intheflow
intheflow's JournalHere's a link to a better article at the Berkshire Eagle
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/great-barrington-gender-queer-book-police-ban-classroom-du-bois-middle-school-aclu-rights/article_14ba4abc-9eb9-11ee-83c9-0b3ff1c1b9dd.htmlThis part really underscores the fascism at play:
State laws, she said, are pretty clear about police not having roles in this situation.
Edited to add: This article also says it was an anonymous tip, so thats why the fascist who called the cops hasnt been named. 😡
I've seen this just this week in my city library system!
The library website says the Library Commissions meetings are open to the public, on Zoom. NO LINK WAS PROVIDED. For questions, call
How did I hear of it? My friend called and asked for the link and was DENIED.
Dobbs wasn't expressly included in the Constitution.
And also, Im pretty sure most of the SCOTUS is getting as sick of tfg as we are. Alito and Thomas will vote to keep him on the ballot because neither care about burning the Constitution, but the other conservatives will be pressed hard by Roberts who will not want to see his legacy completely flushed down the toilet by upholding a dictator.
I would worry more about the sitting SCOTUS
in this case, but think Judge Chutkans highly publicized comment reiterating that the US government recognizes no divine rights of kings has set the tone for TFGs legal proceedings going forward. Roberts, wanting to save his legacy, will lobby fellow conservatives hard against giving Trump immunity. Hell persuade Beer Boy as BB has a weak mind and no actual convictions. The Handmaids a toss-up, her Catholicism might lead her to accept the Divine Rights of Kings. But shes also young, with a lifetime appointment ahead of her, and shes witnessing firsthand severe cultural backlash to what seemed like Conservative no-brainers before and during the Trump presidency. My guess is she will want a better legacy than upholding a dictator while on the SCOTUS.
Not spreading propaganda.
Palestinian Authority condemns Hamas attack: https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-15-23/h_2d24edd7bb9d823840329113a304a166 (Oct. 15)
Current Palestinian death estimate: https://wapo.st/47BiVHA (gift article, 18th paragraph)
Also at this link: 1,200 Israeli deaths on Oct. 7th vs. 11,000 in seven weeks.
That is a disproportionate response. Netanyahu's literally killed 100 times more Palestinians than Israel suffered in the terrorist attack. This in turn makes Israel MORE of a target as most of the rest of the world views that kind of OTT response as genocidal.
Stating facts doesn't make me an anti-Semite.
I just want to note: the overwhelmingly disproportionate retaliation
by the Israeli government allowed this lie to bloom. No one denied it was Hamas when it happened, including the Palestinian Authority. With little/no infrastructure left, this lie will blossom via oral retellings by Palestinians who no longer have reliable access to global news networks, who have lost their homes as well as multiple friends and families, who are rife with trauma and prime targets for propaganda. Latest casualty estimates say 10-14k Palestinians have been killed in the last seven weeks. Compare that to Ukraine, at war now for just shy of two years, with an estimated 30k killed. That's 30k killed in 21 months juxtaposed against 12k in 1.5 months.
I have a theory about Latino voters.
First of all, they're not a unified body in the US, so any theory is pure supposition. My city has a 40% Puerto Rican population, when I lived in Colorado, it was mostly people of Mexican descent. Florida has Cubans. Etc.
However, biggest factor might be that they weren't kidnapped, brought to another continent, and enslaved, they are either immigrants or their families have been in what is now the US all along. By the time US settlers got west, the Mexican-Americans were speaking Spanish and wearing clothes influenced by Europe, so they were considered innately friendlier/"more relatable" than than the Native Americans the settlers found here.
That, and the conservative Catholic church influence.
I doubt this SCOTUS will take this up again.
They threw it back to the states to decide, it's been put to votes, The People decided. AND the Court thought turning over Roe would be a boon to Republicans, but it's proving to be a huge liability. The states are deciding and Republicans are losing handily everywhere abortion is on the ballot. I know the Roberts court is filled with Federalist Society trolls but I doubt any of them will want to touch abortion again unless a Republican is in the WH, because that level of political interference might lead to a Democratic president expanding the court.
Yeah. The rule of religious law.
And misinterpreting both Jesus' message and the Jewish faith that Jesus practiced. So pretty much, just issuing edicts from their asses.
The Holocaust started that way.
The US was offered the opportunity to take Jews in before the concentration camps started. We refused.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-united-states-and-the-refugee-crisis-1938-41
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