“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.” -- Winston Churchill
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World: 479,965,820 (+4,782,190)
Ginni Thomas reportedly pressed Trump's chief of staff on overturning the election. It's extraordinary. This is a pipeline between the spouse of a Supreme Court justice and the chief of staff at the White House, one of the top executives and officials in the executive branch, and they're communicating at times about the legislative branch — Congress. It's this overlapping of relationships across the United States government, and they all have seemingly one mission: to overturn the 2020 election to stop Joe Biden from taking the White House, and at times they are communicating about legal strategy. — Now what would you say if you saw this in another country? Judge Thomas needs to be impeached.
“I wonder if Ginni Thomas paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s debts.” — Ken Olin
The messages between Ginni Thomas and former Donald Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows show her offering strategic advice on how best to overturn President Joe Biden's victory.
Democrats call on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases due to his wife's texts. Ginni Thomas had urged then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to tell Donald Trump to "stand firm" and not concede the 2020 election. The Supreme Court allowed the records to be released to the committee in an 8-1 vote. Justice Thomas was the lone dissenter, which Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pointed out online Friday. -- Again, Judge Thomas needs to be impeached.
Supreme Court nominee’s ‘empathy’ is flashpoint for Senate. Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice. Traditionally considered an admirable attribute, the ability to empathize with another’s plight has become a touchstone for GOP opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. -- Republicans have literally no empathy towards others. Zero. That is not something to be proud of.
Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are poised to vote against Ketanji Brown Jackson. — Because Cruz and Cornyn are racists? You already know the answer.
Are women’s bodies private property? In Idaho, apparently they are. Unlike SB8, SB1309 allows an exemption for pregnancies caused by rape or incest – so long as those assaults were reported, that is, which fewer than one-third of such incidents are, according to Rainn. The Idaho law has a bigger minimum reward for plaintiffs than the Texas law does: the private citizens who sue abortion providers in Texas will collect at least $10,000 if they win, but in Idaho, the prize is $20,000. And crucially, the Idaho law limits the range of potential plaintiffs. In Texas, any citizen – including those residing out of state – can sue over any abortion performed in Texas after six weeks. But in Idaho, in order to sue over an abortion, a plaintiff needs to be a family member of the woman who had the abortion, the man who fathered her pregnancy, or a family member of that man. Reported rapists are excluded from the right to sue, but their family members are not…But the keep-it-in-the-family approach of Idaho’s SB1309 has its own sinister and insidious logic. By granting a patient’s parents, siblings, partners and in-laws the right to sue over her choices regarding her own body and life, the law implies that these parties have a particular interest in, or perhaps even ownership over, that woman. The logic is that women are the possessions of their families, and that those families – namely, their fathers and husbands, though the Idaho law extends to female relatives as well – have an interest, even a right, to control them. SB1309’s private cause of action is targeted, granting these relatives the right to sue providers only over abortion. But the notion that the parents, husbands, and in-laws of adult women have a legitimate legal claim to control those women’s bodies and lives is one that could be expanded even beyond the question of reproductive choice. As heinous as the abortion ban is, it may not stop there…If this all sounds baroque and morbid, like something out of the Old Testament, that’s because it is: the Idaho bill was lobbied for by a group that calls itself the Idaho Family Policy Center, a non-profit dedicated to “promoting Biblically sound public policy”. In this way, Idaho and Texas seem somewhat at odds over what the justifying logic behind the abortion bans of the post-Roe future should be. Are women’s bodies public property, like Texas says, subject to regulation by anyone and everyone? Or are they private property, like in Idaho, subject to the more intimate terrorizing control of husbands, fathers, brothers and in-laws? It’s not clear which vision will prevail. — Jesus fucking Christ. The GOP is showing us very clearly that they are the American Taliban. Believe them when they show you who they are.
Conversion therapy costs U.S. over $9 billion a year, study finds. Nearly every major medical group has condemned the discredited practice of trying to change people’s sexuality or gender identities. Multiple recent studies have concluded that conversion therapy harms the mental health of those subjected to it, but a report published Monday is the first to quantify the economic cost of the discredited practice. Efforts to change LGBTQ people’s sexual orientation and gender identities cost the U.S. an estimated $9.23 billion each year, according to a peer-reviewed study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. -- Conversion therapy is torture.
Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto. GOP lawmakers in Utah pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams Friday, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war.
Russians shift focus from Kyiv — scaling back goals in war? Russian forces in Ukraine seem to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region in the country’s industrial east, officials said Friday, suggesting a new phase of the war.
Conservatives try to troll Jill Biden's Sesame Street appearance. First Lady Jill Biden appeared on Sesame Street and talked to fuzzy puppets about the importance of kindness…Conservative Twitter users were outraged. — Many “conservatives” are such horrible people.
Microplastics found in human blood for first time. Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested. The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year.
Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica. An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.
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