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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 19:34:22 GMT -5
DOJ could charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of the vote certification maybe? Still very little is known of the evidence they have been amassing as they have worked their way up through investigations and largely secret sworn testimony of increasingly senior and significant subjects www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/29/pat-cipollone-predicted-the-obstruction-and-confraudus-prosecutions/The witness tampering like behaviour revealed at the end of the Hutchinson hearing is also quite a teaser. Witness statements such as Hutchinson's at the Jan 6 hearings have been after sworn oaths and under penalty of perjury. Which is not insignificant. Documentary maker Alex Holder's footage and possible testimony(?) might well be interesting. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-trump-alex-holder-jan-6-b2110402.htmlThings definitely seem to be warming up on a few fronts. As yet undiscussed Meadows texts still to come ? Jan 5th Willard Hotel 'war room' shenanigans too. I wonder if Roger Stone or Ali Alexander have been helpful to/flipped by the DOJ subsequent to oathkeeper and proud boy cooperation? ETA - Bonus summaries and explainers from Prof.Richardson on the Hutchinson hearing heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2022And the Cipollone subpoena and some hearing reactions
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 11:08:45 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 10:27:39 GMT -5
Contraception and abortion are not the same thing.
Pregnancy and childbirth are more than a mere "inconvenience"
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 9:57:58 GMT -5
Knew the Greek mythology question. Mama Google had to help with the federal holiday.
I fancy a bit of 12 string fun today. Probably CGDGBD.
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 9:03:55 GMT -5
The labelling of abortion as murder, which has happened here is not particularly helpful for dialogue. I’m being honest here and not snarky at all. What would be your definition of murder. US law defines murder as "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice" UK law is similar but with fussier language. I am not a lexicographer. I have no particular problem with such definitions though. I am less comfortable with abortion being labelled murder, which by extension attacks many of our partners, relatives and friends and their abortion providers as murderers.
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 8:11:53 GMT -5
The labelling of abortion as murder, which has happened here is not particularly helpful for dialogue.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 22:31:55 GMT -5
Ken Paxton wants 'sodomy' outlawed in Texas. The legislative route is now clearing. The supposed justifications for the majority opinion in Dobbs seem to pave the way. As bad as the picture already is, Dobbs is potentially disastrous for many more reasons than the criminalisation of women and the denial of their essential and fundamental human right to bodily autonomy.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 22:12:34 GMT -5
I have difficulty accepting that abortion was what the girl regarded as a desirable method of "contraception". Abortion is understandable if, for instance, contraception fails and forced pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood are not wanted.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 22:00:03 GMT -5
That looks like a versatile hand cart. I love how language differs throughout the United States. In the midwest, the hand cart is a hand truck. Which just doesn't sound right to me. I refuse to go to hell in a hand truck!
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 21:32:28 GMT -5
Some members here supported Rush Limbaugh when he slut-shamed Wendy Evans over her contraception coverage/availability remarks. It's too boring to revisit that sort of misogyny.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 21:17:42 GMT -5
No link to interview with students available? I support a student/schoolgirl's need/desire to retain her bodily autonomy should she become pregnant but would be interested to hear/read her comments in full.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 20:06:23 GMT -5
Another slut-shaming interpretation.
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 18:36:59 GMT -5
Such a short but predictable step from "save the babies!" to "shame the whores!".
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 18:28:13 GMT -5
Abortion is not a form of contraception. It is a last resort when a girl or woman faces an unwanted pregnancy.
Bodily autonomy is a fundamental and essential liberty. Those girls almost certainly do get that.
ETA - I might need a transcript or a link to fully understand/evaluate what was said and meant by the remarks in context
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 15:26:26 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 29, 2022 12:50:37 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 27, 2022 17:00:22 GMT -5
It's kind of like an early set-up scene in a blockbuster disaster movie. Perhaps my mind drifts to morbid thoughts a bit too easily.
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Post by james on Jun 26, 2022 14:38:22 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jun 26, 2022 12:05:35 GMT -5
The first abortion I didn’t have was in college. My period was five days late — at random, it turns out, due to stress from exams, blah blah blah — but in the five days before it arrived, I’d already Googled the nearest Planned Parenthood. The second abortion I didn’t have was in my 30s. Birth control had been religiously employed, and yet there they were: two pink lines and a future I’d never planned. While I tried to warm to the idea of motherhood, nature resolved the situation in the form of a miscarriage.
The third abortion I didn’t have was my daughter. That time, everything was planned. I was ready, and the reason I knew I was ready was that I didn’t think about an abortion, I thought about a baby name. As America waited like a rabbit in headlights for this decision to come down (and it turns out what we got was pretty much what the draft opinion had said we were going to get, Samuel Alito in all of his caustic, 19th-century glory), I heard from a lot of women about their abortions. But I heard from just as many women about the abortions they didn’t have. The options that were open to them. The choices they knew were theirs to choose, and the futures that unfurled because of that.
A friend was 16. First boyfriend, first broken condom. She went to her mother even before going to the drugstore for a pregnancy test. Her mother immediately said, “You don’t have to have a baby, we’ll get this taken care of.” The test turned out to be negative, but 20 years later, she still remembers her mother’s calm reassurance and the flood of relief that came with it.
Another friend told me about going to the doctor for an ultrasound in her second trimester. The sonographer’s lips pursed into a frown instead of a smile, then she scurried off to find a doctor. While my friend waited for more tests, she thought about how she might need to end a wanted pregnancy, because continuing it in those circumstances would have been, in her mind, unspeakably cruel.
False alarm, though. The baby was fine. She didn’t have to make the terrible decision, but she later told me that the only mercy she could find while waiting for those test results was in the idea that the terrible decision would at least have been hers.
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Alito wrote. He meant that the issue should be taken away from the Supreme Court, but what it actually means is that the issue of women’s uteruses will be taken away from women......
.....I don’t think many men realize that — that abortion is a procedure many women have considered at least once in their lives, even if considering it meant deciding they would never do it.
The point was not having an abortion, Justice Alito. The point was knowing that your life didn’t have to be ruined. The point was that if you became accidentally pregnant, you didn’t have to give up the scholarship, the graduate program, the cross-country move. You didn’t have to be trapped in a miserable relationship by the financial needs of a baby. A single mistake didn’t have to punish you forever.
You can continue reading the Monica Hesse article in the Washington Post . No firewall. The abortions we didn’t have The right to choose abortion is vital, even when women don’t choose it
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Post by james on Jun 25, 2022 20:41:17 GMT -5
David Adamsen makes nice things with wood and epoxy resin and a lathe.
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