The sharing of license plate data is outrageous. Even just the idea of it -- and in a blue state in which abortion is legal. Now that Roe is gone, we are not safe anywhere. Even in a blue state. It's just disgusting.
Elon Musk's "community notes" are like Big Brother. This is how democracies die. Let him see how he likes the US after he gets Trump elected and he acts like Orban and starts to control industries. Goodbye the free market system that they revere....
The Politico article was … juicy. Thanks for sharing that. I was astonished that Hawkins sounded more reasonable in that article than normal because it was a 180 of what she’s been saying. They also left out that T said during the debate that “some states have gone too far and we don’t believe in that”
He will campaign for rape exceptions because…. well, you know. Every reporter should ask him how that exception will be handled. Since Project 2025 is out there and the leader of Heritage is basking in his moment of authoritarian fear mongering glory on many broadcasts. It’s finally being talked about on msm (reportedly only 1 out of 4 have heard of it). Dems plan to put forth a vote on Comstock sometime before the election. No one in their right mind who believes in choice for miscarriage or severe fetal anomalies will believe him. The anti group has no place else to turn, but they got Roe overturned, so their base already got what has fired them up historically. That’s why so many non-cult Rs thought it was safe to vote for T. They never thought Roe would be overturned. IVF was completely off their radar. He lost votes from the women in 2020 & will lose votes from those women’s husbands in 2024 & he knows it & so does his campaign managers. Will be interesting to see the final product. No matter what it says, Project 2025 stands. SCOTUS rulings stand. Jan 6 won’t be forgotten. His continuous lies and literal batshit crazy comments and the amount of historical Twitter posts stand as well. Someone might consider producing a daily “4 years ago today in T world” with a very short post of the craziest thing T said or posted on that day. Remind people of the chaos. And Biden needs to realize this is not 2020 & take some of this Project 2025 stuff head on, dumbed down to a 3rd grade level, with a basic statement of policies people can rally behind. No stats. Just a positive way forward.
We are being played by the elite 1% of our population in America. It is called propaganda, and the GOP Republicans and their campaign managers use it by supplying misinformation and deceitful lies to their herd of supporters and news agencies over and over. They change the lie a little and put it on top of all the other lies, causing chaos and confusion in America, which creates despair and distrust in attempting to hide the Truth and Facts from the American people. Please, America, search for the Truth and Facts to know them when you go to Vote.
I thought I would share a hack I used for several years to direct my United Way dollars to Planned Parenthood. According to United Way rules they MUST send funds directly to a non-profit if they aren’t part of the United Way supported network. I contributed the max allowable to PP and my employer couldn’t do anything to prevent it and PP got 100 percent of my contribution
Mifepristone and misoprostol treat intrauterine pregnancies (mife stops progesterone; miso causes cramping). They won't treat an ectopic pregnancy; you would need either medication (methotrexate) or surgery.
Why is that? Why won't mife treat ectopic pregnancy? Isn't an ectopic pregnancy just another kind of pregnancy? Isn't it just location that is the problem? Is there some reason mife can't reach it?
Progesterone prepares the lining of the uterus to support the pregnancy. Mife blocks progesterone, causing the lining to thin. Mife doesn't affect the blastocyst or embryo directly. Again: I'm not a medical professional!
When I first heard about ectopic pregnancies, I first imagined that the surfaces that the blastocyst embedded on were somehow analogous to the uterus. The fallopian tube is continuous with the uterus and so this is easy to imagine. But apparently, it can occur anywhere in the abdomen. There is growth and it is "embedded", so what is special about the uterus? If mife blocks progesterone and this induces abortion, then prog does more than simple preparation, it also sustains it. It should work for an ectopic pregnancy as well, else what is sustaining the pregnancy? Maybe some other kind of embedding is involved.
Also, maybe the embedding at this point is not to provide sustenance for growth as much to open the uterine capillaries to start building those connections leading to an umbilical cord. Maybe sustenance is just procured ambiently.
Thanks. So you would need an ultrasound or scan to determine what kind of pregnancy? Ectopic pregnancies are a bit less the 2% of pregnancies, but I had one. If I hadn’t had the ultrasound and had taken mife and miso, what would have happened? I’m worried about women not getting the ultrasounds to determine what kind of pregnancy they have. Are they safe if it turns out their pregnancy is ectopic and they’ve taken the two drugs?
Thanks again, Elizabeth. Much appreciated! I’m struggling with the idea that taking mife and miso without an in-person medical visit to rule out ectopic or molar pregnancies, is safe. I fear women with ectopic pregnancies are just going to be collateral damage and they will die. It’s a shame. It’s 2024 and we have the medical knowledge and skills to treat these anomalies. I know several women who have had them. All of them had at least one previous, successful pregnancy resulting in a healthy baby. Children who will lose their mothers for no reason but to satisfy the bloodlust of 6 people in black robes.
Well, my contact that works with mailed pills tells me "obviously an ectopic pregnancy is a risk for every pregnant person. Doing an early abortion with pills could potentially save the life of a pp because they will experience no bleeding after taking the pills and that is an immediate red flag for an ectopic pregnancy, especially if it is accompanied by pregnancy symptoms and one-sided pain. When that occurs, the Clinical Team recommend the pp goes into the ER immediately."
Billionaires don't give a shit about abortion, but they desperately want Trump elected so they can continue their raiding and pillaging against the rest of us. Trump doesn't give a shit about abortion; his only concern is throwing out all the verdicts and all the pending cases against him (he's lost a lot of money in judgments). One might think the smart thing to do would have been to abandon and rebuke the anti-abortion stuff, given that it's by far their biggest electoral vulnerability (and might even be the only reason we're competitive in this election). Yet they won't. Because they need to turn out actual voters, not just dollar signs. And they've depended so long on the 'Christian' cults to do that for them - it turns out the billionaire agenda is not popular with any actual humans - that they're afraid of crossing those groups. Christian Nationalists and billionaires are each just trying to use the other. We need to get our act together and stop making it so easy for them.
I've always referred to this as "The Unholy Alliance" and it is the only reason the Republican Party has survived. Billionaires buy the issues that will keep Christians voting for the guy that will create as much of an ROI as possible for the billionaires.
I have a twisted fascination watching this play out. It speaks to so much of what I’ve been saying about them. And how we could use this issue to fracture their coalition.
Indeed. I'm on record that we can't have all of our eggs in one basket. If we don't manage to save this election, we have to immediately pivot to throwing wrenches in their plans. And they are vast plans, which means there have to be a lot of places to throw wrenches. This should not be as easy as they seem to think it's going to be.
I’m still reeling from the “if you resist, we will kill you” comment. I mean, I know how radicalized these fuckers are, and I was still like, “Damn. He said that.”
And we all on the left simply cannot let that stand. The Dems have to do something to forcefully stand up for democracy before the election. They may very well choose not to, and I’ll do everything I can to convince enough Americans to vote for it. But the time for timidity and “we go high” is over.
Well, it's their projection, their victim identity, their passive aggression, and their gaslighting. They're going to win the election and then 'The Left' is going to get violent to block the people's will. 🙄 They're good at evading accountability for that kind of thing, but there's more than enough in their policy proposals to sink them. I do think we ought to be specific, because saying 'democracy' isn't enough to be persuasive on its own, as they're capable of using similar language and similar appeals. We need to understand that.
Yeah. And plenty of people are saying democracy has been broken for a long time. So I don’t have answers. I know Americans don’t like to be told what to do, so I kind of want a blitzkrieg of short ads showing all the things they’d make us do. I helped someone else with imaginary headlines tonight, which was very satisfying. “Liz Cheney Executed Live By Firing Squad: A Fox News Pay-per-view Special Event” and similar.
Well the voters who are going to decide this election are unhappy about a lot of things in this country right now. I don't think we win a referendum election, but the other side is so toxic we might win a choice election. I still think we need to attack their policy proposals (and actual policies in states they govern) more, because everyone more or less already understands they don't have any character, and that alone hasn't been enough to seal the deal.
The news about the Sacramento PD sharing their automated license plate recognition system (ALPRs) data with anti-choice/anti-care states is both horrifying and enraging on so many levels.
Normalizing a surveillance state will lead to an increasing number and variety of assaults on everyone's freedom and liberty.
I’m one who tends to believe that any publicity is good publicity, so as long as there’s back and forth driving awareness, that’s a good thing. Not a lot of people like the idea of being airlifted out of state while bleeding out, to put it bluntly.
Please support Andra Watins, the Substack writer on Project 2025. She works at this full time. It's disappointing that people want no paywall. It's only a few bucks a month to support her work and it's urgent that people learn what the Republicans are planning. Her life is in danger if Trump wins. https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/how-you-can-tell-everyone-you-know?r=1byu3s&triedRedirect=true
The sharing of license plate data is outrageous. Even just the idea of it -- and in a blue state in which abortion is legal. Now that Roe is gone, we are not safe anywhere. Even in a blue state. It's just disgusting.
Elon Musk's "community notes" are like Big Brother. This is how democracies die. Let him see how he likes the US after he gets Trump elected and he acts like Orban and starts to control industries. Goodbye the free market system that they revere....
The Politico article was … juicy. Thanks for sharing that. I was astonished that Hawkins sounded more reasonable in that article than normal because it was a 180 of what she’s been saying. They also left out that T said during the debate that “some states have gone too far and we don’t believe in that”
He will campaign for rape exceptions because…. well, you know. Every reporter should ask him how that exception will be handled. Since Project 2025 is out there and the leader of Heritage is basking in his moment of authoritarian fear mongering glory on many broadcasts. It’s finally being talked about on msm (reportedly only 1 out of 4 have heard of it). Dems plan to put forth a vote on Comstock sometime before the election. No one in their right mind who believes in choice for miscarriage or severe fetal anomalies will believe him. The anti group has no place else to turn, but they got Roe overturned, so their base already got what has fired them up historically. That’s why so many non-cult Rs thought it was safe to vote for T. They never thought Roe would be overturned. IVF was completely off their radar. He lost votes from the women in 2020 & will lose votes from those women’s husbands in 2024 & he knows it & so does his campaign managers. Will be interesting to see the final product. No matter what it says, Project 2025 stands. SCOTUS rulings stand. Jan 6 won’t be forgotten. His continuous lies and literal batshit crazy comments and the amount of historical Twitter posts stand as well. Someone might consider producing a daily “4 years ago today in T world” with a very short post of the craziest thing T said or posted on that day. Remind people of the chaos. And Biden needs to realize this is not 2020 & take some of this Project 2025 stuff head on, dumbed down to a 3rd grade level, with a basic statement of policies people can rally behind. No stats. Just a positive way forward.
We are being played by the elite 1% of our population in America. It is called propaganda, and the GOP Republicans and their campaign managers use it by supplying misinformation and deceitful lies to their herd of supporters and news agencies over and over. They change the lie a little and put it on top of all the other lies, causing chaos and confusion in America, which creates despair and distrust in attempting to hide the Truth and Facts from the American people. Please, America, search for the Truth and Facts to know them when you go to Vote.
I thought I would share a hack I used for several years to direct my United Way dollars to Planned Parenthood. According to United Way rules they MUST send funds directly to a non-profit if they aren’t part of the United Way supported network. I contributed the max allowable to PP and my employer couldn’t do anything to prevent it and PP got 100 percent of my contribution
If you take abortion medication because you test positive for pregnancy but you don’t realize you have an ectopic pregnancy, what happens?
Mifepristone and misoprostol treat intrauterine pregnancies (mife stops progesterone; miso causes cramping). They won't treat an ectopic pregnancy; you would need either medication (methotrexate) or surgery.
Why is that? Why won't mife treat ectopic pregnancy? Isn't an ectopic pregnancy just another kind of pregnancy? Isn't it just location that is the problem? Is there some reason mife can't reach it?
Progesterone prepares the lining of the uterus to support the pregnancy. Mife blocks progesterone, causing the lining to thin. Mife doesn't affect the blastocyst or embryo directly. Again: I'm not a medical professional!
Me neither! I took a quick look at Wikipedia's entry on ectopic pregnancies and was not enlightened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_pregnancy
When I first heard about ectopic pregnancies, I first imagined that the surfaces that the blastocyst embedded on were somehow analogous to the uterus. The fallopian tube is continuous with the uterus and so this is easy to imagine. But apparently, it can occur anywhere in the abdomen. There is growth and it is "embedded", so what is special about the uterus? If mife blocks progesterone and this induces abortion, then prog does more than simple preparation, it also sustains it. It should work for an ectopic pregnancy as well, else what is sustaining the pregnancy? Maybe some other kind of embedding is involved.
Also, maybe the embedding at this point is not to provide sustenance for growth as much to open the uterine capillaries to start building those connections leading to an umbilical cord. Maybe sustenance is just procured ambiently.
We'll have to see if anyone else has informed thoughts on your question; it is way above my pay grade!
Thanks. So you would need an ultrasound or scan to determine what kind of pregnancy? Ectopic pregnancies are a bit less the 2% of pregnancies, but I had one. If I hadn’t had the ultrasound and had taken mife and miso, what would have happened? I’m worried about women not getting the ultrasounds to determine what kind of pregnancy they have. Are they safe if it turns out their pregnancy is ectopic and they’ve taken the two drugs?
I'm not a medical professional, maybe this will answer some of your questions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247706/ "Diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancy"
Thanks again, Elizabeth. Much appreciated! I’m struggling with the idea that taking mife and miso without an in-person medical visit to rule out ectopic or molar pregnancies, is safe. I fear women with ectopic pregnancies are just going to be collateral damage and they will die. It’s a shame. It’s 2024 and we have the medical knowledge and skills to treat these anomalies. I know several women who have had them. All of them had at least one previous, successful pregnancy resulting in a healthy baby. Children who will lose their mothers for no reason but to satisfy the bloodlust of 6 people in black robes.
Well, my contact that works with mailed pills tells me "obviously an ectopic pregnancy is a risk for every pregnant person. Doing an early abortion with pills could potentially save the life of a pp because they will experience no bleeding after taking the pills and that is an immediate red flag for an ectopic pregnancy, especially if it is accompanied by pregnancy symptoms and one-sided pain. When that occurs, the Clinical Team recommend the pp goes into the ER immediately."
I can’t thank you enough! If I had had anyone in my life to ask, I would have. Again, many thanks.
Yay ACLU Michigan!! Fighting for Reproductive Justice!
Billionaires don't give a shit about abortion, but they desperately want Trump elected so they can continue their raiding and pillaging against the rest of us. Trump doesn't give a shit about abortion; his only concern is throwing out all the verdicts and all the pending cases against him (he's lost a lot of money in judgments). One might think the smart thing to do would have been to abandon and rebuke the anti-abortion stuff, given that it's by far their biggest electoral vulnerability (and might even be the only reason we're competitive in this election). Yet they won't. Because they need to turn out actual voters, not just dollar signs. And they've depended so long on the 'Christian' cults to do that for them - it turns out the billionaire agenda is not popular with any actual humans - that they're afraid of crossing those groups. Christian Nationalists and billionaires are each just trying to use the other. We need to get our act together and stop making it so easy for them.
I've always referred to this as "The Unholy Alliance" and it is the only reason the Republican Party has survived. Billionaires buy the issues that will keep Christians voting for the guy that will create as much of an ROI as possible for the billionaires.
I have a twisted fascination watching this play out. It speaks to so much of what I’ve been saying about them. And how we could use this issue to fracture their coalition.
Indeed. I'm on record that we can't have all of our eggs in one basket. If we don't manage to save this election, we have to immediately pivot to throwing wrenches in their plans. And they are vast plans, which means there have to be a lot of places to throw wrenches. This should not be as easy as they seem to think it's going to be.
I’m still reeling from the “if you resist, we will kill you” comment. I mean, I know how radicalized these fuckers are, and I was still like, “Damn. He said that.”
And we all on the left simply cannot let that stand. The Dems have to do something to forcefully stand up for democracy before the election. They may very well choose not to, and I’ll do everything I can to convince enough Americans to vote for it. But the time for timidity and “we go high” is over.
Well, it's their projection, their victim identity, their passive aggression, and their gaslighting. They're going to win the election and then 'The Left' is going to get violent to block the people's will. 🙄 They're good at evading accountability for that kind of thing, but there's more than enough in their policy proposals to sink them. I do think we ought to be specific, because saying 'democracy' isn't enough to be persuasive on its own, as they're capable of using similar language and similar appeals. We need to understand that.
Yeah. And plenty of people are saying democracy has been broken for a long time. So I don’t have answers. I know Americans don’t like to be told what to do, so I kind of want a blitzkrieg of short ads showing all the things they’d make us do. I helped someone else with imaginary headlines tonight, which was very satisfying. “Liz Cheney Executed Live By Firing Squad: A Fox News Pay-per-view Special Event” and similar.
Well the voters who are going to decide this election are unhappy about a lot of things in this country right now. I don't think we win a referendum election, but the other side is so toxic we might win a choice election. I still think we need to attack their policy proposals (and actual policies in states they govern) more, because everyone more or less already understands they don't have any character, and that alone hasn't been enough to seal the deal.
The news about the Sacramento PD sharing their automated license plate recognition system (ALPRs) data with anti-choice/anti-care states is both horrifying and enraging on so many levels.
Normalizing a surveillance state will lead to an increasing number and variety of assaults on everyone's freedom and liberty.
I’m one who tends to believe that any publicity is good publicity, so as long as there’s back and forth driving awareness, that’s a good thing. Not a lot of people like the idea of being airlifted out of state while bleeding out, to put it bluntly.