Jonathan V. Last

I don't know about you, if your thoughts were the same.

Yeah, no, same.

Like, you know, I'd written a bunch of hair on fire things about how dangerous this was and it was an occupation and this was the government waging war on the citizens.

And yet when you get there, you realize how deep you are into Anne Frank territory.

So I just want to talk about one thing.

Governor Walz talked about a network of doulas who are organized to go and do secret home births for women who need to deliver a baby but can't go to a hospital because the hospitals are basically honey traps that DHS agents stake out.

I mean, on the one hand, just sit with that for a moment, that people have to give birth in their homes in secret

Because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them.

This is not like a, oh, if we're not careful, we get to the handmaiden's tale someday.

This is real.

This is lived reality right now.

This is the country you live in.

It's there.

You may not have it in your neighborhood, but, you know, this this is not like a little shantytown somewhere.

This is a major American city.

They got a bunch of professional sports teams.

But then the other part of that is, OK, so they're now having kids at home.

How is the record keeping working on that?

Right.

Are these kids getting birth certificates?