This is New Hampshire Republican State Rep Jess Edwards arguing in favor of child marriage this week and referring to girls as “ripe” and “fertile.”

Thankfully, the bill passed and child marriage will soon be illegal in New Hampshire.

larry krasner you a badass and we love you

'Childhood immunization has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50 years'

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

A fascinating read

“Threatening to abandon Biden is an implicit promise to support Trump. Like it or not, we face a binary choice: democracy or tyranny, liberty or subjugation, dignity or degradation, equality or injustice, order or chaos. No other election in our lifetime will demand that we make…

TIME Reporter: Trump told me he wants to go into a second term and consolidate power into the office of the presidency so that he can remove the guardrails that stood in the way the last time. He would not hire anyone who admits he lost the last election. He wants to fill the…

An email from a UCLA professor

Leonard Leo and the judges he installed under Trump are working to constitutionalize fetal personhood. That would mean a national abortion ban, full stop.

Here’s how they’re doing it 🧵 👇

Biden-Harris HQ Jason Miller is the reason we would always choose the bear.

Jason Miller (While he was MARRIED)
- Sexaully Aśśaulted his aide in Vegas before Trump's Debate w/ Hillary Clinton.
- Denied it wasn't consensual
- Got her pregnant
- Started A relationship with her.
- Gave her…

A dangerous development while too few are watching--Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers democracydocket.com/opinion/republ…

POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

Justice Sotomayor: 'I am having a hard time thinking that creating false documents, that submitting false documents, that ordering the assassination of a rival, that accepting a bribe and countless other laws that could be broken for personal gain, that anyone would say that it…

Importantly, SCOTUS arguments about whether it’s ok for women to “lose a major organ” as an acceptable cost to continue a pregnancy.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Joe Biden is a rich old white man who will be fine no matter who you vote for. You won’t be hurting him. He will be on water skis in Hawaii riding into the sunset while your Grandma can’t get her blood pressure meds & your pregnant friend…

Whether the topic is:

- Climate change
- GMOs
- Nuclear power
- Vaccines
- Homeopathy
- Astronomy
- Evolution
- or Covid-19...

...People who disagree most with the scientific consensus know less about the topic, but they think they know more: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 New peer-reviewed study from Australia shows vaccinated vs unvaccinated Covid death rates for 50+ & 70+ during Delta & Omicron!

'The unvaccinated had a 7.7 times higher average weekly death rate than those who were fully vaccinated among people aged 50+.

Even more…

I’ve seen critiques of the poor methodology and cherry-picking in The Bell Curve but I haven’t seen much about the absolutely deranged fever dream of predictions about the coming decades in its closing chapters. It has been 30 years, so let's review. 🧵:

WOW.

History Dr. Timothy Snyder just completely debunked and embarrassed Marjorie Taylor Greene after she kept pushing the narrative of Nazis in Ukraine.

“On the question of Nazis, I’ve written two books as a historian about Nazis and the holocaust. On the question of Ukrainian…

AOC said it best:

Biden doesn’t stand for all the values I do.

But I would rather fight for those things in a landscape where democracy still works, than in a landscape of racist, sexist authoritarianism.