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The Present Age Weekly Recap: May 6

Roe, Roe, Roe

Parker Molloy
May 6, 2022
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Welcome to the weekly recap. In this post, I’ll be linking to my work from the week, sharing some stories from others I thought were interesting, and providing a few casual thoughts on [gestures at everything]. If you’d like to receive this weekly email ONLY, please go to your account page and under “Email notifications” uncheck every box except “TPA Weekly Recap.” If you don’t want to receive the weekly recap, leave all boxes except “TPA Weekly Recap” checked.


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From me th is week: Roe, Roe, Roe your vote

On Tuesday, I put together a “Post-Roe reading list” filled with some of the articles I read in the immediate aftermath of the SCOTUS opinion leak.

The Present Age
Your Post-Roe reading list
If you missed it, the Supreme Court is about to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which will end the right to an abortion and allow states (or the federal government) to implement various restrictions and outright bans on the practice. It goes without saying, but this is very bad…
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9 months ago · 17 likes · 2 comments · Parker Molloy

On Wednesday, I wrote a little something (using history!) pushing back on the idea that “the Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists,” as Elon Musk put it.

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A history of the "the Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists" argument
Digging through old newspapers is one of my favorite hobbies. I just love what they can tell us about not just the past, but the present and the future, as well. I follow Twitter accounts like Pessimists Archive and Yesterday’s Print, keep up with historians on Twitter, and of course, keep an active newspapers.com subscription up and running…
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9 months ago · 20 likes · 3 comments · Parker Molloy

Also on Wednesday, I appeared on The Recount’s “Chatterbrain” game show (short clip below, full episode here).

And finally, on Thursday, I wrote about how the media’s decision to treat “pro-life” as a value-neutral term helped give anti-abortion groups a boost.

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The words we use: on the mistake of media's use of "pro-life" framing
Earlier today, the Washington Post published a piece by media columnist Margaret Sullivan about rhetoric and the role it played in the fight for (and against) abortion rights in the U.S. Her column, “The media fell for ‘pro-life’ rhetoric — and helped create this mess…
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9 months ago · 14 likes · Parker Molloy


Posts from others that I want to draw attention to.

There’s a great interview with Robin Marty, author of The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, about, well… a post-Roe America, over at Discourse Blog.

Discourse Blog
‘This Is the Time To Decide Exactly What You Are Willing To Commit To’
When it comes to the future of abortion access, community and solidarity are perhaps all we have left. We won’t have Roe v. Wade, that is all but certain. We won’t have the Democrats who’ve made careers off of pretending to priorit…
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9 months ago · 10 likes · 5 comments · Samantha Grasso

If you’re curious how the right-wing/anti-abortion movement is responding to news that Roe is about to be overturned, Teddy Wilson has you covered at Radical Reports.

Radical Reports
The Anti-Abortion Movement's Response to the SCOTUS Leak
The leaked draft opinion by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v Wade has been responded to by the anti-abortion movement not with celebration of the movement’s apparent imminent victory, but with accusations and speculation about who was behind the leak…
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9 months ago · Teddy Wilson

Embedded asks the important question, “What is online feminism now?”

Embedded
What is online feminism now?
Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. I wrote this one, obviously. —Kate…
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9 months ago · 10 likes · kate lindsay

And Ryan Broderick has a deep-dive on the completely bonkers rumor that Republicans keep repeating about schools supposedly having litter boxes in their bathrooms for “students who identify as cats.” (It’s obviously nonsense.)

Garbage Day
The furry days are over
How Did Furries Get Swept Up In The Culture War? Following the various narratives of right-wing media is not easy. Which is by design. There is a general shape to how conservatives transmit ideas, which then informs policy. But it largely happens in disconnected and seemingly random bursts across various levels of mass media until it begins to resemble s…
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9 months ago · 16 likes · Ryan Broderick

Today’s tunes

I’ve been watching/listening to this video of a guy named Thiago Ramalho doing really cool things with loop pedals and his guitar. It’s almost a decade old, but I just saw it a few weeks back. Check it out.

That’s it for this week! Please leave any questions, comments, feedback, or recommendations (definitely recommendations) in the comments below. Have a good weekend, everyone!

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