Dante Elveera

The entire concept that abortion was a horrible sin was a callous move by a handful of Evangelical leaders to create a lynchpin issue that would allow different theological branches to unite behind right-wing politicians.

Here's the thing. In their natural state, the various denominations hate each other. And rightly so, since the maximum number of denominations that can be right is one. Those little disagreements on the details, prior to the invention of the greater enemy of abortion, were enough to schism over. The religious couldn't be a powerful political block because it was always one true faith and a hundred-thousand heretical paths, with no one denomination having a secure majority.

But by putting abortion as a big moral evil that needed to be corrected, they could get the Catholics and Protestants to cooperate. It gives them a shorthand to say that the Republicans are the "godly" party. It lets them talk about candidates' faith out in the open without every rival sect worrying that they'll enact heresy into law.

This bigger enemy strategy is behind every moral panic, be it the satanic panic, the anti-gay panics, anti-trans movement we're seeing now, all of it. It's a useful tool for antisemitism and racism. It's designed to activate the "good everyday believers" who don't consider themselves extremists but will still vote to support them because they're "good men of faith."

we have this app called toogoodtogo where restaurants/cafes/bakeries/hotels and so on sell their leftovers for really cheap to reduce foodwaste

i got all of this for €4 from starbucks

I used to do community service at a community breakfast, we’d go to the local Safeway and get all their stale bread, the local bakery for their stale baked goods and whatnot.

Idris Elba's agent: so you have an offer to voice knuckles the echidna in-

If he goes “hi could I get a venti iced white mocha and a venti pink drink please?” He’s gonna pull up to the window with flowers for his wife in the passenger seat and he’ll tip.

The attorneys general for 20 states and Washington, D.C., are joining together in supporting a legal challenge to South Carolina’s restrictive abortion law signed earlier this year, which prohibits most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

In an amicus brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, attorneys general from Virginia, California, New York and other states wrote that South Carolina’s so-called fetal heartbeat law is “blatantly unconstitutional” and “harms women’s healthcare as a whole.”

Planned Parenthood filed the legal challenge to the South Carolina measure almost immediately after Gov. Henry McMaster ® signed it into law in February.

The law has been blocked from going into effect pending the outcome of a legal challenge to a similar Mississippi abortion law currently before the Supreme Court.

Officially called the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act,” the law requires doctors to perform ultrasounds before an abortion, and prohibits abortions from taking place if cardiac activity is detected.

Similar to the controversial Texas law that the Supreme Court recently declined to block, the South Carolina law includes exceptions for medical emergencies. Unlike the Texas law, the South Carolina law also allows abortions after the heartbeat detection in cases of rape or incest.

In the Wednesday amicus brief, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D), on behalf of the coalition of states, wrote that the effects of the South Carolina law “are not confined to limits on particular procedures in a single state.“

“History shows that people will cross states lines to receive proper care,” he noted. “As a result, South Carolina’s restrictive abortion laws will cause many of its citizens to seek abortion care in Amici States—potentially straining their healthcare systems.“

Herring went on to say that “in light of similarly restrictive legislation being passed across the country, the collective impact of such laws harms healthcare on a nationwide scale.”