"This evening the Texas Supreme Court ruled against [Kate] Cox, saying she was not entitled to a medical exception from the state’s abortion ban.
The image of a woman forced by the state to carry a fetus with a fatal condition at the risk of her own health and future fertility until finally she has to flee her state for medical care is one that will not be erased easily."
"The cruelty and inhumanity of the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling is surpassed only by its denial of personhood to Kate Cox—and every woman relegated to the status of a second-class citizen in Texas. ...
By restricting reproductive liberty, religious fundamentalists are killing women—something the Texas Supreme Court seemed comfortable with in its ruling on Monday."
Some of us want to pretend we, too, are not immigrants, people descended from immigrants to the United States.*
Some of us want to pretend that, if we are descended from immigrants, our immigrant ancestors were the "good" immigrants.
Some of us want to find someone to target, blame, and hate — even as we depend on the considerable contributions immigrants make to our culture and to us.
Speaking of those not descended from native peoples.
"The problem with Trump isn’t the gaffes — underneath the verbal clownishness Trump is telling us who he is and exactly what he intends to do.
He genuinely admires the brutality of the Chinese; he finds violence exciting; and he’s a sincere fanboy of the world’s fascists. And he keeps tell us what his presidency will mean if and when he regains power. There’s no subtlety here."
"Who is our Marjorie Taylor Greene? Who among Democrats has sat in the House chamber during a State of the Union speech by a president of the other party and shouted 'Liar! at the top of her lungs? Which Democrat put up a campaign ad featuring the candidate shooting feral hogs with an AR-15 from the open door of a helicopter."
Jonathan Weller reminds us of why Gaetz and his fellow jackals do what they do. They want to depict themselves as noble freedom fighters, but they're fighting to put more money into the hands of their super-rich donors and to take vital support away from the needy at the bottom of society.
As Roger Sollenberger reports, though Gaetz pretends to be sustained by small donors, recent video shows what he's really doing behind the scenes, as he meets select groups of big right-wing donors to court their financial support.
"McCarthy’s lashing out at Dems after his own party dumped him, McHenry inflicting pain on former Dem leaders, and inane analysis egged on by Republicans, is sooo symptomatic of the current GOP.
Cruelty remains its most vital currency, the thing that unites them despite all their other divisions."
As Audrey Dutton reports, since banning abortion, Idaho has dismantled support systems for pregnancies and births. She writes,
"Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care."
I"n speeches, interviews and campaign videos, Trump has promised to:
● Use the military to participate in the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in American history;
● Order the National Guard into cities with high crime rates, whether local officials want it or not;"
"● Prosecute Californians who protect minors coming to the state for gender-affirming care;
Impose a 10% tariff on almost all foreign goods, increasing prices for consumers;
● Appoint a special prosecutor to 'go after' his political opponents, beginning with Biden;
● Purge the federal civil service of anyone who questions his views."
"One of the most stunning moments [of Trump's off-the-wall speech to the California GOP] came as Trump ranted about crime, and promised his federal law enforcement officers would be empowered to shoot shoplifters — which prompted wild cheers and chanting from the crowd that took a long time to subside:”
"Everyone’s focused on Trump’s insane blathering, but we should be equally disturbed by the crowd’s raucous laughter [when Trump makes an ugly 'joke' about Nancy Pelosi's husband].
In the year+ since Dobbs, nearly everything that Team "You're Overreacting" said would never happen has happened. It's almost like they were never arguing in good faith. Weird.
@evacide notice they are asking for records a decade before the abortion ban. Idaho is losing Labor & Delivery hospitals & gynecologists are fleeing the state. #CrueltyIsThePoint