excellent piece on how the modern right-wing movement is made up of maliciously ignorant grifters whose only goal is to tear apart communities in the name of the “culture war.”

pitch me for Campus Dispatch! (but please check out the other stories to get a feel of what we're looking for beforehand!!!)

Oh, what’s that you say? A Democrat won a state house election in Alabama because she explicitly chose to run on abortion??

liza minnelli has outlived birmingham-southern college

Via Alander Rocha: Voters in southern Madison County go to the polls today to select a new state House representative in a rare competitive legislative race. Here's a guide to the contest. alabamareflector.com/2024/03/26/a-v… #alpolitics

I joined my colleagues and our partners in front of SCOTUS this morning as oral arguments began in the #mifepristone case.

As a native Alabamian, I know the real life consequences people face when their government places restrictions on reproductive health. It can’t continue!

Also of note: These are churchgoing couples, queer couples, democrat couples, republican couples. No one's trying to make a point. We just want to safely start a family without government intervention.

I don’t know if you’re allowed to share newsletter links here. But I’m back to writing. open.substack.com/pub/sendnudes/…

In January, I warned that Republicans wanted women with life-threatening pregnancies to have c-sections instead of abortions - and people didn't believe me!

Today a report out of Louisiana shows that's *exactly* what's happening npr.org/sections/healt…

“And I just want to reiterate that it’s hard enough without state intervention.” – Alabama resident & IVF patient Abbey Crain on the harm caused by anti-abortion politicians who are hellbent on taking away people’s reproductive freedom. In Democracy Now! zurl.co/mA5O

AM I NOT SCREAMING LOUD ENOUGH

Just now: Senate Republicans block a bill to protect IVF & other fertility services for veterans & service members.

'This should not be controversial -- especially if Republicans are serious, even just in the slightest, about supporting IVF,' says Senator Patty Murray.

Y’all. It’s UTTERLY CRAZY that internet trolls can complain about someone based solely on their sexual orientation and by end of the day the most powerful people in the state are calling for that person’s firing. No one, cis or trans, is safe. al.com

Conservatives have been fetishizing human trafficking for years and I think that it comes at the cost of silencing actual victims to fit a prescribed narrative al.com/news/2024/03/s…

I'm just really glad everyone is having the day they deserve today. Happy friday!

.kate wagner I need your roast of the K*tie Br*t giant sterile kitchen. Pls I'm begging.