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niyad's JournalTrump's Cartoonish Performance of Masculine Strength, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
(a fascinating, depressing read)
Trump’s Cartoonish Performance of Masculine Strength, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 6/13/2025 by Jackson Katz
Is Trump’s eagerness to use military force on domestic protesters a measure of his confidence—or his weakness?
Protesters confront National Guard soldiers and police outside of a federal building as protests continue in Los Angeles following three days of clashes with police after a series of immigration raids on June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s decision to mobilize the military in Los Angeles, against the reasoned judgment and expressed wishes of LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, presents yet another opportunity to observe, in real time, how the Trump era continues to be shot through with destructive and antiquated ideas about masculine strength—along with growing pushback against them. It might or might not be coincidental, but the fact that Trump called in the National Guard and a contingent of Marines to do what local law enforcement was perfectly capable of handling came during the week before the president’s expensive and ostentatious celebration of military prowess, planned for June 14 in Washington, D.C. That public display of military hardware and martial might—an exhibitionist obsession of many autocratic rulers over the past century—is timed to coincide with both the Army’s 250-year anniversary and Trump’s own 79th birthday. That it’s happening over Father’s Day weekend adds yet another gendered overlay to the cultural politics of the moment.
One way to understand this blizzard of events is to see them in some context. For example, in my 2016 book about presidential masculinity, Man Enough?, I argued that the American presidency occupies a critically important symbolic space in the gender order, largely because more than any single person, the U.S. president embodies the national identity. As a result—and in a country that sees itself as the apex of masculine “rugged individualism”—the ways in which the president performs his masculinity are both drawn from and have a disproportionate impact upon which qualities of “manhood” are esteemed, rewarded during any given period and which are disdained.
The powerful masculine symbolism surrounding the U.S. presidency is also arguably the single biggest reason why we have never elected a woman president. To date, no woman has been able to successfully navigate the delicate balancing act required to be seen as simultaneously strong enough to act as commander-in-chief, defend the country, and also be feminine enough to be “likeable.” It’s a terribly unfair burden, one that reveals the deep misogyny that underlies the perpetuation of the monopoly and near-monopoly that men—especially white men—have on the highest stations of economic and political power. The gendered nature of the presidency is made especially visible when it comes to threats to the nation on matters both foreign and domestic. That’s because the president functions, essentially, as the nation’s protector—which itself taps into normative and even elemental expectations about men’s roles in patriarchal societies.
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Meanwhile, liberal and progressive voices in politics and media have cautioned anti-Trump protesters to avoid violence at all costs, because it enhances Trump’s power by providing him with the pretext to deploy violent state power in response. This guidance carries a powerful gendered subtext that is rarely expressed out loud, even on the left. One recent instance involved the actor, director, and documentary film narrator Peter Coyote. In a Substack post directed at anti-Trump protesters, he urged them to understand that public protest is theater, and the audience is never the police, the politicians or the Congress; it is always the American people. With apparent reference to the counterproductive, violent actions of a small group of left-wing activists in recent years, the first piece of advice he gave was to let women organize the event.“They’re more collaborative,“ he wrote. “They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do.”
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/13/trump-masculinity-strong-man-los-angeles-protests-flag-day-birthday/
Has anybody heard or seen anything about a large convoy of flag-waving
pickup trucks headed to the protests in L. A.? There is a video, seemingly on tiktok, of this group, with a caption that reads "ETA 16 hours". Hard to tell whose side they are on. I tried googling every way I could think of, came up blank. So, AI? from Jan 6 footage? real?
Thank you all for your help. The person who texted this finally found the source. Some bs they were pulling 9.18.2023. I cannot remember what they were freaking out about then.
Day Nine of June. Mass shootings* so far: 15. Dead: 122. Wounded: 735.
*mass shooting defined as four or more dead or wounded, including the gunman.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!
Day 160 of the year. Mass shootings* so far: 187. Dead: 238. Wounded: 735.
*mass shooting defined as four or more dead or wounded, including the gunman.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!
Trump refuses to accept that for Netanyahu and Putin forever war is the only option
Trump refuses to accept that for Netanyahu and Putin forever war is the only option
Simon Tisdall
The US president thought he could impose peace through sheer personality, but he didn’t reckon with two leaders with so much to lose
Sun 25 May 2025 01.00 EDT
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin enjoyed a friendly phone chat earlier this month, marking the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The Israeli and Russian leaders have much in common. Both claim to be still heroically battling Nazis, in Gaza and Ukraine respectively. This fiction is used to justify the mass murder of civilians, spiralling troop casualties and huge economic and reputational costs. Maybe it helps them sleep at night. Bibi and Vlad: the world’s most wanted men – and possibly the most despised. Overseeing the random killing, maiming and traumatising of thousands of children is one of many shared behaviours. These two authoritarian “strongmen” have each plunged their countries into global pariahdom and moral purdah. Conflict keeps them in power. They milk patriotic sentiment to cow domestic opponents and vilify foreign critics as antisemites, terrorist sympathisers or Russophobes. They wage war because they fear peace. Both are on the run from international justice, with warrants issued for their arrest for heinous crimes.
Netanyahu and his far-right cronies deny Palestinians the right to an independent state – the exact same right asserted by Israel’s founders. Likewise, Putin rejects the reality of Ukraine as a sovereign country. Both project messianic, expansionist visions – of a “greater Israel” and a revived Soviet imperium. Underpinning such views is a racially supremacist, ultra-nationalist mindset. European leaders predict Putin, if unpunished, will eventually turn his guns on them. Netanyahu has already expanded the Gaza war to Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. Latest US intelligence reports suggest he is preparing to attack Iran, hoping to scupper nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.
And would-be peacemakers, especially the US president, Donald Trump, fail to grasp another visceral similarity: neither actually wants lasting peace. Forever war is their preferred option, their default setting. They depend for their survival on violence. If the fighting stops, they know they face a potentially ruinous reckoning. What will people say in Rostov-on-Don, Omsk or Nizhny Novgorod when thousands of returning veterans let on what really happened at the front? How long may Putin last when Russia’s elites begin to total up the mind-boggling economic and social cost of his failed gamble? When peace comes, Netanyahu will face elections – and probable defeat. Jail time for alleged bribery and corruption could follow. The international criminal court will demand their surrender. Both could be down and out. That’s why they fear peace. And that’s why relentless international insistence on ending the wars, backed by increased military and economic aid for Ukraine and tougher sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Israel’s government, is the way to unseat two of the foremost villains of the age. No wonder this pair, whose sometimes rocky relationship goes back two decades, exchanged “warm greetings” on the phone. They need each other now.
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Like a quack doctor misdiagnosing problems, Trump makes matters worse. Each day, Netanyahu and Putin get away with murder due in large measure to their clueless, narcissistic White House bro. Each day, more children’s lives are devastated. Trump should stop grandstanding and delegate Gaza and Ukraine peacemaking to experienced US career diplomats, UN envoys, Arab and European mediators, intelligence chiefs and military experts. In short, he should leave it to people who know what they’re doing. As for Netanyahu and Putin, he should wash his hands of both.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/donald-trump-netanyahu-putin-forever-war
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In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning)
(this is a long, gruesome, image-heavy, important read)
In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning)
A portrait photo shows Elle Harris standing in front of a brown wooden door
Elle Harris, the daughter of Morgan Harris, at the Camp Morgan protest encampment at the Brady Road Landfill, in Winnipeg on November 10, 2024 [Ian Willms/Panos Pictures/Al Jazeera]
By Brandi Morin
Published On 1 Jun 20251 Jun 2025
Winnipeg, Canada - The last time Elle Harris saw her mother, she was on a bus in Winnipeg’s North End. It was a chance encounter. Elle was 16 and making her way to work when she spotted Morgan slouched near the back of the bus. She was in the grips of drug-induced psychosis - her eyes vacant and unfocused, her body rocking back and forth as her lips moved in silent conversation with someone who wasn’t there.
When their eyes met, there was no flicker of recognition. The woman who had once gently braided her hair and read her bedtime stories now stared through her. Elle got off at the next stop and sobbed as she watched the bus pull away.
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T).
Birds fly over a landfill where rubbish covers the ground
The Brady Road Landfill [Ian Willms/Panos Pictures/Al Jazeera]
It was two years later, in early December 2022, when police broke the news: Morgan had been murdered. Between March and May of that year, a serial killer had systematically targeted vulnerable Indigenous women experiencing homelessness and addiction, luring them to his Winnipeg apartment with offers of food, shelter, or substances before murdering, dismembering, and disposing of them in rubbish bins.
Morgan Harris was his second victim. She was 39 years old. Jeremy Skibicki’s other victims were 26-year-old Marcedes Myran, 24-year-old Rebecca Contois and 30-year-old Ashlee Shingoose, who was known as Buffalo Woman - a name given to her by Indigenous elders - until she was finally identified this March.
Winnipeg police were first alerted to the then 35-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist on May 16, 2022, when the partial remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a rubbish bin. Skibicki was charged two days later, and the following month, police began searching the Brady Road Landfill, a municipal landfill on the outskirts of the city, where they found more of her remains.
On December 1, 2022, police charged Skibicki with three more counts of murder.
Morgan and Marcedes’s families were told that their relatives' remains were likely in the privately operated Prairie Green Landfill, a sprawling waste disposal site north of Winnipeg.
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Red dresses representing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls outside a healing lodge, brought in to facilitate the search of the Prairie Green Landfill [Ian Willms/Panos Pictures/Al Jazeera]
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As they continue their patrol, Elle shares memories of her mother. "Mom was always making people laugh," she says. "Even during the hardest times. She had this way of finding humour in everything." Her voice softens. "When I was little, before things got really bad, she used to sing to me every night before bed - these old lullabies." Melissa notes the transformation in Elle over the past two years - from a grief-stricken daughter to a powerful advocate who now teaches vulnerable women the safety strategies that might have protected her own mother. “Every woman deserves protection. Because my mother mattered. And because the system didn't protect her, so now we have to protect each other,” Elle reflects.“I don't want people, when they hear her [Morgan’s] name, to think of what she had to endure,” says Melissa. “I want people to remember that her family took their grief and turned it into action.”
In late February, the search crews at the Prairie Green Landfill discovered human remains. They were later identified as Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/6/1/in-canada-a-daughters-fight-to-bring-her-murdered-indigenous-mother-home
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Azalea!
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Azalea!
A smooth, crushable country club sipper.
Matthew Hooper
Jun 06, 2025
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Yes, it is as refreshing as it looks.
Greetings, Wonketeers! I’m Hooper, your bartender. I’ve been getting pretty wild with my cocktails recently, so let’s get back to a straightforward country club classic. The original recipe is a little basic for modern cocktails, but I know a trick or two to make it more interesting. Let’s make an Azalea. Here’s the recipe:
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Azalea
2 oz Tito’s vodka
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz limoncello syrup
½ oz pomegranate juice
Soda water
Shake all ingredients except the soda water with ice and strain into a pint glass filled with ice. Top the cocktail with soda water. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Limoncello Syrup
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
Zest of 1 lemon
2 4” sticks of lemongrass
Chop the lemongrass finely. Add zest, lemongrass, sugar, and water to a small saucepan. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. Strain and store in a glass container. Keeps refrigerated indefinitely.
It’s commonly accepted that the Azalea is the unofficial cocktail of The Masters tournament, although the actual history of the drink is muddy at best. I’ve seen a few versions of this drink, the most basic being a hard pink lemonade — vodka, lemonade, and grenadine. Pineapple juice and gin make their way into fancier versions. The recipe for an Azalea isn’t sacrosanct; fiddling with the basic concept is completely acceptable.
The only “must” about this cocktail is the color — it needs to be as pink as an azalea bush in full bloom. Every version of this drink I’ve seen uses commercial grenadine as the coloring agent. I’m not a fan of Rose’s grenadine. It’s red food coloring, corn syrup, and not much else. True grenadine is pomegranate-flavored, tart, and rich. I’ve made house grenadine for this column before, but this time I wanted some extra tartness and deeper color instead of adding a second syrup to the glass. Pomegranate juice does the job nicely and offers some extra tartness in a sweet cocktail.
Some of the recipes for the Azalea found online seem to lose the plot. Several versions use pineapple juice and gin as the foundation. Pineapple is a tricky beast to work with; too much and it completely overwhelms the flavors in a glass. Two ounces in this cocktail completely ruined the delicate lemon flavors of the syrup. Similarly, attempting to color pineapple juice pink with pomegranate juice was ... less than pretty. Maybe the artificial color of Rose’s grenadine would do the trick, but I couldn’t see the point.
A good gin like Hendrick’s can work wonders in this cocktail. But I’m very aware that Tito’s is the golfer’s booze of choice these days. We go through cases of the stuff every week at the country club. In my mind, a “country club” cocktail without Tito’s is missing the point. There’s something about the flavors in this glass — tart, lemony, and mild — that hits the sweet spot. When my spouse tasted it, she commented, “What’s the alcohol in this?” That’s the ideal country club drink — smooth, tasty, and eminently crushable. It’s easy to toss back two or three of these sitting on the patio or relaxing by the pool.
Let’s talk ingredients:
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Ingredient shot. The cocktail disappeared moments after this photo was taken.
Tito’s Vodka: There really isn’t much difference between vodka brands. Use your favorite. Skyy Vodka has been a firm supporter of Pride Month in the past, but they’ve cowered in the face of Donald Trump’s bullying. At least Tito’s is adamantly politics-neutral. Hendrick’s gin is a great fit for this drink. If you splurged and bought Hendrick’s Oaisium for the Airport 77 cocktail I ran a few weeks back, you’re in for a treat. Use it here.
Lemon Juice: Always fresh, especially in this cocktail. Lemon has a starring role in this glass. Don’t skimp.
Limoncello Syrup: I wanted to boost the lemon flavor in this drink without increasing the acidity. Adding lemon zest and lemongrass to simple syrup produced floral lemon flavors reminiscent of limoncello. I’ll be using this syrup again.
Pomegranate Juice: Use 100 percent pomegranate juice, not a pomegranate “cocktail.”
Soda Water: Use what you like. Club soda contains a touch of salt, unlike sparkling water, but the difference is minimal.
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-wonkette-happy-hour-with-85f
'Remember the Ladies': Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism
(And the fucking, patriarchal, christotheofascist WAR ON WOMEN continues apace)
a truly depressing read
‘Remember the Ladies’: Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism
PUBLISHED 6/3/2025 by Suzanna Danuta Walters
From abortion bans to anti-trans policies, attacks on gender freedom are not fringe—they’re foundational to the new authoritarian agenda.
In this photo illustration, UK newspaper front pages display stories on the re-election of former US President Donald Trump on November 07, 2024 in London, England. Republican Donald Trump has won a second term to become the 47th President of the United States of America, beating Democrat Kamala Harris (Leon Neal / Getty Images)
In the whirling, swirling hellscape of illegality and cruelty that is the current American political scene, it’s hard to keep track of all the individuals and groups demonized, deported and derided by an administration seemingly motivated by a Machiavellian desire for power that might make Machiavelli himself blush with shame. In the midst of an apocalyptic news cycle, one targeted segment of the population seems to be fading from view: women. Yet we now live in a country led by a man convicted of sexual assault, filled with a Cabinet and policy-making apparatus that—at my last count—had at least a dozen of his inner circle credibly accused of sexual harassment, domestic violence or assault.
One of the first acts of the administration was to issue Executive Order 14168, titled, with no hint of irony, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” What Trump refers to as “gender ideology” is the core of feminism: that gender is a social construction riven through with relations of power and dominance, and that because it is socially produced—much like our concept of “race”—how we live it personally and engage with it politically is changeable. As feminist foremother Simone de Beauvoir so cogently put it, “One is not born but rather becomes, a woman.” (Or a man, for that matter.) Like so much else in the upside-down world of Trumpland, where violent insurrectionists are innocent victims and no-nothing anti-science conspiracists are in charge of that science, the avatars of violent masculinity are now claiming to “defend” women. Women do not need “defending.” We need—as Ruth Bader Ginsburg (riffing off abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimke), famously said—for men “to take their feet off of our necks.”
The demise of Roe in the 2022 Dobbs decision and the subsequent collapse of the right to bodily autonomy (for women and others capable of gestating) in dozens of states and counting, was exactly the opposite. It was the reassertion that women’s necks, and indeed entire bodies, were not theirs in the first place. Add to that the explicit call for women to be baby machines, from people like Vice President Vance and rabid baby daddy and neo-eugenicist Elon Musk, and musings by transportation secretary Sean Duffy on tying funding to high birthrates. The Gilead-esque intentions of this administration should be apparent to all. Indeed, they are screaming it from their manly rooftops: Go back! Back to the home, back to secondary status, back to being objects and not subjects. Back to sexual assault chalked up to boys being boys.
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Let us not, as Abigail Adams wrote so many years ago, forget the ladies.
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In 1776, witty Adams penned an oft-quoted letter to her husband John, then a member of the Continental Congress and working with, yes the other men, to draft the Declaration of Independence. “I long,” she wrote, “to hear that you have declared an independency. And by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.” Perhaps knowing he would, alas, ignore these mild pleas for a modicum of equality in the new nation, she added a bit more forcefully, “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. *************Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.” *************
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/03/gender-equity-abortion-forced-birth-trump-authoritarianism-trans-women/
'One-Two Punch': Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety 'Review'--All in
(And the fucking, patriarchal, christofascist WAR ON WOMEN continues apace)
‘One-Two Punch’: Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety ‘Review’—All in One Day
PUBLISHED 6/4/2025 by Carrie N. Baker
Emergency abortion care and medication abortion come under coordinated attack.
People participate in a “die-in” to support reproductive rights and emergency abortion care outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 24, 2024, as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, which deals with whether an Idaho abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
After the Supreme Court terminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance clarifying that hospitals must still follow the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). This law requires hospitals receiving federal funds to provide health-saving and lifesaving abortion care to patients experiencing medical crises, even when state law bans abortion. On Tuesday, June 3, the Trump administration rescinded this guidance. “The Trump administration cannot simply erase four decades of law protecting patients’ lives with the stroke of a pen,” said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. “Regardless of where they live, pregnant patients have a right to emergency abortion care that will save their health or lives.”
Congress passed EMTALA in 1986, and both Democratic and Republican administrations have interpreted the law to require abortion care necessary to stabilize pregnant women experiencing a medical crisis. “To be clear: This action doesn’t change hospitals’ legal obligations, but it does add to the fear, confusion and dangerous delays patients and providers have faced since the fall of Roe v. Wade,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “For decades, EMTALA has protected the ability of all people, including those who are pregnant, to receive life and health saving, stabilizing care in emergency situations,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO for Democracy Forward. “The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw EMTALA guidance guaranteeing pregnant people medical care in emergency situations will sow confusion for providers and endanger the lives and health of pregnant people.”
Women’s health advocates condemned the Trump administration’s politicization of healthcare. “Every American deserves the right to access the necessary care in emergency scenarios, including pregnant people, without political interference,” said Perryman. “Democracy Forward will continue to work with our partners to use all legal tools to defend Americans’ reproductive freedom, promote evidence-based and medically accurate information and care, and oppose efforts that place political ideology over patient care.” Representative Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) condemned the Trump administration’s actions: “In the wake of Dobbs, the Biden-era EMTALA guidance was a reaffirmation of black letter law—that every person has the legal right to emergency stabilizing care no matter where they live. By throwing this important guidance out, the Trump administration is doubling down on the chaos and confusion that is leaving women to die in emergency rooms and hospital parking lots. The decision to rescind the EMTALA guidance—on top of their plot to eviscerate Medicaid and food assistance, defund Planned Parenthood and aggressively track women seeking reproductive healthcare—makes it even clearer: Republicans are determined to become the ‘let them die’ party if not the ‘make them die’ party.”
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FDA Chief Vows to Review Mifepristone Safety
On the same day the Trump administration revoked guidance ensuring emergency medical care for pregnant women, the Trump administration made moves toward nationwide restrictions on abortion medications. In response to a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley citing junk science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary pledged on June 3 to “review” the agency’s regulation of mifepristone after previously stating he had no plans to restrict the medication. In 2023, 63 percent of abortions were done with mifepristone in the U.S. Hawley demanded Makary tightly restrict mifepristone by prohibiting clinicians from prescribing the medication at telehealth appointments, despite overwhelming peer-reviewed research proving telehealth abortion is safe. In a statement, Deidre Schifeling, chief political and advocacy officer for the American Civil Liberties Union characterized the Trump administration’s actions a “one-two punch,” and as “turning its back on patients who need emergency abortion care to save their lives or health while also having the FDA take steps to make it harder for patients nationwide to access medication abortion. This is a coordinated attack on our reproductive freedom and puts the lives of women in danger. President Trump is breaking his campaign promise not to further undermine access to abortion and playing with fire with the women voters who voted for him.”
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/04/trump-abortion-emtala-care-block-mifepristone-review/
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