War on Women

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Supreme Court temporarily restores full access to abortion pill
The decision means mifepristone remains available nationwide without an in-person meeting required while litigation continues.

This will give women's group in fascist states an opportunity to stock up.

PBS: Mifepristone is legal in 96 nations.

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Shocked this group of Supremes allowed this.

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Shocked this group of Supremes allowed this.

Alito did it on his own, which is still shocking, and it's very temporary.

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Shocked this group of Supremes allowed this.

The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth

... The high court's order means the abortion pill mifepristone will remain available via telehealth as a case brought by Louisiana against the Food and Drug Administration proceeds through the lower courts.

The Supreme Court stayed a May 1 ruling from the New Orleans-based, U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals which would have banned mifepristone from being mailed. The appeals court ruling would have applied to the whole country, not just states like Louisiana that have abortion bans....

, for now.


13 years old, seventh grade:


Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

Wow.

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These Women Are Manipulating MAGA Men Into Actually Facing Reality
Brooke Teegarden is one of a growing number of women using the specific texture of MAGA masculinity against itself.

... The men she targets are generally older, white, Christian and conservative, and they carry two things into every conversation: a desperation to be desired and a set of beliefs propped up entirely by fake news. Teegarden uses both.

Ouch.

... In Jacksonville, Florida, Twig, an activist who asked to be referred to by her professional alias to better ensure her safety, has a different operation running. She doesn’t need to catfish anyone. She is herself: a woman who noticed that conservative men on Instagram don’t just want to argue with her. They want her to take their money and humiliate them while she does it. So she does. And then, she tells me, she funnels the proceeds into Planned Parenthood donations, ACLU membership, and flights to D.C. to lobby Congress.

Financial domination — findomming, in the parlance — is a kink in which a dominant extracts money from a submissive, often with accompanying degradation. Twig, who I’ve been following for years, describes her approach as “operating within an existing system while being very aware of its implications.” She is not trying to change MAGA’s worldview. “Honestly, MAGA minds can’t be changed,” she says. “I’m interacting with it as it already exists.”

What Twig has noticed, working within that system, is that some MAGA men have a humiliation kink that extends well beyond the bedroom. “Whether in their public life, calling Trump their ‘Daddy,’ or in their private life asking me for humiliation videos,” she says, “there is a common need to be made to feel inferior or small.” Twig’s work is a treasure trove of Freudian delights.

This work, Twig says, which some may dismiss as scamming, is actually kind of the opposite. Although it may seem cathartic to scream at MAGA men, it requires an enormous amount of emotional work to be the person who engages with the men none of us want to talk to. “It requires emotional intelligence, discipline, and a strong sense of self,” Twig says. “It’s work. It just doesn’t look like traditional labor.”

Thank you for your service.

One might find themselves asking whether it’s ethical to manipulate people, even in a quest to make them more informed or compassionate. Teegarden doesn’t flinch at this question. “I don’t feel bad if manipulation, rather than pure persuasion, creates a better outcome,” she says.

Trump’s own manufactured reality, after all, is also manipulation. The difference is that Teegarden isn’t inciting hate. She’s trying to get a 60-year-old man in the suburbs to see, for even a single moment, that what is happening to his neighbor is wrong and maybe he should do something about it. Teegarden’s work, then, is part therapy, part public service, part revenge fantasy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFNh_OAYoxQ

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Leaked Audio Shows GOP Candidate Agreeing That Women Should ‘Prove’ Rape To Access Abortion
Rick Jackson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, agreed that “two wrongs don’t make a right” regarding rape victims accessing abortion care.