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Progressives should add sex worker rights to their agenda. It’s a matter of social justice
Sex workers are the only workers ignored on Labor Day.
Whatever happens to Roe, it will be the consequence of six conservative justices choosing to believe authoritarian lies
If the sanctity of an individual embryo’s life were as important as they say it is, a half-century-old anti-abortion movement would not exist.
Matt Robison interviews the EB’s Mia Brett: A Turning Point on Abortion in America
Abortion vigilantism? Yes.
The civilian wing of the Republican Party has finally lost control of its paramilitary wing
Roger Stone and Trump operatives like to think of themselves as being in control. A new Reuters report paints a very different picture.
Will vaccine mandates spark right-wing violence? Maybe, if the authoritarians believe what they say. Most don’t, though
Violent rhetoric is a feature, not a bug.
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Dems playing chicken, ‘desirable’ immigrants, Afghan sanctions, climate horsemen, anti-trans laws, plus John Stoehr’s week
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There’s no such thing as law to police trans women that wouldn’t ultimately hurt all women
The Taliban’s oppression of women, and extreme hostility towards trans people, exemplifies how intertwined our liberation really is.
Will GOP voters go to war with corporations over new vaccine mandates? That would require personal sacrifice, though
They’ll obey, like good authoritarians.