After the most recent election debacle in Florida and the ritual resignation of the state party leaders associated with it, former agriculture commissioner (and Charlie Crist primary opponent) Nikki Fried stepped up to run for state party chair and won. Lots of folks were skeptical of Fried, and not wholly without reason, but maybe Fried …
Women's Rights Are Human Rights
Proud to Be A Democrat: Defending Abortion As Healthcare
In Texas, we’re seeing the devastating impact of extreme abortion bans on women’s health. Yet Florida introduced its own extreme ban today. Shameful and unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/THt3XbTKaJ — Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) March 7, 2023 Exclusive: The White House is jumping into state-level battles for women's reproductive rights, lending advice to allies in states pushing restrictions as …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: Women’s Rights Are Also Trans Rights
Phew, Malala turned out to be good. https://t.co/cN5PSGiheh — Franklin Stove Expropriator (@agraybee) February 27, 2023 As we know, the bigots never stop; once they’ve managed to erase ‘those people’, they’re already planning how to erase ‘you people.’
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights
Extremist so-called leaders have taken unprecedented steps to restrict access to abortion medication. Today, I convened leading medical experts and reproductive rights advocates to make clear: @POTUS and I stand with them in the fight to protect reproductive health care. pic.twitter.com/mOHaEFVmH0 — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) February 24, 2023 Today the @VP is convening …
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Open Thread: The Roe v Wade Anniversary
‘The right of every woman in every state in this country to make decisions about her own body is on the line’: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says abortion rights are under attack across the nation https://t.co/sVWWVVHHVy pic.twitter.com/u0CxoB5h4M — Reuters (@Reuters) January 23, 2023 .@SenTinaSmith: Overturning Roe v. Wade was just ‘the beginning’ for GOP …
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Virginia Special Election
Democrats flipped a Virginia State Senate seat that had been held by a Republican. This victory basically stops Youngkin’s agenda and 15 week abortion ban in its tracks. 🚨 SEAT FLIP! 🚨 ✅ Aaron Rouse has won his race for the Virginia Senate in SD-07! pic.twitter.com/urPUQqtFGI — Virginia Democrats (@vademocrats) January 11, 2023
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Running & Gunning
after successfully fooling everyone into thinking she was a human woman for six weeks and wrecking mischief, the kitsune returns to the wilds https://t.co/WVRymtlvEt — James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) October 25, 2022 In Japanese folklore (and much modern anime / manga), fox deities are capable of assuming human form — not always to make mischief, but …
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