The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling!

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14. I'd love him to run. We need another feminist president!

From the Boston Globe:

Governor Deval Patrick told an energized crowd rallying in support of access to contraception and abortion Tuesday to not be discouraged by recent US Supreme Court rulings.

“You’ve got a Legislature, legislative leadership, and a governor who want to make this right,” Patrick told hundreds assembled at City Hall Plaza. “Come make a claim on your government and tell your stories, above all, because we have to build the record that will sustain the legislation I believe we can move and get enacted before the session ends at the end of this month.”

Cheers rose from the plaza, where the crowd had gathered to voice outrage at recent rulings that struck down a Massachusetts law banning protesters within 35 feet of abortion clinics and that approved of a religious exemption to the federal requirement that employers cover contraception in insurance plans...

I loved this:

“There was a time when the Supreme Court said that there weren’t any rights for me that white people needed to acknowledge or care about,” Patrick said. “Once upon a time, it was the law of the land that same-sex couples couldn’t marry, in Massachusetts or a whole [lot] of other places.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/08/patrick-rallies-hundreds-gathered-city-hall-plaza-oppose-high-court-decisions-women-issues/QEsTzk28rJRObzH1skg1UO/story.html

Got some truly great voices there in New England...