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June 25, 2022

When Repukes get back Congress/Presidency-They will SHITCAN the filibuster in a second.

If Republicans get back Congress and the presidency, their Senate will shitcan the filibuster in a second to ban abortion nationwide. So unless Joe Manchin is willing to do that to save abortion rights, he can eat a bowl of shut the fuck up.
https://twitter.com/rudepundit/status/1540705537003864066?s=20&t=fKRPC5IpONLTysrce0DLgA
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-supreme-court-vs-united-states-part.html

June 25, 2022

Y'all still not understanding. People see children as a punishment for women having sex.

That's why some folks say the solution for women since Roe has been overturned is to "close your legs." Not once do they advocate men getting vasectomies or keeping their peens in their pants.
https://twitter.com/BougieBlackGurl/status/1540658184309850112?s=20&t=Gk9eW_Wte3W1-2AXauVGFQ

June 25, 2022

Part of How They Took Away Your Bodily Autonomy Was Through Terrorism

Bombings, arsons, assassinations. Stalkings, clinic invasions. Assaults, bomb threats. Finally, Supreme Court justices.

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OFFICIALLY SPEAKING, the opponents of abortion don’t engage in terrorism. Throwing acid at people because you consider yourself an instrument of God's justice turns out not to qualify across the board as terrorism, if you get my drift. Shooting them dead in church, bombing their clinics, following them to those clinics or their cars or homes—these are state offenses that tend not to trigger federal terrorism statutes, because those statutes and their enforcement target non-Christian and non-white communities.

After 9/11, the media didn't call Tiller's assassination or any other incident of anti-abortion political violence terrorism, no matter how focused it was on achieving a political outcome, because that would have been inflammatory. Terrorism is about Those People.

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...........a white man with a gun, a flag and a cross cannot be a terrorist in America, since the 9/11 era, recapitulating the ugliest aspects of American history, defines him as a counterterrorist. Tools born from the War on Terror are now tools for states to persecute people for exercising the most basic bodily autonomy they possess. Today we learned, once again, who the Constitution is for and who it is not.

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/abortion-pro-life-terror-operation-rescue-tiller?utm_medium=ios
June 25, 2022

Those who put Jack the Ripper into position for his murder spree want you to know they "feel misled"

Those who put Jack the Ripper into position for his murder spree want you to know that they “feel misled.”
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1540674141275168769?s=20&t=1f4ggjijux7cqHY_pTCquQ

June 25, 2022

"My own uterus no longer belongs to me. Nor does my vagina. Or my life."

To lose the right to an abortion is not only a loss of freedom; it is a loss of dignity. As if a hole has been carved from my personhood. From my citizenship. My own uterus no longer belongs to me. Nor does my vagina. Or my life. It’s hard to imagine a more profound violation.


To make this all the more poisonous—this freedom, this dignity, this equal citizenship—all have been ripped away by men who sexually assaulted women. Trump bragged about “grabbing pussies.” He then empowered a man who tried to rape a young girl. Now they violate all of us.

I will explicitly say “my vagina,” a phrase we rarely say publicly, as it sounds so intimate. I say it so that everyone knows: The govt will choose if my vagina must be probed. If it must be damaged. There is no part of my body—& thus no part of my life—that remains fully my own

https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1540359012327251975?s=20&t=cJhtpu0RxqzH8kF5rXbTGg
June 25, 2022

MJT: "What evidence do you have that people were armed" on J6? --Raskin: "Oh, just wait for it"

In a heated confrontation today, Jamie Raskin asks Marge if she thinks people have a right to carry guns wherever they want, was it ok for J6 rioters to have guns. Marge says, “What evidence do you have that people were armed that day?” Raskin responds, “Oh, just wait for it.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1540399689098579968?s=20&t=DIzZIHn0TPZ5_vkRUTA7JA

June 25, 2022

Patients sat in abortion clinic waiting rooms as Roe fell. They all had to be turned away.

Gallegos watched each word land like a blow. People cried. They screamed. They begged for help, she said. It was “complete despair.”

Hours later, the clinic had emptied of all but those who had received their abortions hours or minutes before Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old court case that enshrined abortion as a right, was overturned by the Supreme Court Friday, leaving the question of abortion access up to individual states. Only those with follow-up appointments could be seen.

Gallegos and her staff called about 20 people who were scheduled to come in that day. Some were caught off guard, Gallegos said. “Why today? Why the day of their appointment did this happen?” patients told her.

Those turned away were patients who were now outside an already small window: In September, Texas banned abortion past six weeks of pregnancy. That law was the first in a series of abortion restrictions passed in states across the country in the last year that served as a preview of life after Roe.

More of this horrific story:
https://19thnews.org/2022/06/patients-abortion-clinics-texas-turned-away-roe-overturned/

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