Michigan Senate votes to repeal 1931 abortion ban

Michigan Senate votes to repeal 1931 abortion ban

The Michigan law, which was invalidated by the 1973 high court decision but remained on the state's books, prohibits abortions even in cases of rape or incest,...

Republicans in state legislatures are blocking child marriage bans, weakening child labor laws, and preventing young victims of rape and incest from having abortions.

The only way for a child to be safe from Republicans is to remain a fetus. - Middle Age Riot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'Tucker Is a Joke': Fox News Correspondent Slams Carlson for Making 'Our Jobs Harder and More Dangerous' 
• Tucker Carlson Ignores Plea from Dead Police Officer’s Family to Stop Mentioning Him and ‘Leave Us the Hell Alone’
• Former Fox News Contributor Predicts 'Considerable Bloodletting' Among Staff at the Network Amid Lawsuit
• A Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The Sicknick family should sue Tucker Carlson like the Sandy Hook families sued Alex Jones. That’s the only way to prevent others from emulating Fox News. - Piyush Mittal

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Declines Invitation From President Zelensky To Visit Ukraine. 

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he has no plans to visit Ukraine after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy extended an invitation, CNN reported on Wednesday.

In an interview with CNN set to air on Wednesday, Zelenskiy asked McCarthy, a Republican, to see the situation in Ukraine firsthand.

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP strategist accusing conversative leader Matt Schlapp of sexual misconduct comes forward and reveals his identity
• ‘You Gonna Tell Me To Shut My Mouth?!’ Senate Hearing Goes Off Rails as Teamster President and Oklahoma Republican Go to War
• Former Trump official Ken Cuccinelli launches PAC urging DeSantis to run
• TN bill that allows government employees refuse to solemnize marriages passes House
• ‘Not a Concept I Support’: DeSantis Calls Out Media Using His Picture for ‘More Clicks’ on Blogger Registration Bill He Doesn’t Advocate
• Kari Lake Takes Aim At Ron DeSantis Over Rumored 2024 Presidential Bid: ‘This is President Trump’s Turn’

I wonder how employees of Fox "News" feel having to read depositions from Murdoch and the top hosts about how their entire network is a Nazi era level propaganda machine. Their own employees might burn the thing down so we don't have to. - BlackKnight10K

Trump Only Chooses The Best Lawyers!
Jenna Ellis, who served as an attorney for Donald Trump in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, admitted in a disciplinary hearing she misrepresented evidence on at least 10 occasions.

International women’s day is an annual reminder of how much happier we’d all be if the email lady had won in 2016. - 7Smite4 tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden’s budget proposes tax hikes on wealthy to reduce deficit, shore up Medicare
• Biden wishes McConnell well after GOP leader is hospitalized from fall
• Michigan Democrats Move on Right-to-Work, Gay Rights and Guns

Today, Joe Biden is releasing a budget that slashes the deficit and raises taxes on the obscenely rich. 

today, Republicans are holding hearings because a social media app was mean to them. 

any questions - Jeff Tiedrich tweet

Trump Decision Making 101:

1. Trump thinks Stormy Daniels has a “Horse face.”

2. Trump paid to have sex with Stormy Daniels. - Jack Hopkins tweet

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Elon Musk Accidentally Includes Himself in Latest Round of Layoffs. - Andy Borowitz

Business/Tech News

• Norfolk Southern train derails in Alabama as CEO testifies in Congress
• Democratic senators grill Norfolk Southern CEO on deregulatory lobbying
• 81,000 chairs sold at T.J.Maxx, HomeGoods recalled following reports of concussion, contusions
• YETI coolers recalled over injury risk
• Sanders introduces bill to raise minimum teacher pay to $60,000 a year

Rupert Murdoch Desperately Tries To Salvage FCC License By Declaring Fox News a Sci-fi Network. - Andy Borowitz

Former Snake Oil Salesman Selling $99 Book

Former President Trump is releasing a new book that will include a star-studded batch of private letters penned to him by “some of the biggest names in history.”

“Letters to Trump” will feature “oftentimes private correspondence” between the former New York real estate developer and famous names including Princess Diana, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former President Nixon and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, its publisher, Winning Team Publishing, announced Thursday.

Rolling Stone asked Jimmy Kimmel if there’s something on his bucket list. Kimmel: “Yes, there is one thing on my bucket list that I want to do. I want to visit Donald Trump in prison and interview him from jail.”

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Odd News

• NASA discovers asteroid that has slight chance of hitting Earth on Valentine's Day 2046
• NASA Is Set to Reveal the Artemis Moon Suits, and We're Hyped
• Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells
• Owl stows away for two-week trip on Royal Caribbean cruise ship
• Maine woman has been tracking weather for NOAA for 65 years

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Hoshizuna-no-Hama is a beach on Iriomote Island in Okinawa, Japan, famous for its unique sand composed of tiny star-shaped shells.


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Good News, Bad News

Bad news first.  No new edition today.

Good news: I accepted an offer on my property!

A few cartoons below so you won't leave empty handed.

A new edition tomorrow. Thank you so much for visiting.

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Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering

Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has released new security footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, given to him by Speaker McCarthy,...

It was a deadly insurrection. It would take 538 24-hour days for one person to watch all 14,000 hours of out of context footage. We all saw what happened live. - Luke Saleski 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Trump Calls for Release of ALL Jan 6 Detainees Following Tucker Carlson Rewrite: 'LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!'
• Elon Musk Falls For Tucker Carlson Revision of Jan. 6: 'Deeply Wrong, Legally and Morally'
• Schumer Absolutely Nukes Tucker Carlson in Stunning Senate Floor Tirade — Demands Fox 'Order' Him To Stop
• 'It's Disgusting' Ex-Jan 6th Committee Member Adam Kinzinger Calls Out 'Grifter' Tucker Carlson's 'Straw Man' Coverage
• Sicknick Family Destroys Fox News and Tucker Carlson In Blistering Condemnation of Jan. 6 Footage Spin
• 'You're a Loser!' Joe Scarborough Brutally Mocks Trump's 'Retribution' Speech at CPAC

Tune in tomorrow when Tucker Carlson unearths video of Jeffrey Dahmer helping an old lady with her groceries. - Bob Clendenin tweet 

Twitter Just Gets Worse Every Day Since Musk Took Over
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he made it clear that eradicating spam bots was a top priority. But his strategies on that front have produced, at best, mixed results. Moreover, in recent months, some users have been plagued by a type of spam that directly violates Twitter policy: automated replies from accounts offering guns for sale.

Millions Celebrate As Twitter Outage Briefly Silences Elon Musk. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Former Trump Adviser Paul Manafort To Pay Millions to DOJ Over 20 Undeclared Foreign Bank Accounts
• DeSantis previews 2024 message in State of the State address
• Florida GOP lawmakers introduce six-week abortion ban bill
• Chris Christie Thoroughly Mocks 'Trump's Lies' over Tiny CPAC Crowd: 'Cannot Accept His Half Empty Room'
• Reporter Quits The Daily Wire With Scathing Open Letter Decrying 'Overtly Partisan' Trans Coverage

If the 9/11 commission had given Tucker Carlson exclusive footage of that day, we’d be watching angry buildings crash into peaceful, stationary planes. - 7Smite4 tweet

Lindsey Graham Wants To Bomb Mexico 🙄

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Monday he is prepared to introduce legislation to pave the way for the president to potentially use military force in Mexico to combat drug cartels.

On Friday, four Americans were kidnapped just over the border in northeastern Mexico in what U.S. officials are saying is a case of mistaken identity.

Of course the only time Tucker Carlson would show the insurrection on Fox News is when he's trying to cover it up.  But thanks for reminding all your viewers that Republicans tried to overthrow the government. Bang up job you're doing there. - BlackKnight10K

I feel like any day there isn't a crazed narcissist in the White House is a good day. - Stephen King tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden leads Williamson by more than 70 points among Democratic primary voters: poll
• Harris backs lawsuit filed by Texas women over ‘extreme’ GOP abortion laws
• Manchin to vote against Biden’s nominee for FCC

Walgreen caved to pressure from pro-life terrorists to stop selling abortion pills

South Carolina wants to execute women for having an abortion

Florida is forcing a woman to give birth to a dying baby

The evangelical “pro-life” movement is 1 of the biggest SCAMS in US history. - Lindy Li tweet

Texan Messes With Texas
Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton has introduced a bill that would place a referendum for Texas’ secession from the United States on the 2024 ballot. H.B. 3596 would allow Texans to vote on “whether or not the State should investigate the possibility of Texas independence, and present potential plans to the Legislature.”



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Business/Tech News

• Yellen warns climate change could trigger asset value losses, harming US economy
• Elon Musk Under Fire for Attempting to Publicly Humiliate Disabled Employee Instead of Telling Him If He Still Has a Job: ‘Superlative Piece of Sh*t’
• Severe turbulence on flight kills ex-White House official
• 99 percent of global population exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants: study

What did Norfolk Southern do with all the money it saved from cutting its workforce, running longer trains, refusing sick leave, and scrimping on safety?

Over the past two decades, it has boosted shareholder payouts by 4,500 percent.

Corporate greed, folks. - Robert Reich tweet

 

Apparently, SCOTUS Has Better Things To Do

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again declined to settle a split among appeals courts over whether federal wage law allows workers to bring nationwide class action-style lawsuits, turning away a case involving FedEx Corp.

I actually think it's reassuring that if the Republicans shut down the government Hillary's email would still work. - Andy Borowitz, March 6, 2015

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Odd News

• Key lawmakers double down on solving the enduring mystery of UFOs
• E-bike-sparked fire destroys New York supermarket, apartment building
• Popular Australian beer recalled due to 'excess alcohol'
• Fitness enthusiast does 8,008 pull-ups in 24 hours
• Thar she blows! Canadian woman wins Key West conch contest

Time To Deflate Photo

An orangutan enjoying the weather.  Photo credit: Andrew Suryono

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