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Countering the disinformation, racism, classism, & misogyny in the anti-choice movement. Because truth matters. https://www.reprotruth.com/

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 10d

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"Abortion bans constitute ‘that control by which the personal service of one person is disposed of or coerced for another’s benefit which is the essence of involuntary servitude.'"

'Abortion Bans Constitute Involuntary Servitude'
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Abortion Bans Constitute Involuntary Servitude

Part III of How to Talk About Abortion Bans

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 5h

Trump pardoned anti-abortion radicals who'd been convicted by juries of their peers of invading clinics. Two of those radicals are about to go on trial for doing it again.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Anti-abortion activists pardoned by Trump face trial for new clinic ‘invasion’

Two who received presidential pardon among six activists charged with trespass and conspiracy in Pennsylvania

www.theguardian.com

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 6h

Doctor: The new guidelines for this pneumonia vax...

Me: Wait, how 𝘯𝘦𝘸? Like, are they crazy new or -

Doctor: (laughs) No, not the crazy new. Not the anti-vax new. They came out right before that.

😅 I love my doctor.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 22h

Too bad the Catholic bishops sold them out for the forced-birth agenda.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 1d

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 22h

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 22h

Wow

rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 22h

My spouse is from Blytheville. Apparently, I was pronouncing it wrong my whole life. Lol

It's Blyyyyy-vull.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it.

Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond. www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 23h

Oliver is recharging on his charging station. The crack ninja kitty chaos will soon resume and nothing will be safe.

rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 23h

"Across the country, the reaction to federal violence directed by Trump has been strikingly muted... That indifference... has allowed the violence to continue with impunity."
www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-rich...

Trump's federalized troops are shooting American citizens and Americans seem okay with the violence | Milwaukee Independent

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 23h

For 3 years, Republicans have been waging policy violence against pregnant Americans, yet Americans still voted for them. So, it's sadly not a surprise to many of us that much of the public appears to now be tolerating the overt state violence being unleashed against citizens.

Trump’s federalized troops are shooting American citizens and Americans seem okay with the violence

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 1d

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 1d

They know there's no legitimate reason to invoke the Insurrection Act, so they're gaming out the best way to get the Trump Court to sign off on it while saving face. Not because it's what America needs, but because it's just what Trump wants. These are not the actions of true patriots.

Last month, a federal judge ruled that the White House’s deployment of active-duty troops to Los Angeles in June was illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th century law that prevents the military from being used as police. After that decision, administration officials revived discussions and internal legal analyses around invoking the Insurrection Act, according to two of the people familiar with the discussions and one person close to the White House.

But Trump was cautioned that doing so under current circumstances might not hold up in the Supreme Court, which would break his series of victories there, these people said, and the idea was tabled for a time.

A White House official declined to discuss specific deliberations but said Trump’s legal team is focused on charting a legal pathway that can withstand judicial scrutiny.

“Ultimately it’s the president’s vision and the president’s policies that he got elected to implement that the attorneys are just working hard to defend,” the White House official said. “We’re working hard to look at the law and say, ‘How do we achieve the president’s vision?’”

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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 1d

Pro-Life did this. For years and years, they called for this. Lobbied for this. Pressured for this. Cheered this. Never underestimate the anti-abortion movement's willingness to hurt people under the banner of "respect for the sanctity of life" to get what it wants.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1d

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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