7 months ago
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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There's a long history of overlap between radical anti-abortion activists and white supremacist domestic terrorists. Radical anti-abortion activism has often served as a gateway to white supremacist terrorism. It can serve as the canary in the coal mine, yet it's so often ignored. A thread:
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If you know me on a personal level, you know how sacred Brian Wilson is to me. He is one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. He wrote songs that are like prayers for me, that connect me to ancestral heartbeats and cosmic echoes. Surf's Up is a masterpiece.
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The Beach Boys Surf's Up
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jamelle
7 months ago
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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Considering my advance was $13,000 (which I thought was A LOT tbh!), I will gladly take the $526,000 that Open AI owes me for using my book to train AI. I accept Venmo and Paypal 😏
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 months ago
This is absolute horror.
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Truthout
8 months ago
In the two years since Roe was overturned, there were more than 750 cases of obstruction of a clinic, nearly 300 death threats or threats of harm, and more than 600 cases of trespassing.
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Abortion Providers Have Faced Hundreds of Death Threats Since Roe’s Fall
A chilling report on the spike in violence against abortion providers should concern us all.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-providers-have-faced-hundreds-of-death-threats-since-roes-fall/
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Abortion providers have faced hundreds of death threats since Roe fell. And now, with a Justice Department that refuses to enforce the FACE Act, the risk to abortion providers' health and safety will only increase. I wrote about it for
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Abortion Providers Have Faced Hundreds of Death Threats Since Roe’s Fall
A chilling report on the spike in violence against abortion providers should concern us all.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-providers-have-faced-hundreds-of-death-threats-since-roes-fall/
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Melissa Gira Grant
8 months ago
New from me—Missouri voters added a reproductive freedom amendment to their constitution in November. It has no age limits on whose rights to abortion it protects. But so far, young people have been left out. Until this new legal challenge, just filed today:
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Missouri’s New Fight to Roll Back Abortion Age Restrictions
An abortion-support text line is challenging two Missouri laws that limit young people’s access to abortion. Why have other reproductive rights groups been so reluctant to make similar challenges?
https://newrepublic.com/article/194610/missouri-new-fight-roll-back-abortion-age-restrictions
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Interrupting Criminalization
9 months ago
"When you reduce someone to less than a person in the eyes of the state, criminalization is never far behind. ... Criminalization has always been at the heart of policing reproductive choices."
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For
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Abortion Bans Criminalize People — and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant
Post-“Roe,” pregnancy outcomes — and even actions taken to help pregnant people — face escalating criminalization.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-criminalize-people-and-not-just-those-who-are-pregnant/
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Karen Attiah
9 months ago
It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
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For
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, I wrote about how to become an abortion clinic escort and the importance of plugging into existing networks of abortion access support, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...
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This Critical Role Has Become More Dangerous Under The Trump Administration. Here’s What You Need To Know
"We should be able to walk into a health care facility without risking harassment, aggression or even violence."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-clinic-escort-guide_n_67e2febee4b074f0c26efaf2
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My book BODIES ON THE LINE, which I spent years conceiving, researching, and writing, which barely made a dent sales-wise (which is okay! I'm still hella proud of it), is one of them. Apparently Meta is happy to use abortion content to train AI but is currently silencing it across their platforms.
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Adam Serwer
10 months ago
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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jamelle
10 months ago
whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
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