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Texas Turns Men, Women, and Children into Bounty Hunters
Current Affairs Sep 4, 2025

Texas Turns Men, Women, and Children into Bounty Hunters

The Texas legislature is in the process of passing a law that would allow anyone in the state to sue abortion pill manufacturers and doctors who send abortion pills into Texas. People with no connection to someone seeking an abortion can collect at least $100,000 in damages, according to the New York Times. Abortion is already strictly criminalized in the state, but this is a measure meant to rally citizens as vigilantes, surveilling the activity of doctors out of state. And that’s what makes this law, like a similar one passed in Louisiana, so insidious. 

If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers
Jacobin Sep 4, 2025

If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers

Every day, when I get home from work I feel so frustrated, the boss is a jerk, And I get my sticks and go out to the shed, And I pound on that drum like it was the boss’s head.“Bang the Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren (aka the Green Bay Packers touchdown song) Each […]