Kathy Spillar: The Heritage Foundation wants to 'use every lever of power' against women - Velshi - MS NOW

[Rhiannon12866]

Katy Spillar, Ms. Magazine's executive editor, is sounding the alarm on a new policy blueprint released by The Heritage Foundation that she says aims to roll back advances for women. She warns of an authoritarian strategy aimed at shrinking women’s independence and political power. Despite that, she insists women across the country are organizing in the courts, in elections, and in the streets, refusing to go backward. - Aired on 03/15/2026.

[Skittles]

1. straight white repuke men cannot stand not being the center of attention

biggest fucking snowflakes on the planet

[jfz9580m]

6. It is not even that straightforward

I actually don’t mind anyone being the centre of attention. I used to hate being conspicuous and then blunder into things and attract attention. Yeah I should stop doing that at some point..

What I learnt after falling into something foul was that being under observation, even the Panopticon thing, degrades your expectations of dignity and is hell.

In addition to whatever battles rage for attention, these guys want to smoke out all the people who lurk, so our hands are basically forced. That’s the part that pissed me off. Because I wanted to be there! I liked how this site had underground in its name.
Not “DemocratsWhoWantToBeOnTeeVee!!!!.com”

Lurking and gathering info on the opposition..lol..It has forced me to write like someone conspicuous.

It’s totally this shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

the "dark forest hypothesis", whose central claim is that a civilization which broadcasts its location to the universe will almost certainly invite its destruction by another civilization. Luo tests his hypothesis by broadcasting the location of a star 50 light-years away, then entering hibernation while awaiting to see if the target star is destroyed, which it is by an unknown advanced civilization. The Trisolarans, realizing Luo has uncovered a way to destroy Trisolaris, send probes to jam any further cosmic broadcasts.

successfully develops a system that can circumvent the Trisolaran jamming of cosmic broadcasts. Threatening Trisolaris with mutual assured destruction should he broadcast Trisolaris' (and by proximity, Earth's) location, Luo forces Trisolaris to divert its invasion fleet and to aid human scientific progress.

Okay maybe that is excessively paranoid and I am dubious about Liu Cixin’s politics.
But it is a somewhat apt metaphor for the net as it bleeds into our lives and forces one to poke at this opaque mass gingerly when not goaded.

Because these brain-damaged hacker types are usually male. Of course they are also kinda stupid so what mockery can accomplish it should. Otoh mockery may send such thick-headed types around the bend.

I am not going to bloody learn to code and understand their bs. I have my own field I have neglected for their bs. I code in Mathematica/Surface Evolver/LabVIEW and that is enough for me.
Crackpots who go around thinking everyone wants to get sucked into their bs..

It’s full capture the dickheads want - overground and underground. This one largely male, entirely brain-dead field - computer science. Well okay maybe not entirely. I use computers too. But you know what I mean..

Not everything is about computers…in fact few things are..total hogs.

I would like to send them a grim warning that they can have the overground and do kayfabe and be inane up there. They can’t have the underground metaphorically and encroach endlessly. That’s where non-tacky people live! Idiots..

Made me drop my ill-fitting nice Indian lady act Skittles. Well it was never a good fit anyway..lol..

Actually I generally have few problems with male scientists in other fields or doctors or even working class men. And people who don’t use the net much are refreshingly free sometimes of hardened lunatic views.

People who live outside computer worlds in short. I don’t like a lot of the extremely online in general, because they have forgotten common niceties and in person human behavior.

You are cool Skittles because you are fun and all you. But a lot of them pick up these pugilistic ways online and eventually one has to with bad grace respond. They are not like you. You kick ass alone and honestly. They mob when weaker or extort when powerful. Douchebags..

As is, I have to be online all the time lately (though it is strictly temporary) to get these guys to stop gumming up the works for me for this damn long. Nitwits. There isn’t even a proper interface except DU and cleverbot and none of them respond to email.
I am in this 14+ year conflict (or not..It is impossible to tell! That must be the fun!) over right to information basically.

I tried to be nice and I am vaguely still nice..
Nothing I hate more than people coming to my home uninvited. Especially when you leave every damn space you can to avoid them. But they must map, mine and commodify every last inch of space. Yeah they can’t. This isn’t Zuckerberg’s island.
Sorry Skittles.
I keep mystifying various baffled DUers with stray rants.

You work in cybersecurity right Skittles? I suspect they have just shoved me into something with software that locked up and has flagged me as a lunatic. And just because if you scratch the bullshit brainless, nice Indian lady surface I am an assertive woman. I don’t go into their bullshit filled bullshit and they can stay out of mine.

[ColoringFool]

9. I Need A Concise Translation. Because.....Whut??

[jfz9580m]

11. The creeps at Google have an app for that

I have every reason to be daft. I was in a cult and not willingly. Well..anyway that is how I perceived it..A Google cult..What is anyone else’s excuse?

[jfz9580m]

2. Amanda Marcotte and Jill Filipovic have been sounding the alarm for a long time

It seemed too unbelievable.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. And I believe that American women (and even men) have come too far to put up with this

As much as they try, it's impossible to turn back the clock a couple of centuries. My mother was a college graduate as well as my aunts. My grandmother was a school teacher, but she said if she was growing up now, she'd want to be an environmentalist.

[jfz9580m]

8. Very cool-hell it would be impossible here in India

Right now anyway.

Your grandmom sounds cool. Well you are a chip of the old block then seeing as you have hosted E&E forever.
I am trying to think back to 2006. Did you change your handle? Though I remember you don’t like handle changes. I remember many mods from back then: TheMagistrate/SheWhoMustbeObeyed; empressofall (lol my ex commented about that ..many royal names); Shakespeare and Hamlette..they were both from the South and I used to mix them up.

When I came back in 2020 hatrack and TheMagistrate aside, I recognized very few names. I was amused to see that OperationMindcrime was banned . He was off somewhere posting paranoid things about DU. It is really funny. Just after I became a mod he sent me this horrible DUmail saying “Hi nam78_two, I was under the impression you couldn’t stand me.” And something whinge like that. And I think I used to try to be quieter back then so I was impressed that he picked up on that.

Re environmentalism you and I are in a small group that still remembers some of Bill Maher’s positives. He is definitely Greener than some. But that issue is so trivialized he never gets credit for it. He is definitely pro animal rights.

I remember your telling me about your grandparents before - how they traveled all over the world and went to Russia and Ukraine? Not sure if that was the grandmom who was a school-teacher?

My grandmother on my mom’s side had a gold medal in history (her words..she was kind of a braggart), but she never worked and was bitter about my grandfather’s sister who was a history professor in NZ. I guess she had to brag ..

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Heritage Foundation is an enemy of the State.

And should be classified as a terrorist organization.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I could not agree more!

[TBF]

7. Many younger women in this country need to wake up -

especially the ones who voted for republicans (any republicans, not just Trump). I'm just old enough (born in the mid-60s, early Gen X) to remember the women's rights and environmental concerns from my mom and other family members in the 1970s. It was a big deal when women made gains in the workplace, and especially when moms decided to keep working, or go back to work when their kids entered school. We were the first latch-key generation. Now, I see them attacking the right to vote as the first step to take power away from women and it's chilling.

[GiqueCee]

10. The Heritage HAS to be wiped off the face of the Earth...

... and everyone associated with Project 2025 banned for life from ANY elected or appointed government positions. NO exceptions! These venomous snakes have to be dealt with as harshly as the law allows, or they will destroy America, which is their ultimate goal, make no mistake. They're determined to establish Feudalism 2.0 in a ruthless authoritarian system that will make Hitler and Pol Pot look like choirboys.