Do farmers who voted for Trump want de facto slaves? Farmer Sarah Taber seems to think so. YouTube...

[Hekate]

2. She's always interesting

I have given some thought over the past several years to slavery in the modern USA. My thoughts were originally triggered by the Dobbs decision in which SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, and by the reaction of red state legislatures.

As a woman I saw the common thread among these lawmakers of restricting not just women’s medical choices, but women’s freedom of movement between states and within states. When Texas instituted a bounty law that would pay snitches to turn in pregnant women *suspected* of traveling or attempting to travel outside the state to obtain an abortion, I instantly thought of the Fugitive Slave Laws. As time went on and some men seriously proposed that women should lose the right to vote, I realized that for some Americans slavery itself holds a real attraction.

Yes, I do see issues thru the lens of my life as a woman, but it takes no effort to widen the aperture and see how closely this links to the persecution of immigrant workers.