WSJ Editorial Board Blasts Texas Abortion Law 'Blunder': 'An Awful Precedent that Conservatives Should Hate'

WSJ Editorial Board Blasts Texas Abortion Law 'Blunder': 'An Awful Precedent that Conservatives Should Hate'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has come out against a new and controversial anti-abortion bill recently passed in Texas that the Supreme Court has thus far refused to block.

We survived the Dark Ages.

Maybe we can survive

the Dim Ages, too.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Trump’s Own Military Advisors Praise Biden For ‘Finishing’ Afghanistan Withdrawal: ‘Bravo! Well Done!’
• Most Republicans Support Taking in Refugees From Afghanistan: New Poll
• Mayorkas: Afghanistan evacuation 'will not end' until all US citizens, allies resettled
• The QAnon Shaman Just Pleaded Guilty in the Capitol Riots. Now He Wants to Rebrand.
• CDC studies: child COVID infections higher in low-vaccination states

History has shown that when you start taking away people’s rights, stuff starts getting a LOT more real. Fast. - Dan Rather

The Anti-Vaxxer's Effect

Part of a unit from a Texas oil refinery has suspended operations due to an oxygen supply shortage in the area, Bloomberg reported.

Sulfur recovery units use oxygen in an effort to retrieve sulfur, which comes from raw materials, to meet the chemical element's emissions standards. A Texas environmental filing noted that Citgo Petroleum Corp. had halted part of that unit’s operations due to a higher medical need for oxygen in the area, Bloomberg noted.

If a Texas woman asks Alexa for a list of local abortion clinics, does this mean Jeff Bezos would then be sued for $10,000? - Jake Lobin

Republican Shenanigans

• McCarthy faces ethics complaint after saying GOP 'will not forget' if firms hand records to Jan. 6 panel
• Stephen Miller 'stunned' other Trump officials with bigoted outburst against Afghan refugees: report
• GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn says the Capitol rioters were mostly 'normal people' who were 'kind of wandering in'
• Tucker Carlson Says People Who Try to Limit the Spread of COVID-19 Should Be ‘Punished’ (Video)
• Charles Barkley Slams ‘Idiot’ Anti-Vaxxers Concerned About Microchips: ‘Everybody’s Got a Cell Phone’
• Trump-loving school board member says it's not her duty to protect kids: 'God decides who lives or dies'
• Former Trump Adviser Jason Miller: Trump 'Definitely' Running For President in 2024
• Georgia’s Brad Raffenserger looking for evidence of collusion between Stacey Abrams and DOJ
• Stephen King buries Susan Collins: ‘Women in Texas must pay the price for her gullibility’
• Arizona father threatens to zip tie principal after son told to quarantine

When we get old, we can tell our grandkids 2021 was the year when people thought taking animal dewormer was better than getting an FDA-approved vaccine, and the kids will think it's science fiction.

I still have trouble believing it. - Brooklyn Dad tweet

I Still Do Not Understand Why They Want To Kill Their Supporters. It Seems So Counterproductive.
Top loyalists to Donald Trump, who frequently push lies about election fraud, have joined forces with conservative doctors touting unproven Covid curesand vaccine skepticism, and like-minded evangelical ministers at a series of events across the US this summer.

Texas Republicans Comb Fourteenth Century Law Books For What To Do Next. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Manchin tells Dems to 'hit the pause button' on $3.5T spending plan
• Biden Blasts 'Un-American' Texas Abortion Law for Setting Up a 'Vigilante System'
• Biden: 'There's no question' the delta variant weighed down jobs report
• Democrats promote Cheney to vice chairwoman of Jan. 6 panel

Is now a good time to remind folks that Joe Manchin’s daughter raised the price of Epipens over 500% in 9 years? - Chip Franklin

The COVID Long Haul Just Got Longer

Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb predicted on Friday the strongest wave of Covid-19’s Delta variant would arrive weeks into September, contrary to a prediction he made months earlier.

“I think there’s perception that we’re sort of through this Delta wave in the Northeast, because we’ve seen Delta cases go up and we’ve seen them come down in places like the New York Metropolitan region,” Gottlieb said in a morning interview on CNBC. However, he said, “I don’t think that that was the true Delta wave. I think that that was a Delta warning.”

Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has To Drive To Find Nearest Planned Parenthood Clinic. - The Onion

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Business/Tech News

• COVID vaccination booster shots to start for those 60 and over in September
• Texas-based company Bumble creates relief fund to help abortion seekers
• Air Force chief software officer knocks DoD as he departs
• Couple convicted in $18M COVID-19 relief scam now on the run
• TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn

And now rapists can choose the unwilling mother of their next child, as long as she lives in Texas. - John Fugelsang

So, How Are Things Going At Trump Tower In NYC?
Tenants at Trump Tower in New York City — once "a physical avatar" of the former president's alleged business success — are "imploding," falling behind on rent and vacating entire floors, with some mired in lawsuits.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.- Frank Zappa

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Odd News

• NASA rover successfully drills rock on Mars
•  911 operator wanted for hanging up on emergency callers
• Hiker finds way out of national forest after being lost two days, Arkansas sheriff says
• Veterinarians correct puppy's upside-down paws
• New Jersey officials: Mass zoo escape rumors 'unequivocally false'

Time To Deflate Photo

The Carina Nebula is 7.500 light years away from Earth. I like her hat.

Peace.

We are a country of laws

Pelosi slams Supreme Court's 'cowardly' decision

The Women's Health Protection Act would guarantee a pregnant woman's right to access an abortion, along with the right of providers to perform them.

'Unlike the Supreme Court, we were elected'

Holy f*cking sh*t, all my life I was told that America has the greatest system of government in the world but somehow one party has decided to ignore the law and do whatever the f*ck it wants to and the other party apparently has no f*cking clue what to do about it. what the f*ck. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Supreme Court Upholds Texas Abortion Law That Effectively Ends Roe v. Wade in Late Night Decision
• CNN’s Brian Stelter Deletes Tweet Mocking ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Analogy After SCOTUS Decision Gutting Abortion Rights
• Spring break travel fueled COVID-19 outbreak at Chicago university: CDC
• Florida chiropractor reportedly signed 500 mask exemptions for students
• Georgia mom would 'give anything' to get back 13-year-old son lost to COVID -- but she still won't get vaccinated

New Texas Law Allows Private Citizens To Hold Pregnant Women Hostage Until Birth. - The Onion

Pelosi Will Hold House Vote On Abortion Access When They Return From Vacay. Sigh.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the House will vote on legislation to guarantee access to abortion upon its return to Washington later this month after the Supreme Court refused to block a restrictive Texas law that bans most abortions.

There is no way Ron DeSantis is going to let Texas out-Gilead Florida. - Middle Age Riot

Republican Shenanigans

• DeSantis, Abbott slip in popularity since July: survey
• Trump Mocks Nikki Haley: 'Every Time She Criticizes Me, She Uncriticizes Me About 15 minutes Later'
• Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider Rips Biden on Fox & Friends for Visiting Louisiana ...Seconds After Call for Unity
• Wife of Texas GOP candidate Allen West wasn’t drunk when jailed for DWI, tests show
• Tucker Carlson Attacks Frequent Hannity Guest Lindsey Graham AGAIN: He ‘Won’t Come on This Show’
• Fox's Bill Hemmer Cuts Off New York Ida Briefing for Mentioning Climate Change: 'Turned Political Quite Quickly'
• 'I'm Terrified of You': Chelsea Manning Blasts 'Greedy, Unprincipled' Former Friend Glenn Greenwald

Texas Republicans Back Statewide Dress Code for Women

“I believe in the sanctity of human life, and the best way to protect life, in the case of a woman, is to free her from having to choose what to wear,” the governor said. - Andy Borowitz

Here's A Bit Of Good News During These Awful Times

The Supreme Court of Virginia just legally cleared the removal of Richmond’s highly controversial sculpture of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

The sculpture, which prominently looms over Monument Avenue in Virginia’s state capital, has been a magnet for protest in recent years as critics have denounced it as a symbol of treason and racial injustice. 

As of now, in Texas:

-a private company can't protect their vaccinated customers from Covid-19

-a cop can't ask someone if he has a permit for that handgun

-the state has the power to force a woman to carry & bear her rapist's child.

Because we're so pro-life, y'all. - John Fugelsang

Texas is regulating uteruses instead of dicks because the sheer number of dicks in Texas would make enforcement tough.- Andy Borowitz

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Susan Collins was wrong about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. She sold women out, and Maine voters should never forget that. - George Takei

Rock The Voter News

• Beto O'Rourke launches tool allowing Texas voters to register at home
• Jill Biden honors educators during pandemic: 'I have never been prouder to be a teacher'
• Michelle Obama wins civil rights award
• The computer repairman with Hunter Biden's laptop lost his lawsuit against Twitter and has to pay the company's legal costs

COVID.

Afghanistan withdrawal.

Delta Variant.

Hurricanes. 

Fires. 

Tornados. 

Biblical Rain.

Flooding. 

Beginning to feel like the Egyptians got off easy with locusts and frogs. - Ana Navarrro-Cardenas

COVID Medical Care Costs To Skyrocket
Americans will most likely pay significantly more for COVID medical care during this new wave of cases — whether that is a routine coronavirus test or a lengthy hospitalization.

As long as we are making laws based on religious Christian values in certain states, those same states should fine every man $1,000,000 every time he fathers a child out of wedlock. - Liddle Davage tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Walmart to give 565,000 hourly store associates at least $1 an hour raise in latest wage hike
• GM to significantly cut North American vehicle production due to chip shortage
• Capital One CEO settles charges of violating antitrust laws
• 4 in 10 Manhattan employers delaying return to work plans due to delta variant: survey

How many abortions do you think Donald Trump has paid for? trick question, Donald Trump never pays his bills. - Jeff Tiedrich

Whoever Built That Death Boat Should Be Sued, Too.

Family members of the 34 people killed in a 2019 dive boat fire off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Coast Guard, alleging it acted “negligently and carelessly” by repeatedly certifying the vessel despite numerous safety violations.

I’m thinking that $10,000 Hunger Games thing in Texghanistan has got to be challenged in the courts. Sounds wrong to me. - Sandi Bachom

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Let Them Eat Horse Dewormer

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Odd News

• Lake Tahoe ski resort uses snow-making machines to fight wildfire
• Wild video shows alligator eating drone and disappearing in white smoke
• Area near Yosemite where family and dog were found dead closes due to 'unknown hazards,' officials say
• Owner said dog shot itself in the face — but that isn’t what happened, Ohio cops say
• Al Capone's former South Florida home slated for demolition
• Dolphin spotted swimming in flooded Louisiana neighborhood

Time To Deflate Photo

Chicama, Peru waves. Imagine the ride on those puppies..

Peace.

Biden criticizes Texas' draconian new abortion law, vows to defend abortion rights

Biden criticizes Texas' draconian new abortion law, vows to defend abortion rights

Biden said that his administration is “deeply committed” to protecting the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade.

If Republicans had to pay to raise the children they "saved" from abortion, Roe v. Wade would be safer than a Confederate flag in Alex Jones' bunker. - Middle Age Riot

How long before the first vigilante abortion cases against women in Texas? 

Noon?

How long before we start seeing Abortion Chaser lawyers advertising in Texas? 

Is that slut next door thinking about killing her baby? Call Bob Stasi today! 1-800-PRO-LIFE. He'll get you paid!

These religious nuts are never done, it's never enough, they never have enough power. 

What will come next is this: any suspected pregnancy will become the responsibility of the state. You have a miscarriage? You'll be charged with manslaughter. And they're coming for birth control too. Yes they are and don't let them try and lie to you that they aren't. The vigilantes will be watching. They don't have to look in your windows or paw through your trash (though they'll be doing that too), everything necessary for the state to track suspected pregnancy is already in place. Smart phones. Store reward cards. Store apps. Smart watches. Credit/Debit card records. Online medical records. Et al. The retailer Target ALREADY does this. In some cases they know you're pregnant before you do -- and customize their advertising accordingly. What's Walgreen's app know about you? What's Google know about you, just from tracking your location and buy habits? 

And once that capability exists, it's only a matter of time before it's used by the state. 

These religious nuts are never done, it's never enough, they never have enough power, never have enough control over you in the name of their miserable small god. 

Watch and see.

- Jim Wright 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Children's Hospitals Are Pleading For Federal Help To Deal With A Capacity Crisis
• GOP Rep. Reportedly ‘Threatened’ U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan on Call Asking for Assistance to Get Into Afghanistan
• Taliban Calls for US Diplomats to Come Back: 'We Expect Them to Reopen Their Embassy in Kabul'
• NY Post, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw Fall for Fake Story That Taliban Hanged Afghan Translator From Flying Black Hawk

Texas’ state motto is “Friendship”, if you needed a real fucking belly laugh today.- cpoliticditto tweet

New Law Requires Texans to Have Counselling Before Being Allowed to Vote.  - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Matt Gaetz threatens to seize Nancy Pelosi's phone records in retaliation for Jan. 6 investigation
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens Telecoms Over 1/6 Committee Request: ‘If They Go Along With This, They Will Be Shut Down’
• Boebert Says Republicans With Doubts About Impeaching Biden Will Face Primaries, 'Uprising of the American People'
• Texas school system closes after 2 teachers die of COVID-19
• Secretly Recorded Video Shows Ron Johnson Insisting Trump Lost Wisconsin: ‘Nothing Obviously Skewed About the Results’
• Wealthy GOP donors flock to DeSantis as presidential speculation swirls
• Arrest Warrant Issued for Man Who Harassed NBC Reporter Covering Hurricane Ida Aftermath
• Florida Man Charged With Trying to Extort $25 Million from Matt Gaetz Family
• Deputies had to break up fights at a Florida school district office that announced a mask mandate

I remember just like it was 13 days ago when Gov. Abbott received Regeneron, a treatment developed with fetal stem cells. - CajunBlueAZ tweet

DOJ Warns About Gerrymandering 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday issued a warning to states ahead of a year of  congressional mapmaking that it will pursue cases against jurisdictions that seek to dilute the voting power of various minorities.

Of course, MAGAs are taking horse meds.

Their messiah is a stable genius. - John Pavlovitz 

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If men could get pregnant, the morning-after pill would be available in ranch, bar-b-que, and xtreme nacho. - Middle Age Riot

Rock The Voter News

• Adam Schiff Says Kevin McCarthy Is Threatening Telecoms Over 1/6 Committee Request Because 'He's Scared and I Think His Boss Is Scared'
• Fact check: President Joe Biden did not sleep through meeting with new Israeli prime minister
• Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame talks nuclear, cyber threats at CMU

Bush and then Obama and then Trump could see we were faltering but none dared, until Biden, had the courage to actually end this era of cascading policy failures, failures of judgment, and failures of character. - David Rothkopf

And The Media Thought Hillary's Emails Were Bad...Imagine What Trump's Communications Will Reveal.

The House select committee on investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has its sights set on ex-President Donald Trump’s desperate gambit to turn the screws on Michigan GOP officials to help him steal the 2020 election.

Committee chair Bennie Thompson’s (D-MS) information request to the National Archives and Records Administration last week seeks “all documents and communications referring or relating to the 2020 election results between White House officials and officials of State Governments” from November 3 through the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.

A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices were appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators representing minority of Americans are taking away voting rights & reproductive rights from millions of Americans. This is not democracy. - Ari Berman

 

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Business/Tech News

• Nike gives employees a week off to destress
• Florida restaurant owner posts sign asking Biden supporters to take their business elsewhere
• Louisiana shrimpers 'try and survive' after Ida sinks boats, destroys homes
• McCarthy threatens companies that comply with Jan. 6 probe’s phone records requests
• Ex-FBI Official Charged With Padding Time Sheets by 876 Hours

Pure Misery In Louisiana 
The lack of electricity combined with steamy late-summer weather to make for miserable conditions for hundreds of thousands of Louisianans trying to recover from the impacts of Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S.

Under the cover of darkness, by choosing to do nothing, the Supreme Court allowed an unconstitutional abortion ban in Texas to go into effect last night. 

Their decision doesn’t change the fact that reproductive rights are human rights. 

We'll fight for them. - Hillary Clinton

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Odd News

• Cannabis smoking lounges off to successful start in Illinois. ‘60- and 70-year-old dudes walking in with their tie-dye.’
• He wanted revenge — so NC worker secretly sold $4M in company equipment, lawyers say
• Atomic-scale imaging reveals ants use zinc to sharpen their teeth
• Say hello to handstanding spotted skunks, 'the acrobats of the skunk world'
• Cow rescued from Louisiana tree after Hurricane Ida

Time To Deflate Photo

Green Basilisk Lizard, Costa Rica. Its ability to run on water gives this species its most recognizable moniker: the Jesus lizard.

Peace.