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I just feel like Black and brown men who only fuck white women shouldn't speak. To anyone. About anything. Ever.

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"I'm sorry to be political"

Actually, that's the reason why fascism is in the rise. Why shouldn't you be political? Literally everything about your life is political. What you watch, what you buy, the air you breathe, the water you drink. What time do the shops around you close? How often do the busses run? When are doctors available and how are you supposed to get medical care? Are there any parks in a 3 mile radius? All of those things are politics.

Attempting to divorce yourself from "politics" is 1) not possible and 2) stupid. Every moment you apologize for considering your immediate surroundings and standards of living, every moment you ignore these things and swallow down expressions of discontent because other people might not like it, every moment you remain intentionally ignorant of the systems that govern you is a moment that you're letting bad things pass you by.

You need to be political, openly and unabashedly. Because your boss is. And so is your landlord. And so is the company you buy your food from.

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it actually really grinds my gears that for the last like what few years after roe v wade was overturned and people have already been dying due to lack of abortion access and gynecological care that wasn't enough to spur anyone into action but the minute the evil cartoon president gets reelected NOW all of a sudden everyone is like "oh no my abortion rights!" girl they're already gone! joe biden and the DNC saw to that! they're gone! and now this past year like every year they dangled it like a carrot in front of a horse in your face to try and get you to vote for them and it didn't work because they're not only doing nothing to protect healthcare for anybody but they're taking their time instead to sponsor and commit genocide. but no it's only donald trump who's evil and no one else in the world and once he's gone everything will be the perfect utopia it once was right? 🙄

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it actually really grinds my gears that for the last like what few years after roe v wade was overturned and people have already been dying due to lack of abortion access and gynecological care that wasn't enough to spur anyone into action but the minute the evil cartoon president gets reelected NOW all of a sudden everyone is like "oh no my abortion rights!" girl they're already gone! joe biden and the DNC saw to that! they're gone! and now this past year like every year they dangled it like a carrot in front of a horse in your face to try and get you to vote for them and it didn't work because they're not only doing nothing to protect healthcare for anybody but they're taking their time instead to sponsor and commit genocide. but no it's only donald trump who's evil and no one else in the world and once he's gone everything will be the perfect utopia it once was right? 🙄

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I forgot to share this on the right day but still important anniversary.

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Just thought to myself "can't women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved" which really shows you how much you're in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan

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This reminds me soooo much of the post that white person made about how what we need in life (and as a society) is less empathy, because every time [white] people felt a lot of empathy, it made them angry and nasty. They argued that the reason why otherwise liberal areas were cracking down on homeless people and encampments was because when [white] people saw homeless people, they felt an outpouring of empathy that was so strong it made them hate homeless people. In fact, that person said that every time they felt a lot of empathy, it made them lash out because they hated how badly they were feeling for the other person.

The poster was genuinely trying to frame this utterly bizarre perspective as 1) fundamental human nature and 2) therefore a moral imperative to encourage [white] people to feel less empathy and more apathy towards others in the hopes that would lead to a better society.

And that's the flavor of white supremacist thinking OOP is on here.

Someone just blazed their empathy fatigue post talking about how they're miserable over ppl asking for money in their inbox

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women are not innately more ‘caring’ or ‘communal’ or ‘nurturing’ i can’t believe i have to say this

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I'm bringing this back to let everyone know that the case was settled. All (? I actually don't know if the third party involved settled) parties agreed to drop their cases and pay their own attorneys fees.

I would further like to note that Marcus Silva was unsuccessful in his bid to compel his ex-wife to provide information to support his case. So that is a victory.

I would further like to note that it is actually a crime under Texas state law to access someone's computer without their "effective consent". And I am highlighting that fun little tidbit and that specific wording because Marcus Silva and his attorney are, apparently, challenging the constitutionality of this in court. We'll see how that works out, because it's a pretty clear definition. Under a liberal interpretation of the law, Marcus Silva could actually be facing a felony charge (a "state jail felony") for accessing his ex-wife's computer without her "effective consent". I am 100% sure that that this had something to do with the settlement. Because the case has been settled and closed, I'm not sure that challenge is still in play.

Anyway, little bit of good news.

I am aware of another case playing through the Texas courts, but those records have been sealed to protect the privacy of the victim, so I have no idea how that's playing out. However, he has not identified defendants and is attempting to force a deposition to discover them. He is also being represented by Jonathan F. Mitchell.

As far as I can tell, to date, there has not been a successful challenge under Texas SB8.

There was much discussion last year on the case of the man in Texas suing his ex-wife's three friends under the Texas anti-abortion laws.

For those who don't recall, he accused her friends of helping her to procure an abortion after his now ex-wife filed for divorce. Afterwards, they countersued under the same law, accusing him of knowing that she was seeking an abortion, and "allowing" her to do so, only registering his complaint after she filed for divorce. Shared text messages from the three in their countersuit indicated that he had threatened her with the lawsuit in order to dissuade her from filing for divorce.

However, all of the news on the case is a year old, with no updates on the case since then.

For those (like myself) wondering, here is the update:

At the preliminary hearing in the case, the Plaintiff/Cross Defendant, Marcus Silva, subpoenaed his ex-wife, compelling her to provide to the court: seven broad categories of information regarding the pregnancy, the abortion, the abortion-inducing drugs, and her communications with her friends.

She, naturally, pled the Fifth Amendment, citing concerns that providing this information would lead to criminal charges under several of Texas' anti abortion laws, and the federal Comstock Act, which criminalizes abortion materials being sent or requested through the mail. The trial court disagreed, but the Court of Appeals ruled in her favor, agreeing that such disclosure could result in her facing criminal charges. It went to the State Supreme Court.

Despite agreeing that "[Marcus Silva] has engaged in disgracefully vicious harassment and intimidation of his ex-wife Brittni during the course of their marriage's demise and during this litigation [. . .] many of the details of which are not fit for reproduction in a judicial opinion", the Texas State Supreme Court ruled against her, and remanded the case back to the trial court. The ruling stipulates that the trial court may view the documentation to determine whether or not further disclosure could result in criminal charges, but his ex-wife must supply this information.

The Supreme Court based their decision significantly on the Texas statutes that exempt the abortion seeker from prosecution, and dismiss the Comstock Act concerns entirely (though they refer specifically to a term I am sure we will see again "interstate trafficking") (in fact, the Court further goes on to note "But if the Fifth Amendment protects parties in civil litigation from acknowledging the mere possession of any of the items whose mailing is outlawed by the Comstock Act, then there could scarcely ever be any civil litigation regarding the abortion industry or the pornography industry." - setting the precedent in Texas that all similar civil cases will not allow the person at the heart of the complaint to plead the Fifth).

The Court does what I find to be a very interesting thing, which is that the judges clearly wish to separate themselves from the abuse that Marcus Silva is heaping upon his ex-wife, and the abuse of her friends in their alleged protection of her, but agree to inflict it all the same. If, indeed, a "neutral arbiter" agrees to publicize the records and his ex-wife faces criminal charges, the judges seem to imply that it will be for her actions surrounding the abortion and not the abortion itself (perhaps they will get her on "trafficking" a controlled substance, or perhaps, as we have seen in other states, there will be an abuse of a corpse charge), which then makes it okay.

This is setting a lot of very dangerous judicial precedents, using a lot of very charged words I am very sure that we will see again in further anti abortion cases as abortion criminalization ramps up across the United States.

In the meantime, I can only wish Ms. Silva and her friends all the best in the case. The trial date is currently set for October 14, 2024.

This is, however, far from the last we will hear of Marcus Silva and his lawyer, Jonathan F. Mitchell. While a name you might not know, Jonathan F. Mitchell was the Solicitor General of Texas from 2010-2015. He is the architect of the very law he is representing, which "empowers" private citizens to sue abortion seekers. He has argued 7 cases in front of the Supreme Court, including his own support of SB8, the ban on bump stocks, and the case against Colorado's prevention of Trump on the state ballot.

The original motion to compel notes "Mr. Silva intends to sue anyone else who facilitated or enabled these criminal acts of murder, including the manufacturers and distributors of the abortion pills that the defendants [allegedly] provided to Brittni."

Big things are coming.

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if you're looking for a sign to get the hysterectomy, get it. if you are wondering if you will feel freer, less burdened, more optimistic, lighter without your uterus, you will. if you simply want to never get periods again, get the hysterectomy. if you want to have sex with a different person every day forever and never worry about getting pregnant, get the hysterectomy. if you don't know whether or not you want to stay on hormones, get the hysterectomy anyway. if you're afraid you're too young, and that people will judge you, get it anyway. you don't have to live in a hostile body. you are the one who gets to decide what it will and will not do.

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I'm worried that y'all genuinely think that the police can't understand that a dot on the calendar you have on your dresser means that you're tracking your period.

And I'm terrified that y'all think they won't go through your trash to check all those home pregnancy tests you bought.

They took apart a woman's toilet and went through her pipes to get evidence of her miscarriage.

If there is data to find, they will find it. If there's evidence to find, they will find it. It isn't possible to shift it into a form they can't find, because that's not real. You have to corrupt the data.

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I don't think I'll ever be able to get over the bitch on here who said that ALL anti abortion sentiment and legislation was exclusively down to men and that "no woman is against abortion because she actually knows about pregnancy".

And when confronted with a list of women in politics who are or were staunchly anti abortion, her response was "I've never heard of any of those people."

She knew enough to blame the Supreme Court, but apparently had never heard of the members of the Supreme Court.

Anyway, that person voted.

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if only we had the same amount of patience for black children that we waste on the democratic party.

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Lol maybe showing you care for the marginalized communities you claim to fear so staunchly for comes in the form of contributing in the micro. Platforming and sharing fundraisers, listening to Black and brown people who experience racism on a daily, pressuring the people in power to give women autonomy over their bodies, advocating for trans rights, just doing whatever that makes a tangible difference. It does not begin and end at voting blue bc maybe they’re less overt about their fascist undertones. That literally solves nothing

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As everyone considers what abortion access is going to look like over the next four years, please please please donate to your local abortion fund! If you do not have a local abortion fund, consider the DC Abortion Fund.

Abortion funds give money directly to the people who need abortions right now and they are really struggling with a lack of donations and a lack of state support.

Do NOT give to Planned Parenthood and do NOT give to the National Abortion Fund, both are withholding donations from abortion seekers and limiting access.

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