Texas AG Ken Paxton: Abortion bounties on women is 'what the Founders intended'

Texas AG Ken Paxton: Abortion bounties on women is 'what the Founders intended'

...During an appearance on Real America's Voice, Paxton told host Steve Bannon that the Texas "heartbeat bill" is "amazing" because it allows anyone to sue to collect $10,000 bounties from each person who assists a woman in having an abortion.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum.

— George Bernard Shaw

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• More Americans worried about domestic extremism than threat abroad: survey
• Ex-FBI official says law enforcement needs to take upcoming right-wing rally in DC 'very seriously'
• Trump Pals Say Afghanistan Cinched 2024 Run Against Biden: 'He Smelled Blood'
• GOP Rep. Mullin Accuses State Dept. of Trying to Sabotage Rescue of American Family: They 'Actually Told the Embassy and the Country Not to Assist Us'
• Internal police emails show more gun incidents, arrests and warnings in DC in the hours before the Capitol breach
• 2 in 3 parents support school mask mandates as pediatric cases surge

The main lesson to be learned from 2021, is to never vote for someone who tries to kill you. - Alan Baxter tweet

Who Knew That College Football Games Are Superspreader Events? Fauci, That's Who.

College football is back and so are the millions of fans who will pack stadiums every Saturday through November.

Dr. Anthony Fauci joined Jim Sciutto on CNN’s New Day Tuesday morning and preached the dangers of seeing crowded college football stadiums around the country while Covid outbreaks are on the rise.

Texas Officially Renames Holiday You Must Go Into Labor Day. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Abbott signs Texas elections bill, Democrats file suit
• Lara Trump Suggests Joe Biden Talks About Grieving His Late Son Beau for 'Political Advantage'
• 'MyPillow Guy' becomes a nightmare for a Jan. 6 rioter — and for justice
• Miami Herald hits DeSantis on vaccine claims: 'Profile in selfishness'
• Texas lieutenant governor knocks Portland as 'dumpster fire' over planned boycott
• José Díaz-Balart gets daytime show on MSNBC
• Former Trump aide Jason Miller questioned for three hours by police in Brazil
• Sheldon Whitehouse Is Following the Money Around Brett Kavanaugh
• "They said they were vitamins": Inmates in Arkansas jail say they were unknowingly given ivermectin to treat COVID-19

Raise your hand if you'd like to see Kevin McCarthy testify under oath in front of Congress on live television for 11 straight hours to explain just what the f*ck is in those phone records that he so desperately wants to keep hidden. - Jeff Tiedrich

The Award For Arse Kissing Goes To...

The sculptor Gutzon Borglum put George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem added Donald Trump—to a replica of the massive granite monument that she commissioned and then presented when he delivered a speech at a controversial Mount Rushmore celebration on July 3, 2020.

Texas Urged To Abort Governor After Finding No Evidence of Heart. - Andy Borowitz

Somebody should look up what kind of insurance claim Trump will file for Bedminster re: Ida, you know he will. - Noel Casler

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Rock The Voter News

• White House asks Congress for $24 billion in disaster relief
• Sanders pushes back at Manchin on $3.5T spending plan
• Whitmer calls on Michigan legislature to repeal law against abortion

Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional, making the country more progressive on abortion rights than the US. - Travis Allen

Puleeze. Joe Scarborough tried to represent Michael F. Griffin on a murder charge in the slaying of Dr. David Gunn, who was shot outside a Pensacola abortion clinic in March 1993. Joe Got Elected On The Backs Of These Crazy Anti-Abortionists in 1994. He Also Voted Against Federal Protection of Abortion Clinics.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed the U.S. Supreme Court for opening the door to "constitutional chaos" by refusing to block a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks.

Why is charging $50 for a $6 case of water during a hurricane considered price gouging, but charging $700 for a $5 vial of insulin is considered health care? - Deacon Blues tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Ted Cruz to millions losing unemployment benefits: 'Um, get a job?'
• Jaw-Dropping 76 PERCENT of Republicans Oppose Vaccine Requirement in Workplace as Covid Deaths Soar
• House Republicans Send Letter To Yahoo! Addressed To CEO Marissa Mayer, Who Left Company in 2017
• Texas abortion tracking website shut down a second time

I support keeping the US minimum wage at $7.25 per hour.

But only for Congress, bc most of them live off the tips. - John Fugelsang

A Revisit To Clinton's Impeachment. Naw, I'll Pass.
Monica Lewinsky spoke to Savannah Guthrie about Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series American Crime Story: Impeachment, revealing that she no longer needs an apology from Bill Clinton.

Our only hope is that COVID gets tired of winning. - Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• NASA's Mars Rover Perseverance successfully collects first sample
• River Near Spot Where Calif. Family of 3 Mysteriously Died Has Been Closed Due to Toxic Algae
• The skeleton of the world's biggest Triceratops goes on sale
• Australian duck named Ripper learns to swear after imitating humans
• New Jersey 14-year-old uses 3D printer to create prosthetic hand

Time To Deflate Photo

Thomas Pesquet's photograph of the edge of the earth from ISS, today.

Peace.

Attorney general pledges to protect abortion clinics in Texas that may come 'under attack'

Attorney general pledges to protect abortion clinics in Texas that may come 'under attack'

(CNN) Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Monday to protect abortion clinics in Texas by enforcing a federal law that prohibits making ...

I will now be referring to Texas as Howdy Arabia. - Travis Allen

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'We Will Be Going Back': Lindsey Graham Tells Stunned Reporter US Will Re-Invade Afghanistan
• Jim Acosta Blasts 'Human Manure Spreader' Tucker Carlson For 'Race Baiting Conspiracy' That Afghan Refugees Were Brought to U.S. to Help Democrats Win Elections
• QAnon Shaman's Lawyer Has a Creepy New Defense For His Client: 'He Had a Fondness For Trump Not Unlike The First Love a Man May Have For a Girl'
• Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state: Mississippi
• 15 Miami-Dade Public School Staff Members Die Of COVID In Just 10 Days
• Fauci Tells Acosta FDA Will Finalize Recommendations About Booster Shots Soon, Advises Against 'Mixing and Matching' Pfizer and Moderna

"Covid only kills a very small quantity of children!" Ok, but I have a very small quantity of children? - Ashley S. Weitz

 

The New York Times Is Continuing Their Art Of Disparaging Democrats

The New York Times on Saturday changed a headline on an article about President Joe Biden as Twitter users reacted to the phrasing in a variety of mostly negative ways.

The original headline “Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It” was on a Katie Rogers article about the president expressing his grief and facing some criticism over discussing his lost son while visiting with the families grieving the deaths of United States servicemembers in the terror attack in Kabul.

Wish everyone a happy new year on Rosh Hashanah. If they say "I'm not Jewish", say "I'm not Christian but you constantly jam your religion down everyone’s throats and up their vaginas so, like I said, Happy New Year.” - OhNoSheTwitnt

Republican Shenanigans

• Rudy Giuliani explains why it's OK to impeach Biden but not Trump: 'We can't be denied the use of it'
• Kinzinger Slams Kevin McCarthy Threat to Companies Over 1/6 Committee Request: 'I Would Certainly Recommend He Never Go There Again'
• GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy Downplays Texas Abortion Law: 'Supreme Court Will Swat it Away'
• Heidi Heitkamp shreds Chris Christie after he says women should lose abortion rights because of 'science'
• Larry Elder argues slave owners are ‘owed reparations’ during appearance on Candace Owens’ show
• GOP's Larry Elder shows up at anti-vaxx megachurch and declares sex education 'has no role' in schools

The same people who claim China developed COVID-19 in a lab are developing COVID-19 variants in their unvaccinated bodies. - Middle Age Riot

Oh, Oh! Melania Wants Nothing To Do With Being First Lady Again. YAY!

Melania Trump Reportedly Has No Interest in Helping Her Husband Run for President Again.

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, Who Went Viral For Getting Punched in the Face, Is Now Divorced, Broke, and Getting Booed Out of Restaurants

Really the only thing you should do at a School Board meeting is stand up and say thank you. Thank you for caring about the safety and wellbeing of your kids, for trying to educate them during a deadly pandemic, and for protecting some of them from their own a-hole parents. - Jeremey Newberger

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden visits union hall to mark Labor Day
• Amy Klobuchar Proposes Abolishing the Filibuster to Preserve Abortion Rights: 'An Archaic Rule' Should Not 'Allow Us to Put Our Heads in the Sand'
• Portland to vote to ban Texas travel, trade following new abortion law
• Pete and Chasten Buttigieg Welcome Two Bundles of Joy to Their Family With Adorable Photo

I remember the cruelty that dawned at the beginning of the Reagan Era, my classmates that had free school breakfast taken away and the era of ‘ketchup is a vegetable’ that meanness for sport has metastasized and become a sadistic pillar of modern fascism aka MAGA. - Noel Casler

Tick Tock, McCarthy
The public spotlight around the investigation into the Capitol attack of Jan. 6 has shifted squarely onto Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), the GOP leader who has emerged as the face of defiant opposition to the congressional probe into the deadly riot.

Not sure which will destroy us first, the stupid or the evil ones. - George Takei

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Business/Tech News

• Oil boom remakes N. Dakota county with fastest growth in US
• Donald Trump Nearing Deal to Sell His Washington D.C. Hotel Following Revenue Plunge From Covid-19
• ‘Shang-Chi’, Marvel Homage to Asian Culture, Smashes Labor Day Weekend Box Office Records
• Hong Kong media company that resisted China's control is shutting down

40-hr work week, minimum wage, an end to child labor, family leave, health ins, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans, and the weekend. 

Happy Labor Day

Thanks, Union Thugs. - John Fugelsang

It Is An Unhappy Labor Day For These Folks

Over seven million people across the U.S. will lose their unemployment benefits beginning on Monday as pandemic safety nets expire. 

The emergency federal jobless benefits are set to end on Labor Day, while another three million people will lose their additional $300 boost to state unemployment benefits, barring government intervention.

I miss the old Republican party that just wanted to kill you with unsafe working conditions and pollution. - Heather Thomas tweet

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Odd News

• Man credits $100,000 lottery win to a little voice inside his head
• Mississippi hunters get the big prize in a 787-pound alligator
• A man was arrested on suspicion of stealing more than 700 pieces of women's underwear from coin laundromats
• Mexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman
• Mystery woman struts through airport wearing bikini and mask

Time To Deflate Photo

Anjihai Grand Canyon in China, where you are literally on the edge of the precipice.

Peace.

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.