To all of us who have ever been called hysterical for warning that systemic right-wing attacks on reproductive rights could push the United States back to the pre-Roe era where legal and safe abortions were nearly impossible to come by in some states, congratulations! We were right.
March Madness: Florida and Michigan Fight to the Death (of Democracy)
Once upon a time Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon stood in front of Michigan’s State Capitol Building and said that we needed to “Florida our Michigan.”
A Seat at the Table
It’s Black History Month and right now, there are students in Texas learning that African “workers” came to the United States to help farm cotton. And it must be true, it’s in their textbook.
In 2015 a social post went viral when a woman’s son texted her a photo of a page of his textbook that contained the caption, “The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.” She was outraged.