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New: The Roundup episode 14

This week’s #fediverse news gathered into an easy reading. Some standout ones:

🎉 Mastodon hits 11M accounts, signing up 1M accounts in 25 days
💻 New initiatives and energy about fediverse developer cooperation
📈 https://beta.fedidb.org/ is live, a dashboard for fediverse statistics

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The GOP Is Getting Creamed on Abortion. But They Still Don’t Get How Badly. by Jay Kuo
With a Supreme Court case looming this week that could strip away the right to mifepristone, an abortion medication used in nearly half of abortions nationwide, the GOP is at a crossroads. At issue is whether the party will hew to the most extreme of positions: outlawing abortion with few to no exceptions, not even in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother. The few moderates left within the GOP are wringing their hands and warning of electoral catastrophe, while the presidential candidates weave and dodge the issue to ensure they can still appeal to the base while not alienating centrist voters.