Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@amydiehl@mstdn.social)

Federal shutdown: Grant offices for domestic violence victims have been shuttered, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children is struggling financially & women federal workers have been disproportionately affected by job cuts. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2025/10/17/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-women-00613257

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Jack Ohman's commentary on what it appears the Roberts court will do to the Voting Rights act.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/17/2348789/-Cartoon-Voting-Whites-Act

"By the 1970s, the public association of southern white churches with segregationism had damaged the image of the Christian Right. In adopting the antiabortion struggle, evangelicals saw themselves as engaged in a battle for the civil rights of the unborn—a new conflict every bit as morally weighty as the struggle against slavery or Jim Crow."

~ Ibid., pp. 103-4

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"To the faithful, the shift from anti-integration to antiabortion activism came from the same source, the wellspring their pastors led them to: the infinitely malleable, infinitely instructive Bible, an indispensable tool for the sophist and the power seeker as well as the believer.”

~ Ibid.

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“[T]he truth is that the rise of the Christian right has its roots in segregationism and has grown to accommodate a generalized backlash against the social changes that accompanied the civil rights era."

~ Ibid., pp. 102-3

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