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🌊 she: anthropologist, writer, lgbtq, errant dkossack, lifelong dem (formerly tx-19, now tx-24). she is a momma, always.☮️

[shepersists @peaceshesaid]

i voted today. #TurnTexasBlue

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

NEW: The House has passed the Respect for Marriage Act to enshrine marriage equality protections into federal law with unanimous Democratic support.

It now heads to President Biden’s desk to become law.

[Wanda Sykes @iamwandasykes]

I bet they asked Herschel Walker if he was ready to make his concession speech, and he said, “Yes, two hot dogs please.”

Congratulations @ReverendWarnock
Thank you GA!🙌🏾

[shepersists @peaceshesaid]

#VoteBlueTomorrow. I'll be working late, at a job that doesn't pay me a living wage, struggling to get through the shift without being exhausted. Long Covid did that to me. The election results will be on my mind all day. I want some rest, some peace. I know I am not alone.

[shepersists @peaceshesaid]

I rarely comment here, but I want to state for posterity (or at least until Twitter is no more) that I voted last week (Dallas County) for @BetoORourke, @CollierForTexas, @RochelleMGarza, @Janet4Texas, @jay4txland, @hays4ag, @LukeWarfordTX and every other Democrat on the ballot.

[shepersists @peaceshesaid]

Democracy is on the ballot. If you're paying attention, you know this is not hyperbole. I'm scared, so much more so than in 2016. We knew the hate would come, and it did. We knew they would chip away at our rights, and they did/do.

[Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke]

Greg Abbott’s extremism is threatening the lives of Texas women.

Share our new ad — and join us in defeating him.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

The new head of CNN had hoped that shifting it to the right would allow them to pick up Fox viewers. Instead, CNN is simply losing viewers to MSNBC.

This will go down as one of the WORST decisions in cable television history.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

If the new owner of CNN thinks it can peel away Fox News viewers by going "conservative," he is in for a rude wake-up. All this will do is lose CNN liberal and moderate viewers.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Vote them out.

[Ian Kremer @LEAD_Coalition]

Please re-Tweet if you agree that #Alzheimers and other forms of #dementia are unaffordable financially, physically, emotionally & ethically. We need better care and support, and more research to #EndAlz.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, a septic uterus, or a miscarriage that your body won’t release is abortion. If you can’t get those abortions, you die. You. Die.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @HillaryClinton

Anyone who goes on You Tube and re-watches the debate or your interviews during the 2016 campaign can see how -at every step- you tried to warn voters about Trump, Putin, Russia, women's rights, civil rights.

It's remarkable so many did not see it in 2016.

[feminist next door @emrazz]

If your boyfriend or husband supports banning abortion, leave him.

Seriously. Leave him today. You have no idea what he’s willing to do to you behind closed doors and against your will if he’s willing to admit that publicly.

Leave him. Protect yourself.

[WᴶEᴼBᴱB ✌🏼 @thewebbix]

This sounds like a well reasoned and good take on differences in views on abortion. The science and social ethics may differ from religious criteria. Ultimately, nobody is forced to abort. And no laws I’m aware of stop any from opposing abortion or voicing their position.

[Jessica Cisneros @JCisnerosTX]

With the House majority on the line, I am calling on Democratic Party leadership to withdraw their support of Henry Cuellar, the last anti-choice Dem in the House.

We are watching the fall of #Roe. In this moment, we need to do everything we can to fight for our rights. #TX28

[Mrs Whatsit's burner phone @MadeleineLEngle]

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
A Wrinkle in Time

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The leak is a fascinating story about dysfunction at an increasingly politicized court. But don’t confuse it with THE story, which is taking away Constitutional rights from women.

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

You can’t catch pregnancy by sitting next to a pregnant person.