"The way in which Judge Chutkan conducted herself—cool, no nonsense, factual—was in stark contrast to the tone of Trump’s lawyer, John Lauro. It sets up a dynamic and a model that other judges could look to when dealing with a bombastic, aggressive defense from Trump’s team."
~ Jay Kuo
#Chutkan #JudgeChutkan #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/all-rise-for-judge-tanya-chutkan
Jason Stanley on the ideology (racist, and also anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic) underlying the mass shootings perpetrated by Payton Gendron and Ryan Palmeter — an ideology much more widespread than the term "extremist" applied to these mass shooters suggests.
#racism #fascism #LGBTQ #antisemitism #violence #MassShooting #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/florida-shooter-racist-ideology-manifesto
"The last time Anglican priests in England were asked, in 2014, shortly after the legalisation of same-sex civil marriage, 51% said same-sex marriage was 'wrong', compared with 39% who approved."
#homosexuality #SameSexMarriage #Anglican #ChurchofEngland
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"In a major shift in attitudes over the past decade, a survey of priests in England conducted by the Times found that more than half supported a change in law to allow clergy to conduct the marriage of gay couples, with 53.4% in favour compared with 36.5% against."
~ Alexandra Topping
#homosexuality #SameSexMarriage #Anglican #ChurchofEngland
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nostr:npub1efdyk4appjsfcwhywvk6dn6dfx272lny8sn87660u6hp0h9c083sdwzam2 Yes, moving the goalposts — around all the dead bodies!
nostr:npub16an8vgldvt27lqaledzpx94gm8zqy04f4cr5yuw3dectaet9xmgq98k5y9 Yes. I very much agree. That's very well-stated.
nostr:npub1dvqm66yjpu5rsvncxzs03wtn9jflnjr93yzhktrrxdm30qlm253qpvuxak They do, for sure, and no amount of logic, reason, or facts will bet beyond the parameters of their bubble.
nostr:npub1t3d0yc2kmf6qqcd7tg63smeg7r9xdvea734kr9mmklfdvuk0f2wszwqnlg Yes, that's definitely part of what's driving him. I think this is also a strategic move on the part of the Trump camp to try to peel off the people indicted by Fani Willis, so that one after another has to be tried separately and some possibly get their case moved to another jurisdiction.
nostr:npub1px9prtjuza0vmqe57uy7hkhu8j8fl3kjygn9vcfq3ffjkcjc2tws4uv9r5 You'll have to help me understand this cartoon. Unless my eyes are seeing wrong, the person with the gun and the MAGA hat is a Black person.
But most MAGA, pro-Trump voters are by far white and not Black — so I don't understand.
nostr:npub1x2lqf525aaa9f8dlt3q378lrfxmvcst2h47te3kmwcmdld4jmzxs3hn3d6 nostr:npub1t3d0yc2kmf6qqcd7tg63smeg7r9xdvea734kr9mmklfdvuk0f2wszwqnlg My impression is that Fulton County doesn't typify north Georgia.
nostr:npub19det76duhykfkxztuwfm8unvfyr2hvfkmzgtfhdvalln0em98nusmrynwy Or, at the very least, downplaying — and repeatedly — violence done by the dangerous, violent right in the US.
nostr:npub1fxmqftqvyw4ndxghsax5zgtquvm6cujym5urwqpu7an96km3nyns07guxz Yes, the basket of deplorables in America is a very large one, and you're right, in that way, it's easy for these folks to identify Trump (and themselves) as quintessential Americans.
nostr:npub1cwe62gxk04ydmu0fprjqscfm0u26w7xs2cx30xev9059nrgltwcqmywxlz So much so. And on top of all of that, racist to the core.
From its inception, the "pro-life" movement has been about putting women in their place, about stopping the advance of women's rights — not about serving "the value of life" and safeguarding life. Tennessee Republicans now standing on their heads to serve the interests of the gun lobby while calling themselves pro-lifers: this is the real, honest to God face of the "pro-life" movement in the US.
#abortion #ProLife
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The "pro-life" movement has so patently not promoted what it calls "the value of life" or a "life-centered ethic" that it has no moral leg to stand on as it tries to posture as a moral movement. Moral movements don't stoop to lies and deceit and coercion to make moral points. They persuade via reason and logic and the example they provide of moral behavior.
#abortion #ProLife
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Mona Charen, who objects to abortion on moral grounds, thinks that pro-lifers need to change tactics and realize that the attempt to limit abortions through the law has been a failure.
What Charen's argument fails to recognize, it seems to me, is that the "pro-life" movement was a failure from its inception, because it's not about what it claims to be about. It claims to be about morality. But it's about coercion.
#abortion #ProLife
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https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/pro-lifers-should-change-tactics
A truly moral position is never defended by coercion, by force of law that imposes my moral values on you. The moment that's my objective — to coerce you to recognize as moral what I dictate — I have forfeited the claim to be promoting a moral cause.
From the outset, the "pro-life" movement has been about coercing a majority of Americans to accept — by force of law — a moral judgment about abortion held by a minority.
#abortion #ProLife
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Mona Charen, who objects to abortion on moral grounds, thinks that pro-lifers need to change tactics and realize that the attempt to limit abortions through the law has been a failure.
What Charen's argument fails to recognize, it seems to me, is that the "pro-life" movement was a failure from its inception, because it's not about what it claims to be about. It claims to be about morality. But it's about coercion.
#abortion #ProLife
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https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/pro-lifers-should-change-tactics