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Executive Editor, SVP @RewireNewsGroup . Co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast. SCOTUS nerd. I also write books. She/her pieklo.jessica @rewirenewsgroup .com

Boulder, CO
Joined February 2009
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
3 years
DAY MADE ❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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My kids got me a ravioli locket necklace for Christmas and I’m still crying over how much I love it
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Susan Collins voting for Kavanaugh is the perfect snapshot of white women bringing Trump and his administration over the finish line.
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The story of the Nebraska teen and her mom being prosecuted for an abortion drives home a point advocates have been making for years: abortion bans require state surveillance of all pregnancies to enforce -- ALL PREGNANCIES
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Thinking of the dozens of women I know personally who were arrested and handcuffed for sitting outside senate offices in protest during the Kavanaugh hearings
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Wow so they admit it was political terrorism all along!
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I WOULD LIKE TO BUY THIS WOMAN A DRINK OF HER CHOICE
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The Tennessee Holler
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🔥EMAIL FROM CHATTANOOGA MOM TO @hamcoschools (Chattanooga): “Since you made the mask policy optional, I intend to opt my daughter out of the dress code. Please make note.” @NoogaHoller
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In hindsight Major Biden clearly knew something was shady with the secret service and is further proof as to why dogs remain undefeated
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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To folks checking in on me and my crew we are all safe and accounted for. Thank you. Also. End the fucking filibuster and pass some gun reform because my hands are shaking with rage typing this and checking on friends and family. I still don’t know if we know any of the dead
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Honestly if you’re a white person who says they’re committed to racial justice and you’re in good standing with most your family I have *questions* for you and they are definitely pointed
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I’ll start by stating what should be obvious. It’s a direct line from the courts saying you cannot destroy an IVF embryo to saying you must implant an IVF embryo
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Wells Fargo paid $175 million to settle claims it racially discriminated against borrowers by charging Black and Latino families higher rates and fees on mortgages
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NBC News
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Wells Fargo CEO: "While it might sound like an excuse, the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from."
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Good morning, Twitter. No matter what happens this morning at SCOTUS just remember… the only way out of this mess is through it. We save ourselves.
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So…… this is a carrot I grew. Anyway please clap 😂😂😂
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Welp we're about 12 hrs till Texas' 6 week abortion ban takes effect. An emergency petition is at SCOTUS & if the Justices don't act they will have effectively reversed Roe on the shadow docket. I can honestly say that in 10 years as a repro journalist I don't know what's next.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
2 years
Seems rude to have a Monday after last Friday
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
3 years
Well, it happened. The Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade tonight for folks in Texas under cover of darkness That’s right! The biggest abortion rights news in 50 years happened in the shadows
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I see the lawyer who represented the Covington Catholic kid is now representing the Kenosha shooter soooooo that's wonderful
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Law enforcement was first tipped off the teen had a stillbirth and buried the remains. Stillbirth is not a crime. It becomes a crime when the state presumes every pregnancy should result in the delivery of a healthy infant *FOR THE STATE*
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Taking a moment first thing today to say THANK YOU to the disability rights protesters whose bodies on the line saved health care for now
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5 years
Imagine working hard to get through law school to argue against giving refugee children toothbrushes
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Brad Heath
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The Trump administration argued court Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells.
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To answer the ‘nobody wants forced implantation’ crowd the reality is *something* is going to have to happen to all those IVF embryos what do you think that something is exactly
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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I’ll start by stating what should be obvious. It’s a direct line from the courts saying you cannot destroy an IVF embryo to saying you must implant an IVF embryo
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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The war on birth control is already here
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Kat Macfarlane
2 years
A Louisiana doctor prescribed Cytotec to make the insertion of an IUD less painful. Walgreens called the physician to ask if the prescription was for an abortion, she told them it was for an IUD & the pharmacist still refused to fill it.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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When will folks understand the single unifier on the right/center is white grievance
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Having to watch Ted Lasso Season 2 one episode at a time? HIPAA violation
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
6 years
How about instead of closing the school authorities arrest the adults for terroristic threats against a minor? This is not actually hard unless you are a willing co-consipirator to potential violence.
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School Closed After Parents Declare ‘Hunting Season’ on 12-Year-Old Transgender Student: ‘A Good Knife Will Do the Job’
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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This is an intentional rhetorical shift for conservatives. They are starting to plant the seeds and re-up old talking points that LGBTQ adults cannot be trusted around children. This is how they start to overturn marriage equality, folks.
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Matthew Gertz
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@daveweigel Yeah this language has moved way beyond random twitter accounts. From last night:
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I’ve been telling y’all they don’t plan to stop with abortion
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The entirety of my career I’ve been the hysteric but I’ve never been wrong
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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As we’ve been saying. They were never going to stop with abortion. They’re coming for your birth control too.
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Dana Nessel
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All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception. You read that right. Terrifying.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Good morning
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Okay what just happened at SCOTUS? Well for starters they let the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, a law that bans abortion at about 6 weeks pregnancy, take effect without a single court hearing arguments on its constitutionality.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Hi just a reminder that the story of the Atlanta Olympic bombing is really a story about anti-abortion terrorism
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Today I’m just filled with the overwhelming sense that we’re about to mess up an entire new year of school for folks and working families absolutely have no lifelines left
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"During a crisis cocktail hour can be almost any hour" Ina Garten -- hero
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When I had my first c-section I couldn't drive for six weeks
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Igor Bobic
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“It is down to 4 weeks,” Biden says on CNN of his paid family and medical leave proposal
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Ina Garten remains unmatched
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mattie kahn
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NO RULES JUST COSMOS
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It's truly wild to have the abortion rights and access landscape shift so radically and to have it still largely ignored by much of the press.
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My take on the SOTU is that all of these important anti-poverty and civil rights policies are dead on arrival without filibuster and court reform. So whatever you think your policy priority is, it’s actually democracy reform
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Here’s the thing folks. We’re in dark times. There’s no way out but through. I have no easy answers for what comes next. Invest in your people and your community. Create pathways of support and resistance. And understand we’re building toward generational repair
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How dare you threaten me with a good time like this
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Media Matters
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Tucker Carlson: "If Democrats take both the Senate and the White House, and they could, you will not recognize America a year from now"
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I would punch a man in the throat for calling me kiddo just saying
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10 year old girls are not women
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Heartland Signal
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Laura Strietmann, Cincinnati Right to Life leader, on the 10-year-old girl who was raped and went to Indiana for an abortion: "While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman's body is designed to carry life." OH State Rep. Miranda (D) shuts her down.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Okay so when does Cory Booker show up to my suburb though
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Nope. Can’t forgive the long, ugly history of anti-LGBTQ advocacy either. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Mother Jones
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Tulsi Gabbard is running for president. Can liberals forgive her supporting dictators and nationalists?
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What if there were no Facebook messages -- do we think law enforcement would have ended its investigation there? Not a chance. What other behavior did the teen engage in to 'endanger' the pregnancy? Can that be charged? This is the investigatory through line here
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Supreme Court nominee lies under oath, there fixed that for you
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The Associated Press
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wrongly claims seniors were allowed to have beers because the drinking age in Maryland was 18.
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Today my daughter asked me if I knew anything about the Supreme Court so have kids if you want to stay humble, man
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If the head of The Federalist Society is disavowing Trump it’s simply because Trump is no longer useful
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Good morning. Abortion is health care. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Booker says he's prepared to release the email on racial profiling that was mentioned in his line of questioning of Kavanaugh last night even if the consequence is expulsion from the Senate. Calls this an important moment of civil disobedience
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The same political media that spent years treating Paul Ryan as a serious policy wonk just cruising right past Elizabeth Warren is just one reason I wake up wanting to set things on fire
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Who was sexually harassed until she was murdered there fixed that for you Daily Beast
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The Daily Beast
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BREAKING: The body of Miya Marcano, a Florida college student who vanished after repeatedly rejecting romantic overtures from a maintenance worker in her apartment complex, has been found, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said
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Also my 13yo and almost 19yo woke us up at 6:00 am so yes I do have Baileys in my coffee
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When conservative men get caught doing something bad it’s always somehow still the fault of women
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Geoff Bennett
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Sen. Ted Cruz in a new statement attributes his Cancun trip to “wanting to be a good dad” to his girls — while Texans were without heat, water and power.
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This is heartbreaking to read as a parent. And brave. And thank you. Especially as a public statement.
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Christopher Ingraham🦗
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White supremacist Charlottesville marcher gets disowned by his dad in letter to the editor
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This is the problem. Milo was funny when he was attacking trans kids and feminists I guess.
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I found Milo amusing, provocative, w/ some good points (some were nuts.) But conservs defending what he said on yung teens are frigging evil
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I don't have a lot of thoughts on today's failed WHPA vote other than the usual way of doing business is how we got here and it sure as hell won't get us out
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Draw up Articles of Impeachment immediately. Vote on them tonight. Remove him from office AT ONCE
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Junior year of this pandemic sure is exhausting
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Those of us covering religious refusals warned this was the direction the right is trying to take the law. We’ve also seen a Catholic school in Michigan cite religion as basis to turn away a student with disabilities. It was never *ONLY* about an objection to same-sex marriage.
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I need everyone to understand Mike Pence is no hero and has no honor. None.
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Normalize calling Republicans fuckers in 2021 .... For those of you who somehow don’t already and really why don’t you it’s suspicious honestly
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As we've been saying all along, they were never going to just leave abortion to the states.
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This is an extremely niche tweet but I keep thinking about how pissed the founding fathers would be that Catholics were even on the Court to begin with
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Good morning Twitter welcome to another SCOTUS opinion day and a reminder that we don't have to live like this! Constantly refreshing our screen to see what rights we still have or don't have thanks to the FedSocSix. Unpack the courts!
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JUST IN! Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas are asking a state court to issue a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life from enforcing #SB8 the abortion bounty/6 week ban
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I had largely been powering through the news and working and then my 17 old son just came up and gave me a hug. Didn't say anything. Just a hug. And then the tears came.
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This is the most I’ve liked Biden in a minute
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Jamison Foser
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Honestly I would be pretty fucking angry if I found out Joe Biden *doesn’t* routinely say “Why the fuck isn’t this happening?” or “What the fuck are we doing?” or, most of all, “Fuck them.”
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I’ve had a lot of dogs but none were as ride or die with me or for me like Ripley. This one just feels so unfair
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Dick Cheney told Pat Leahy to ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ ON THE FLOOR OF THE GODDAMN SENATE
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Erin Matson
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Men swear all the time in politics. It is, just politics. America needs to get used to women in politics.
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And when given a chance to loudly and proudly proclaim these beliefs to the rest of the country he punted. He and other evangelicals don't actually have the courage of their convictions. They are cowards.
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I've lost count of the number of red flags this raises
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Florida Times-Union
2 years
Florida female student athletes have to report their menstrual history to play: When they got their first period, when they had their last one, etc. A third party has access to that info, and parents and doctors are raising red flags @katikokal
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So. I've been following Mike Pence's career for well over a decade now. I have two books where his anti-choice policies feature prominently! Some might say I have a *thing* for Mike Pence. And they wouldn't be wrong and we can all talk about that later. FOR NOW I'LL SAY THIS
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Let's just get this out of the way. We can stop debating about whether or not SCOTUS overturned Roe. They did. So what if it’s on a technicality. It’s not a technicality to the people forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will.
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Kavanaugh says the law requires coverage of "abortion introducing drugs" He means hormonal birth control. Anti-choice activists believe that birth control = abortion so when they try to ban abortion don't think they'll stop there
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One of the least surprising bits from yesterday's nazi parade and storm on the Capitol were the presence of so many well-known anti-choice protesters and activists
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I’m just a girl, waiting on a flight, begging Democrats and progressives to pay attention to Michigan and Big Gretch
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60% of men should not be managers
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It’s the dumbest of times we live in when @AngryBlackLady is getting smeared by a former Palin supporter for allegedly undermining ‘the resistance’
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The waiting for the exact moment I'm uninsurable again is really something else
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Good morning. Last night the Supreme Court functionally reversed Roe v Wade without hearing a single oral argument
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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That's a funny way to say "convicted rapist"
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NPR
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BREAKING: Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
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Oh I see Twitter learned about Trump Judges today
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Say it louder for the suckers who fell for the 'leave it to the states' lie
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The New York Times
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Mike Pence on Friday challenged the entire 2024 Republican presidential field to support a national abortion ban at 15 weeks, demanding that the party go further than its primary front-runner, Donald Trump, has so far been willing to go.
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This is a man who has built an entire career around enshrining his specific religious world view on the rest of us. He wants to prosecute you if you don't deliver a healthy baby to the state He will try and "pray the gay away" out of you which is euphamistic violence
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Booker again making the case for slowing the confirmation process because of all the fuckery around Kavanaugh documents. Notes this is a constitutional duty the Senate has.
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It’s wild to me that in 2020 I’m giving my daughter the same advice about having your own money and plan that my grandmother who was born before women could vote gave me
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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The anti-abortion movement is the white nationalist movement
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There is going to be a lot of talk about the Biden-Harris Executive Orders dropping today and I am HERE FOR IT including the protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. THIS ONE IS A BIG DEAL HERE IS WHY
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I feel 'very strongly' that the extrajudicial killing of people of color by cops should be recognized
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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The goal of the personhood movement is of course to *in part* eradicate all sorts of assistive reproductive technologies like IVF but it’s the coercion and control at the center that needs a bright spotlight
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Four hours until Texas' 6 week abortion ban takes effect and still no word from either the Fifth Circuit or Supreme Court.
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Grassley starts shouting Do you want all the emails to be made public! Ummm yes we do
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Good morning, Twitter. Abortion is health care no matter what a bunch of Federalist Society yahoos say
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Eradicating IVF is also a direct shot at Obergefell where Kennedy assumed the conservative movement would respect the *dignity* of LBGTQ families. We’ve seen how that’s going.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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Josh Hawley needs to be expelled
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I appreciate everyone who has told me that this is blatantly unconstitutional as though the current SCOTUS gives one chicken fried fuck about things like precedent
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The Washington Post
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The Texas Senate passed three bills on Thursday that would require public schools to promote religion to their students and employees, including a proposal for each classroom in the state to prominently display the Ten Commandments, starting next year.
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Jessica Mason Pieklo
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My teen will tell you this exactly. Problem is not many adults actually want to hear it
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Andrew Lawrence
2 years
what if the reason kids are depressed is bc they realize theyre living in a dying state with no hope for upward mobility and theyre expected to start their adult lives w $100k in debt and no real job prospects, but im no expert maybe it’s actually masks and zoom classes
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I guess we’re still doing this Rape. It’s called rape.
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NBC News
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Four members of the U.S. Navy have been accused of engaging in a sex with an underage girl on a naval base and recording and photographing the illicit encounter, according to charge sheets released to @NBCNews .
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