Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.
Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.
Justice Thomas made it perfectly clear where this partisan Supreme Court is going next:
They’re coming for marriage equality, too. Thomas explicitly said so, calling for Obergefell to be reconsidered.
Congress must protect our rights before the Court can take them away.
The people who cheered ripping babies from their parents and caging them indefinitely in unsanitary, inhumane conditions are suddenly all in on protecting babies.
It was a Republican appointed Supreme Court Justice who wrote the opinion that women have a fundamental right to make their own decisions about reproductive health.
50 years later, that hasn't changed. We will not go back. Bans or bounties, that is not the future Americans want.
a Justice accused of sexually assaulting a woman has now voted to strip the rights of women to make fundamental decisions about their bodies. A Handmaid’s Tale is no longer fiction.
Susan Collins: “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.”
BREAKING NEWS: Canada announces that it will “certainly” allow American women to go to Canada to receive abortion care if Roe v. Wade is overturned because EVERY woman in the world “deserves access.” RT TO THANK CANADA!
THREAD: My professor at UCLA told our class that the "worst" part of the SCOTUS "story" was the fact that someone "leaked the draft opinion."
I raised my hand & told her the worst part was that Women's rights are being taken away & that the person who leaked the draft is a hero.
My mom is 58 and has never voted in her life. She registered to vote today so she can vote for @JoeCunninghamSC, who will defend women's rights! I hope this is indicative of what is happening all over. #RoeVsWade
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
We could protect Roe tomorrow, but Sinema refuses to act on the filibuster. Until that changes she can take a seat talking about “women’s access to health care.”
Hold everyone contributing to this disaster accountable, GOP & Dem obstructionists included. She should be primaried.
Sen. Chuck Schumer: ‘Make no mistake, the blame for this decision falls squarely on Republican senators … who spent years pushing extremist justices … but who claimed, somehow, this day would never come. But this day has come, and we will fight it all the way’