Freedom From Religion Foundation [Unofficial]Freethought Radio – June 11, 2026
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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 3, 1873: U.S. Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail. This included any literature discussing birth control. The authorities imprisoned many birth control and free love advocates for violating the law, including Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger.
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LoC Appreciation SocietyAnna Botsford Comstock [between 1904 and 1924]
1 photographic print. | Anna Botsford Comstock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
Anna Botsford Comstock was an author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885). Comstock worked with Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Walton Spencer, Alice McCloskey, Julia Rogers, and Ada Georgia as part of the department of Nature Study at Cornell University. Together they wrote nature study curricula to develop a curiosity for, and education about, the surrounding natural world. Comstock also was a proponent for conservationism by instilling a love and appreciation of the natural world around people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Botsford_Comstock
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GOP Official for Kamala Predicts ‘Silent Majority’ Will Win
“He just cannot be in the Oval Office again,” former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) told the Daily Beast Tuesday night during her drive up to the Keystone State for the event. And she predicted: Harris will prevail.
“I think there’s a silent majority,” she said. “I think there’s a silent group of women who will crawl over broken glass to vote against Trump and who will quietly vote for Harris.”
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"And while the press reports on these horror stories when they crop up, the political writers are too consumed with the horse race and the poll numbers to tell the American people that one candidate—the adjudicated rapist—unabashedly wants women to die and the other one does not."
"Dobbs puts women’s lives in danger. The evidence is incontrovertible. But that is clearly the intended result of these neo-Comstock laws. Men are killing women, and using the risk of death to control them."
Thurman died as a result of her inability to access abortion care in Georgia after the Supreme Court knocked down Roe v. Wade. Olear writes,
"I’m writing about this today because it is fresh in my mind, but also because what happened to Ida C. Craddock is happening to women in this country right now: the legal system is going after women trying to help other women."
Greg Olear offers a sobering historical parable today, as he compares the death of Ida Craddock in October 1902 to the death of Amber Nicole Thurman in 2022.
Craddock took her life after she was convicted of obscenity by a judge acting at the behest of Anthony Comstock, whose Comstock Act remains on the books and which Republicans want to revive.
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Lyle Solla-YatesWild to hear Kenan Thomson shout out Anthony #Comstock, one of American history's worst boogeymen and a star of #project2025 . Want to catch up on America's best argument for #chastity ? This may help https://www.vox.com/politics/23678636/supreme-court-anthony-comstock-abortion-mifepristone-matthew-kacsmaryk #uspolitics #americanhistory #dnc2024
