I’m not the Touchline you might think. I just picked this name back when I was a soccer mom. I live in Texas.
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Kris McLaughlin retweeted
White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience:
In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵
Cc: @SkatingLesson
ARD Doping Editorial Team world exclusive after two-year investigation: Mass doping suspicion in China - WADA fails to act: 23 top Chinese swimmers tested positive in 2021 but were secretly cleared in time to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. With @hajoseppelt 1/
The State Bar of Texas has fined and suspended Starr County’s district attorney for pursuing a murder indictment against 26-year-old woman after she self-managed an abortion. bit.ly/3TjQKsz
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
By using the term "open border," conservatives are suggesting that anyone can get into the U.S. without much hassle. But the reality is the southern border is more fortified than it's ever been.
Axios Explains: The myth of a U.S.-Mexico "open border"
trib.al/vTOwWP5
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Opinion | The Toddler Caucus in Congress was elected by almost no one because in primaries vast numbers don’t vote. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Monday, the Supreme Court gets back to work.
This term is not about conservatives v. liberals. Liberals are not allowed to have cases anymore. This term is conservatives v. nihilists.
This term is Law v. the 5th Circuit.
My SCOTUS preview in @thenation
thenation.com/article/societ…
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Cochran County, which borders New Mexico, has outlawed travel on its local roads to seek an abortion, joining a small group of other rural Texas counties that have passed similar measures.
Abortion-rights supporters say the new policies are not legal.
bit.ly/3LIbZ2V
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Even before Roe, abortion opponents had conflated science and religious morality through language, transforming a blob of disorganized embryonic cells into an “unborn child,” writes Judith Levine. interc.pt/3WK2tAs
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Please stop calling North Carolina's abortion ban a "12-week ban." It's not. Abortion medication - used in 60% of abortions in the state - is only legal before 10 weeks.
And just so you get a sense of what we're talking about, this is a pregnancy at 9 weeks.
this is maddening
I've been working on this one for a while:
Texas Republicans have figured out a way to create fake statistics around abortion 'complications' - and they're using doctors to do it jessica.substack.com/p/texas…
this. is. deranged.
Here's what's going on in the Texas legislature in response to school shootings: All students in third grade and up to be trained in battlefield trauma care. legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1147/…
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
HEAR THIS: One of THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES EVER DONE ON ABORTION Found the #1 emotion associated with abortion IS RELIEF.
RELIEF.
Join @AbortionFront and demand those who "care" to treat this like the human rights Chernobyl it is.
ansirh.org/research/ongoing/…
@StrictScrutiny_ earnest suggestion: I have been long wanting you to bring back your merch “stare decision is for suckers” but may I also suggest “states’ rights is for suckers” or alternatively “(Red) states rights!”
oof. this guy.
Whole thread on the TN speaker
1. Tennessee House Speaker @CSexton25 led the charge to expel two elected members for violating "rules of decorum."
But a Popular Information investigation has uncovered evidence Sexton is violating a more fundamental rule: THE STATE CONSTITUTION
Follow along if interested
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Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Tennessee, by @JoyceWhiteVance open.substack.com/pub/joycev…
Kris McLaughlin retweeted
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider recommending a pardon for Army Sgt. Daniel Perry just one day after a jury convicted him in the 2020 murder of Austin protester Garrett Foster.
bit.ly/3zJzDG4
Jessica expresses my rage
The abortion medication decision tonight was misogynist payback: Our ability to end a pregnancy with just a few pills was too much for them to take.
At least when we went to clinics they could stand outside and call us ‘sluts’.
tinyurl.com/3bntm2vu