“Don’t you support the troops” is a question I keep hearing.
I do.
I support them so much that I don’t want thousands of them to die, just to distract Americans from the fact that a politician might’ve raped a 13-year-old.
To put the horror at Brown in some additional context: Providence is exceedingly unused to gun violence. It is a city of almost 200,000 people with only *two* homicides this entire year, until tonight, down from 11 last year.
Because it's the one painkiller women can safely take while pregnant and there's a deeply held cultural belief that suffering mothers produce happier kids.
Election Day Eve Reminder: you’re closer to being homeless than you are to being a billionaire. Abortion care doesn’t only benefit those seeking to terminate a pregnancy. You aren’t rich enough to benefit frm any of Trump’s policies. Immigration isn’t crushing you. Capitalism is.