And another day of violent rhetoric, the House obtaining Trump tax records, seizing cell phones, gutting birth control and HIV medication coverage, chip manufacturing, COVID school grades, and anti-abortion as involuntary servitude comes to a close:
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For what it's worth, failing to investigate a former president is more a banana republic thing than actually doing so.” — The Rude Pundit
“The fact that the law applies to the president, and not just the rest of us, is a feature of democracy, not a bug.” -- Yair Rosenberg
Deaths
US: 1,059,641 (+431)
World: 6,441,493 (+3080)
Cases
US: 94,128,907 (+103,982)
World: 591,100,672 (+993,587)
“Republicans now want to abolish the FBI, CIA, IRS, Dept of Ed, impeach the President, VP, DHS Sect and AG, put the NIH Director in prison, and it’s only Tuesday.” -- Ron Filipkkowski
Violent rhetoric circulates on the pro-Trump internet following FBI search, including from a Jan. 6 rioter. “Lock and load,” was one of the top comments on an online forum dedicated to former President Donald Trump on Monday night, soon after it emerged his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort had been searched by the FBI. Other posts were more explicit, “I’m just going to say it. [Attorney General Merrick] Garland needs to be assassinated. Simple as that.” Another user posted, “kill all feds.” Users also encouraged others to post the address of the judge they believe signed off on the search warrant. “I see a rope around his neck,” a comment under a picture of the judge read...But talk of violence isn’t exclusive to the more fringe platforms.
Trump Supporters Are Calling for Civil War After FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago. After news broke that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday, his supporters openly called for an armed violent response, and ultimately, civil war. “Civil War 2.0 just kicked off,” one user wrote on Twitter, with another adding, “One step closer to a kinetic civil war.” Others said they were ready to take part: “I already bought my ammo.” — Fuck their threats. If Trump is not held responsible for crimes he committed, then our country is already lost.
From Dumb to Terrifying, Here Are Some Unhinged Responses to the FBI Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. The dust had hardly settled from the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago on Monday when a thunderous chorus of Republican lawmakers, rabid Trump zealots, two prominent Andrews, and pundits of all stripes weighed in on the extraordinary search at former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home. So far, the appraisals have been varied. But they tend to share a common identity of extremely amped up, conspiratorial, and ready for battle. Let’s take a tour of some of their strangest responses.
“There is no constitutional, statutory, or moral foundation for the belief a former president is above the law.” -- David French
“Today's one of those days when Republicans turn from citing the Bible, a book they've never read, to citing 1984, another book they've never read.” -- Mrs. Betty Bowers
Appeals court says House can obtain Trump's taxes from the IRS. The appeals court said the mandate in the case would be issued seven days after any appeal Trump makes in the circuit court is resolved. Trump may also appeal the case directly to the Supreme Court. This litigation is separate from the House select committee's investigation into the January 6 riot.
Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania says the FBI seized his cell phone. It was not immediately clear what investigation prompted this seizure.
Texas lawsuit aims to gut birth control and HIV medication coverage from health insurance plans. In the case of Kelley v. Becerra, two plaintiffs from Texas argue that the current structure of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates health insurance providers to cover certain preventative care they argue they do not need and that conflict with their religious beliefs — specifically, contraceptive coverage, STD testing and HIV medications Truvada or PrEP. One of the lawsuit’s arguments leans on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which states governments should not substantially burden religious exercise without a compelling justification. Plaintiffs argue this right has been violated as both are Christian and unwilling to buy health insurance that subsidizes, “abortifacient contraception or PrEP drugs that encourage homosexual behavior and intravenous drug use.” -- Evil and hateful fucking people. Religion can do that to a person. Leave the pews.
Biden signs bill boosting US chip manufacturing as he kicks off victory lap. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bill aimed at boosting American chip manufacturing as he kicked off a victory lap to celebrate a string of wins in Washington. The CHIPS and Science Act will invest more than $200 billion over the next five years in a bid to help the US regain a leading position in semiconductor chip manufacturing. It is aimed at countering China’s growing economic influence, lowering the cost of goods, making the US less reliant on foreign manufacturing and mitigating supply chain disruptions in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden on Tuesday described the law as a “once-in-a-generation investment in America itself.”
'I didn't really learn anything': COVID grads face college after pandemic disruptions. Hundreds of thousands of recent graduates are heading to college this fall after spending more than half their high school careers dealing with the upheaval of a pandemic. They endured a jarring transition to online learning, the strains from teacher shortages and profound disruptions to their home lives. And many are believed to be significantly behind academically...Researchers say it's clear that remote instruction caused learning setbacks, most sharply among Black and Hispanic students. For younger students, there's still hope that America's schools can accelerate the pace of instruction and close learning gaps. But for those who graduated in the last two years, experts fear many will struggle.
Pregnancy as servitude: reframing the abortion question. As the struggle for a woman’s right to govern her own body moves from the federal to the state level, anguish and anger persist — but the argument needs to change. If, as Justice Samuel Alito emphasizes as the central thesis of the Dobbs decision, the constitution is silent on abortion, it is explicit on involuntary servitude. And on the definition of involuntary servitude Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the Supreme Court in the 1988 United States v Kozminski decision, formulated the essential tests: involuntary servitude includes not only physical but “legal coercion,” a consequence that will be imposed under anti-abortion laws passed by several states...It is difficult to conceive of any involuntary servitude graver than a government’s compulsion of a woman to bear a child. Compulsory childbearing was a familiar practice in American slavery. Forced breeding of slaves was the widespread policy on numerous plantations, rooted less in the natural passions of humans than in the economic calculations of slave masters...The authors of the 13th Amendment and their imitators at the state levels could not have been unaware that the emancipation they established surely included freedom from forced pregnancies. That fact is a powerful premise for persuading courts that denying a woman the option to terminate an unwanted pregnancy should be a power denied to the state. It would offer petitioners a fresh basis for action against the state laws now encumbering the lives of women and their families.
Facebook turned over chat messages between mother and daughter now charged over abortion. Facebook turned over the chats of a mother and daughter to Nebraska police after getting served with a warrant as part of an investigation into an illegal abortion, court documents show. The investigation, which was launched in April before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is one of the few known instances where Facebook has turned over information to help law enforcement pursue an abortion case — but is also an example of a scenario that abortion rights experts have warned will be more common as all abortions becomes illegal in many states.
Why Hollywood keeps getting abortion wrong. This researcher interviewed dozens of writers, creators, and showrunners about onscreen abortion. Here’s what she learned.
“If you don’t want your kid to read a specific book in school, just tell the teacher you don’t want your kid to read a specific book in school. It’s that freaking easy, y’all. Stop ruining books for the rest of the kids.” -- Jess Piper
'We have nowhere to go': Many face eviction during a crisis in affordable housing. The poll finds a majority of Americans across racial and ethnic groups say affordable housing is a serious problem where they live, and eviction rates are basically back to pre-pandemic levels, with 3% of Black renters and 2% of Latino, Asian and white renters saying they've been evicted in the past year. Many more say they've faced the threat of eviction, with the share among Black renters (13%) nearly double that of white renters.
Mississippi grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing. After more than seven hours of testimony from witnesses and investigators, a Leflore County grand jury determined that there was not enough evidence to indict Donham on charges of manslaughter and kidnapping. The jury's decision means Donham will most likely not ever be prosecuted for her role in Till's death.
Record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean. Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases.
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