That should have been their campaign slogan "Trump/Vance: whether the women like it or not". Ugh, fuck all the way off with your creepy sexism. I would be so happy to never hear from/about these two ever again.
If we defeat America's facsist, and elect our first woman president, it will have been WOMEN who have saved the country. Yes, we have some men as allies, and we sure do need them. But from jump, it has been women standing up to trumpism. Women who organized and marched after the 2016 election. Speaker Nancy D'ellasandra Pelosi who stood up to him time and time again. Ambassador Marie Yavanovich who testified in the first impeachment. His staffers like Olivia Troye and Cassidy Hutchinson who spoke up and spoke out publicly when so many of their older male bosses did and have not. Liz Cheney of all people who gave up her career. All of the women who have suffered and have spoken up like Kate Cox, Hadley Duvall, and gods so so damn many who have poured out their pain for the world to see. And all of US, all of us pro-choice, pro-women voters. And yes, VP Kamala Harris who stepped into the top spot with 100 days to go and has just absolutely brought the fire. And I hope and pray that we will soon make her Madam President-Elect.
Avery Davis Bell was on Morning Joe today (Nov 1). She had about 10 minutes to tell her story for herself which was really powerful - I would give it a watch. I did not realize, but this happened to her literally within the last 2 weeks. She referenced that she’s still healing, mentally and physically, but was driven on speaking up due to the election being right around the corner.
I have been writing 30 pro-Dems postcards a week for the past 6 months via my local chapter of Indivisible and that helped me to feel useful and personally grounded. But now, that has ended and I'm recuperating from a recent knee replacement so am trying to assuage my election anxiety by re-listening daily to Michelle Obama's Kalamazoo, MI speech and Kamala Harris' speech at the Ellipse.
Hi Jessica- I wrote postcards, have been going to Milwaukee for the past few months to register voters and last 2 week-ends have canvassed in Michigan and Wisconsin. For your readers who have never heard of Robert Hubbell or Simon Rosenberg, I highly recommend they subscribe to their newletters. Both are on Substack. Their brilliant and optimistic analyses have definitely kept me sane.
This is the first week since the beginning of the summer that I haven’t been writing postcards. That kept me grounded for months (Do more, worry less.) This week I’m rewatching Veep (amazingly prescient!) and Killing Eve (it helps me to see a strong and crazed woman assassin taking care of herself) I’m also thinking ahead to how best to fight what I think will be an inclination on the part of our representatives to only restore Roe.
Republicans want to “protect” women from making our own healthcare decisions, voting, owning property, having credit in our own names, leaving violent abusive marriages… the list goes on.
I have a map of states that have amendments and am waiting for the results of the elections. Very nervous, but positive. Now, if republicans weren't so anti-democratic, our country would be a lot better.
Hi, Jessica. In response to request as to what we are doing, I have been working at least 12 hours a day on answering the PA Democratic voter hotline and helping PA voters fix their mail-in ballots that they forgot to sign or date or get an emergency absentee ballot. Voter by voter, but it adds up. Hotline is getting around 1,000 calls a day. I am working with two teams each of which has over 300 volunteers. Like thousands of others, I have also gone door to door in PA.
The elements of the attack on Abortion are Project 2025, which is steeped in Anti-abortion planning, and elevation of the anti-abortion cause, including turning the Department of Health and Human Services into the Department of Life. Also, it is written by Christian Nationalists, who would be considered heretics by Martin Luther, whether they be Catholic or Protestant.
I am knocking doors of no party preference and low propensity democratic voters in Phoenix. It is impressive how much support there is for reproductive freedom. People want the goverment to stop telling women what to do with their bodies. Data you shared convinced me this was a popular position and gave me the courage to lead with it! I now start by telling people that I am a doctor who is volunteering to knock doors because I am so concerned about the terrible medical care that the Trump abortion bans are causing. People of all genders are supportive. Even those who do not support Harris. In fact if they are unsure about Harris, I often go down ballot to prop 139 and check their support for that and use that to get them to seriously consider voting for Harris
Jessica—There is no doubt that abortion bans are causing suffering and death, but I am afraid you could end up with egg on your face if you hammer too hard on Josseli Barnica’s pre-Dobbs, post SB8 death in Texas as being due to an abortion ban. SB8 did not criminalize abortion, nor did it contain any provision for directly threatening a physician’s livelihood by removal of licensure. It instituted civil penalties, which would have to be brought by a person or persons not employed by the State of Texas. It had extensive and stupid paperwork requirements, required health care personnel to mislead women about the dangers of abortion, and otherwise promoted misinformation, but it did contain an exception for “medical emergencies.” I am not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell it did not require that a woman be at death’s door before a doctor could intervene. Probably a good-faith medical judgment that an abortion was medically necessary in a case like Josseli’s would have sufficed. If anyone wanted to sue the doctor, and no family member would have so it would have had to be some bounty-hunter type, it seems unlikely that any lawyer would have taken the case or that the claimant would have prevailed at trial. Granted the doctor or hospital may have incurred attorney’s fees, but they would probably have been covered by insurance or the suit could have been handled by the hospital’s in-house counsel. In short, this preventable death appears to have been caused by malpractice and not by Texas law. The malpractice may have been legal as much as it was medical—the hospital’s legal team may have misunderstood the stakes and forbidden intervention. But the possible penalties here were minimal to non-existent and it is hard to imagine a doctor forsaking his or her Hippocratic oath and sacrificing the life of a patient to avoid the small chance of incurring them. No doubt the fact that Josseli was not a white Anglo played a role. I hope the family sues the hospital and the doctors, and I suspect they will win a verdict much, much larger than the smaller penalty that might have been incurred had they provided Josseli an abortion. It will not being Josseli back, but it might make doctors and hospitals think twice in the future about the downside of not intervening.
That should have been their campaign slogan "Trump/Vance: whether the women like it or not". Ugh, fuck all the way off with your creepy sexism. I would be so happy to never hear from/about these two ever again.
If we defeat America's facsist, and elect our first woman president, it will have been WOMEN who have saved the country. Yes, we have some men as allies, and we sure do need them. But from jump, it has been women standing up to trumpism. Women who organized and marched after the 2016 election. Speaker Nancy D'ellasandra Pelosi who stood up to him time and time again. Ambassador Marie Yavanovich who testified in the first impeachment. His staffers like Olivia Troye and Cassidy Hutchinson who spoke up and spoke out publicly when so many of their older male bosses did and have not. Liz Cheney of all people who gave up her career. All of the women who have suffered and have spoken up like Kate Cox, Hadley Duvall, and gods so so damn many who have poured out their pain for the world to see. And all of US, all of us pro-choice, pro-women voters. And yes, VP Kamala Harris who stepped into the top spot with 100 days to go and has just absolutely brought the fire. And I hope and pray that we will soon make her Madam President-Elect.
That comment - "whether the women like it or not- made my BLOOD BOIL. Like how dare you, you cretin! 🤬
Another Propublica article... an 18 year old died after not getting timely help...she was having a baby shower when she needed emergency help.
If half the population at risk of dying for living their life is not a motivation to vote, I don't know what is.
Avery Davis Bell was on Morning Joe today (Nov 1). She had about 10 minutes to tell her story for herself which was really powerful - I would give it a watch. I did not realize, but this happened to her literally within the last 2 weeks. She referenced that she’s still healing, mentally and physically, but was driven on speaking up due to the election being right around the corner.
I have been writing 30 pro-Dems postcards a week for the past 6 months via my local chapter of Indivisible and that helped me to feel useful and personally grounded. But now, that has ended and I'm recuperating from a recent knee replacement so am trying to assuage my election anxiety by re-listening daily to Michelle Obama's Kalamazoo, MI speech and Kamala Harris' speech at the Ellipse.
I firmly believe the Harris/Walz ticket will win.
Hi Jessica- I wrote postcards, have been going to Milwaukee for the past few months to register voters and last 2 week-ends have canvassed in Michigan and Wisconsin. For your readers who have never heard of Robert Hubbell or Simon Rosenberg, I highly recommend they subscribe to their newletters. Both are on Substack. Their brilliant and optimistic analyses have definitely kept me sane.
Also Scott Dworkin, he does media campaigns calling out the lies of the corporate media.
Thank you, I'll check them out!!
Grace & Jessica- Polk County FL story
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/florida-teen-forced-to-collect-her-own-evidence-to-prove-she-was-sexually-abused
More detail
https://open.substack.com/pub/billytownsend/p/when-reporting-rapeincest-to-grady?r=1061h3&utm_medium=ios
This is the first week since the beginning of the summer that I haven’t been writing postcards. That kept me grounded for months (Do more, worry less.) This week I’m rewatching Veep (amazingly prescient!) and Killing Eve (it helps me to see a strong and crazed woman assassin taking care of herself) I’m also thinking ahead to how best to fight what I think will be an inclination on the part of our representatives to only restore Roe.
Ooh watching Killing Eve is a GREAT idea. Love it.
I want no restrictions at any time in a pregnancy.
Republicans want to “protect” women from making our own healthcare decisions, voting, owning property, having credit in our own names, leaving violent abusive marriages… the list goes on.
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I have a map of states that have amendments and am waiting for the results of the elections. Very nervous, but positive. Now, if republicans weren't so anti-democratic, our country would be a lot better.
Hi, Jessica. In response to request as to what we are doing, I have been working at least 12 hours a day on answering the PA Democratic voter hotline and helping PA voters fix their mail-in ballots that they forgot to sign or date or get an emergency absentee ballot. Voter by voter, but it adds up. Hotline is getting around 1,000 calls a day. I am working with two teams each of which has over 300 volunteers. Like thousands of others, I have also gone door to door in PA.
Thank you for doing this, Victor!
The elements of the attack on Abortion are Project 2025, which is steeped in Anti-abortion planning, and elevation of the anti-abortion cause, including turning the Department of Health and Human Services into the Department of Life. Also, it is written by Christian Nationalists, who would be considered heretics by Martin Luther, whether they be Catholic or Protestant.
What gives me hope and should give you hope too, is this post yesterday by the Kamala4prez Substack called 5 Reasons for Hope. https://kamala4prez.substack.com/p/5-reasons-for-hope
Jessica, thanks for putting up the video livestream!
Ofc! I'm going to try to do another one before election day
I am knocking doors of no party preference and low propensity democratic voters in Phoenix. It is impressive how much support there is for reproductive freedom. People want the goverment to stop telling women what to do with their bodies. Data you shared convinced me this was a popular position and gave me the courage to lead with it! I now start by telling people that I am a doctor who is volunteering to knock doors because I am so concerned about the terrible medical care that the Trump abortion bans are causing. People of all genders are supportive. Even those who do not support Harris. In fact if they are unsure about Harris, I often go down ballot to prop 139 and check their support for that and use that to get them to seriously consider voting for Harris
Thank you for doing this!! I'm so glad that some of the data I shared was helpful :)
Jessica—There is no doubt that abortion bans are causing suffering and death, but I am afraid you could end up with egg on your face if you hammer too hard on Josseli Barnica’s pre-Dobbs, post SB8 death in Texas as being due to an abortion ban. SB8 did not criminalize abortion, nor did it contain any provision for directly threatening a physician’s livelihood by removal of licensure. It instituted civil penalties, which would have to be brought by a person or persons not employed by the State of Texas. It had extensive and stupid paperwork requirements, required health care personnel to mislead women about the dangers of abortion, and otherwise promoted misinformation, but it did contain an exception for “medical emergencies.” I am not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell it did not require that a woman be at death’s door before a doctor could intervene. Probably a good-faith medical judgment that an abortion was medically necessary in a case like Josseli’s would have sufficed. If anyone wanted to sue the doctor, and no family member would have so it would have had to be some bounty-hunter type, it seems unlikely that any lawyer would have taken the case or that the claimant would have prevailed at trial. Granted the doctor or hospital may have incurred attorney’s fees, but they would probably have been covered by insurance or the suit could have been handled by the hospital’s in-house counsel. In short, this preventable death appears to have been caused by malpractice and not by Texas law. The malpractice may have been legal as much as it was medical—the hospital’s legal team may have misunderstood the stakes and forbidden intervention. But the possible penalties here were minimal to non-existent and it is hard to imagine a doctor forsaking his or her Hippocratic oath and sacrificing the life of a patient to avoid the small chance of incurring them. No doubt the fact that Josseli was not a white Anglo played a role. I hope the family sues the hospital and the doctors, and I suspect they will win a verdict much, much larger than the smaller penalty that might have been incurred had they provided Josseli an abortion. It will not being Josseli back, but it might make doctors and hospitals think twice in the future about the downside of not intervening.