Photos: Biggest political event in Idaho history we think. 12,500 in Nampa

[Hekate]

64. It's all of it all at once all the time. We are being thrown back close to 150 years, imo...

I have very much noticed the New Jim Crow. I grew up being aware of the Civil Rights movement, & tho the physical manifestations were far away, they came into our living room via our tv, the daily paper, and LIFE magazine’s excellent photo-journalism. Those little children were my age, even if not my color. It was a righteous cause and I knew it.

The other side of this dreadful coin has been the biological re-enslavement of anyone with a uterus. I knew the history, or thought I did, but took contraception/family planning so utterly for granted that I could not imagine that what is occurring now could actually happen. Dobbs was about so much more than abortion. All of women’s progress in the past century-plus has hinged on having control of our own fertility and being able to plan our pregnancies.

Bernie and his acolytes are fixated on a narrow view of economics to the exclusion of everything else. “Everything else” is — everything. If a girl or woman cannot control her own fertility, she has little chance of completing her education or of competing for jobs with a future. If all reference to DEI aka Affirmative Action is erased, that erases the accomplishments of everyone but white males.

Makes me want to throw things, hard.