"ofW": ohne festen Wohnsitz<p>Kate. Cello. Blackburn. Analogue solarisation no. 2. *edit live long and prosper, Kate.*</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cello</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Concert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Concert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Concertphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Concertphotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analog</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassicMusik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicMusik</span></a></p>
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"ofW": ohne festen Wohnsitz<p>Kate. Cello. Blackburn. Solarisation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cello</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Concert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Concert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Concertphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Concertphotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analog</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassicMusik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicMusik</span></a></p>
hawaiianeye797 (Craig F)<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FAcup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FAcup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheSportingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheSportingNews</span></a> 12.9</p><p>FA Cup 4th round:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ManchesterUtd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManchesterUtd</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Leicester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leicester</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LeedsUtd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeedsUtd</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Millwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millwall</span></a> OR Dag & Red</p><p>BH <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Albion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albion</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Chelsea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chelsea</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preston</span></a> OR <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CharltonAth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharltonAth</span></a> v Wycombe</p><p>Exeter City v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forest</span></a></p><p>Cov City v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IpswichTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IpswichTown</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wolves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wolves</span></a> </p><p>Mansfield Town OR <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wigan</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fulham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fulham</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BirmCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirmCity</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NewcastleUtd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewcastleUtd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Plymouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plymouth</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liverpool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Everton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Everton</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bournemouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bournemouth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AstonVilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstonVilla</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tottenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tottenham</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Southampton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Southampton</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Burnley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burnley</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Leyton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leyton</span></a> OR <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Derby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Derby</span></a> v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ManchesterCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManchesterCity</span></a></p><p>Doncaster v <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Palace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palace</span></a></p><p>Stoke v Cardiff</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Help my Northern family reach the hospital services they need because they moved them to a nearby town, promised a FREE shuttle bus and now they want to charge for it. </p><p><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-shuttle-bus?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=6db8172d-e46a-42da-844c-579e03437771" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions</span><span class="invisible">/save-the-shuttle-bus?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=6db8172d-e46a-42da-844c-579e03437771</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Burnley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burnley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lancashire</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>I'm sure the Labour Front Bench will dismiss all of this, like they did with the Commonwealth nations. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdnanHussain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdnanHussain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Kamala Harris's campaign has publicly named 99 Republicans who voted AGAINST Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding two weeks ago.</p><p>The bill passed both the House and Senate<br>-- however 82 representatives and 18 senators voted against the bill<br>-- ALL of whom are Republicans.</p><p>These included <br>🔥legislators for some of the areas most affected by Hurricane Helene, <br>such as Florida Representative Matt <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gaetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaetz</span></a>, <br>Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greene</span></a>, <br>Senator Tim <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scott</span></a> of South Carolina, <br>and Senator Marsha <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> of Tennessee.</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-republicans-voting-against-fema-1965493" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/kamala-harris-rep</span><span class="invisible">ublicans-voting-against-fema-1965493</span></a></p>
OUR COMMON GROUND<p>Full List of Republicans Who Voted Against FEMA Relief Before Helene Battered Their Home States</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TN</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GA</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scott</span></a> and all the unamerican vermin who sit in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> and care more for party <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> than people, supporting the snots that support them.<br> <br> Republican senators who voted against the assistance. Maybe the victims should be calling their names instead of demonizing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> and blaming <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.latintimes.com/hurricane-helene-florida-fema-relief-republicans-voted-matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene-nancy-mace-560943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latintimes.com/hurricane-helen</span><span class="invisible">e-florida-fema-relief-republicans-voted-matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene-nancy-mace-560943</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>News from Lancashire on todays Fash antics </p><p><a href="https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24495832.live-updates-protesters-descend-blackburn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news</span><span class="invisible">/24495832.live-updates-protesters-descend-blackburn/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lancashire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preston</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiFascists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Remember when Just Stop Oil threatened hate parades in up to 35 locations throughout the UK?<br>No, I don't either, but they get the Boot and the fash get some Commissioner Gordon style "we will get you, rotters!" pantomime. </p><p>Anyway, bad news for;<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackpool</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bolton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bolton</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bristol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bristol</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cardiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cardiff</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doncaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doncaster</span></a>, <br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanley</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HighWycombe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighWycombe</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hull</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liverpool</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Leeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leeds</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Leicester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leicester</span></a>, <br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manchester</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Newcastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newcastle</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nottingham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nottingham</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Portsmouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portsmouth</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preston</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StHelens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StHelens</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StokeonTrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StokeonTrent</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swindon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swindon</span></a>,<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wrexham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wrexham</span></a>.</p>
amyfallon<p>In other news, there’s set to be far right protests in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> tomorrow, the charming little town/city where I spent a couple of weeks during the election campaign and met such friendly people including <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muslims</span></a> . Am disgusted. Some pics.</p>
AmiW Streetart ❄️<p>🖌️Artist: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ZEDSY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZEDSY</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ZedsyArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZedsyArt</span></a> in City: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> UK 🇬🇧 03/2024 - Title: "Laws are 💲ilent in times of war" (Gesetze 💲chweigen in Zeiten des Krieges) - <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Streetart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Streetart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Cicero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cicero</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UrbanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sprayart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sprayart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StencilArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StencilArt</span></a></p>
foldworks<p>Just over one week to go until the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> ... National Festival of Making, in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lancashire</span></a>. It’s a unique celebration of UK making, from the kitchen table to the factory floor presenting a programme of Art, Manufacturing, Making and Communities. I’ll be teaching <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ORIGAMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ORIGAMI</span></a> for you to take away. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/nationalfestivalofmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalfestivalofmaking</span></a> To see what else is on and for more about this year's programme, go to <a href="https://festivalofmaking.co.uk/whats-on" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">festivalofmaking.co.uk/whats-o</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p>
foldworks<p>2 weeks to go until the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> ... National Festival of Making, in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lancashire</span></a>, Sat 6 and Sun 7 July. Try the many free workshops, including mine on origami. Full programme here <a href="https://festivalofmaking.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NFM24-Whats-On-Programme_web_final.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">festivalofmaking.co.uk/wp-cont</span><span class="invisible">ent/uploads/2024/06/NFM24-Whats-On-Programme_web_final.pdf</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/origami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>origami</span></a> @origami <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/festivalofmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>festivalofmaking</span></a></p>
foldworks<p>3 weeks to go until the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> ... National Festival of Making, in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a>, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lancashire</span></a>, Sat 6 and Sun 7 July. Try the many free workshops, including mine <a href="https://festivalofmaking.co.uk/whats-on/origami-with-foldworks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">festivalofmaking.co.uk/whats-o</span><span class="invisible">n/origami-with-foldworks/</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/origami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>origami</span></a> @origami <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/festivalofmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>festivalofmaking</span></a></p>
Lisa Gets Politik<p>In 2024, all the <a href="https://union.place/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> in the <a href="https://union.place/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> (minus 2) voted against the universal right to <a href="https://union.place/tags/contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contraception</span></a> for women. <br>Running for reelection this year and voting no: John <a href="https://union.place/tags/Barrasso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barrasso</span></a> (R-WY), Marsha <a href="https://union.place/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> (R-TN), Kevin <a href="https://union.place/tags/Cramer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cramer</span></a> (R-ND), Ted <a href="https://union.place/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cruz</span></a> (R-TX), Deb <a href="https://union.place/tags/Fischer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fischer</span></a> (R-NE), Josh <a href="https://union.place/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawley</span></a> (R-MO), Pete <a href="https://union.place/tags/Ricketts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ricketts</span></a> (R-NE), Rick <a href="https://union.place/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scott</span></a> (R-FL), and Roger <a href="https://union.place/tags/Wicker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wicker</span></a> (R-MS). </p>
Yoshimatsu ✅🇺🇸 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.io/@JoeStewart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JoeStewart</span></a></span> Amazing how little it costs to buy a <a href="https://toot.community/tags/senator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senator</span></a>. The most expensive, <a href="https://toot.community/tags/cornyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cornyn</span></a> was only $14K/yr over 21 years. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Cancun_cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancun_cruz</span></a> was a lousy $4K/yr and <a href="https://toot.community/tags/blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackburn</span></a> was bought for chump change, $400/yr. Federal funding of elections is the only answer. And, all <a href="https://toot.community/tags/pol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pol</span></a> must live in barracks at <a href="https://toot.community/tags/JBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JBA</span></a> (Joint Base Andrews.)</p>
AzureCerulean<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>realTuckFrumper</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://4bear.com/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/Farmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farmer</span></a> <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/VoteGloriaJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteGloriaJ</span></a> <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/Rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rights</span></a> <a href="https://4bear.com/tags/TN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TN</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control</p><p>When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning <a href="https://c.im/tags/contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contraception</span></a>.</p><p>As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying, <br>“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.” </p><p>Susan B. Anthony <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pro</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a>’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control. </p><p>“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.</p><p>And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook. </p><p>Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.</p><p>As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group <a href="https://c.im/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/United" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>United</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,” <br>but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception<br> “take the lives of their unborn children.” </p><p>When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heartbeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heartbeat</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>International</span></a> in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.</p><p>The push to redefine the start of <a href="https://c.im/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> as the point of <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conception</span></a> holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods. </p><p>Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.</p><p>In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.</p><p>But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control<br> — including nonhormonal methods like condoms <br>— play out. </p><p>♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for <a href="https://c.im/tags/TitleX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleX</span></a>, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States. </p><p>♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills. </p><p>♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.</p><p>(4/4)</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion</span><span class="invisible">-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Human</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>International</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IUDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IUDs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Students</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marjorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marjorie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taylor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greene</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PlanB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanB</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lauren</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boebert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boebert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Matt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rosendale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosendale</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pulse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pulse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Advocates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advocates</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tea</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Party</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Church</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hobby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lobby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marsha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Braun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Griswold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dobbs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pregnancy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conception</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IVF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disgusting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joseph</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scheidler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Randall</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terry</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Human</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>International</span></a>, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/IUDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IUDs</span></a>, they insist, cause “early abortions.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Students</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.</p><p>Georgia Republican Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marjorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marjorie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taylor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greene</span></a> went so far as to proclaim that <a href="https://c.im/tags/PlanB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanB</span></a> emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.</p><p>Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines. </p><p>Colorado Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lauren</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boebert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boebert</span></a> tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Matt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rosendale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rosendale</span></a> tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion. </p><p>In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”</p><p>Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Pulse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pulse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Advocates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advocates</span></a>, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”</p><p>Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago. </p><p>The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tea</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Party</span></a> movement came into power and fought alongside the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Church</span></a> against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control. </p><p>And in 2014, the retail chain <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hobby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lobby</span></a> won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.</p><p>(3/n)</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion</span><span class="invisible">-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marsha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Braun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Griswold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dobbs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pregnancy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conception</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IVF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disgusting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joseph</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scheidler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Randall</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terry</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion<br> — a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access. </p><p>Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.</p><p>But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash. </p><p>They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.</p><p>When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a>, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.</p><p>“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor. </p><p>“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”</p><p>Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers<br> — including Sens. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marsha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marsha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackburn</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Braun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Braun</span></a> <br>— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Griswold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Griswold</span></a> relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roe</span></a>, and in his concurring <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dobbs</span></a> v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions. </p><p>Former Arizona Senate candidate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masters</span></a> went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.</p><p>Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs. </p><p>Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception: <br>that it’s just another form of abortion.</p><p>Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion</p><p>Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people: <br>There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it. </p><p>For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.</p><p>But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists <br>— there is no confusion. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a>, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet). </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pregnancy</span></a> begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a>. </p><p>Many fertilized eggs never implant.</p><p>Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at <a href="https://c.im/tags/implantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>implantation</span></a> but at <a href="https://c.im/tags/conception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conception</span></a>, </p><p>and human personhood begins then too, not at <a href="https://c.im/tags/birth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birth</span></a>. </p><p>👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation<br> — be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill<br> — as a form of killing unborn children.</p><p>It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception". </p><p>More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.</p><p>To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients” <br>— agents that induce abortion. </p><p>♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️</p><p>Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.</p><p>(2/n)</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IVF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IVF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disgusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disgusting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joseph</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheidler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scheidler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Randall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Randall</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion</span><span class="invisible">-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf</span></a></p>
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