I feel sad for Biden but he is a remarkable human. His one term work is equivalent to two terms of a novice president - so there is that. But today he did something else that was remarkable for the country. No, not stepping down but endorsing KH and making possible the flood of endorsements essentially ensuring party unity and more importantly stability, so we can all focus and go after trump and his new chubby little Thiel/Musk pet. Maybe Pelosi/Obama crew had a different design but he upended them so that this won't drag on into the convention. Well done, Sir. In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter if it is Harris or Whitmer or Newsom and definitely not at this moment. We have a country to save. #VoteBlue up and down and everywhere.
In 2008, I went around saying the country will vote for a donkey with a D appended to its name (I guess Obama sensed the same) because the country was done with R and their shenanigans including the crash and in 2024, a significant portion of the country is attached to extremism and billionaires supporting the same which casts doubt about winning even though a significant majority doesn't support it. We have to have faith in ourselves and support the Ds no matter what. Notice the outpouring of endorsements for Harris (though not from Obama/Pelosi -- I hope they don't muck this up and I can't believe I am saying that about Pelosi) #VoteBlue up and down.
The donors, the media, and the party Bigwigs (aka Obama) and their minions bullied Biden out. I feel sad and uncertain what the transition will look like. It will be bad. But if they can put together a smooth transition, it gives me hope for a rigorous campaign against the two most dangerous nominees America has ever seen.
Broligarchs... trying to turn America into Russia and while they may fail, it will still break a lot of things and will hurt millions. Don't give them the key.
Some good news from MT is actually that Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights announced that our election management database confirms that the abortion rights initiative will be on our November ballot!!
Kudos to you for hilighting the fact that a 6 week ban is barely two weeks after a missed menstral period. So little is known about female biology — LMP — isn’t about baseball — makes me want to scream. Thank you
We have a good idea of what the R extremists are up to. Anybody know what the fuck is happening in our Dem backyard? (part rhetorical but open to ideas).
Here are some things I suspect. The donor class and the party bigwigs don't think Biden/Harris are up to the campaigning job. They want an open convention I suspect. Why not? They did it in 2008 although not at the convention but pushed and removed Hillary out of the way before it and did a quickie delegate chicanery in the convention and hoped that her supporters don't do anything to disrupt their post turtle nomination. I think they are ready to do it again with both Biden/Harris pushed aside and a whole lot of Biden/Harris supporters will be disappointed. Democracy, meh... it is the hidden coup we don't see. But we have to choose country over party and vote for the lesser of the two evils, am I right? Anyway, you look at this situation, it is a clusterfuck.
And, as long as we are going into open convention and playing fantasy football, my picks are Whitmer/Buttigeig. Buttigieg has become the quick on his feet explainer of things that Bill Clinton once was but with a lot more ease and zings.
Re: the beheaded sculpture in Texas, Artist Shahzia Sikander has made the powerful decision to not let the university repair the piece; leaving the sculpture violated as a statement of violence against women. There is another recent sculptural beheading in Austria called Crowning.
I don't get it. What is in the work to inspire reactions from the anti-abortionists or anyone at all? It seems pretty innocuous to me. Are there provocative images in the scroll work around the base?
It's nuts! The antis claim that Witness is a satanic abortion idol because it was created as a feminist response to Roe v. Wade being overturned. They think it's satanic because they view abortion as a form of child sacrifice to moloch. cray cray.
I don't understand either one. OK, the anti-abortionists are so reactionary that if you open a package of Pop Tarts and said it was a statement in defense of abortion, they would see that as satanic. But what in the imagery of the the work makes it a feminist response to RvW?
Yes of course they are faking. Remember Obama’s hot mike regarding NAFTA? Once the election is over the march towards dismantling women’s right will continue.
There was a piece in the 19th about Vance that documented the fact that he called Paul Krugman a cat lady. I’m thinking the childless cat lady demographic keeps sounding better and better!!! Lol
The douche-bros have called Taylor Swift, the self-made, most sucessful young woman in the US, a crazy cat lady, because she is childless...and over thirty ! the horror /s
I've repeatedly said that Americans don't understand how authoritarian governments work. Of course, Usha Vance will be able to do whatever she wants because she's married to the leadership, even as the leadership forces the rest of us to live by rules they themselves won't be required to follow. This is Authoritarian Government 101. They won't even bother to hide this double standard.
That’s a good point. And also what Project 2025 will do to Americans - the ruling class; those the ruling class lets have a bit more because they’re loyal; and the serfs.
I am quite happy to be onr of the "childless cat ladies", standing proudly by Rush Limbaugh's feminazis.
The GOP really has doubled down on misogyny. Funny, though , that Usha Vance can receive a top flight education and earn a lucrative living, but thrn misogynist are adept at finding soulless, grasping women who are very, very happy to throw other women under thr bus as long as they have theirs. Usha Vance is Serena Joy.
Thank you for saying this - I have heard several folks taking J.D. Vance to task (as they should) for his hypocritical views regarding family and women’s roles, but remaining weirdly silent and/or positive about Usha. I suspect she’s just as power hungry and cynical as he is. Both of them are happy to use misogynist tropes for gain, so at the end of the day, both are misogynsts. In my view, she doesn’t get a pass.
I think she was young and naive, as a sheltered woman, how could she know what a conman and phony he was? She had always voted democratic party, up until he ran for office. I hope she thinks hard about why he wants to do away with "no-fault" divorce. Because he knows he's a phony, and he will do anything to keep power.
Thanks. I have lived long enough to recognize that there are women who accept or buy into the idea that they are very smart that THEY have worked hard and THEY have earned/deserve to be part of the ruling class. They lack empathy for people who are not in their demographic.
Let's be real-if, and I would hope it doesn't happen, that Usha Vance had a life threatening pregnancy, we can be sure that the Vances would find, and consult advisors who would give them the rationale for terminating that
pregnancy. Thry also have thr financial means to ensure that Mrs. Vance would get top flight medical care and that everyone involved would be discreet.
Affluent GOP women with problematic or unwanted pregnancies go away for "spa weekends".
Constraints on the availability of abortion make contraception more critical than ever--but Stateline.org reported that post-Dobbs clinic closures and misinformation about the legality of emergency contraception have led to a major reduction in contraceptive prescriptions in the states with the most stringent bans. See Kelcie Moseley-Morris, "Confusion, Clinic Closures May Have Caused Big Declines in Contraception Use, Study Shows," stateline.org (July 11, 2024), https://stateline.org/2024/07-11/confusion-clinic-closures-may-have-caused-big-declines-in-contraception-use-study-shows. The study, led by University of Southern California pharmacy professor Dima Qato, obtained estimates from over 93% of retail pharmacies. The article says that many bills have been introduced to safeguard contraceptive access-but most efforts failed because of opposition to including emergency contraception on the grounds that it provides abortions. The article says that the rate of Plan B prescriptions fell over 70% in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee (stringent ban states) and 60% in Missouri, between 2021 and 2023. An early 2023 KFF poll showed the over 30% of adults were not sure if emergency contraception was legal. In ban states, half of women either thought emergency contraception was illegal or were not sure.
However, another emergency contraceptive, ulipristal, sold as Ella, was prescribed far more often in two restrictive states, Idaho and South Dakota, than before Dobbs. Plan B must be used within three days of unprotected sex; Ella is considered effective for five days, and can be used by people of any weight (Plan B is less effective for people who weigh more than 165 lbs.) In the 12 most restrictive states, emergency contraceptive prescriptions fell by 60%, oral contraception by 24%. In Iowa, after the state imposed restriction on Medicaid reimbursement for family planning clinics that performed abortions, contraceptive use fell by two-thirds.
I did a page search from my Google browser and found two references to abortion,
In the introduction,
"Trump placed the architects of Project 2025 at the helm of the RNC Platform Committee to help him implement his extreme agenda to institute a national abortion ban, ..."
In the body,
"President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are committed to restoring the reproductive rights Trump ripped away and will pass a law codifying the protections of Roe, strengthen access to contraception, protect a woman’s right to access IVF, and support access to FDA-approved medication abortion."
If you are talking about abortion, I see a reference.
I feel sad for Biden but he is a remarkable human. His one term work is equivalent to two terms of a novice president - so there is that. But today he did something else that was remarkable for the country. No, not stepping down but endorsing KH and making possible the flood of endorsements essentially ensuring party unity and more importantly stability, so we can all focus and go after trump and his new chubby little Thiel/Musk pet. Maybe Pelosi/Obama crew had a different design but he upended them so that this won't drag on into the convention. Well done, Sir. In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter if it is Harris or Whitmer or Newsom and definitely not at this moment. We have a country to save. #VoteBlue up and down and everywhere.
In 2008, I went around saying the country will vote for a donkey with a D appended to its name (I guess Obama sensed the same) because the country was done with R and their shenanigans including the crash and in 2024, a significant portion of the country is attached to extremism and billionaires supporting the same which casts doubt about winning even though a significant majority doesn't support it. We have to have faith in ourselves and support the Ds no matter what. Notice the outpouring of endorsements for Harris (though not from Obama/Pelosi -- I hope they don't muck this up and I can't believe I am saying that about Pelosi) #VoteBlue up and down.
Media, don't you amplify the extremists' calls for resignation. That is the least you can do having brought this on the country.
The donors, the media, and the party Bigwigs (aka Obama) and their minions bullied Biden out. I feel sad and uncertain what the transition will look like. It will be bad. But if they can put together a smooth transition, it gives me hope for a rigorous campaign against the two most dangerous nominees America has ever seen.
Pete B. explains Broligarchs and takes down Vance effortlessly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XuIEg_Y4fM
Broligarchs... trying to turn America into Russia and while they may fail, it will still break a lot of things and will hurt millions. Don't give them the key.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/20/tech-broligarchs-court-trump-vance-elon-musk-peter-thiel
Some good news from MT is actually that Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights announced that our election management database confirms that the abortion rights initiative will be on our November ballot!!
Kudos to you for hilighting the fact that a 6 week ban is barely two weeks after a missed menstral period. So little is known about female biology — LMP — isn’t about baseball — makes me want to scream. Thank you
We have a good idea of what the R extremists are up to. Anybody know what the fuck is happening in our Dem backyard? (part rhetorical but open to ideas).
Here are some things I suspect. The donor class and the party bigwigs don't think Biden/Harris are up to the campaigning job. They want an open convention I suspect. Why not? They did it in 2008 although not at the convention but pushed and removed Hillary out of the way before it and did a quickie delegate chicanery in the convention and hoped that her supporters don't do anything to disrupt their post turtle nomination. I think they are ready to do it again with both Biden/Harris pushed aside and a whole lot of Biden/Harris supporters will be disappointed. Democracy, meh... it is the hidden coup we don't see. But we have to choose country over party and vote for the lesser of the two evils, am I right? Anyway, you look at this situation, it is a clusterfuck.
And, as long as we are going into open convention and playing fantasy football, my picks are Whitmer/Buttigeig. Buttigieg has become the quick on his feet explainer of things that Bill Clinton once was but with a lot more ease and zings.
Re: the beheaded sculpture in Texas, Artist Shahzia Sikander has made the powerful decision to not let the university repair the piece; leaving the sculpture violated as a statement of violence against women. There is another recent sculptural beheading in Austria called Crowning.
https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/beheadings-of-women-statues-in-austria-and-texas-raise-threat-level-against-artists
About that.
Again, from the Quick Hits,
"And in Texas, a sculpture was vandalized at the University of Houston after a harassment campaign lead by anti-abortion groups.
https://thetexan.news/issues/education/controversial-abortion-sculpture-at-the-university-of-houston-damaged/article_4b9dae68-439e-11ef-8f60-af9a5e9e33ed.html"
There is a paywall there. More links here.
https://thedailycougar.com/2024/07/11/uh-art-exhibit-vandalized-beheaded-amidst-hurricane-beryl/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/10/shahzia-sikander-statue-at-university-of-houston-beheaded
I don't get it. What is in the work to inspire reactions from the anti-abortionists or anyone at all? It seems pretty innocuous to me. Are there provocative images in the scroll work around the base?
It's nuts! The antis claim that Witness is a satanic abortion idol because it was created as a feminist response to Roe v. Wade being overturned. They think it's satanic because they view abortion as a form of child sacrifice to moloch. cray cray.
People that out of touch with reality used to be institutionalized.
I don't understand either one. OK, the anti-abortionists are so reactionary that if you open a package of Pop Tarts and said it was a statement in defense of abortion, they would see that as satanic. But what in the imagery of the the work makes it a feminist response to RvW?
Yes of course they are faking. Remember Obama’s hot mike regarding NAFTA? Once the election is over the march towards dismantling women’s right will continue.
There was a piece in the 19th about Vance that documented the fact that he called Paul Krugman a cat lady. I’m thinking the childless cat lady demographic keeps sounding better and better!!! Lol
The douche-bros have called Taylor Swift, the self-made, most sucessful young woman in the US, a crazy cat lady, because she is childless...and over thirty ! the horror /s
I've repeatedly said that Americans don't understand how authoritarian governments work. Of course, Usha Vance will be able to do whatever she wants because she's married to the leadership, even as the leadership forces the rest of us to live by rules they themselves won't be required to follow. This is Authoritarian Government 101. They won't even bother to hide this double standard.
Usha is from a caste-based culture in which the idea of different rules for different social groups is normalized.
That’s a good point. And also what Project 2025 will do to Americans - the ruling class; those the ruling class lets have a bit more because they’re loyal; and the serfs.
I am quite happy to be onr of the "childless cat ladies", standing proudly by Rush Limbaugh's feminazis.
The GOP really has doubled down on misogyny. Funny, though , that Usha Vance can receive a top flight education and earn a lucrative living, but thrn misogynist are adept at finding soulless, grasping women who are very, very happy to throw other women under thr bus as long as they have theirs. Usha Vance is Serena Joy.
May be Usha Vance will rebel at some point and lose her pinkie.
Thank you for saying this - I have heard several folks taking J.D. Vance to task (as they should) for his hypocritical views regarding family and women’s roles, but remaining weirdly silent and/or positive about Usha. I suspect she’s just as power hungry and cynical as he is. Both of them are happy to use misogynist tropes for gain, so at the end of the day, both are misogynsts. In my view, she doesn’t get a pass.
I think she was young and naive, as a sheltered woman, how could she know what a conman and phony he was? She had always voted democratic party, up until he ran for office. I hope she thinks hard about why he wants to do away with "no-fault" divorce. Because he knows he's a phony, and he will do anything to keep power.
Thanks. I have lived long enough to recognize that there are women who accept or buy into the idea that they are very smart that THEY have worked hard and THEY have earned/deserve to be part of the ruling class. They lack empathy for people who are not in their demographic.
Let's be real-if, and I would hope it doesn't happen, that Usha Vance had a life threatening pregnancy, we can be sure that the Vances would find, and consult advisors who would give them the rationale for terminating that
pregnancy. Thry also have thr financial means to ensure that Mrs. Vance would get top flight medical care and that everyone involved would be discreet.
Affluent GOP women with problematic or unwanted pregnancies go away for "spa weekends".
Just like amy barrett, so-called "justice." Rotten women, all of 'em, for throwing their sisters under the bus.
Constraints on the availability of abortion make contraception more critical than ever--but Stateline.org reported that post-Dobbs clinic closures and misinformation about the legality of emergency contraception have led to a major reduction in contraceptive prescriptions in the states with the most stringent bans. See Kelcie Moseley-Morris, "Confusion, Clinic Closures May Have Caused Big Declines in Contraception Use, Study Shows," stateline.org (July 11, 2024), https://stateline.org/2024/07-11/confusion-clinic-closures-may-have-caused-big-declines-in-contraception-use-study-shows. The study, led by University of Southern California pharmacy professor Dima Qato, obtained estimates from over 93% of retail pharmacies. The article says that many bills have been introduced to safeguard contraceptive access-but most efforts failed because of opposition to including emergency contraception on the grounds that it provides abortions. The article says that the rate of Plan B prescriptions fell over 70% in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee (stringent ban states) and 60% in Missouri, between 2021 and 2023. An early 2023 KFF poll showed the over 30% of adults were not sure if emergency contraception was legal. In ban states, half of women either thought emergency contraception was illegal or were not sure.
However, another emergency contraceptive, ulipristal, sold as Ella, was prescribed far more often in two restrictive states, Idaho and South Dakota, than before Dobbs. Plan B must be used within three days of unprotected sex; Ella is considered effective for five days, and can be used by people of any weight (Plan B is less effective for people who weigh more than 165 lbs.) In the 12 most restrictive states, emergency contraceptive prescriptions fell by 60%, oral contraception by 24%. In Iowa, after the state imposed restriction on Medicaid reimbursement for family planning clinics that performed abortions, contraceptive use fell by two-thirds.
Jessica, have you noticed what's missing from the outline of the 9 sections of the DRAFT Democratic Platform??? Take a guess!🤬
I'm not sure exactly what you are refering to, but here is the draft platform from the DNC's own site,
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-releases-2024-party-platform-draft-outlining-historic-record-and-bold-agenda-for-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-to-finish-the-job/
I did a page search from my Google browser and found two references to abortion,
In the introduction,
"Trump placed the architects of Project 2025 at the helm of the RNC Platform Committee to help him implement his extreme agenda to institute a national abortion ban, ..."
In the body,
"President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are committed to restoring the reproductive rights Trump ripped away and will pass a law codifying the protections of Roe, strengthen access to contraception, protect a woman’s right to access IVF, and support access to FDA-approved medication abortion."
If you are talking about abortion, I see a reference.