Open Thread | Checking in With Jessica Valenti

My go-to information source about anything dealing with women’s body autonomy.

We told you
We told you
We told you

That they were coming for BIRTH CONTROL.

Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti
Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as “abortifacient birth control.” The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn’t mentioned in the headline or social promo

Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti
Replying to @JessicaValenti
That brings us to this week: WaPo reported on the story after getting ahold of administration emails. They’re making it seem like calling birth control ‘abortion’ was just the result of idiotic men who don’t know anything about women’s health But don’t get it twisted—this was a *deliberate move*

Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti
Replying to @JessicaValenti
Yes, I’m sure stupidity was involved—but this was not a random error. Multiple agencies made the “abortifacient birth control” claim—not just one rogue employee. That term is also straight out of the anti-abortion playbook: they’re using it rn in lawsuits fighting health coverage for contraception
4:59 PM · Jul 15, 20261.3KViews

Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti
Replying to @JessicaValenti
It’s also not an accident that the administration moved to save condoms but not any other kind of contraception—it aligns with the ‘abortifacient birth control’ classifications used by groups like Students for Life
https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/2077438009838915748

Abortion Is a Losing Issue for Republicans. Birth Control Might Not Be.
Contraception has a PR problem—and the White House is exploiting it
Jessica Valenti
Jul 16

Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about abortion. He’s well-aware that the issue is a loser for Republicans, and our felon president really doesn’t like losing. That’s why, much to the annoyance of the anti-abortion movement, the Trump administration hasn’t enforced the Comstock Act—which would make mailing abortion pills a federal crime. It’s also why the FDA has slow-walked its ‘safety study’ of abortion pills, and why Trump himself is so intent on pretending to be reasonable on the issue.

Abortion is just too popular to pick any big public fights over.

That doesn’t mean the White House plans to leave women alone—they like fucking with us far too much for that. Instead of attacking abortion rights, the Trump administration is going after what they believe is a far easier target: birth control.

That’s right, they’re skipping past abortion and going straight for contraception.

Law professor Mary Ziegler first floated this idea in a Boston Globe column a few months ago, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Ziegler wrote that “the Trump administration may find it easier to change policy on birth control than on abortion.” After all, contraception has a serious PR problem right now: conservatives have flooded young women’s algorithms with disinformation about the Pill, women on social media are sharing their (very real) stories of painful IUD insertions, and many American women feel ignored or dismissed by the medical professionals tasked to care for them.

As a result, criticism of birth control is no longer purely seen as misogynist drivel. The rise of MAHA has created an opening for Republicans to attack contraception under the auspices of “protecting women.” And that’s exactly what they’ve been doing since Trump returned to office.

Last year, the White House froze more than $65 million in grants for Title X—the nation’s family planning program. Then, just a few months ago, the administration issued new guidance for how those federal dollars should be spent: instead of helping low-income Americans access contraception, the administration directed programs to promote “natural family planning methods.” Contraception is only mentioned once in the entire 67-page document, and only to state that it’s “overprescribed.”

With this guidance—through just one document—the Trump administration changed a long-standing federal program that helps people afford birth control into one that “assist[s] clients in achieving healthy pregnancies.”

A few weeks ago, the White House made similar changes to the nation’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. After cutting $67 million from programs that focused on contraception, the administration published two “notices of funding opportunities” instructing new grantees to teach teenage girls period tracking instead. They’re calling it “body awareness.”

If the goal is to reduce teen pregnancy, why recommend a notoriously ineffective method—especially for teens, whose periods are often irregular? Well, the idea of “menstrual cycle classes” for students came from Emma Waters—Gen Z’s Phyllis Schlafly—who advises the Trump administration on how to increase the nation’s birth rate. It makes sense, then, that the administration’s sole mention of birth control in those funding documents is a prompt to teach students about the downsides of “ovarian suppression compared to approaches that address root causes.”

Republicans have even tried to sugar-coat the defunding of Planned Parenthood and other clinics—which put over one million women at risk of losing contraception access over the last year. Conservatives want us to believe that the country’s most-trusted reproductive healthcare providers are actually predatory or unnecessary.

Even with federal funding restored, the damage has been incalculable. So what’s supposed to fill this massive healthcare gap? How does the White House want to fix the reproductive and maternal healthcare deserts their policies created? Crisis pregnancy centers—which not only can’t prescribe birth control, but won’t.

The administration has propped up these fake clinics as reasonable replacements for the real clinics their policies have shuttered, directing American women to sketchy data collection tools and even laying the groundwork to funnel Title X funding to the religious groups. I warned about this strategy in 2023:

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47 Responses to Open Thread | Checking in With Jessica Valenti

  1. rikyrah says:

    ✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭
    @BubbatheOG

    I’ll get on board with Voter ID as long as (A) it’s free of charge, (B) is automatically issued to every citizen at the age of 18 and (C) is easily accessible to ALL people of voting age.

    If someone doesn’t agree with that, it’s because it’s not really about voter ID. It’s about voter suppression.
    11:29 PM · Jul 22, 2026
    https://x.com/BubbatheOG/status/2080072850694881639

  2. rikyrah says:

    Rolling Stone
    @RollingStone
    Jul 22
    Elon Musk continues to rage over Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which defied online hysteria from the right and broke box office records in its first days in theaters.
    rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

    Sophia A. Nelson
    @IAmSophiaNelson

    The right is just racist.
    Let’s just go ahead and put it out there. They are always upset. Always enraged. Always crying “woke” or “DEI” as their master Trump robs puts Darlene Graham in the Senate. Robs America blind in broad daylight for him & his sons/son-in law to the tune of billions. Always being arrested for violence or abuse of minors and women. They hate women, they hate immigrants. They definitely hate black folks. It’s the white boy’s club or no club at all. W.E.I. (White. Entitled. Incompetent.).
    https://x.com/IAmSophiaNelson/status/2079983937514881361

  3. rikyrah says:

    Ridiculous, isn’t it?

    Chris Cadence
    @ChrisCadence

    White Men Think They Are Being Dehumanized By Black Americans For Being Held Responsible For Their Racism In The Past And Present
    https://x.com/ChrisCadence/status/2080054617686335693

  4. rikyrah says:

    this is WISCONSIN

    Dan Shafer
    @DanRShafer

    As per tradition, here’s the net favorability for the politicians, parties and movements polled by Marquette.

    Evers: +3
    Baldwin: -1
    R. Johnson: -9
    Vance: -15
    DSA*: -18
    MAGA: -19
    Trump: -19
    Republican Party: -19
    Democratic Party: -23
    Democratic socialists: -30
    9:03 PM · Jul 22, 2026
    https://x.com/DanRShafer/status/2080036023858323733

  5. rikyrah says:

    Sir Rottweiler 🐾 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈
    @SireRottweiler

    Dear Dixiecratic Socialist of America,

    Just FYI, the Black and Jewish base can punish the party a million times harder than you did in 2024, and unlike you yt leftist, they’re resilient.

    This isn’t the worse it has been for them, btw; this country has always been cruel to them. They can tough it a few cycles, if it means teaching you & the DNC a lesson for embracing white grievance populism and bigotry.

    You people lost your minds after 1 year and a half of experiencing a fraction of their suffering over centuries — remember that. And the LGBTQ+ base and the rest of their allies, will follow whatever they tell us to do.

    Proceed trying to push them out of the DNC at your own peril.
    7:24 AM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/SireRottweiler/status/2080192217151676511

  6. rikyrah says:

    Dittie
    @DittiePE

    The West Virginia GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt just got arrested for enticing a 15-year-old girl.

    He groomed her on Roblox when she was in 8th grade, moved to Snapchat, told her he loved her, sent her explicit photos and asked for nudes back. He’s ALSO a public school teacher.

    The GOP loves to scream about “grooming” and drag queen story hour. Here’s an actual groomer — a sitting Republican state legislator who used a kids’ video game to target a middle schooler.

    It’s always a Republican.
    https://x.com/DittiePE/status/2080071679984775672

  7. rikyrah says:

    Joe Walsh
    @WalshFreedom

    Creepy ICE agent lies to a victim with a valid work permit and pending asylum case, telling her that an attorney is on the other side of a door and luring her through under false pretenses.

    He then threatens a bystander with 18 U.S.C. § 111, a federal law requiring forcible conduct. Merely observing, recording, criticizing or calling ICE agents “fucking evil” is not enough.

    PAXIS.app confirms: 46% of resolved immigration-related § 111 cases reviewed by The New York Times ended in dismissal or acquittal.

    ICE agents are invoking this law against constitutionally protected conduct as an intimidation tactic. Victims may pursue civil claims. Agents who knowingly falsify reports or lie under oath could face criminal exposure.

    PAXIS helps immigrants and allies prepare for ICE encounters lawfully and constitutionally, and deal with the aftermath. Help keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

    https://x.com/WalshFreedom/status/2079985192731873696

  8. rikyrah says:

    Dicapito
    @dicapito

    If South Carolina is to be on a back burner for some lily yt state then we all will settle in for the next GOP president.
    Black Democrats not playing this game with white and nonblack Democrats.
    9:24 PM · Jul 22, 2026
    https://x.com/dicapito/status/2080041400880799926

  9. rikyrah says:

    scary lawyerguy
    @scarylawyerguy

    One of the other “White House priorities” is a $12 billion farm bailout which is getting ZERO attention in the press, which is weird b/c I was told if you borrow money to fund your education you assume the risk of paying it back & bailing students out was a slide toward socialism
    https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2080044139148722261

  10. rikyrah says:

    uh huh
    uh huh

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya
    9h
    white socialists will try to portray Black voters as “religious right-wing nutjobs bringing their private social conservatism to the polls,” when white Evangelicals, white Catholics, Latino Catholics, conservative Muslims and Asian-American converts to Evangelism are right there

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    a white socialist will move from small-town America, often to escape a monochromatic environment in which the white locals customarily vote their personal faith into public policy, and upon arriving in the big city, conclude that urban Black people do the very same & even worse
    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2080268417719026151

  11. rikyrah says:

    clap clap clap

    Professor Peter Arenella
    @arenella1
    Jul 22
    The Democratic Party has a few stars emerging that should be the leaders of the party by the time of the next Presidential election: I have been very impressed by Sen.Ossof, AOC, and James Talarico (Texas state representative) running against a corrupt Paxton for the Senate.

    Sigmundine
    @Sigmundine2

    AOC? James Talarico? What about Lauren Underwood, who flipped a red seat blue and has actually passed legislation? Why do these lists always look like “white politicians I’d love to date”?
    https://x.com/Sigmundine2/status/2079972561014702244

  12. rikyrah says:

    Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
    @SholaMos1

    The police is trained to kill black people not de-escalate. Case in point. Imagine claiming a knife warranted a police officer shooting a black man in the head 3 times. Explain to me what kind of useless training would render 3 police officers so incompetent as to not disarm and detain a man already in their control and custody but would choose to kill him instead.

    Within an hour the police release cover up story claiming black man had knife. How does a knife justify execution by gun? The police is lying. They murdered a Black man by execution and want to get away with it. Again.
    https://x.com/SholaMos1/status/2080136018297041225

  13. rikyrah says:

    Just ridiculous

    🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
    @sephius1999

    Trump is susceptible to bribes and the world’s most corrupt leaders know that. Just offer him some fake ass medal or statue and he’ll give you what ever you want.
    https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2080043249696182764

  14. rikyrah says:

    Mj✡︎
    @motivatedjoy

    It’s insane how tight so many of these races are during what is supposed to be a blue wave year.

    Dems have failed to push back against the invasion of the far left, and it’s hurting them. Americans aren’t far left. Even Canada isn’t this far left; we recently relegated the NDP to near irrelevance at the federal level. You’d think the Dem establishment would read the room, yet it simply isn’t happening.
    https://x.com/motivatedjoy/status/2080020840994021844

  15. rikyrah says:

    I completely understand

    union moderate that support Dems, not socialists.
    @reesetheone1

    Go free your country.

    Black folks aren’t your GOTV mules.

    Palestine isn’t on my top 20 list of concerns.

    Y’all should have taken that two state solution Clinton cooked up in 2000.
    https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/2080306881814298749

  16. rikyrah says:

    Peter Wolf
    @peterawolf

    The idea that the country is full of voters just aching to cast their ballot for a socialist—with DSA candidates winning in indigo Blue districts as proof—is so wildly out-of-touch that one marvels at the vacuum-sealed subculture its proponents operate in.
    8:26 PM · Jul 22, 2026
    https://x.com/peterawolf/status/2080026820745768991

  17. rikyrah says:

    Haley Stevens
    @HaleyforMI

    Abdul promised he’d make all of his finances public (like I did months ago). Today he released a single form—still no full tax returns or personal financial disclosure.

    Why is Abdul working so hard to hide this from voters?
    3:58 PM · Jul 15, 2026
    https://x.com/HaleyforMI/status/2077422533188415731

  18. rikyrah says:

    Eric Michael Garcia
    @EricMGarcia
    Jul 22
    Rev. Al Sharpton slams the idea of moving the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary from South Carolina.

    ““You don’t forget who showed up for you when nobody else would… Black voters have shown up for the Democratic Party again and again.”

    Michelle_BYoung
    @michelle_byoung
    5h

    The short sighted people who do NOT want SC to go first are in DEEP DENIAL about the power of the base. They think if they move the primary to a state with less B voters their faves might have a chance BUT if you do that you haven’t taken the temperature of B voters & u might not

    Michelle_BYoung
    @michelle_byoung
    5h

    2) Might not end up with a candidate who can GENERATE THE TURNOUT we need to win the Electoral college. The REASON the base is the base is that we live in concentrated areas in big cities that can flip states! If white dems in a primary pick a candidate that can’t turn out base

    Michelle_BYoung
    @michelle_byoung
    5h

    3) We LOSE the general. That’s WHY you have to take the temperature of Blk voters early & consistently because when we show up we almost always vote DEM but we don’t always show up. We need Obama level turnout (60%) to win.
    https://x.com/michelle_byoung/status/2080321367015133351

  19. rikyrah says:

    Democracy Docket
    @DemocracyDocket

    After ICE officers fatally shot Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D) demanded an independent investigation.

    Garcia represents the city’s Latino East End. But Texas’ new map, which moved much of the community into a red district, may make it harder to get answers. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ic…
    https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2080327554469073169

  20. rikyrah says:

    scary lawyerguy
    @scarylawyerguy

    So everybody in the press just moved on after one still photograph of Mitch McConnell was released? Like, no follow up? No investigative journalism? Just a shoulder shrug b/c Congress is leaving town and nobody cares?
    2:47 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2080303722152833337

  21. rikyrah says:

    Greg Levy
    @GregLevy4Senate

    Madison, Wisconsin police murdered a man. They shot him 3 times, point blank, in the head. This is disgusting, and we call for an immediate arrest and jailing of the killer cops. Like our struggles to demand justice in Ohio for Jazmir Tucker, Casey Goodson Jr, and Ta’Kiya Young, we must fight back wherever this violence occurs.
    https://x.com/GregLevy4Senate/status/2080057940208463992

  22. rikyrah says:

    Adam Mockler
    @adammocklerr

    BREAKING: Leaked Andrew Tate texts are looking VERY bad for the Trump admin…

    Texts from Andrew Tate reveal that a Trump admin official directly intervened on the Tate brothers behalf in early 2025 to stall the sex trafficking investigation.

    “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things,” wrote Andrew Tate via text.

    Tate’s former lawyer, Paul Ingrassia, is now a Trump admin official, and is the one who requested the Tate brothers devices be returned to them.

    You may remember Paul Ingrassia from his leaked texts last year in which he said he “has a Nazi streak” and uses old slurs.

    
JD Vance still follows the Tate brothers on Twitter. Barron is friends him them. All of this happened after Andrew admitted to being a pimp on camera.

    This is the Republican Party now. I’m a young dude who loves America, and hates seeing it hijacked by these hateful , abusive, degenerates.
    https://x.com/adammocklerr/status/2080304551341535636

  23. rikyrah says:

    Scott Dworkin
    @funder

    Ohio’s EPA wrote a plan that admitted—on paper—it would make the state’s water dirtier.

    Then seven thousand people wrote in.

    The plan is shelved.

    dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-re…
    https://x.com/funder/status/2080317594364502393

  24. rikyrah says:

    user avatar
    Aaron Rupar
    @atrupar

    “In May the Court of International Trade ruled that his tariff scheme under Section 122 was also illegal. So now Trump’s aides have moved down the list to the Smoot-Hawley Act, the one that bored Ferris Bueller’s classmates and which is widely blamed for turning a bad recession into the Great Depression.” publicnotice.co/p/trump-canada…
    https://x.com/atrupar/status/2080295652370604100

  25. rikyrah says:

    user avatar
    Ethan 🌹🎶💚
    @DarthWittebane
    20h
    The Democratic Party genuinely can’t survive if this level of racial grievance politics is allowed to keep existing

    Longtime Black Man Here
    @groove_sdc

    Substitute “racial grievance politics” and insert “Black political representation and participation” and you’ll start to see why I’ve always said the left wing Tea Party is just as anti-Black as the right wing one.
    https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2080307741860446390

  26. rikyrah says:

    MR. OBVIOUS
    @ObviousRises

    This person submitted a FOIA request to his City for HIS OWN LICENSE PLATE (Flock Data) and was DENIED due to “privacy concerns.”

    I REPEAT: When a man requested FLOCK FOOTAGE of HIS OWN CAR, the CITY claimed it was a PRIVACY VIOLATION and DENIED his request.

    So Flock can SPY on you in a mass surveillance state but YOU cannot even see YOUR OWN data or surveillance footage of YOU YOURSELF.

    Make it make sense.
    https://x.com/ObviousRises/status/2080137879758790944

  27. rikyrah says:

    People have pointed this issue out several times.

    Their REFUSAL TO CORRECT THIS ISSUE MEANS THAT THEY WANT MILLIONS OF WOMEN TO BE STRIPPED OF THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE.

    Democracy Docket
    @DemocracyDocket

    Roughly 70% of women in heterosexual marriages have changed their last name.

    That means using their birth certificate as proof of citizenship to vote is not an option.

    This is not a coincidence — it’s a deliberate effort to suppress Democratic votes.

    Learn more: demdock.com/4b15Hbw
    https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2080277784425886138

  28. rikyrah says:

    Ranthony
    @ChiefTeef8

    DSA: every election for the rest of time is about palestine

    Black voters: hey so what about our concerns over here?

    DSA: enough of this disgusting identity politics
    https://x.com/ChiefTeef8/status/2080153941468139784

  29. rikyrah says:

    philip lewis
    @Phil_Lewis_

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man who killed Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman is sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.
    4:57 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2080336402110153150

  30. rikyrah says:

    user avatar
    LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
    @LongTimeHistory

    ICE violently detain Hispanic kid—as his mother screams for help.

    “Go inside, Mama!” son yells in Spanish.
    “So they don’t get you too!”

    4 agents tackle her son face down onto concrete—kneel on his back with full body weight.

    “No! Why are you taking my son away!” mother cries.

    Son is taken away handcuffed in an unmarked white truck.

    Mother desperately chases after them—throwing her shoes at agents fleeing the scene.

    Incident occurred in the Verdugo Viejo neighborhood of Glendale, California.

    Benz Dizon doesn’t have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
    https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2080317605907169292

  31. rikyrah says:

    Warren Gunnels
    @GunnelsWarren

    The problem isn’t the single mom getting $6 a day in food stamps.

    The problem is Jeff Bezos, worth $269 billion, more than doubled his wealth since 2020 while paying wages so low the number of Amazon workers on food stamps & Medicaid nearly tripled.

    Bezos is the welfare queen.
    https://x.com/GunnelsWarren/status/2080026639488946493

  32. rikyrah says:

    Democracy Docket
    @DemocracyDocket

    UPDATE: In a win for voters, a federal court denied the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a pro-voting lawsuit challenging his anti-mail voting executive order.

    The judge ruled the pro-voting group, who argues the order violates the U.S. Constitution and federal voting laws, has standing.
    https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2080292448568324222

  33. rikyrah says:

    Jesus Freakin Congress
    @TheJFreakinC

    🚨BREAKING: ICE agents blocked in a U.S. citizen’s car… and then threatened to arrest her for not moving.

    In the video, a U.S. citizen was sitting in a public parking lot when ICE agents pulled up directly in front of her car, and blocked her from leaving.

    Then, they accused HER of “impeding” them.

    She told them she literally couldn’t move because THEY had blocked her in.

    The agent said they would back up… and if she didn’t move, “that’s your chance.”
    Her response…

    “My chance for what?”

    The agent then cited “18 USC 111,” a federal law that makes it a crime to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with certain federal officers while they are performing their official duties.

    But, the law is not a magic phrase that allows federal agents to arrest anyone who annoys them. The statute includes a forcible-act requirement.

    Sitting in a public parking lot is not “impeding” a federal officer.

    So, she asks…

    “How am I impeding you when you just pulled up in front of my car?”

    The agent then yelled:

    “Move your car or it’s over!”

    She told him they couldn’t move.

    He started yelling, “Back up, or you are under arrest. We aren’t playing anymore.”

    She responded…

    “Well, you can’t arrest me.” While she backed up.

    The agent gets mad and… while walking next to her car as she was backing up… replied,

    “Yes I can. Try me.”

    This is an absolutely insane abuse of power.

    The government cannot create the circumstances that make it impossible for you to leave, accuse you of “impeding” them, because you cannot leave, and then threaten to arrest you for not doing the impossible.

    Because that is coercion, and it’s illegal.

    And the most terrifying part is… this is how ICE agents are trained to operate.

    They create confusing, threatening situations where people don’t even know if they are being lawfully detained, if they are free to leave, or if they are about to be arrested for simply existing in the wrong place.

    And then the government expects people to calmly trust that everything they are doing is legal.

    Which is exactly why constitutional protections exist.

    Because “I’m a federal agent” is not a magic phrase that makes your constitutional rights disappear.

    https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2079658962845368711

  34. rikyrah says:

    I SEE IT TOO

    Tim
    @trouble_man90

    I’m noticing a certain community becoming increasingly comfortable with anti-Black rhetoric. I won’t name any names right now but I’m noticing and it will definitely need to be addressed
    2:07 AM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2080112548104306970

  35. rikyrah says:

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    Randi White
    @RandiWhite

    People hooting and hollering to the ends of the earth about their pet project in the Middle East, meanwhile young Black People are being murdered by point blank shots from cops, shots in the back from convenience store owners, strangled by their “friends,” lynchings being deemed suicides, oh and don’t forget the voting rights actively trying to be stripped away.

    You can be concerned about other countries, but to do so OVER ATROCITIES IN YOUR FACE?! Not a single hoot nor holler about any of these issues until people call you out.

    What’s going on? Where’s the movement?
    2:57 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/RandiWhite/status/2080306207231823897

  36. rikyrah says:

    Dude Just Hates Fascism 🇺🇦🇵🇸
    @FascistFacials

    It was communists when I was a kid. Then it was radical Muslims. Then Mexicans. MS13. Then any immigrant. Now we’re back to communists.

    They have to have a boogeyman to scare the population so we don’t notice the fact that they’re stealing our democracy and robbing us blind.
    10:16 PM · Jul 22, 2026
    https://x.com/FascistFacials/status/2080054390564532331

  37. rikyrah says:

    Chris Murphy 🟧
    Senate Democrats
    @ChrisMurphyCT

    The dizzying pace of Trump’s corruption is hard to keep up with. So I’m going to help you.

    The latest? An under the radar announcement from the White House that medical research grants will no longer be merit based. Instead, Trump will hand them out to loyalists.
    https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2080334869238804567

  38. rikyrah says:

    lindsay 🙈🏳️‍🌈
    @virtueemoir29

    This is why I hate the “For Dems to win in 2028, we have to appeal to Republicans too!” narrative.

    It’s bullshit.

    The Republican Party is not split into MAGA extremists and regular Republicans.

    It is a full on cult.

    They see how bad the country is and love it anyway because it means they can still be openly racist.
    https://x.com/virtueemoir29/status/2080036501384212653

  39. rikyrah says:

    FYI:

    you can get a Singer Heavy Duty sewing machine w/ 32 different stitches, automatic needle threader, and 1-step buttonhole function right now at Costco for $149 in the warehouse ($40 rebate off of the online price of $189)

    spectacular deal for a new machine w/ no electronics, software, chips, etc

  40. rikyrah says:

    Those dogs are so loved. I completely enjoy watching her videos.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/LPvc3sbxfPY?si=5P5qCTwz1HNFf9uO

  41. rikyrah says:

    Destiny Updates
    @DestinyUpdates0

    Destiny says the far right keeps the far left alive on purpose

    “The far right is very cognizant that people on the far left do not represent a threat to them at all. You can tell because they always use the far left to attack moderate Democrats.”

    “When they attack moderate Democrats they try to destroy them. Jimmy Kimmel had the FCC trying to get his show taken off the air.”

    “But nobody is bringing that kind of pressure on the very far left people to deplatform them. They like that they exist, because they can always use them as a cudgel to attack other Democrats.”
    https://x.com/DestinyUpdates0/status/2079752254408806890

  42. rikyrah says:

    Last week Republicans took the final steps toward destroying what’s left of U.S. media consolidation laws. It didn’t warrant much attention by the press; in part because corporate consolidation has been deadly for U.S. journalism already.

    Republicans and their media arm(s) have two unsubtle goals: massive consolidation among right wing local broadcast companies, and the befuddlement of the U.S. electorate by way of propaganda pretending to be useful local TV news…
    https://karlbode.com/local-u-s-tv-news-will-soon-be-entirely-right-wing-propaganda/

  43. rikyrah says:

    What Civil Rights Enforcement?
    No Data
    Nothing to enforce

    BlackskyNews 🗞️
    @blackskynews.blacksky.app
    In a profound salvo in the administration’s shake up of civil rights enforcement, the EEOC’s Republican majority voted 2-1 Tuesday to rescind the data collection requirement.

    The move was recommended by Project 2025.
    | Alexandra Olson, Claire Savage

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... #BlackskyNews
    https://bsky.app/profile/blackskynews.blacksky.app/post/3mranfj4x422v

  44. rikyrah says:

    CNN Breaking News
    @cnnbrk

    Model recruiter Daniel Siad, who introduced young women to Jeffrey Epstein, found dead at his home in France.
    https://x.com/cnnbrk/status/2079898633768452138

  45. rikyrah says:

    Oh my.

    Little Susie Collins is ‘ concerned’

    -🥱
    Susan Collins ‘Deeply Troubled’ By Hegseth Sidelining Women And People Of Color In Military

    https://apple.news/Aw2C4vdfzQf6O5Qkp_oYuZQ

  46. rikyrah says:

    Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍
    @SnowdenBishop

    Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government…’

    It’s our duty to know.
    https://x.com/SnowdenBishop/status/2079143120172900486

  47. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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