"Yes, I am blaming the climate crisis for the horrors on Maui. Get used to it. It's going to be a part, one way or another, of every major weather catastrophe for the foreseeable future. That's a big part of the price for inaction."
~ Charles Pierce
#Hawaii #Maui #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44787160/climate-change-lahaina-maui-wildfires/
"While Roe was the law of the land, national-level Republican lawmakers could go to the floor and rail against abortion, even introduce various restrictions, signaling their allyship with the Christian Right while safe in the knowledge that they wouldn’t have to deal with any political fallout. …
A CNN poll released earlier this week found that 64 percent of U.S. adults say they disapprove of the [Dobbs] ruling…."
.#Republicans #abortion #SupremeCourt #democracy #ReligiousRight
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Kate Riga on how it's finally dawning on some Republicans that they have an abortion problem:
"Part of the right’s bewilderment stems from the reality that abortion was such an electoral carrot for the party for so long. Then-candidate Donald Trump made it a huge part of his presidential appeal: Vote for me, and I’ll stack the Supreme Court with justices who’ll overturn Roe."
~ Kate Riga
#Republicans #abortion #SupremeCourt #democracy #ReligiousRight
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"Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office."
~ Adam Liptak
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Constitution
"Biden officials have tried to pressure states quietly to fix the errors—including long waits to get phone calls answered and slow processing of applications, as well as paperwork errors—but yesterday released letters it had sent to individual states to warn them they might be violating federal law. Thirty-six states did not meet federal requirements."
#Medicaid #healthcare #Texas #ProLife #Republicans
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"In the last three months, 4 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage, mostly because of paperwork problems. (Texas dropped an eye-popping 52% of beneficiaries due for renewal in May.)"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Medicaid #healthcare #Texas #ProLife #Republicans
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As David Badash reports, House Republicans are defending the barbaric razor-wire barrier Greg Abbott has placed in the Rio Grande, because Bible.
You knew they'd go there, right? The same way old Jeff Sessions went there to defend the barbaric separation of children form parents at the border.
They imagine they own the Bible and God. And we don't. Their whole shtick is premised on that claim.
#Texas #Republicans #GregAbbott #Bible #cruelty #barbarism
An excellent essay by Robert Reich about how Ayn Rand's attack on the idea of the common good has become, from Reagan to Trump, the foundation of "conservative" politics in the US, and how this philosophy undermines the very basis of American democracy with its notion of the common good.
#AynRand #Trump #Reagan #Republicans #CommonGood
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-common-good-chapter-2-what-good
"For decades, the right argued that Roe v. Wade was an assault on democracy because it removed abortion rights from the democratic process and turned the US into a juristocracy. Since Dobbs robbed women and pregnant people of bodily autonomy, though, the GOP has not been acting like a party which is confident it can win the support of voters for its draconian forced birth policies."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Ohio #Republicans #abortion #democracy
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/issue-1-rejected-ohio-abortion-restrictions-gop
"On the contrary, Republicans have repeatedly shown that their abortion agenda and authoritarian agenda are one and the same. And this week’s sweeping pro-choice victory in red Ohio shows once again that voters find both of those linked agendas repulsive.".
#Ohio #Republicans #abortion #democracy
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"For decades, the right argued that Roe v. Wade was an assault on democracy because it removed abortion rights from the democratic process and turned the US into a juristocracy. Since Dobbs robbed women and pregnant people of bodily autonomy, though, the GOP has not been acting like a party which is confident it can win the support of voters for its draconian forced birth policies."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Ohio #Republicans #abortion #democracy
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/issue-1-rejected-ohio-abortion-restrictions-gop
"A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, 'poison bread sandwiches' and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes. …
One recipe it dubbed 'aromatic water mix' would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as 'the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses.'"
~ Tess McClure
#A1
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes
"'Serve chilled and enjoy the refreshing fragrance,' it says, but does not note that inhaling chlorine gas can cause lung damage or death. …
In a warning notice appended to the meal-planner, it warns that the recipes 'are not reviewed by a human being' and that the company does not guarantee 'that any recipe will be a complete or balanced meal, or suitable for consumption.'"
Yum! Eat up!
#A1
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"A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, 'poison bread sandwiches' and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes. …
One recipe it dubbed 'aromatic water mix' would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as 'the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses.'"
~ Tess McClure
#A1
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes
What a despicable piece of work John Eastman is. He blames drag queens and trans people for his bad choices and violation of the law.
And to think that this man is a right-wing Catholic, a mover and shaker in the Catholic Opus Dei cult and the Federalist Society.
The man is as morally deep as a pie dish.
#JohnEastman #trans #drag
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/john-eastman-the-dems-made-me-do
"The images and stories out of Hawaii represent the latest horror in a summer when it has become increasingly clear there is little that can be considered normal about our aching planet — other than that increasing chaos is our new normal. …
The science is clear: Earth is warming, and our species is much to blame. People are suffering and dying as a result."
~ Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
#Hawaii #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
nostr:npub1n9sy5eyq370pa25qs7hmzz54l8r2npn692777a37kh5gcv7slgqsx84az3 Surely one of the great ironies of history is that King James has been quasi-deified by right-wing Christians, because of the KJV, when there's quite a bit of evidence he was gay.
nostr:npub1kld28ntac85hqvfjpgsje57ytw8nwna2cglpesvn5jvm4qugpanswgh5h8 Yes, you're absolutely right. And many citizens egging the hatred on have little notion of how they're cutting off their own noses to spite their faces as they drive talented and much-needed people with good educations out of their states.
nostr:npub1wd735u8m6krfqzeqkveg2zh49gtu2wpz8g7cucavdzzrllxyzqcqrhy77c Not sure what you mean by saying that there's no way for people targeting LGBTQ people to buy into anything at all — and this is why they target someone else.
nostr:npub1fv3jpj8grlyg4ya8zqheylq40tpsjyr2m4vhclm6sj6vfusnx6aq90797u Thanks for helping me understand! Humor can be hard to get with no facial clues, in social media exchanges.
nostr:npub1tmzh2skjpnn5gpznnvdc720e3ll5nmkrk0j689nh5y7a7ux7g04q75vsgn What, indeed? I was very disappointed in — but not surprised by — the people of Texas when they reelected him.