Heidi Sieck
@heidispeaks.bsky.social
Founder @VoteProChoice | 30 years building civic power | Obsessed with who holds power and why | Ask me anything about organizing strategy | SF<=>NYC | ✡️ | bit.ly/HeidiSieckBio
Old questions? Everyone hates women. All sides agree. That was never a question. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
Platner’s Rise and Fall Revives Old Questions About ‘Bernie Bros’ and Women
The collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine after a rape allegation renewed attention to a movement built by Senator Bernie Sanders that some say is too forgiving of male misconduct.
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I get more new followers when I'm not posting on here than when I do. What's that about?
The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoMike Johnson: "The naysayers who have created this new term 'Christian nationalism' as a pejorative, a derogatory term, are trying to silence the influence and voices of Christians, and I think that's wildly inappropriate."
I grew up in the 80s with the National Debt a looming boogeyman of the Regan Era. Under Republican leadership - starting with Regan himself - the debt is now about to grow larger than the economy itself. And no one seems to care? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...
Going for Broke
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I just spent the last 3 hours using AI to summarize documents that were written by AI We're clearly in the Endgame now.
Ignore the headline. This is gold. We can easily replicate the best practices of the right wing social media and messaging engine. We can do it. We are do close. And it’s not hard. TY @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social ATTN: @democrats.org thecycle.substack.com/p/hell-hath-...
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine
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Super babies? Really? We’re clearly in the end game now.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoCreating superbabies to stop the rise of something akin to Skynet from The Terminator is capturing the fancy—and the wallets—of the same billionaires who bankrolled the AI revolution.
Safety for our candidates, especially women and anyone other than het-white-cis male candidates, is a deeply important discussion. It keeps great people from running and threatens our future. @VoteRunLead is diving into solutions. What else is out there? kettering.org/when-women-i...
When Women in Public Life Are Not Safe, Democracy Is Not Safe
Vote Run Lead, Women’s Democracy Lab, and The Matriots Education Fund work with women at every stage of political leadership, from the moment they consider running to the years they spend governing. W...
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I’m full on livid now. DCCC Leadership clearly knew. They knew. What are we even doing?
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 6mo agoA Southern California woman says Eric Swalwell drugged and raped her in 2018, joining several other women who have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by the East Bay Democrat.
50 former staffers.
CNN@cnn.com · 6mo agoA letter signed by more than 50 former staffers of Rep. Eric Swalwell described recent allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him as “serious” and “credible,” while demanding he resign from Congress and drop his bid for California governor. https://cnn.it/47Vxjx2
Two hours of bad@ss women talking about hormones. So refreshing. So enlightening. Share will all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Ultimate Guide to Women’s Sexual Health, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) & Menopause
Podcast Episode · The Mel Robbins Podcast · March 23 · 2h 13m
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Just a reminder that you should start now to help register and persuade people to vote for democracy.
“viktor orban has more integrity than the US president” is not a phase i thought i’d ever say but here we are
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6mo agoOrban admits defeat in the Hungarian election, "The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us" "I congratulate the winning party"
We all need to be tracking the crazy going on in the Courts right now to keep taking away repro freedom. Highly recommend @reprosfightback.bsky.social @angryblacklady.blacksky.app @hegemommy.bsky.social
rePROs Fight Back@reprosfightback.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis week on rePROs Fight Back, Jessica Mason Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social at @rewirenewsgroup.com talks with us about the latest developments at SCOTUS, including recent cases on birthright citizenship and conversion therapy, as well as Trump’s ousting of Pam Bondi, former U.S. Attorney General:
⚖️ BREAKING: Federal court PAUSED Louisiana v. FDA! Mifepristone telehealth access remains unchanged FOR NOW. This is a temporary win—but the fight continues. Anti-abortion militants will keep attacking. #AbortionRights #Mifepristone
Deborah Lynn@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 6mo agowww.cnn.com/2026/04/08/h... District Judge ruled against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who asked that the FDA rules that allow mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail be paused while a challenge to those 2023 regulations moves through the courts. #Abortion
🎉 WISCONSIN WINS! Judge Chris Taylor secures a pro-choice Supreme Court majority until 2030! But shenanigans continues: • FL hiding maternal deaths data • TX CPCs align with death penalty advocates • Trump moving to ban birth control www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... #Abortion #Wisconsin
Voters expand liberal majority on nationally watched Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin is home to close elections and contentious ideological battles, and its high court could take up cases on abortion, redistricting and election disputes in coming years.
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🩺 New from @jessica & @kylietcheung: Is Florida HIDING maternal mortality data? Or just refusing to track it? When states stop counting maternal deaths, women die in the shadows. 🔗 jessica.substack.com/p/is-florida-hiding-maternal-mortality
Is Florida Hiding Maternal Mortality Data?
4.6.26
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When your leaders can't answer basic questions about international law, we're in trouble. Q: Does wiping out a civilization constitute a war crime? Marco Rubio: *ignores, walks away* Via @factpostnews 🔗 x.com/factpostnews... #WarCrimes #Rubio #Accountability
FactPost on X: "Q: Does it constitute a war crime if the U.S. wipes out a civilization? Rubio: *ignores, walks away* https://t.co/z2JZSaJzSk" / X
Q: Does it constitute a war crime if the U.S. wipes out a civilization? Rubio: *ignores, walks away* https://t.co/z2JZSaJzSk
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NEW: To some far-right Christian nationalists, the SAVE America Act's attacks on voting rights isn't enough. Instead, they're vying for even more suppressive measures: Revoking women's suffrage, instituting "family voting" and restricting the vote to property owners.
‘The 19th Amendment was a bad idea’: The far-right’s wish list for extreme voter suppression
These ideas haven’t made it into legislation — yet. But they’re growing in popularity among far-right Christian nationalists, many of whom are motivated by a belief that women should have no role at a...
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This is total cuckoo bananas, right? openai.com/index/indust...
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
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Our midterms are happening under unprecedented conditions as POTUS turns the government against our own elections. We still have the power. Get our roadmap of the threats ahead and what we can do to protect a government of, by, or for the people. https://protdem.org/executive-override
How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections
2026 will be different from any election in American history. The Trump administration is wielding the full power of the government against our own elections.
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Today's reminder: we'll have 30+ Dem prez candidates to choose from starting Feb '28. AOC Harris Witmer Slotkin Newsom Shapiro Booker Buttigieg Beshear Pritzker Raimondo Kelly Gallego Khanna Walz Green Warren Yang Moore Warnock Murphy Ossoff Emanuel Sanders Cuban Cuomo S. Smith J. Stuart & more
Today's reminder of the Daily Political Reminder. We're not choosing any Democratic Presidential candidate now. We're vetting EVERYONE about EVERYTHING, February 2028, we can start narrowing it down. For now, revel in the possibilities.
Heidi Sieck@heidispeaks.bsky.social · 7mo agoToday's reminder: we'll have 30+ Dem prez candidates to choose from starting Feb '28. AOC Harris Witmer Slotkin Newsom Shapiro Booker Buttigieg Beshear Pritzker Raimondo Kelly Gallego Khanna Walz Green Warren Yang Moore Warnock Murphy Ossoff Emanuel Sanders Cuban Cuomo S. Smith J. Stuart & more
Anyone know one of these "biblical patriarchy" women personally? I'm so curious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
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What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they were all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom that's now on pause.
