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[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@pascalepalaces it’s a mouth disease

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@DifrancescoAlex do you know of any active networks? i’ve seen SO many links to donate, none to organize

[Kristin Chirico @KristinChirico]

If you're marching in LA: DON'T and I repeat DON'T follow any groups into a tunnel or over a bridge. I know this is protesting 101 but just a reminder.

[Justin Feldman @jfeldman_epi]

Make sure you save some outrage for West Virginia v. EPA next week. It's likely to not only prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse emissions, but also prevent the federal government from regulating anything at all.

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@KaranoirN @EddyRobinson @sea_change111 @TekNihn @Buddyboybudbud do you know of any organizations working on planning and supporting for a strike? i’d love to volunteer and get others on board

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@JonesLeica @lataet @TekNihn yes, but in order to make the government listen, this strike will have to be huge

[robin lynn / wings 🏳️‍🌈 @caslostwings]

I am the “innocent child” pro-lifers love to slap on posters/use to bolster arguments. My mother gave me up for adoption after being unable to access abortion. She was poor, homeless. There was no parenting help. I received a life of pain+abuse. I would’ve rather been aborted.🧵

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@youareaurorable @MelaKatie @owens006 @EllenKurz you don’t need 50 votes (a simple majority), you need 60. the amount of misinformation out there is worrying.

[Ellen Kurz @EllenKurz]

You can help codify Roe v Wade by taking your rage to the polls this November.

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@tylrr_tyler @vanillaopinions luckily, i’ve also seen a lot of people who understand we need to be persistent, tactical, and mobilize just as much as republicans do. i wish i knew of a way to bring us all together to organize; hopefully we all do our own respective “get out the vote” volunteering/action

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@tylrr_tyler @vanillaopinions i’m so worried that detached people on twitter are going to be the reason we lose in the fall. i assume the same people who didn’t vote will be loudly outraged when there’s an abortion ban, no gay marriage, etc.

[Tyler @tylrr_tyler]

@vanillaopinions Republicans: *win elections in the exact races needed to enact sweeping countermajoritarian policies by maintaining a fiercely loyal base who will flood them with money and higher turnout*

Half of left Twitter: “don’t donate money to help Reps lose seats and voting doesn’t work”

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@mcoorlim @adamkotsko if to overthrow is the only option, who is arming the left? who is preparing for mass strikes? boycotts?

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@mcoorlim @adamkotsko that leaves the “revolt” or “overturn the system” idea. seems nice, and i’d love if we could do it, but there is zero indication that we could. the countless people i’ve talked to who say these things have zero concrete action items or plans.

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@vanillaopinions i’m so worried at the “don’t give democrats money, don’t vote” mentality. i hate most of the sitting democrats just as much as anyone, but if people don’t vote for them, republicans win in the fall. that likely means a national abortion and contraception ban.

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@mcoorlim @adamkotsko general strikes, boycotts—these ideas are all good, but i don’t think the left is organized enough to the point where we could use these as our only tools

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@mcoorlim @adamkotsko of course we should be doing more than just voting, but voting is going to be a necessary part of any plan for ensuring republicans don’t win in the fall and pass an abortion ban.

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@SeanHedgpeth @sam_d_1995 @vanillaopinions they could not have. they have a simple majority, not the super majority (60 votes) they needed to put roe into law

[gabriella @parkmcfield]

@JoeSaysStuff @mdbell79 i thought this was true too, but if they eliminate the filibuster and republicans win in the fall (which they very well might), then there’s nothing dems can do to stop them from passing a nationwide abortion ban.