Recommended Reading: Anti-Abortion Politics, Alien Invasions, and the Anti-Vax Dragon's Den

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Andrea Grimes, Justin Ling, Jill Filipovic, Blake Chastain, Diana Butler Bass, Hemant Mehta, Seth Cotlar

Jun 05, 2023

The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

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writes that “the expertise of on-the-ground organizers in states where abortion is banned or heavily restricted — especially for people of color, queer and trans folks, and low-income folks — deserves our nationwide support and solidarity, not snark and a look the other way.”

Home with the Armadillo

Anti-Abortion Politics May Weaken Our Defenses Against Alien Invasions

Here’s another edition of Hard to Believe It’s Only Tuesday, a weekly roundup of the top headlines, tweets (for now!), toks, takes, and more in abortion news. You can always email me (andrea.grimes@gmail.com) or DM me on instagram with action items, takes, and news clips. This post is probably too long for email, so click on the links up there ^ above t…

a year ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Andrea Grimes

Justin Ling

writes that “because the broad anti-vaccine movement is an inherently and fundamentally a mission-driven movement — that is, they believe themselves to be right, moral, and good — they can justify some seriously scuzzy behavior.”

Bug-eyed and Shameless

Enter the Anti-Vax Dragon's Den

"Hello Unjected fam — it's Shelby and Heather. We're here to give you a very important message about what has transcribed at Unjected-dot-com in the last couple of days." Speaking directly to the camera, with an assortment of crystals laid out before them, Shelby Thomson and Heather Pyle had some bad news for the fam. It turns out that an “an unscrupulou…

a year ago · 41 likes · 4 comments · Justin Ling

Jill Filipovic

writes that “banning abortion is really unpopular, including with Republican voters. Efforts to ban abortion have been knocked down from Kansas to Kentucky to Wisconsin.”

Jill Filipovic

Abortion Bans Are Unpopular. Republicans Know It.

Christopher J. Clayton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The GOP presidential primary is picking up steam, and the candidates are being remarkably cagey on what should have been the biggest conservative win of the last half-century: Stacking the Supreme Court with far-right judges who granted the great Republican wish of overturning Roe v. Wade and e…

a year ago · 39 likes · 3 comments · Jill Filipovic

Blake Chastain

writes that “one thing I am less certain about is our ability to connect in digital spaces. I do think there is value in the public discourse things like social media afford us, but as I said above, discourse is no replacement for community, especially local community.”

The Post-Evangelical Post

I Still Haven’t Socially Recovered from Lockdown.

Over the past few years I’ve stopped believing in a lot of things. Some of those things are theological, some are political, some are social. I have less faith in politics. I have less faith in governance. I have less faith in media, both mainstream and socia…

a year ago · 19 likes · 7 comments · Blake Chastain

Diana Butler Bass

writes that the “Duggars and their collaborators are only the latest example of a long, sad history of misusing ‘dominion’ in service of their own power. They seek to dominate creation and community instead of recognizing that ours is a ‘dominion’ of mutual participation and wholeness. We need the earth and each other.”

The Cottage

Sunday Musings

Welcome to The Cottage Please consider signing up as a free or paid subscriber. The Cottage is named after a real place — a tiny studio — in my backyard where I write and reflect upon being Christian in this contentious, chaotic, and confusing time. My door is open for those longing to feel less alone — and who want to rediscover a capacious and curious …

a year ago · 95 likes · 37 comments · Diana Butler Bass

Hemant Mehta

writes that “what seems to be happening—and this is just me speculating—is that the Republicans who used to enjoy church for how it gave them cover to unleash their bigotry and force their extremism on others realized that the Republican Party, not their local congregations, was the best vessel for getting that done.”

Friendly Atheist

One theory for why "non-churchgoers now rule the GOP"

This newsletter is free, but it’s only able to sustain itself due to the support I receive from a small percentage of regular readers. Would you please consider becoming one of those supporters? You can use the button below to subscribe to Substack or use…

a year ago · 21 likes · 167 comments · Hemant Mehta

Seth Cotlar

writes that “as an outsider to this infighting amongst Oregon Republicans, I’m tempted to point out that when you build a political culture around the dopey idea that every American you don’t agree with is part of a nefarious Communist conspiracy to destroy America, then you shouldn’t be surprised when factions inside your own party articulate their disagreements by dopily accusing each other of being Communists.”