Hello habibis I’m at the big anti-abortion “March for Life” with LCRW managing editor @jwcroxton.bsky.social today. Follow along for my unhinged running commentary about this yearly bussed-in publicity stunt for people who want to take women’s rights away

Correction to earler—this is the “Walk for Life”—the “March for Life” is the east coast one that happened yesterday. Great branding! Anyways here’s the busses like every year they literally just bus all these people in

The SF chapter of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice brought a band to the counter-protest. There was some topless white guy with dreads with a Live Action sign earlier trying to dance along

Oh ok so Batman is from BASH—Bay Area Super Heroes. They’re actually pretty cool they monitor sweeps and stuff like that

They’re about to start marching or excuse me WALKING at the MARCH I mean WALK for life. Walking right by the counter so I guess if there will be a conflict it will be soon

The people holding the banner have these blue shirts that say NEWMAN on them in this campaign looming font. Dunno if that’s a candidate for something or a college to what yet

I turn around and four more bus-loads of people just got dropped off

The Live Action slogan this year is “love them both.” Meanwhile there’s essays on some of the counters’ signs

Dude in the hat got in the face of this YouTuber-looking guy while he was doing some man on the street segment. Hat guy was previously in the face of the woman filming the segment

we examine one of these right wing content grifter guys at work like we’re on safari. 1 guy to be presentable for the camera and get in circular arguments with activists, 1 to film Forgot to mention sometimes 1 with them—the muscle. Learn to recognize the pattern! LCRW recommends not engaging

Even Batman got trapped! Don’t get trapped by these guys!

Now they’re trying to drown them out

Eventually they get shouted out and chased out

Asked Batman and these content mill guys didn’t tell anyone where they were from

Now they’re just hanging around on the corner. Unfortunately there’s another protestor falling for it

The police closed off this sidewalk by Larkin & Grove

As you can see, there’s a lot of bike cops staging

Thank you!!!

“You’re not very kind” someone says to my comment

Nothing antisemitic about this sign very cool very normal stuff happening as usual

Couldn’t get the guy who was carrying a huge statue of the Virgin Mary in a baby sling but this is wild too

Delivery!!!

I thought it said fart of the womb for a second

HOLD UP WE HAVE AN ANIME JESUS I REPEAT ANIME JESUS IN THE CROWD

The sign says “this was once you” but that’s definitely not true. I was born from an egg at the daycare my father or mother’s name was Ditto

“Walk for Life/Thats a Lie!/You don’t care if people die”

There’s the “planned parenthood kills babies transitions minors” sign I saw earlier

There’s the SF Republican Assemby’s contingency