Please listen to this until it gets to Joe Biden. It is not long. This is why the Democrats are losing, why the young people don’t want to follow this party or vote for them. It makes me sick. Compare this to the fire brans on the other side, even to tRump. We are so screwed in the elections. Hugs
Sylvester Stallone is apparently ignoring California’s new rules aimed at conserving water during the current drought, and “End Of Days” star Arnold Schwarzenegger has been credibly accused of passing gas into a fellow actor’s face on the set of that film.
The House passed the Right to Contraception Act on Thursday ― a bill that codifies the right to birth control and other contraceptives amid fears that the Supreme Court may come for that aspect of reproductive health care next after the high court repealed Roe v. Wade’s protection of abortion rights last month.
The bill passed despite 195 Republicans who voted against the bill in a final vote of 228 to 195. Republicans who voted against the legislation included Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Jack Bergman (Mich.) and Joe Wilson (S.C.). Just eight Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
NEW: The House passed the Right to Contraception Act on Thursday despite 195 Republicans who voted against it. The bill would codify the right to birth control and other contraceptives. https://t.co/vVZBUKaP3O
228-195: House passes the bill codifying the right to contraceptives into law.
Only eight Republicans voted in favor of the legislation: Cheney, Mace, Upton, Kinzinger, Katko, Fitzpatrick, Salazar, Gonzalez (OH). pic.twitter.com/PqN6G2DsNO
It is not just the RCC that is against contraceptives. Many Evangelical churches and mega churches want younger women to stop delaying families and preach against it.
I once heard a mega church sermon blaming women for delaying families, and The Pill made them infertile. Of course the women had delayed pregnancies because they were educated and with their husbands were saving for the down payment on a house in the $$$$ suburb.
Some popular forms of birth control work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. If they support this bill, it can be used to say they are not truly pro-life and support killing babies.
That’s probably the most likely explaination. Doesn’t Plan B work that way, and also IUDs prevent a fertilized egg from implanting. So they are more afraid of the Pro-Life people than the anti-gay people.
Perhaps the Federal Goverment, as they have classified Tomatoes as vegetables, can classify abortion drugs as ‘contraception.’
It’s like a group insanity that’s infected the party to the very top level. They don’t seem to understand how unpopular allowing states to ban contraception is because they’ve gone down this rabbit hole of “but the poor little (zygote) babies!”
This is important to watch. It quickly goes over what happened to create the Roe down fall, but then gets to the situation we are in and what is coming. We are screwed. As one of the people said, this is a results drive court, they have the result they want and they don’t care if the law allows it, they will simply cherry pick and force it into being the current law as they wish get the result they want. In my opinion we now have a lawless court. The second time in the US and we will have them for the next forty years or maybe forever if the Democrats do not develop a spine and either expand the court to return it to the rule of law or remove the illegal justices that are on the current court. Hugs
Roe v. Wade has been overturned. So now what the hell are we supposed to do? The hosts of the Strict Scrutiny podcast — law professors Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw — are back to help Jon process the shocking decision. Writers Kris Acimovic and Tocarra Mallard also weigh in on why the Democrats answer to this crisis seems to be giving them $15.
“Rather than work with us, Democrats again are spreading fear and misinformation to score political points. That opens the door further to extreme abortion-on-demand and their agenda. H.R. 8373 is a Trojan Horse for more abortions.
“It should be called the ‘Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act!’ It would send more taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood.” – GOP Rep. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, during today’s debate on codifying to right to access contraceptives.
Rodgers is a creationist nutbag who authored Washington state’s bill that would have outlawed same-sex marriage.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) inaccurately claims the bill codifying the right to contraception is a “Trojan horse for more abortions”:
It’s absurd that, in the year 2022, Congress actually has to cast a vote on whether or not women in this country deserve access to contraception like birth control pills, IUDs or condoms. And yet, thanks to extremist members of the GOP, here we are. pic.twitter.com/45EcpCzjwB
Contraception can involve the penis. Contraception can involve the vagina
This is morally reprehensible and has no place in decent society. Once people have access to contraception, they will have sex with animals and marry their toaster. Won’t someone think of the children?
Their anti-freedom positions are so appalling, misogynistic, and hateful, Rethugs have no alternative other than to keep lying about the facts, lying about their own position, and lying about the position and goals of our side.
Read up on the history – Jerry Falwell / Paul Weyrich (Moral Majority) used abortion to drive evangelical votes to GOP when DOJ under Carter said “no government money for segregated colleges” like his “Liberty University” and Bob Jones University, which were “whites only”, even in the mid 70s.
Not just women, men too. I am pretty sure there’s more than a few men who would not want to be forced into supporting a child they weren’t expecting or wanting with a woman they maybe weren’t really wanting to have a lifetime attachment to.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale Of a nearly successful coup That started at the end of Constitution Avenue
A congressman named Loudermilk A MAGA guy obscure Led twelve of his constituents On a three hour tour A three hour tour
One of the guys who was on that tour Who’d learned his way around Came back with the mob the very next day And stormed the Capitol grounds
It wasn’t just a protest That got somehow out of hand But a violent insurrection Meticulously planned
The president who would be king Conspired to make damn sure The rioters would lay siege that day On a three hour tour A three hour tour
The ship of state was nearly wrecked By the lawlessness and guile Of Loudermilligan The Skipper too The millionaire And the wife The movie star The Professor and Mary Ann Here on Mutineers’ Isle
The U.S. is experiencing its highest rate of inflation in 40 years, and many corporations are using it as cover to jack up prices faster than their costs are rising. Democrats must show that they are on the side of the working class by reining in the power of these big corporations. There are a few ways they can do just that.
Despite what Manchin and the corporate media are telling you, federal spending has actually declined. The subsidies that were part of the stimulus packages are over. If Joe Manchin was truly worried about inflation, he would support increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy to tamp down overall demand – and he would support antitrust enforcement to break up monopolies who are raising prices even as they rake in record profits. Of course, he won’t do that — those monopolists line his campaign coffers.
A new memo from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland suggests there will not be a federal indictment for former President Donald Trump, pertaining to his conduct on Jan. 6, before the November midterms. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, joins “Red and Blue” to discuss the memo.
The Cobb County School District said Tuesday it’s halted the rollout of a new logo for an elementary school after parents pointed out similarities to Nazi iconography.
The logo for East Side Elementary in Marietta depicted an eagle, the school’s mascot, over the initials ES. The Nazi eagle, which was developed in the 1920s and later became a symbol for white supremacists worldwide, depicts an eagle holding a swastika in its talons.
Parents were notified of the new logo on Monday. It was chosen to “represent the eagle soaring into excellence and to honor the history of our great school,” the message to parents said. The district has been working with all schools to create logos, the message said.
“I don’t want to see my kids wearing that on their shirt,” said Mike Albuquerque, the father of two students who will attend the school next year. “Really it’s a big oversight of the county and everyone involved in the process who reviewed that, to not call out the fact that this looks like Nazi iconography. Or maybe, who knows, somebody did call it out and it wasn’t heard.”
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Georgia’s second-largest school district said in a statement Tuesday it had halted the rollout of the logo and was reviewing necessary changes.
“We understand and strongly agree that similarities to Nazi symbolism are unacceptable,” the districtsaid in a statement. “Although this design was based on the U.S. Army colonel’s eagle wings, stakeholder input has been and continues to be important to our schools.”
East Side Elementary is located across the street from a synagogue.
The logo controversy is only the latest related to antisemitism in Cobb schools. Last month, a group began posting hot pink billboards around metro Atlanta that are challenging viewers to fight antisemitism, in part in response to incidents last school year in Cobb.
Graffiti depicting swastikas was found in two Cobb County high schools during the Jewish High Holidays. Several Cobb middle school students were disciplined earlier this year for sharing antisemitic imagery on social media.
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“If Atlanta is too busy to hate, why is there a swastika at my kid’s school?” reads a billboard that went up on Briarcliff Roadin Atlanta.
Antisemitic incidents in Georgia more than doubled between 2020 and 2021, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. Georgia tallied 49 incidents in 2021.
“This is not the first time Cobb County schools have been tone-deaf to antisemitism,” said Dov Wilker, director of the American Jewish Committee Atlanta region, in a statement about the logo. “Pretending that antisemitism doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. The children who attend Cobb County schools — and their families — deserve better.”
Oy. Vey. For those outside of metro Atlanta, east Cobb County is where tens of thousands of Jewish Atlantans live & home to some of the finest schools in the region. Unfortunately, this is only the latest incident related to antisemitism in Cobb schools. https://t.co/edmxw8u2zj
You have to wonder: Who came up with this logo? By what process was it reviewed? Even if someone didn't know what the eagle itself represented, wouldn't the swastika-looking ES be a tip-off? https://t.co/lZGwllr2T3
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