Little girl showing her friends at school her new prosthetic leg.. 😊
pic.twitter.com/JdSZbn3a1H— Mahatma Gandhi (Parody) (@GandhiAOC) April 12, 2024
- As the judicial abolition of abortion rights in Arizona results in political whirlwind, historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the 1864 law on which the decision was based, and its context. That context includes other Arizona laws of that time – ranging from ridiculous to outright racist.
Her analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit notes Republicans getting precisely what they want in the Arizona ruling – and they are horrified.
- At The Moderate Voice Kathy Gill follows the chaos in Republican politics after the abortion zero right decision. They are all panicked self-contradiction.
- Fox Business analyst Mark Simone believes abortion prohibition is an inconvenience for women, and makes a stunningly stupid remark:
Simone: If you had to travel to another state to get an abortion, it’s not the worst thing in the world. Hopefully this is very rare occurrence in your life… Buying a bus ticket to go somewhere to get it is not the worst thing in the world. pic.twitter.com/EmaCoft18T
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 9, 2024
Vixen Strangely clearly, and presumably slowly, explains it to him.
- Hackwhackers asks which rights Republicans will target next, brings us the ad…
NEW AD: Millions of women lost their freedoms because of Donald Trump.
If Trump gets back in power, what freedom will you lose next? pic.twitter.com/F8g37Yiwhd
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 11, 2024
…and a series of cartoons, some with biting humor, all with a serious point.
- driftglass covers the coverage as reporters scour Arizona, relieved to at last find a contra view, thereby fulfilling the requisite both-sides journalism.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has more numbers, this time on half a dozen things a vast majority of Americans agree on. Surprise!
- The Propaganda Professor relays advice from author Nathan J. Robinson on how to handle the most common right-wing talking points. Then adds a cautionary word of his own.
- Julian Sanchez has an insight on the unfortunate human tendency to rationalize away movement excesses, then applies it to the decline of the Republican party:
Post by @normativeView on Threads
- Scotties Playtime, Scottie perceives a trend as local Republican politicians assemble armed civilian militias.
Now, where could they have gotten that idea?
- The Trump alternate social media corporation – Truth Social – goes public, shoots to the sky, then goes all Icarus. The Borowitz Report covers the new desperation strategy as the initial windfall disappears. mr Trump decides to fix the plunging stock price with his sharpie.
Key reaction:
Across the country, members of the MAGA movement who invested in Trump Media were reportedly in a state of shock that a company run by Donald Trump could lose money.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony has a quote that sums up the reasoning behind the Republican move to name a major airport after Trump.
- Tommy Christopher covers media coverage as Trump jokes with a private group about his preference for immigrants from nice countries like “Denmark, Switzerland,” and “Norway.”
Key cleaned up self-quote:
“And when I said, you know, Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice,” Mr. Trump said at the dinner, to chuckles from the crowd. “Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”
- News Corpse covers the Fox report that the eclipse was used as a way to get migrants in under cover of darkness.
News Corpse points out that migrants won’t get another chance like this until …well… darkness tonight … and tomorrow night … and the next night.
- Frances Langum reminds us that it wasn’t just ivermectin or household cleaning products. Four years ago this week then-president Trump told us that we could treat COVID19 with zinc.
- PZ Myers goes to right wing world and discovers the latest lib conspiracy: we’re sneaking vaccines into their lettuce.
Busted!
- YellowDog Granny has views. She starts with the aging process, then proceeds to relationships, Republicans, Trump, women’s rights, and she feels horrible.
- As elderly folks begin to shift toward Democrats, Republicans being to shift to a new voting rights target:
and Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a personal point to make:Maybe @EricHovde didn't have the same experience I had taking care of two elderly parents at the end of their lives, but I couldn't imagine saying to them, "Don't bother voting. You're going to die, soon." https://t.co/MUmb9TFO0m
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) April 8, 2024
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors points to another shifting Republican strategy. Since gathering evidence of illegal activity by President Biden failed (Hard to find evidence of something that never happened) Republicans are looking for new evidence that Biden occasionally lapses into the stutter he has had since childhood.
Who knew?
- Infidel753 points out an uncomfortable (to many of us) truth: that the view of nature held by urban pro-environmental purists often differs from that of less affluent folk who actually live with nature.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life explains the obvious: that Republican leaders are increasingly getting their repeatedly discredited talking points directly from the Kremlin.
- My longtime conservative friend Darrell Michaels makes the case against a ceasefire for Israel.
Key defense reasoning:
As I have written previously, Israel and Netanyahu have an obligation to defend itself. Allowing a cease fire now before Hamas has been completely eliminated would only allow these terrorist vermin to regroup, resupply, and continue their unjust and hateful war of extermination against Israel. Indeed, if Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and all of the other terrorist proxies in the region were to simply lay down their arms and live their lives, there could be peace in the region. If Israel were to lay down its arms or enact a permanent cease fire, they would be eradicated and cease to exist.
and
Long admired writer Kevin Drum explains the agonizing journey many of us, including most of our fellow Americans, from wholehearted support for Israel to non-support for what Israel is now doing in Gaza.
Key turning point:
First, after some initial success it seemed that Israel wasn’t making much further progress on Hamas. Second, Israel appeared to be dead serious about starving Gazans to death. That’s a heinous war crime regardless of how much you support the goal of the war.
My own overall from as long as a month ago:Hamas hunts Jews to kill & boasts about the murders.
To be sure, Netanyahu is not Hamas.
He does not target Palestinians for extermination.He is simply indifferent to their suffering and death when they happen to be in the way.
After all, life is filled with little trade-offs
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) March 15, 2024
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz acknowledges that Hamas is using Palestinian civilians as cover, questions those who set an acceptable ratio of innocent deaths in getting Hamas, and is attacked as pro-Hamas.
Key proposition:
When any group of people are being assessed as acceptable collateral damage or justifiable losses or the cost of stopping terrorism, that isn’t something that we should simply accept without at least questioning it as an idea.
- Nan’s Notebook is curious about those in the faith, and the curiouser and curiouser plethora of our disagreements one with another about God.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce reminds those of us in the faith that our personal testimony is not evidence.
My response is here.
Spoiler alert: he is right.
- Legal expert Imani Gandy hears the news:
Nicole sends her regards. https://t.co/8jWOcAQQ5N
— Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) April 11, 2024
- At The Onion, OJ Simpson has been allowed to live after his coffin does not fit.
- Author John Scalzi has a word of advice for those trying their hand at professional writing: Don’t invent endorsements.
Key no-no:
Fabricating quotes from other authors about your work, and then putting those quotes on social media promoting your work. It’s a bad idea! Don’t do it!
- In Happiness Between Tails, her book is a step closer to publishing, and da-AL hosts poet and author Jerrice J. Baptiste, best known for her works on multi-cultural living and spirituality.
- Vincent, at A Wayfarer’s Notes, likes poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I do too, ever since high school. I’m glad he lived a long life. And I enjoy Vincent as he writes an open letter to the man, quoting his poetry.
- SilverAppleQueen has a beautiful tree.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil goes through some physical hardship to bring us a beautiful skyview, and advice I’d advise no one to take.
- Laura High and Dave Columbo go all old frontier with questions about life and lessons.
- @whiskeywhistle98 explains parenting as no one else can:
- Clickbait satirist Reductress offers helpful advice on how to confront your passive-aggressive co-worker by quitting.
- In Georgia baseball, The Savanna Bananas demonstrate that unorthodox pitching can work: