And another day of moving “very far and very fast,” how the Christian right took over the judiciary, the ‘abortion pill’ may have many other uses, SCOTUS waging a full-scale war on modern life, controlling the ‘intake of semen,’ and “Yes, World. It’s that bad here in America” comes to a close:
“Most of our elected leaders don’t see the fascist threat. That is, the ones that don’t straight up support it. What’s coming is going to be ugly. The question is whether it will be met with apathy or people who will give anything and everything to stop it. At any cost.” — Walter Shaub
“I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, a septic uterus, or a miscarriage that your body won’t release is abortion. If you can’t get those abortions, you die. You. Die.” — Andrea Junker
“This was not a Court saying "Look, we're fixing a poorly-reasoned decision while recognizing the institutionalization of a right." This was a Court saying: "We personally hate abortion and we don't give a flying f*** about anything but making abortion harder on women.”” — Tom Nichols
Roe demise shows conservative Supreme Court wants to move "very far and very fast". “The 6-3 majority feel that they have a narrow window to do all the things important to the conservative legal movement,” said Robert Tsai, a law professor at Boston University. “You never know when the window will close and so they are acting with urgency.”…“It is not about judicial philosophy or constitutional interpretation,” he said. “It is about conservatives moving constitutional law very far and very fast in a very conservative direction.” — At first things move along by inches. Then they speed along very fast. Then you wonder what happened and how did we get here? By then it’s too late.
How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America. Leaders of the movement understood very well that if you can capture the courts, you can change society. At the core of the Dobbs decision lies the conviction that the power of government can and should be used to impose a certain moral and religious vision – a supposedly biblical and regressive understanding of the Christian religion – on the population at large. How did this conviction come to have such influence in the courts, given America’s longstanding principle of church-state separation? To understand why this is happening now, it’s important to know something about the Christian nationalist movement’s history, how its leaders chose the issue of abortion as a means of creating single-issue voters, and how they united conservatives across denominational barriers by, in effect, inventing a new form of intensely political religion…“It wasn’t until 1979 – a full six years after Roe – that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools.” — Everything Republicans do has its base rooted in racism. Everything.
“You can't have normal folks coexisting legally with states run by vicious, cruel white christian nationalists, without federal regulations and rights guarantees, while the former are disenfranchised and their votes count for less. The country won't hold together.” — David Atkins
Biden must take stronger action on abortion, Senate Democrats say. In an interview with NPR on Saturday, Washington Sen. Patty Murray said she'd asked the administration to have a governmentwide plan in place on "day one," as soon as the Supreme Court issued its decision. "We're at day two," Murray said. "We can't wait days or weeks to get action for people who today need this kind of care, are sitting in their homes scared to death, worried about their own health, worried about their own economic situation, wondering what the heck they can do. Every day that goes by is one day too many."
The ‘abortion pill’ may treat dozens of diseases, but Roe reversal might upend research. Mifepristone, the FDA-approved abortion drug, might also treat conditions like cancer and PTSD. Proving it works in a post-Roe landscape could be a challenge.
“If you don’t think your rights are under attack, you’re not paying attention! Republicans are showing the rest of the country precisely who they are, and if you are enraged over the SCOTUS decision handed down yesterday, then wait…the worst is yet to come.” — Corey P. Paris
America's middle class is deteriorating. The death of Roe will make it worse. The end of Roe v. Wade will only exacerbate instability — not just for women, but for the economies that rely on them. Prohibition of abortion, nearly two dozen economists agreed in a recent Ohio survey, would reduce women’s educational attainment, labor force participation and earnings in the state. Policies that inhibit women’s labor participation, International Monetary Fund research has shown, hamper innovation and productivity in the whole economy.
Here's how Washington, Oregon and California are responding after Roe V. Wade decision. The governors of Washington, Oregon and California issued a joint “multi-state commitment,” saying they will work together to defend patients and care providers.
Washington Gov. Inslee seeks abortion rights amendment to state constitution. “The right to this choice, this constitutional choice for the last five decades, should not depend on which party is in control of our state Legislature,” said Inslee, a Democrat. Without a constitutional amendment, the state would be in danger of losing abortion rights if a Republican majority was ever elected in the Legislature, he said.
Yes World, It’s That Bad Here in America—and Worse. Over the past few months I’ve had many kind-hearted people from all over the world make similar inquiries about America, asking if it is as dire and alarming up close as it appears from a distance. Yes, it is…But here on the ground this malignant sickness has a face, one that is far too familiar: It’s the face of family members whose newly revealed racism is regularly leveling us around the dinner table. It’s the face of former church friends, who have completely abandoned the Jesus they claim faith in and chosen the vilest of idols. It’s the face of once pleasant neighbors who casually regurgitate extremist propaganda in sidewalk conversations. It’s the face of childhood friends spewing anti-immigrant filth on their social media profiles. It’s the face of storeowners and hair stylists and restaurant workers, the interactions with whom, have become walks through minefields…We’re certainly losing the big things here: the integrity of our elections, the stability of our Republic, the faith in our systems, the illusion that our Republican leaders will put anything over power and party. But we’re losing much more than that. We’re losing the soft places we called home: our families and our churches and our circle of friends.
The Supreme Court Is Waging a Full-Scale War on Modern Life. But the contradiction is not the point. Rather, it’s what this hypocrisy demonstrates: that the Supreme Court will use whatever means necessary to take away what makes the United States a modern, functioning democracy. History is the tool, but only when it serves that goal…Yet with each new opinion, narrowing those protections seems to be the goal. The six conservatives on the Supreme Court will go as far back as they have to—to the 13th century even—to peel away the rights and structures that underpin modern life.
GOP lawmaker says she trusts Utah women to control their ‘intake of semen’ as abortion trigger law goes into effect. Rep. Karianne Lisonbee described a text message she said she received urging her to hold men accountable for unwanted pregnancies. “I got a text message today saying I should seek to control men’s ejaculations and not women’s pregnancies ... I do trust women enough to control when they allow a man to ejaculate inside of them and to control that intake of semen,” the Clearfield Republican told reporters at a news conference at the Utah Capitol on Friday.
The end of Roe will mean more children living in poverty. Those births will predominately be in the states with the most draconian post-Roe abortion restrictions. And with a few exceptions, those 22 states rank in the bottom half of states in the comprehensive support they provide to children and their families, according to the State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset compiled by Brown University’s Margot Jackson and her colleagues. The disparities can be enormous: Vermont spends three times as much money on education, health care, and other economic support for children as Utah.
Senate retirement bill benefits wealthy Americans. A retirement bill currently under negotiation in the Senate gives rich Americans a tax break by bringing forward the payment schedule to remain revenue-neutral within the 10-year budget window, but will ultimately add to the national deficit unless a future Congress raises taxes. The Senate’s Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act raises the age at which taxpayers must start making withdrawals from 72 to 75, allowing them three extra years of tax-free growth. Most Americans start living off their retirement accounts well before the age of 75, so the bumped-up age requirement really only affects the wealthy, who often use their retirement accounts as tax-sheltered investment vehicles rather than as savings to cover the cost of living in old age.
Rare mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair found in Canada. A gold miner in Canada discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth Tuesday…She's estimated to have frozen during the Ice Age, over 30,000 years ago.
“Letting every state functionally be a country unto itself while leaving Congress rigged and broken is a horrifically bad idea. Republicans are literally destroying this country's ability to function as a unified whole.” — David Atkins
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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