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trump is desperate. He wants to talk about abortion rights, beware!

Look at this video of RFK campaign woman in the tweet. Trump and the evil billionaires don't expect to win at all but they want to create enough chaos that the Red state legislatures will throw the election to trump (shame on that RFK fucker!) I think there is some confusion about which Congress certifies the election -- it is the new Congress ("Since the 20th Amendment, the newly elected joint Congress declares the winner of the election; all elections before 1936 were determined by the outgoing Congress." -- Wikipedia page) All the more reason to vote for Dems everywhere.

https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1777021184737194221

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Elizabeth Murray said fetal personhood. She said it with air quotes around it given the way she said it. But she still said those words when arguing against it. She should've said what abortion opponents claim is fetal personhood. Why can't abortion advocates get their language right when on the media??

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I really like the next gen young Dem Reps in the House. Saw a superb interview with Andy Kim (NJ vote him into senate) and saw Robert Garcia last night on Ali Velshi eloquently defending immigrants and what they have done for this country. Because of this new articulate and vocal group, the older members are also shedding their usual timid stance. #VoteBlue, it is not complicated.

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I also had to spend time in their hospital for a spell and they treated me horribly. And there was a lot of religious subtext going on.

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My healthcare provider is NY Presbyterian. They actually asked me what my religion is. I was taken aback and said definitively none. I wish I had said Feminism. I'm still mad about it.

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Adding to my previous comment, I want to know who or what is driving the Gaza protests here? Obviously, some of it maybe genuine anguish but it would also hurt Biden in the election. Wasn't there a report about Hamas meeting with Pootie before Oct 7 and was Oct 7 an op gone wild to exact Netanyahu's (and Biden's) predictable reaction? There is a lot going on and it is all out of a Bond movie. Who is the world savior if not the US at this point in history?

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People are upset.

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Yes, and they are right to be. Hamas needed to be dealt with and neutralized a different way. But Netanyahu is their trump, so there is that. Biden overestimated his own power of influence over Netanyahu, I think. Now in the US, the bad guys are using Gaza to make it worse for Biden.

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Media and press should report more about how Russia is brazenly interfering with the 2024 election and connect the dots to trump and the Republicans supporting him. This sounds like conspiracy but we are up against a Bond type villain in Pootie, and add Netanyahu and Xi to the mix (they want a stupid crook like trump and it is scary that the R party is aligning with the worst elements in the world). At this point I would just lump various abortion bans in states and everything else that is disruptive to American way of life as being funded/directed by insiders and outsiders who want to harm America (and are on the take). I don't know why this is not a bigger story. I hope this CNN video below is a start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV3__2xN7s

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Republican abortion bans hurt poor women and girls the most because they cannot afford to travel out of state for care. Use this online calculator to add up the cost of being forced to travel out of state for an abortion. It is overlaid with the poverty level by county to see how many women and girls would be hurt by MAGA forced birth policies; and the Senators, Congressional reps and Governors responsible for the cruel policies in that state. The app is intended to help hold MAGA religious extremists accountable for their cruelty.

StoryMap: https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/06/cost-of-traveling-out-of-state-for-an-abortion-calculator/

Calculator: https://form.jotform.com/240961599966073

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Congratulations Grace! I appreciate your hard work!

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💛💛 thank you!

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REPUBLICANS: They will spend millions to fear-monger and lie about the Republican position.

ALSO REPUBLICANS: Liberals want to abort babies up to, including, and beyond childbirth.

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Yep.....exactly the kind of bullshit LIES tgey say. I wonder how they say it with a straight face.....?

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Tgat was a great article by Danielle Campoamor

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DeSantis is such an asshole.....there is nothing radical in the abortion language. Except that minor's are required to have parental notification!! Yes.....thats absurd. He's such a liar......dropping misinformation to the media.

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He's also pissed about the recreational marijuana issue being voted on. That was the other half of his radical comment. Because between the two issues turn-out should be huge! And not in favor of the jack-booted thugs.

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I looked up Sargassum and a paragraph also aptly describes Ronnie boy. Sargassum is stinky, yucky and nasty, and destroys the natural beauty of beaches.

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Joe, you are right on the money with that one.

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Thanks 🙂. I also have earthquake news.

My favorite quake headline:

Totally nuts! Pennsylvania man was getting a vasectomy when 4.8 earthquake struck.  Per the article,  This surgery took balls!

Also.

Is the earth 🌎 trying to tell the Republicans something?  Epicenter of the NYC/NJ earthquake was near Trump National Golf Club  in Bedminster, New Jersey. ‘Ground shook very hard’

If you're unaware,  In 2014, the club was granted with the approval to construct a family cemetery on the premises, where Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump was buried in 2022.

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Geez, the poor guy, he was trying to do the right thing.

Yes, he did it to get even with her and because he gets a tax-break. That orange ferret-headed dipshit is deplorable. n(I still think he buried an empty casket and she is in an urn in a storage unit in Jersey.

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It seems like conservatives are getting bolder about mouthing off about birth control. Democrats really should be quoting them in ads, all the time.

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Thank you Grace! Happy one year anniversary!

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Thank you 💛

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Ditto. She's getting a raise, right Jessica 👓🎗🙂?

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All I can say (on a Friday night while I'm relaxing with a martini) is — I am so grateful to you, Jessica, for never letting me slide into complacency.

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💯🔥

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On the issue of feeling glee, I don't feel glee that the people of Florida are subject to an abortion ban. I don't feel glee that the people of Florida don't have expanded Medicaid, or that Florida politicians oppose doing anything about global warming (which impacts Florida disproportionally). Etc. Maybe the abortion ban will -- added to the many other reasons to vote Republicans out of office -- motivate Florida voters to come to their senses and start working their butts off to vote Republicans out of office. I am sorry that suffering seems to be needed to motivate a voter backlash.

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