Please listen to this. Robin Marty makes the struggle of being starved of your bodily autonomy so vivid. And she manages to be a delight doing so.

I don't think you can listen without wanting to support the work the West Alabama Women's Center does.

alreprohealth.com

Hey folks, calm down. I know Matt was joking and so was I. I have no idea what score Trump got on his SAT, although we can be damn sure if he got a high one, we would be hearing about it all the time.

The fate of democracy in Wisconsin will once again be on the line in 2025 with an election for the state Supreme Court.

Liberals gained a 4-3 majority in 2023 & used it to replace the GOP's gerrymanders with fairer maps, but they're now defending an open seat in 2025

#NYT front page from April 11, 2020, four years ago.

I’ve a reflection out today on affective community, shared trauma, and solidarity. From the perspective of the psychiatric and psychoanalytic clinic, the genocide in Gaza is sparking a growing revolutionary movement with consequences far beyond Palestine.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

This an eye-opening excerpt shows the longstanding relationship between Kushner and Netanyahu which explains the Boy Wonder's fixation on Middleast policy and right-wing efforts to eradicate Palestinians.
#TrumpCrimeFamily

One problem is that writers seldom do any reporting or research for their columns. When I was a columnist I tried very hard to always include new or updated information that was exclusive, not previously reported elsewhere. Sadly, few appreciated my originality.

Just the other day I tweeted something about the general decline in quality of op-ed writers and columnists. Now it's become a meme. hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists-a…

'In the absence of evidence tending to show possession or use of a shotgun has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.' SCOTUS 1939

Larry Hogan wanted to bring megaships to Baltimore, as @levernews reported. One of them brought down the Key Bridge. Now he's having to deal with his party being unwilling to fund reconstruction, Gabrielle Gurley writes: prospect.org/politics/2024-…

🧵'Stuttering isn’t a moral failing.... It’s a strength.... Since a young age, Biden has had to do at least twice the mental work of someone without a stutter. He couldn’t just speak, as others did. He had to think before speaking – think twice, three times, maybe more.'

Laura Rozen Everyone recognizes WSJ editorial / op-ed pages as agitprop inserts, which happen to come packaged inside an otherwise first-rate news operation.

A similar recognition would be useful for politics coverage vs rest of NYT.

Liar.

NEW📺'FUNNY AF! There's STUPID, Then There's TRUMP STUPID!' -w pal The Matt McNeil Show

👊WATCH youtube.com/watch?v=zT12uN… #DeadlineWH #RoevemberIsComing

Tags MAGA Republicans DeWine Arizonans Stormy Daniels The People's President John Bolton Crenshaw The House Kari Lake Michael Cohen

Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder Mikey Weinstein on Project 2025:
dailykos.com/stories/2024/4…

🧵“*Admitted* spoiler, to be precise. That’s what the director of his campaign in New York did. At a gathering of Republicans in that state, Rita Palmer admitted the point of Kennedy’s efforts isn’t victory.... 'The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter – our mutual enemy is Biden,'”

Read Stephanie's book 'The Deficit Myth' and subscribe to her on line forum.

Echoes of Buckley's defense of McCarthy.
First as farce, then as tragedy?

New Short: 'SO GOOD!!! Larry David GOES OFF on ‘Little Baby’ Donald Trump!' WATCH:

youtube.com/shorts/StEE_-7…

#TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #WednesdayMotivation

🧵'The economy isn't real. It's not going to take you to dinner....

We find in poll after poll - ask voters 'who is better for the economy' and they (wrongly) say Rep. Ask them 'who is better for your economic wellbeing' majority say Dems.'