#also i know people here hate HOAs because they read a singular post about one popular bloggers experience

[backinmypjs]

The reactions I've been seeing to the Roe ruling are mindboggling, both online and from my irl social circle. "The dems sat back and let this happen!!1!" no they fucking didn't, you're uninformed about the federal process and you need to read more than headlines of news articles. "No one thought they would actually do this" my buddy my friend what did you think was happening with the trans bans? Please rub those two brain cells together. You didn't show up to protect the bodily autonomy and right to medical decision making for people you don't like/agree with, and now its biting you in the ass because this country is built on legal precedent. "Now is the time to mobilize! #protest #fyp #MyBodyMyChoice #buythisproducttoshowyourvalues" fuck you.

Do you know how this decision even got made? How our political system works? Are you paying attention to the things your local and state legislature is doing? Do you know who your representatives are? ARE YOU GETTING INVOLVED??

Do you know why this decision was delivered today, specifically? Because the conservatives are very very good at controlling the narrative. If nothing else had dropped, coverage of what came out in yesterday's Jan 6 hearing would have dominated the weekend news cycle. Now, however, conservative pundits can hammer on the sanctity of the court using the SAME RHETORIC used in the hearing which stressed the importance of a DOJ that is not beholden to the majority party, AND everyone is debating whether a fetus is a person instead of the multiple felonies and attempted election fraud committed by a sitting president.

I know its a lot. I know your time is limited and its easier to not pay attention because there so many problems and you can't possibly solve them all. You're right, you can't. Thats why we work as a collective. I may not be able to protest the new stadium thats bankrupting our economic development fund & the dystopian police program targeting high schoolers & call all committe reps about common-sense gun control & volunteer with the phone bank to register voters, but I know people working in all those groups because I work with a group trying to stop the clear cutting of 750 acres of forest with mission remnants and a potential native burial site to build apartments. When we present to the commission, the others show up in support because they know we did the research, and we do the same for them. Solidarity. No one has the capacity to care about and affect change for every single issue, so just pick the two most important or accessible to you and SHOW UP.

Get involved. Pay attention. Think critically. Come to rallies, join a working group, call your reps, be an informed voter and know your school board and city/County commissioners. Tweet about it if you have to. But for fucks sake don't add me to a text chain of people asking how this could have happened.