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(DIR) Post #B5MHhL8yF75u8D0HIG by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"We now must contend with a bunch of absolute freaks who are somehow upset about the teen birth rate going down."~ Robyn Pennacchia#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /3https://www.wonkette.com/p/republicansabsolute-freaks-want-to
(DIR) Post #B5MHhMM7jhD3tIAIQy by wdlindsy@toad.social
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As Jill Filipovic notes, Republicans are concerned about "middle-aged highly-educated liberal women, who over the past decade have turned out in enormous numbers for the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter rallies, anti-ICE demonstrations, and most recently national No Kings protests." Pushing girls into early childbearing heads that "problem" of uppity women off early on.#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /4https://www.throughline.news/p/the-purpose-problem
(DIR) Post #B5MHhNfeqYQfyAJPWK by wdlindsy@toad.social
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes, "Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /5https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819
(DIR) Post #B5MHhP4Vddu0JWwltY by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /6
(DIR) Post #B5MHhQSeTMoAchFZAG by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /7
(DIR) Post #B5MHhRcc9oN6Dsv2Ke by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /8
(DIR) Post #B5MHhSq7d4lq04FL1c by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /9
(DIR) Post #B5MHhTvpZKvnO3vPYu by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy /10
(DIR) Post #B5uL5FEqktbk0ITtj6 by wdlindsy@toad.social
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Noting "Sam Alito’s corruption-drenched decision gutting the remains of the Voting Rights Act," Josh Marshall says,"The corrupt majority has now doubled down not simply on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering but gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental right of states."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /1https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-courts-corruption-seeps-into-every-tissue-of-american-life
(DIR) Post #B5uL5FV9mGeSos6v8y by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"The Court’s abuses of power now extend to any laws that would limit their goal of remaking the country by corrupt means.So it all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /2
(DIR) Post #B5uL5FmWjgXvgkEnDc by wdlindsy@toad.social
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Gene Weingarten notes that historians consider the Taney court the worst Supreme Court in US history. But: "Now consider the John Roberts court. It is politically fractured. It has dispensed hell from day one, almost unfailingly enforcing a right-wing activist political agenda. It is absurdly partisan and morally corrupt."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /3https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/is-this-the-worst-supreme-court-ever
(DIR) Post #B5uL5GD78poV1Cg1ey by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"It has ushered in a nearly constant descent into our darker past. ...No Supreme Court in history has been so blatantly morally compromised — this is the first ones whose actions were stinky enough to lead to Congress creating a code of conduct for them."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /4
(DIR) Post #B5uL5GY1t4Xm44SjGC by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"In effect this is the first time that a Supreme Court — the ultimate authority on what constitutes proper, legal, ethical conduct — required a nanny to police their own selves. Primly, deferentially, the code was declared 'voluntary' and 'non-binding.'"#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /5
(DIR) Post #B5uL5GmD2Lt0m363MW by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"Much of this court’s corruption involves judges accepting favors and gifts from wealthy benefactors with matters that did — or might — come before them. This is a court that, it would seem, can be bought."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /6
(DIR) Post #B5uL5H2s2PDJbitMKe by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"This court has been a shameful court ... I used to argue before the Supreme Court and I read the opinion. It's shit. I mean, it's just bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit. …It is all politics and it is all — this notion of neutral justice is now,for everybody to see, absolute bullshit."~ Robert Reich#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais /7https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-this-the-shittiest-supreme-court
(DIR) Post #B5uL5HI77jPIN01X5k by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)~ Robert B. Hubbell#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais /8https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-john-crow-era
(DIR) Post #B5uL5IKzEXIbcCNLCy by wdlindsy@toad.social
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(continued from /8)"—and we should make him wear it as a badge of shame for the rest of his days. ... It is important to recognize the profound constitutional injury inflicted by Callais. It is nothing less than the resurrection of the Jim Crow Era."#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais /9
(DIR) Post #B5uL5JBo49YAG15WXQ by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"The content of the majority opinion was devastating, but so was the timing. I knew that the decision would be bad, but I had hoped that the Roberts Court would at least have the decency to wait until the end of the term in June — not drop this bombshell in the middle of primary season."~ Norman Eisen#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais /10https://www.contrariannews.org/p/15-ways-to-fight-callais
(DIR) Post #B5uL5K5ohuLx3jIFqC by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"A multiracial democracy cannot be defended by a narrow constituency. It requires a broader, deeper coalition that spans race, gender, class, geography, religion, and identity."~ Bryan FairThe purist games that play minority community against minority community — games to which progressives all too easily coalesce: these play the game right-wingers want to see played.#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais /11
(DIR) Post #B5uL5L0BKLRJsXfGhE by wdlindsy@toad.social
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"This week’s ruling was not a one-off. It’s the logical endpoint of a decades-long effort to disenfranchise minority voters and keep minority representation to an absolute minimum.The three longest-serving conservative justices on the court right now have a combined 75 years on the bench. This is their pet project. They own it."~ Bryan Tyler Cohen#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais /12https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/scotus-just-gutted-the-voting-rights