There is no CC for this one. But the voice over is clear and strong. I like the message of this short video, and I also love to bake and I must get me one of those cake stands. Scottie
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Largest pediatric hospital sees 4x increase in hospitalizations
How a music video about a gay teen may have saved hundreds of lives
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/music-video-gay-teen-may-saved-hundreds-lives/
A scene from “1-800-273-8255”Photo: YouTube screenshotThe 2017 music video for rapper Logic’s song “1-800-273-8255” may have saved hundreds of lives, a new study found.
The song’s title is the phone number of the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Its video showed a gay Black teen calling the number after being outed and receiving homophobic abuse by his track-and-field teammates.
Related: Here’s the new number to text for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
The video gained attention for its unique story and also the celebrities who appeared in it. It featured Nickelodeon star Coy Stewart as the gay teen, Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle as his father, Modern Family’s Nolan Gould as his boyfriend, Emmy-nominated actor Matthew Modine as his boyfriend’s father and the boys’ dads and award-nominated character actor Luis Guzmán as a supportive coach.
The study, published in the December 2021 edition of the British Medical Association peer-reviewed trade journal BMJ, looked at suicide data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the number of calls into the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline from the start of January 2010 until the end of December 2018.
It also looked at Twitter posts to determine the amount of attention that Logic’s song received. It found that the song received the strongest amount of public attention right after three events: the video’s initial August 17, 2017 release; the August 27, 2017 MTV Video Music Awards; and the January 28, 2018 Grammy Awards. Logic performed the song at the two latter events.
In the 34-day period following all three events, the Lifeline received 9,915 more calls than it had on average during 34-day periods in the years before. These calls were a 6.9 percent increase over the number of calls usually expected.
Furthermore, in the 34-days after these three events, there were 245 fewer suicides nationwide than usually experienced during the same time-spans in previous years.
The study’s lead researcher — Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, an associate professor at the Suicide Research Unit at the Medical University of Vienna — said his findings support the idea that media messages can have an impact on suicide prevention and crisis management, according to Psych Central.
However, Niederkrotenthaler also concedes that other factors may have contributed to the increase in Lifeline calls and reduction in suicides that his research team observed. But while Logic’s video may have saved lives, research also suggests that media reporting of suicides and suicide myths can increase suicide rates.
Regardless, the study suggests the importance and positive impact of promoting suicide lifelines in popular media. This could especially help LGBTQ individuals, who experience suicidal ideation and attempts more than the general public.
A 2016 research review by the Williams Institute revealed that 17 percent of LGB adults have attempted suicide, compared to 2.4 percent of the general population. Additionally, 82 percent of respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey said they had seriously considered suicide at some point in their lives, with 40 percent reporting having attempted suicide at some point.
On the youth side, the Trevor Project’s 2021 National Youth Mental Health Survey found that 42 percent of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide in the past year, including more than half of trans and non-binary youth.
I am not a music listener normally. I prefer podcasts about current political events. But I did listen to the song and it was good. I was worried it would be head banging hard to understand the lyrics too much base song, but I was surprised. The video was riveting, and I am glad to see so many big names in it. The times they are a’ changing. Scottie
Arizona doctors could face prison time for providing therapeutic care to trans youth
Photo: ShutterstockArizona state Republican Sen. Wendy Rogers has proposed Senate Bill 1045 to prohibit medical procedures that affirm the gender identity of children and teens who are transgender.
The law would ban medical staff from performing gender-affirming surgeries on transgender minors as well as prescribing testosterone to transgender men or estrogen to transgender women under the age of 18. Health professionals who do so would be guilty of a Class 4 felony, with a prison sentence of one to three years.
Related: Hormone therapy lowers suicide risk for transgender young people
Senate bill 1045 also states that teachers, school staff, and administrators cannot “withhold from a minor child’s parent or legal guardian information related to the minor child’s perception that his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with his or her biological sex.” This would ultimately force teachers and schools to oust trans and gender non-conforming students to their parents, even at the student’s potential peril.
This proposed bill follows suit with a bill that was ushered in Texas in April 2021, one that did not pass during its legislative session.
Leading health care organizations in the state condemned the bill, including the Texas Medical Association, Texas Counseling Association and Texas Pediatric Society. The organizations all say gender-affirming care is the best way to provide care to transgender children. The American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and others have agreed for years that gender-affirming care is the best path forward for trans youth.
Despite the common misconception, trans youth do not get surgeries either. Gender-affirming surgeries are not performed on anyone under the age of 18 in the United States.
According to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines for standards of care, a candidate must be age of majority in their given country (18 in the United States), and also must have received 12 continuous months of hormone therapy as appropriate to the patient’s gender goals (unless the patient has a medical contraindication or is otherwise unable or unwilling to take hormones).
Trans youth do not receive surgeries. That is not what gender-affirming care is. Gender-affirming care is more along the lines of social transitioning and hormone therapy, such as the use of puberty blockers (a treatment that is also reversible, if necessary).
Gender-affirming care saves lives
Studies have proven that both hormone therapy and social transitioning have been proven through studies to be beneficial for transgender youth— a group that is at an elevated risk of suicide due to bullying and lack of school social support.
A most recent study in 2021 found that hormone therapy has a positive effect on trans youth, reducing their risk of suicide.
Other studies have found there is a significant inverse association between rendering treatment with pubertal suppression during adolescence and lifetime suicidal ideation among the transgender adults who wanted such treatment. These results align with past literature, suggesting that pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents who wanted it is associated with favorable mental health outcomes.
Another study by the American Academy of Pediatrics reached the exact same conclusion.
It is also important to note that not everyone who is transgender can fully transition or wants to fully transition, either. The trans community often faces significant obstacles to acquiring health care, either due to lack of employment opportunities or to health insurers choosing not to cover vital healthcare procedures for transgender people.
“Access to transgender health care is challenged further by laws and policies across the country that codify myths that the care is risky, cosmetic or monolithic. For example, the federal Medicare program excludes coverage of sex reassignment surgery, deeming it “controversial” and “experimental,” despite decades of research supporting its effectiveness. Exclusions like this one are rampant in the private insurance context, with many large insurance companies excluding all coverage for “sex reassignment treatments” or equivalent care.”
Access to gender-affirming care is quite difficult in most countries, especially in the United States. Conversely, while it’s difficult for people in the trans community to access gender-affirming care, some trans people just want to socially transition, and studies show the benefits of social transitioning.
What is social transitioning and how does it help transgender people?
A social transition involves a child presenting to other people as a member of the “opposite” gender in all contexts (e.g., wearing clothes and using pronouns of that gender).
Previous studies about gender-nonconforming kids who weren’t allowed to transition found they experienced high levels of depression anxiety. A 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that allowing social transition can be greatly beneficial to the mental health of trans youth.
Another study published in 2018 found that calling a student by their chosen name is linked to reduced depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior among transgender youth.
Rogers’ attempted ban on gender-affirming care as detailed by the evidence would lead to more harm than good for gender clinicians and the youth under their trusted hands. Forcing teachers to oust students to their parents and also blocking the beneficial healthcare trans youth see as necessary and vital to their livelihood has been shown to be the antithesis to what will help trans youth.
When a bill similar to the one in Arizona passed in Arkansas (the first one of its kind), one doctor, Dr. Michelle Hutchison, raised the alarm that a bill like Arizona’s SB1045 would lead to more suicide attempts by trans youth — and it turned out to be true. Arkansas saw an increased rate of suicide amongst trans youth immediately after it was passed.
“It is dangerous,” said Ryan Starzyck, a local business owner and former board member of the local LGBTQ group Phoenix Pride. “It is deadly because if (children) don’t have the foundational information, if they have nobody they can turn and oftentimes is the only one they can turn to is the professional at school before, (the legislature) is laying the foundation for students suicides.”
Starzyk also said it reminds him of the bullying he constantly faced in the military for being gay.
Rogers also has proposed a bill to ban trans students from playing sports based on their gender identity, as a way to block trans girls from playing sports. That bill would also mandate a medical review of a student’s anatomy, hormone levels and genetics if the student’s biological sex is disputed while seeking to participate in sports programs at public and private schools, community colleges and state universities.
She authored this bill despite the fact that the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) said that girls in school sports are not facing disadvantages because of their transgender peers, an assertion that flies in the face of the AIA’s policies on transgender athletes.
The scare over trans people in sports is a made up myth to generate outrage. The bathroom scare is losing its ability to gin up rage so they moved on to women’s sports. These people who did not support women’s sports in anyway before are now suddenly the fierce protectors of the women. Reason says the fear of trans women winning all the time leaving other women out is misplace because it is not happening. From the Olympics on down to local sports transwomen are not winning all the contests. They simply are not. Where they do win they spend the time and effort to be better. The funny thing about those who want transwomen banned is they never mention all the times trans people lose, they only make a big deal of the few times a transwoman won. Scottie
Pennsylvania school district bans LGBTQ+ books from its libraries
A school district in Pennsylvania has introduced new rules that ban gender identity books from its libraries.
According to a report from WHYY, employees within the Pennridge school district were notified about the rules by an email from the Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education, Anthony Rybarczyk.
“The district is requesting that library book with content regarding gender identity be removed from the current elementary circulations,” the email stated.
The email went on to say that the removed books will be reviewed for “sensitive topics involving foul language, intense violence, gender identity, and graphic sexual content.”
After this process, the selected titles are then “placed in an area” by counsellors and only available to parents or guardians upon request.
“Developmentally, these topics should always involve conversations between the student and trusted adults, both at home and at school,” the email continued. “Creating this resource library will ensure that our students are fully supported.”
On top of removing these informative books, the district also unveiled another set of strict guidelines regarding students pronouns and names.
In an additional email, the school district’s Director for Pupil Services – Dr Cheri Derr – said the terms “related to LGBTQ+” should not be discussed with elementary students.
The new regulations also said middle and high school students who request a change to their name or pronouns must supply “parental permission.”
Parents and students within the school district have since come out and condemned the new rules.
Witold Walczak, who is the legal director for ACLU Pennsylvania, said the policy “raises very serious concerns” regarding a student’s privacy and safety.
“From a policy perspective, you’re setting these students up for a situation where there is no adult that they can talk to,” Walczak told WHYY.
“Very often in these kinds of situations, parents are not an option. Sometimes parents are the problem.
“If you impose this disclosure requirement, you’re shutting the door to students being able to talk to school professionals. Some of these kids could really get hurt.”
LGBTQ+ youth therapist Erin Eagles, who is gay and has a two-year-old child, echoed similar sentiments and said she’s scared to send her child to school in the district.
“I’m terrified of her feeling shamed or like she can’t just talk about the most normal things, like her immediate family,” she explained.
“We’re trying to have another child, and I worry that I’m doing the wrong thing. But if we leave this community, that’s one less [family] here to normalize LGBTQ and other minority individuals.”
In terms of future legal action, Walczak said that a potential case could head to court in the new year.
“My guess is we’ll be litigating at least one of these cases in 2022 somewhere,” he said.
Because everyone knows that if we pretend that LGBTQ+ people don’t exist they will disappear, right? It is not like grade school kids know that gay people exist. It is not that some grade school kids might be LGBTQ+ themselves. All parents are understanding and helpful on subjects dealing with sex and gender, especially in places where the politicians want to ban even the reading about LGBTQ+. These kids have parents who will take time off work go to the school library and check out a book from the special banned section for their child, right? No one will spread the news about that around town, gossiping about the parents and family, will they? Everyone knows that kids are turned gay by reading about it. It well known that there are no LGBTQ+ unless the kids see it on TV in a 30 second commercial or read it in a book written for kids. It is like catching a virus we won’t wear masks or get a vaccine for to protect the kids from getting really sick or dying because that is not important as making sure all the LGBTQ+ books are out of reach of those who might need or simply want to read them. Why teach kids to be understanding, accepting, and tolerant of other kids wanting to use a name or pronoun they prefer because in these areas the adults sure are not accepting, understanding, and tolerant of other adults asking the same thing.
Scottie
Daily cartoon / meme roundup. To increase profits as people get poorer and poorer businesses must charge for things that use to be part of the price for the item.
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Right Wingers: we are fascists.
Also Right Wingers: we blame our crimes on our critics and political rivals.
Also Right Wingers: why are innocent people not punished for our crimes?
I’d say it’s time to subpoena Ivanka.
As someone who struggles to be active in the smallest degree I agree with this. I feel best when I can do things even through the pain. I have shots in a few weeks in my spine because right now I can not stand long enough to fry eggs at the stove.
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What is the Build Back Better bill? What is it? It is the government doing things that benefit the public. That is it. Investing in the country in a way to benefit the people. The wealthy can not have that in any way. They feel the lower incomes are undeserving, the poor shouldn’t have anything or enjoy life. The wealthy feel the government must only do what they want, what they decide is good for businesses, which is a dependent people struggling to survive who will work for any low wage in any bad conditions. This is the truth hidden by claims of inflation and debt. Those things have been disproved. So the truth is the wealthy do not want the government to do things making life better for the public. Scottie
Yet Putin is the one asking for more talks. Putin has not made his invasion when it would have been better for him to do so. Reports are Putin has pulled some troops back from the border. Putin’s goal is defense while the western powers, with the US as part, is becoming more inclusive. Seems to me Biden’s checkers is beating Putin’s chess quite well. Scottie
The lack of tests and their increase in price is driven by demand. The businesses that are worried about a sick work force that wont vaccinate are demanding workers be tested. Need tests to do that. So be happy the economy is opening up and booming under Biden. Be upset with the lack of a vaccine mandate that would help businesses to operate safety. Scottie
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Florida GOP Bill Would Allow Recording Teachers
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: I am worried about the US future and the well being of the public
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Do you notice how low the bar is going? Be grateful for a library…. as billionaires in space have all our money?
Do you notice how low the bar is going? Be grateful for a library…. as billionaires in space have all our money?
Trump predicted to his cult the market would crash if he were not re-elected.
He lied. The scare tactic was obvious. The fear was the obvious message. The cult lives on fear.
Show the cult these market numbers and they will refuse to admit they got played.
The cult can’t admit Trump is a tremendous loser because then they would have to internalize they are tremendous losers.
The Fox News article doesn’t mention what DeSantis was doing the other 13 days when he failed to make any public appearances.
While Florida has been exploding with record COVID-19 cases six days in a row.
58,013 single day record in a 24-hour period.
He is either unwilling or unable to respond to his constituents during a Pandemic.
Either way Florida deserves better.
God forbid we give 3% less to the military and save humankind.
I take issue with the phrase “health-care system”. It’s misleading. In the 1st place, it’s not a system. A system is something that’s designed to achieve a particular end, in a coordinated way, usually as efficiently as possible. (Think computers or automobiles.) In the 2nd place, it’s not about care, it’s about capitalism.
What we have in lieu of a true health-care system (you know, the kind that every other industrialized democracy on the planet has and loves) is a haphazard scattering of profit centers concentrated in areas where the money is, with vast swaths of the nation under- or unserved. By contrast, the US Postal Service and the public schools are true systems that serve every square centimeter of the country. (And yes, the metric system too is a true system, well and intentionally designed, not like ACHU, the Accidental Collection of Heterogeneous Units that the US alone in the world still clings to.)
So I recommend using the phrase “health-insurance industry”, because it’s more accurate. Scottie
I know an older highly devote Catholic lady that goes to church 4 times a week, sometimes more. She was telling me one day she knows there is a god. I corrected her that she feels there is a god, but she again stated as a fact she knows there is a god. I replied she thinks there is a god. Nope she knows, so I asked her to show me the proof of her god and she replied she feels her gods presence around her all the time and she thinks that she sees his work in everything around her. But of course she couldn’t show me the proof of what she knew. Scottie
https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1477467052898148357?s=20
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The fact is the inflation we are seeing right now is profit taking price gouging. Watch CSNBC and see all the CEO’s and market people crowing about how much money they are making and bemoaning the fact the feds might be cutting off the faucet that gives them free money to prop up their stock values. Biden’s polices would help the people with out putting more unearned free money in the pockets of the wealthy. So of course corporate media, especially the right wing corporate media hates them. Scottie
So the right is now going to deny their favorite phrase and what they mean by it like a little kid who got caught saying a dirty word. Grow up. Scottie
The right wing media is desperate to paint Dr. Fauci as some incompetent out of his field like Paul Rand or Sean Hannity along with all the right wing opinion hosts. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., was the NIH AIDS Coordinator before being appointed as the first Director of the Office of AIDS research when the office was established in 1988. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Fauci received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966. He then completed an internship and residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. In 1968, Dr. Fauci came to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In 1984, Dr. Fauci became Director of NIAID–a position that he still holds – where he oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bio-terrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Dr. Fauci has kept up 16-hour workdays during most, if not all, of his career. That obviously leaves very little time for sleep and relaxing, but instead offers more time to be involved in the medical community. This includes being a member of:
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Medicine
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- American College of Physicians
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Association of American Physicians
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- American Association of Immunologists
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Dr. Fauci also serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and was an editor of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. To add to his incredible rap sheet, Fauci has authored, co-authored, and edited more than 1,300 scientific publications and textbooks.
Compare this to his detractors and the people who think a few hours on Facebook and YouTube equal his understanding of Covid public health measures. Scottie
You are correct Al, the country did elect Joe Biden as President, fair and square. The idiot trump lost and instigated an insurrection against the very nation he swore to protect. President Biden got to work to make life better for all citizens, not just those who overwhelmingly voted for him. Here are a few accomplishments under President Biden’s first-year watch:
The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
$1.9 trillion Covid relief deal, cutting child poverty in half.
Getting 73percent of American adults vaccinated with at least one dose.
An economy where the unemployment rate has dropped to 4.2 percent.
The average number of Americans filing for unemployment over the last four weeks is the lowest since 1969. When President Biden took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits. Today, only 2 million are still receiving unemployment
Having competent federal judges appointed and confirmed.
When President Biden took office, “46% of schools were open. Today, 99% of schools are open.
The U.S. was the only G7 country [U.S., U.K., Canada, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy] to surpass pre-pandemic output by Q2 2021 and keep growing. No other G7 country had reached pre-pandemic output by end of 3Q 2021.
Of course, not everything President Biden wanted to do in the first year was accomplished. However, for a First-year President, inheriting a country in the middle of a pandemic, it’s not a bad record. And what have Republicans been focused on? Denying voting rights to minority citizens, lying about the 2020 election, and denying reproductive rights to women. Not a good look for Republicans, Al. Scottie
*https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/biden-2021-was-year-big-accomplishments-big-disappointments-n1286092
**https://www.axios.com/biden-year-accomplishment-memo-5ec5cfa3-fa08-4fbc-83fb-5d688a8b79eb.html
Why does trying to help people, cut child poverty, and mitigate a deadly pandemic pure anathema to Al Goodwyn and his little nihilist troll supporters? Oh yeah, that’s right, because it’s the Democrats doing it. The Trumpublican goal is, quite simply, total power achieved through hatred, fear, anger, ignorance, and cruelty. And nihilists like the previous poster is a perfect example of that.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Happy New Year’s day and may your new year be grand
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It has been 100 years and we are still having the same hope. Lets hope this will be the year of decency and civility, reasonable discourse and understanding of reality. What is normal but wanting to live happy and well, wishing the best for others as we hope they are wishing for us. With malice for none but good will toward all. Scottie
Increase the minimum wage. Respect labor. End poverty.
Republicans have perfected performative politics for the deplorables.
DeSantis is the opposite of leadership, totally derelict of his duty.
https://twitter.com/NafinStabs/status/1476257815710900225?s=20
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/672203699395887104
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/672201678858141696
Ya now tell me there are not a bunch of cameras trained on that spot? Right.
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Scottie's Playtime 
The filibuster is not in the Constitution. But each house is allowed to make their own procedural rules. The Senate rules, unlike the House, trying to be a more “deliberative” body (and with fewer members in the early days) allowed unlimited debate on the floor and unlimited “yields” (handoffs to allies). During such speechifying, no other business could be conducted.
It took a 2/3 vote to stop a debate.
The filibuster arose when Southern conservative senators wanted to block bills, especially in the area of civil rights. Not having the votes, they simply stood and spoke under the rules allowing “unlimited debate” and kept on speaking, handing off (yielding) to accomplices as needed for breaks, and thus preventing any other business from going forward.
Finally, they made a compromise in the Senate rules: they would lower the cloture vote from 2/3 to 3/5 (60 votes in a 100-member senate) and not require senators to actually speak; just invoke filibuster by motion, and allow other business to still proceed on a “two track” basis.
Taking out the hard work of hours and hours of speaking made it easier to invoke and, once Obama became president and McConnell embarked on an unprecedented racist obstruction of the first African-American president, he made a 60-vote supermajority the de facto standard for passing any legislation, with more filibusters during the Obama years than the entire history of all prior administrations COMBINED and then, when he regained the majority, essentially did away with the filibuster for all confirmations and for budget bills (budget reconciliation).
McConnell’s unprecedented ABUSE of filibuster, coupled with the built-in (Constitutional) disproportionate allocation of senate representation, transformed it from a tool for the minority to have a voice in developing legislation, to utter tyranny of the majority, in which senators representing 16% of the population could overrule an overwhelming majority.
There are ways in which conservative Democrats could reduce the power of the filibuster to obstruct and still go on record as having saved the filibuster, and some of the Democrats who have opposed outright elimination of the filibuster (such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona) have indicated that they might be amenable to reforms such as:
a) amend the process; return to the requirement that they actually stand and hold the floor instead of just invoking by motion. When we had this in the past, filibuster was rarely used.
b) redefine filibuster; redefine what is eligible for inclusion in the budget reconciliation process which is exempt from filibuster
c) make voting rights and election security exempt from filibuster
d) limit the number of times filibuster can be invoked
e) require the speaker to remain on topic (no more reading phone books)
f) reverse the burden of invoking filibuster: right now they just make a motion to invoke filibuster and it takes a 60% vote to stop them. Reverse it. Instead of one person invoking filibuster and 60% having to agree to end it, require them to get 40% of the senate to vote to invoke filibuster — make them get the votes. Make them go on record as voting to obstruct something huge majorities of everyday people want (election reform, campaign finance reform, checks to individuals, a livable minimum wage, gun safety reform) and have to defend that in their next election.
None of these proposed reforms are mutually exclusive! You can do any or all or any combination. And there are likely other ways to reform and restructure filibuster without having to go on record as having actually eliminated it.
For those concerned about the “tyranny of the majority,” what we currently have is a “tyranny of the MINORITY.” We can protect minority interests and allow them to be heard without allowing senators who represent 16% of the population to tyrannize the rest of us.
Yesterday I posted Dr. Fauci’s qualifications to make public health suggestions, and to understand the data / science behind those recommendations. Let me make clear that the right wing media doesn’t have those qualifications at all. The people who claim they did their own research are only reading some one else’s summery and the opinions of people not qualified to understand or make those public health opinions. Scottie