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Pamela Merritt
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Executive Director of Medical Students for Choice + Guttmacher Institute Board + Honorary Chair Reproaction Advisory Council + Our Bodies Ourselves Leadership Council | views = all mine
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Nov 25
I’m not trying to be mean, but I’m also not interested in being nice. This isn’t a game. Access to abortion is life or death for many Black women.

Our lives are worth all the bruised egos, ruffled feathers, and hurt feelings in the world.

We deserve reproductive justice.
a woman stands on a stage in front of a large feminist sign
ALT: a woman stands on a stage in front of a large feminist sign
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24d
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 25d
Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d
Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d
Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."

Here's the clip of his apology 👇
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Aug 19
People need to recognize when they’re being g threatened with violence.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Aug 19
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Aug 19
Texas, I am rooting for y'all. The one thing all progressives down here know how to do is fucking fight. 💓 (this thread is full of actions happening up & down)
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 19
Video tweeted by News 4 San Antonio at 10:27 pm(EDT). One hour ago.

It shows the doors of the House chamber and pans over to a crowd clapping rhythmically and chanting:

Let Her Out! Let Her Out! Let Her Out!

source: x.com/News4SA/stat...
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
The US is a lawless dystopian failed state where sadists hold power and Black women in elected office face jail for refusing to honor unlawful orders.

If you don’t live here, do not come here.
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WFAA @wfaach8.bsky.social · Aug 19
BREAKING | Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier will remain in the Texas House chamber after refusing a DPS escort. Here's why she could be arrested if she leaves.
Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier remains on House floor after refusing escort: 'I refuse to sign away my dignity.'
State Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, has been an outspoken critic of the redistricting maps, which she argues dilute minority voting power.
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WFAA @wfaach8.bsky.social · Aug 19
BREAKING | Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier will remain in the Texas House chamber after refusing a DPS escort. Here's why she could be arrested if she leaves.
Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier remains on House floor after refusing escort: 'I refuse to sign away my dignity.'
State Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, has been an outspoken critic of the redistricting maps, which she argues dilute minority voting power.
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Senator Roland Gutierrez @rolandfortexas.bsky.social · Aug 19
This is full-on authoritarianism.

Free Nicole Collier. #txlege
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Aug 19
just rewatched The Last Boy Scout, a movie i cannot analyze objectively because i have loved it since childhood. But goddamn Ebert's review of it is both hard as fuck and prescient.
Roger Ebert Logo Search Icon Reviews The Last Boy Scout star ratingstar rating Action 107 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1991 Roger Ebert December 13, 1991 4 min read “The Last Boy Scout” opens with a sequence of such sudden and unexpected violence that the audience is stunned into uneasy silence. The movie never looks back. Perhaps propelled by the determination of its star, Bruce Willis, to erase the box-office curse of “Hudson Hawk,” this film panders with such determination to the base instincts of the action crowd that it will, I am sure, be an enormous hit. It was produced by Joel Silver, who has made violence toward women a key element in his films, and cheerfully expands its horizons to violence toward children – providing the Willis character with a foul-mouthed 13-year-old daughter who is hauled around by bad guys with a gun pointed at her temple. (The film is rated R, proving that violence alone cannot earn the NC-17 rating.) It is some kind of a tribute to Tony Scott, who directed the film, and especially to Shane Black and Greg Hicks, who wrote the screenplay, that this material survives its own complete cynicism and somehow actually works. Watching it, I felt like some weatherbeaten innocent from an earlier, simpler time. My distaste was irrelevant. This movie is the future. It assumes the average audience now has no standards except those of the mob. The only consistent theme of the film is its hatred of women. The two heroes (Willis and Damon Wayans) have a wife and a girlfriend, respectively, who cheat on them – the wife with Willis’ best friend, the girlfriend by prostituting herself. Both men are at home in this screenplay, which hates women with a particular viciousness; the verbal violence begins by calling them bitches and whores and worse, over and over again, and the message is that a man can only really trust another man. It is some kind of a tribute to Tony Scott, who directed the film, and especially to Shane Black and Greg Hicks, who wrote the screenplay, that this material survives its own complete cynicism and somehow actually works. Watching it, I felt like some weatherbeaten innocent from an earlier, simpler time. My distaste was irrelevant. This movie is the future. It assumes the average audience now has no standards except those of the mob.
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Shroom Mage @shroom-mage.bsky.social · Aug 19
what an odd thing to say
Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz Nazis are fascists but ironically IRL can be very welcoming & accommodating, hence they are able to effectively radicalize ppl. They show more empathy IRL in spaces they're recruiting in than these DSA ppl ever have. It's abhorrent, and another reason the "left" has zero power. 22:48 • 17 Aug 25 • 37.5K
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Aug 18
Maybe some of us remember what happened the last time law enforcement got mad at a sex worker Trump was mad at

Columbus vice cops did so much harassment and illegal setups, entrapments, abuse and wrongful arrests when Stormy Daniels came to town that they got disbanded
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 19
The fact he seems to legitimately believe in the anti-Christ while also investing in companies and policies that would actually make his fears manifest is a modern day paradox.
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
Had to delete & repost cause I tagged the wrong person
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
Apologies. Done.
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
Got it. Deleted.
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
I hate tagging the wrong person. 🫣 Reposting to @stltoday.com

1. StL has never had a BLM chapter.

2. BLM isn’t FEMA for Black neighborhoods.

3. Multiple Black queer led StL orgs were on the ground on day one.

4. Some racist hot takes are best left at the Buffalo Wild Wings in JeffCo.
Racist newspaper headline reads “Lynn Schmidt: The tornado devastated Black neighborhoods. Where was BLM?
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
My bad. Thanks for letting me know
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 19
they deserve not a moment of peace in public life tbh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 18
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · Aug 19
I am shocked SHOCKED to find Nazis in the DHS.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Aug 18
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts
‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · Aug 19
A Black women, elected by her constituents is literally being held hostage for refusing to be policed by an opponents. Let that sink in. @angelarye.bsky.social interview with Rep Collier: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFrD...
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · Aug 19
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Aug 19
If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
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Pamela Merritt @sharkfu.bsky.social · Aug 19
She’s also erasing the strong community response. A diverse group of St. Louisans showed up in amazing ways and supported efforts on the ground. She wasn’t there so she wrote this filth on assumptions and pure prejudice
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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · Jul 11
BIG BEAUTIFUL POD DROP 🚨 The Bigoted BS Bill is a Backdoor National Abortion Ban
❗ FBK favorite @Sharkfu.bsky.social of @MSFChoice.bsky.social drops by to explain exactly how the abominable bill will make it impossible for people who don’t own yachts to become doctors.
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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · Jul 11
New #FeministBuzzkills with @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @mojilocks.bsky.social @abortionfront.bsky.social #MSWMedia 💄

Guests: @sharkfu.bsky.social of @msfchoice.bsky.social & @neginfarsad.bsky.social

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