While writing a history of concentration camps, a key thing I learned about the collapse of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism is that it's critical for citizens not to accept the lesson of learned helplessness that ruling institutions try to instill.

If you are recommending voting, pls compare maps showing voter suppression vs. maps showing abortion bans. (Sources: NYT, Guardian)

America: where a man can't be forced to wear a mask, but a woman can be forced to bear a child.

I will repeat this as long as I have to, when the Supreme Court said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was “unconstitutional”, FDR didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did.

Abortion rights activist and artist Jon Mort, 38, stands in front of the Washington Monument with his piece titled "Gates of Hell" after the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning Roe v Wade. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

This from Anne Applebaum .

As a historian, just fascinating to see how entrenched the myth is that FDR’s SCOTUS reform bill (smeared as “court packing”) was “overreach”, a “failure”, “shot down”. People don’t know that it ended in success for the New Deal and FDR, who never had to worry about SCOTUS again!

But people will die because they can’t get the health care they need. They will bleed out after an ectopic pregnancy ruptures. newrepublic.com/article/166411…

They will die from sepsis because of an incomplete miscarriage. texastribune.org/2022/05/24/tex…

A friend who lives on the east coast asked me if the threat to the Great Salt Lake was as serious as the media has made it sound. This thread was my response: The threat to the Great Salt Lake is very real. 1/

This happened in FEBRUARY. A mass shooting was averted and he could only be charged with a misdemeanor. We didn't even find out about it till July. We NEED Red Flag Laws and alert systems!

The Citizens United disaster, in a nutshell: In 2008, before the ruling, billionaires contributed $31 million to federal campaigns. In 2020, billionaires contributed $1.2 billion. That’s a 40-fold increase. It never had to be like this.

Here's the account from a New Orleans doctor, who was told by her hospital's lawyer she couldn't perform a D&E on a 16-weeks-pregnant woman whose water broke. Instead, she went through a "painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, despite her wishes"

"Investors bought 24% of all single-family houses sold nationwide last year, up from 15% to 16% annually going back to 2012." pew.org/3Pt64yx

Editorial: We recommend Beto O'Rourke for governor bit.ly/3TuI53V

A new poll is saying that the Texas Governors race between Beto O'Rourke and Greg Abbott is a TOSS UP. Tomorrow is the first day of early voting, let’s turn Texas blue!

This election is about whether a woman in Texas can make her own decisions about her own body. Let's go vote.