Morning Thread

In the morning.

The Sam Alito Body Count

 Going to have to start counting soon. Civilly.

Though there is almost nothing these freaks love more than women having  pregnancy-related deaths.   Will probably put a big lighted counter in his own office. Ring a bell every thousand.

Sunday Funday

 I am taking a bit of a break but I understand that Schmidt's twitter... whatever it is... continues!

MELTDOWN MAY

AKSHUALLY, MEGHAN, YOUR FATHER SUCKED ASS (read the whole thread).

Morning

 Sunday funday.

Saturday Night

Rock on. I remember Tom Jones was so old when he did this. 48.

A Nation Divided

CNN poll:

SCOTUS should NOT overturn Roe 66%
SCOTUS should overturn Roe 34%

State abortion laws should be:
More permissive 58%
More restrictive 42%

Should there be a national law legalizing abortion:
Yes 59%
No 41%

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 7, 2022

Everything Changes

Even for rich white ladies.

For the really rich, it is true: Traveling to get an abortion and evading prosecution will more or less be a cinch. But the chasm between really rich and everyone else gets deeper every day, and it is simply not true that a suburban white mom of three in Missouri or the teenage daughter of well-off Christian conservatives in Alabama will be in a position to get the abortion she needs when she needs it with ease and without risk to herself, her family, or the people willing to help her. Even crossing to another state to obtain an abortion may entail legal jeopardy as states consider various means to prohibit and criminalize abortion travel.

And as I keep emphasizing, this isn't just about abortion. No OB/GYN related medical procedures - or anything else that could conceivably cause a miscarriage - will evade the state's glare. And impossible to hide things in a world of electronic records and endless insurance paperwork.

Of course law enforcement measures will always fall disproportionately on poor and minority women, but no one will really be able to escape.

Lunch Thread

Slacker Saturday continues.

No Big Whoop

Ignore the centrist hot takes about how getting rid of Roe isn't that big of a deal. It will be a nuke dropped on the country.

And ignore those people generally.

Saturday Morning

Slacker Saturday

Friday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

Finally

Afternoon Thread

Busy With stuff.

Defund Women's Health Care

A lot of focus over the past few years on bad messaging by people mostly not affiliated with the Democratic party. Democrats can't stop talking about it! Democratic pundits won't stop going on teevee reminding people about it!

Why can't centrists stop saying "defund the police"? I have been told it is very unpopular!

fascinating i don’t remember congress ever defunding the police https://t.co/ji7dBKv7ad

— Akela Lacy (@akela_lacy) May 6, 2022

A timely intervention because they'd rather talk "defund" than abortion.

Can't control the people not on the payroll, but I do wish they'd give more thought to the people on the payroll.

In an interview with the San Antonio Report, Clyburn downplayed the significance of abortion among his party’s base.

“Does this issue carry more weight than voting [rights]? I don’t think so,” Clyburn said. “I think restoring the Voting Rights Act is a much weightier issue than this.”

I'm a bit confused by how these things are in competition, and what that has to do with anti-abortion Cuellar. Voting rights are certainly important! But "vote Dems if only because of the Supreme Court [which was always just code for abortion]" has been the text and subext of 30 years of politics! Can't just brush it away. "Abortion - Just Not That Important" is not good messaging!

Going to get a lot of this from centrist pundits, too, who are or aren't on the payroll depending on how you squint, but they're much more on the payroll than police reform activists.

Lunch Thread

Pho Friday.

Is It Bad When Women Die? Views Differs

if I was still a media reporter, I would be curious about whether news organizations have emailed staff or reiterated specific policies about what they can say in response to the Politico story and abortion access in the US

— Doomscrolling Reminder Lady (Karen K. Ho) (@karenkho) May 3, 2022

Quite likely expressing the view that it is bad to die of from an ectopic pregnancy violates The Sacred Norms of Objective Journalism in a way that saying "the deficit is bad" does not.

Tiller The Baby Killer

Bill O'Reilly called George Tiller that regularly for years, with predictable results as Tiller was assasinated in 2009.

Despite that, Barack Obama gave a much touted "Super Bowl Interview" to Bill O'Reilly. OK, you're saying, sometimes you do these things for politics, to get elected. Yes, sure, smart guy, that was in 2014.

Not exactly O'Reilly's only abhorrent view, statement, or action either.

I do think a big part of vibe politics is communicating clearly which side you're on, and while CW in Dem circles is that this is alienating, I suspect there's already a party for O'Reilly fans.

Obama didn't actually have to hand it to the guy. Also, that was in 2014.

JERBS

+428K. Should be good news but rich people hate it!

Friday Morning

again