Eight states — California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont — have made school meals free to all students regardless of income.
Bible Belt: f those kids. |
Arkansas is trying to post abortion access on the ballot!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/26/abortion-ban-arkansas-overturn-activists/ |
They better bootstrap their way to breakfast. |
The absolute terror of kids getting fed. It’s awful. So terrible. |
If those kids want to eat, why don't they get jobs like the rest of us? The mines are open. |
Why on Earth should poor and middle class taxpayers subsidize the lunches of wealthy families? |
Well, darling, for “life.” Only those eight states are actually taking care of life instead of torturing and killing women. |
Why on Earth should poor and middle class taxpayers subsidize the roads and traffic lights used by wealthy families? The firefighting services, the police, the government used by wealthy families? |
Jessica Valenti brought the receipts.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbst9wtKC31vjz5y8.mp4 5:20 "For months I have been tracking a conservative campaign to sow distrust in maternal mortality numbers. Republicans know that the data is going to show that their laws kill women, so they're pre-emptively claiming that maternal death numbers aren't accurate. Some states have even disbanded their maternal death review committees entirely, and because the people most likely to die are the most marginalized among us, their hope is that no one will care." |
Continuing: "I've also documented how the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork over months to blame doctors for women's deaths as if the people working under threat of losing their license or jail time are the problem and not the laws that prevent them from their jobs. All of which is to say when Republicans feign surprise or compassion over post-Roe horror stories, they are lying." Jessica Valenti, "Abortion, Every Day" substack at https://jessica.substack.com/ |
YES! YES! YES! |
I just paid to subscribe. She’s doing great work, and she needs support. |
Same PP. A friendly reminder that when doctors are taken out of hospitals and clinics because "there was a complaint" and "we need to review" and "on probation while the AG decides whether or not to prosecute -- even if there is no prosecution after the review, even if there is no jailtime, even if the license is reinstated -- that is a way to ensure that this healthcare is put on hold. That we drag our feet to delay the care, to close down options for women. To make it harder. Even if "nothing comes of it," they can accomplish a lot just by the threat alone. |
I’m glad someone is bringing the receipts to the maxim that “the cruelty is the point.” It is the point. Women are to know that our lives are valueless, that “life” is the most important thing ever, but that we are disposable. The manufactured mess in the Middle East is courtesy the GOP’s overseas allies to distract from abortion rights, which strikes at the very heart of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Increasingly women are getting death, slavery and misery and that is what the GOP wants. |
true, and honestly, wealthy kids aren't eating cafeteria food, for the most part. |