2022 Archives

If we don't get a correction - get ready for the vigilantes to come for your daughter when she’s raped and looking for options on the internet… Across America, women and girls are deleting period-tracking apps from their smartphones and fitness trackers so police and bounty-hunter vigilantes from Red states can’t use their data to pinpoint people getting abortions or having “suspicious” miscarriages. But that won’t be enough.

The Best of the Rest of the News — This is a crime. Corrupt Republican Associate Justice Clarence Thomas appended a concurrent opinion to yesterday’s Hobbs decision arguing that next the Supreme Court should end our right to contraception (Griswold), gay marriage (Obergefell), and reverse the legalization of gay sex (Lawrence) — The January 6th hearing on Thursday produced one of the most shocking moments of the entire Trump election theft saga. — Could you go to jail or lose your home for telling others not to buy products from a company or country whose practices you deplore? — It’s not just progressive authors and talk show hosts talking about the fascist danger to America: now five respected, high-profile, retired generals have signed up to defend democracy as well. — How the rest of the world deals with medical expenses. — A supermarket/drugstore chain in Florida has announced it won’t vaccinate kids under 5 years old. Why? — Crazy Alert! Tucker Carlson claims the FDA’s plan to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to make them less addictive and reduce the 500,000 deaths from tobacco every year is all part of a plan to de-masculinize “working class men.”

Violence is the cardinal characteristic, the logo, the brand identity of fascism. Every fascist movement in history has lifted itself to power on the scaffold of violence. Blood alone moves the wheels of history. –Benito Mussolini “Have you noticed that people are getting meaner?” the villain asks in a Paramount+ promo for their new show Evil. “What does it mean?” asks the “nice” character. “It means,” says the evil character with a note of triumph in her voice, “that your side is losing.” And here we are. The lede of an above-the-fold story in yesterday’s Washington Post lays it out: “In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail…”

The GOP has planted their flag deeply into the soil of fear and hate, right up to and including a call to repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - this year we must vote as if our future depends upon it. The Texas GOP’s state party meeting last week gave America a clear insight into Republican thinking going into this year’s election and the 2024 presidential race. They’ve planted their flag deeply into the soil of violence, fear, white supremacy, and hate right up to and including a call to repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Democratic candidates across the nation, on the other hand, show that party is leaving behind the neoliberalism of Clinton and Obama and moving forward with a futuristic “Freedom Agenda.”