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Chris Hayes: Ohio Issue 1 fails in key victory for abortion rights

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Alex Wagner: New report details extent of billionaires’ luxury gifts to Clarence Thomas

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J-L Cauvin: The Mitch McConnell Cooking Show (Ep 1)

WaPo: Hip-hop and politics’ complicated 50-year relationship

NowThis: Pres. Biden on Maui wildfires, “We’re working as quickly as possible”

Liberal Redneck: Ohio and the future of democracy

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Comments

  1. 1

    Wonder what the margin would have been if Ohio held tge vote on Issue 1 in November?

  4. 4

    A little info on tge failures of the particular electric articulated bus Sound Transit wants to buy for the SR522 Stride Bus Rapid Transit line.

    https://www.wrtv.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-indygo-red-line-electric-bus-testing-results-may-have-been-flawed

    Unfortunately, if this company was excluded from bidding, it will be a no bid contract. Not too many articulated bus builders in the North American market.

    https://youtu.be/U3qeYRI34C8

  5. 5

    3)US Marshals, our oldest law enforcement agency, even serving a court summons has been dangerous for them.

  10. 10

    @3

    Shame he wasn’t elected president once. He could’ve threatened the prosecutor and any witnesses and gotten a ‘hey….we need to be good and we talked about respect. If you do that thing then I won’t be able to trust you. And if I can’t trust you that makes Judge Aileen sad. And I love you but we have to have trust.’

  11. 11

    @6. Could be worse, the cops didn’t beat the black young man into submission, or choke him to death or shoot him to death. That’s progress. The argument however that “all black men look like interchangeable criminals” probably won’t hold up in court. Unless the greedy racist incel is the judge.

  12. 12

    @11 The witness swore she saw a black man running from the scene of the crime. Her exact description was:

    Age: Between 16 and 56
    Height: Between 5’6″ and 6’4″
    Weight: Between 165 and 245
    Clothing Color: Light or dark pants, and either a black, brown, tan, or orange jacket, and wearing a dark-colored ski mask and black gloves.

    Insists she would recognize him if she saw his face again. If further information is needed, the witness can be reached at #whitetrash@gmail.com.

  14. 14

    Hey, if doctors should have the right to provide in utero fetal dismemberment abortions during the 40th week of gestation, why shouldn’t this be just fine with everyone as well?

    DC_Draino
    @DC_Draino
    “FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
    10:44 AM · Aug 11, 2023

  15. 15

    As usual, the greedy racist incel and conservatives lie and quote out of context.

    The FDA has not approved or authorized ivermectin drug for COVID-19, and other federal agencies have warned against its use for preventing and treating the virus.

    “FDA is clearly acknowledging that doctors have the authority to prescribe human ivermectin to treat Covid. So they are not interfering with the authority of doctors to prescribe drugs or to practice medicine,” Honold said.

    She also argued that Congress has empowered the FDA to protect public health and make sure regulated products are safe and effective, giving it the “inherent authority to further its mission by communicating information to the public about safe uses of drugs.”

    The FDA’s lawyer stated to the judge that the FDA’s twitter statements (“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”) were responses to incidents of consumers being hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for animals.

    >> FDA: it’s not approved or authorized for COVID 19. However, the FDA can’t stop doctors from prescribing it, even through it’s worthless. The FDA also cannot stop doctors from being fired if doctors do prescribe this unapproved and unauthorized worthless drug.
    >> Ivermectin doctors are demanding to not have consequences for their actions that killed patients.

  16. 16

    15,
    After two full years, by now the greedy racist incel is tissue saturated with that shit.

    Explains a lot.

  17. 17

    Hey, if doctors should have the right to provide in utero fetal dismemberment abortions during the 40th week of gestation, why shouldn’t this be just fine with everyone as well?

    We saw what you tried to do there…..

    The greedy racist incel lies.
    Abortions at or after 21 weeks are uncommon, and represent 1% of all abortions in the US. Reasons individuals seek abortions later in pregnancy include medical concerns such as fetal anomalies or maternal life endangerment.

    It’s the usual hypocrisy. When ivermectin docs get the scrutiny that abortion docs get, they squeal like stuck pigs when their malpractice is exposed. Later term abortion is allowed for fetal anomalies or maternal life endangerment, while ivermectin does nothing to keep COVID from killing conservatives stupid enough to take it.

    Maybe good people should stop trying so hard to keep bad people from killing themselves.

  19. 19

    @17 “Maybe good people should stop trying so hard to keep bad people from killing themselves.”

    Republicans are against assisted suicide, but it’s not illegal for us to stand aside and watch.

  20. 20

    Go woke go broke.

    Disney earnings came in at $22.33B

    To be fair that is about $100m less than analysts were predicting but it’s also above the RPS analysts anticipated.

    Man that Black Mermaid and the Florida takeover is really showing the shareholders who’s in charge.

    Side note…pay the writers and actors. You have the spare cash.

  21. 21

    @14

    For someone with an alleged medical background….

    Because one is a known procedure that is used to provide care for a woman whose wellness may be terminated without such care.

    The other has proven to have no efficacy after widespread clinical study.

    Might as well ask why Doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe Calcium. Carbonate capsules for the treatment of Testicular Cancer.

  22. 22

    17,
    Research indicates that most such abortions could be largely eliminated with the kind of widespread, high quality, pre-natal care that “shithole” countries already enjoy because they treat healthcare as a basic societal need and adequately fund it.

    But here in America we can’t agree on that because Republicans would rather spend money slicing toddlers to death with razor wire.

  23. 23

    Well yes I know we have (minute pause) challenges

    (Thirty seconds of silence followed by an aide removing me from the stage)

    returns after 20 minutes

    We have challenges in our state but everything is fine.

    The largest school system in Kentucky closed schools Thursday and Friday following what the superintendent called a “transportation disaster” that left some children on buses until just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of school.

  24. 24

    The disaster came after major changes to school bus routes and school start times this year meant to alleviate a bus driver shortage, the Courier Journal reported. The district spent $199,000 to hire the AlphaRoute engineering firm to create a plan that would cut the number of bus routes and stops.

    The teamsters went on to say their drivers were not a part of planning the routes. They said if drivers had been involved and the routes properly vetted, the problem could have been avoided.

  30. 30

    @25 Last I heard, they only hate powerful and assertive women, and were okay with submissive women who don’t call the police about every black eye and bruise.

  31. 31

    @29 They did after their kids didn’t show up at home by 10 p.m.; but investigation revealed they hadn’t been kidnapped, merely stranded.

  32. 32

    Bidenflation, bay-bee!

    US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago

    “High inflation of the past 2+ years has done lots of economic damage,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

    Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs, which have surged, Zandi told CNN in an email on Friday. He added that families are also spending more at the grocery store; on buying, maintaining and insuring vehicles and on recreational services like cable.

    Of course, paychecks have also grown over the past two years — but not by as much as the cost of living.

    Even though prices have soared, real earnings, which adjust for inflation, are stuck at late 2019 levels.

    That’s not Fox. That’s CNN.

    Bidenflation touches all.

    Queen YLB’s fucked kids will be living with their two mommies for a very long time, and paying inflated rent to The Man if they ever move out.

  33. 33

    Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs

    i.e. greedy repuke landlords like teh widbee shit-stain who got played by a zoomer redneck, its baby-momma and its brew and blunt buddies…

    with a twist of a junker on blocks..

    heh.. that zoomer knew how make a shit-stain PAY for its greed.. heh.. FAFO..

  34. 34

    The Mariners org is laying it on a bit thick over “King” Felix Hernandez..

    Oh well, it sold out the stadium. Good business..

    And krap, everyone shows up.. Griffey, Ichiro, Edgar, Moyer, Wilson, Alvin Davis..

  35. 35

    Bidenflation touches all.

    yawwwn.. China is going into DEFLATION…

    Are the chicoms shy about being big spenders? Bailing out troubled sectors of their economy?

    https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/08/10/deflation-and-default-haunt-chinas-economy

    Inflation has moderated in this country. If there’s anything to worry about it’s too tight credit….. That slows down the economy, hinders growth.. The Fed has caused interest rates to climb too high, too fast but that’s only one part of the problem.. The corporate sector is over burdened with debt.. Seven outfits at the top have lots of cash and everyone else is in debt and cash poor. There’ll be a reckoning.

    “Reckonings” lead to DEFLATION not inflation. Reckonings lead to Japan’s lost decades. And China seems headed there.

    At HA, Hunter’s dick pics touch kount kreepula, shit-stain of widbee only.

  36. 36

    @32 Real (i.e. inflation adjusted) earnings stuck at 2019 levels. Hmm. Do you suppose a devastating pandemic had anything to do with that? But at least people have jobs. More jobs than pre-pandemic (I read somewhere 4 million more).

    Doc harps on families spending $709 more per month, but that’s before adjusting for wage hikes, Social Security raises, etc. And, importantly, for the first time in a long time, income gains are broadly shared and not concentrated among those at the top. And workers now have the ability to chuck bad jobs for better jobs. Well, that’s the Biden economy for you.

  37. 37

    @35 “yawwwn.. China is going into DEFLATION…”

    This is bad news. If a bad economy makes the natives restless (e.g., very high youth unemployment), and the regime feels its hold on power is threatened, they might start a war to create a diversion.

  38. 38

    @35 “Inflation has moderated in this country.”

    Actually, it’s lower here than in Europe and most other developed countries. I don’t hear doc blaming that on Biden.

  39. 39

    The greedy racist incel says “Hey, if doctors should have the right to provide in utero fetal dismemberment abortions during the 40th week of gestation, “

    Then what does he feel about the state of Texas questioning the legal rights of an “unborn child” in arguing against a lawsuit brought by a prison guard who says she had a stillborn baby because prison officials refused to let her leave work for more than two hours after she began feeling intense pains.

    Texas argued in a court filing that an “unborn child” may not have rights under the U.S. Constitution.

    When money is involved in Texas, all of a sudden the fetus has no rights.

    https://apnews.com/article/texas-fetus-rights-prison-lawsuit-6c4fa19793cd56e5edade436d1392d90

    >> I’m sure that the greedy racist incell will now flood us with posts excoriating the state of texas for killing babies.

  40. 40

    @39 Texas baby killers: If they don’t kill them in the womb, they kill them on the migrant bus.

  43. 43

    34)Sadly, Dave Niehaus is no longer with us. Him and Pete Gross, great job on the radio for their teams. Loved the Turn back the clock night where the M’s were the Rainiers, The
    Insuperable introduction for the Mariners under Lou Pinella and the Rainiers under Fred Hutchinson. Live in the neighborhood where Sick’s Stadium used to be. Wished that was preserved, but it was in worse shape than Memorial Stadium is in now. Trying to fix the latter up, but the School District, which put money to replace it in the last bond measure, has to file a landmark application to pre-empt others that might want the dilapidated grandstands preserved too. I believe the plan is to keep the Memorial Wall./Plaza.

  44. 44

    31)I meant in the route planning itself. I assume it’s not like Metro, which tries to consult riders on major revisions, Few actually participate in the surveys even though it easier now. I’m sitting the North LINK revisions out, rarely ride tge bus in that area. East LINK, SE Seattle is getting a new station, but Judkins Zpark Station will be well served by several existing routes. Plans to put to close overhead wire gaps on 23td.

  45. 45

    Ladies…..they own you. They groom you and then own you, you are theres and if they don’t like it they will kill.

    This affliction of The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus (STD) is incurrable. It’s a disease within the Heterosexaul Neanderthals.

    https://thenationonlineng.net/man-kills-wife-in-scuffle-over-affair-with-another-woman/

    When they are killing you, the act like apes, going Vrooooom, Vroooooom, Vroooooom down the street. Lookie here, my car make noisssssssse. Vroooooooooom, Vroooooooom, Vroooooooom – Me Neanderthal!

    So, ladies, you should have already caught on by now. The men own you. And just like slavery, a lot of good things come from it. Some try to learn how to cook, some learn to even do the dishes while the man is arm chair rested. Some find solutions by buying an exepensive HORSE, for her and his pleasures.

    No excuses for this lifestyle you choose to live.

  47. 47

    Be afraid, widbee shit-stain, be very, very afraid…

    Everyone seems to be more paranoid lately, and that helps Thurman’s small business. His sales surged..

    They fear burglars, gangs and child predators. They believe crime is rising, even in places where it’s dropping, which tracks with what surveys have found nationwide. Over the last three years, the number of people who reported deteriorating safety in their area has spiked, especially among Republicans, though crime ebbed and flowed well below the bloodier levels of the 1990s. Gun purchases soared to record peaks. The home security industry boomed.

    “I’m still paranoid, and I live in this overdone gated community,”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/09/crime-fears-americans-security-protection/

    Be afraid kreepula, you’re a klownservatic… And the IRS is upgrading their computer systems with Manchinema munee..

  48. 48

    The consensus and presumptive GOP nominee appeared at the Iowa State Fair yesterday to adoring crowds of cult worshipers and assured them he will not even consider any plea deals on his growing list of more than seventy criminal charges heading to trial.

    Good. Very good.

    Although I also think this is just colossally stupid.

    I’m pretty sure Trump could walk away from all of it with no time.
    The expense of defending all these charges in all these venues will not bankrupt the GOP. And they certainly won’t bankrupt Trump since he isn’t paying for any of it.
    But it will decimate funding and resources for 2024 GOP candidates.

    And the custodial sentence he will receive after conviction will come close to killing him and will ruin his health.

    So a very good thing indeed.

  50. 50

    But it will decimate funding and resources for 2024 GOP candidates.

    It’s my limited understanding that Super PACs run the funding table these days.

    State GOP parties are a mess but candidates can always look to the big munee SPs..

  51. 51

    50,
    Trump adjacent candidates are having trouble in that regard.

    Many of the independent Supers are pulling back from some of the more MAGA candidates for a lot of reasons. Of course the limits come into play for the federal campaigns. But even when large Supers give to an individual candidate’s “leadership PAC” to avoid the limits, some (more than ever) goes back upstream to “the boss” to pay for 757 fuel, Melania’s lipo, and legal retainers. So that leaves them to fund an “independent” issue campaign to benefit the candidate. But when it comes to those ultra-MAGA candidates the issues are toxic like abortion, trans-bigotry, or slaughtering infants with razor wire. And if they dip their toes to prop up a “moderate” incumbent in a swing state or district They are forced to spend twice as much just trying to surface any of that “moderate” messaging through the impenetrable and ever-present fog of Trump’s extremism and the giant ultra-MAGA propaganda companies behind him. It’s not a great investment.

    Incumbents will always have money to spend. And in times like these the right challengers will find funding. But facing some significant headwinds because of Trump at the top of ballot with abortion, contraception, school shootings, and basic civil rights on it, that funding may not be nearly enough. It’s the first thing you hear from every one of these failed campaign since Dobbs. “We were outspent”. Fat Midget’s financial collapse is six months ahead of schedule. I suspect others will follow.

  52. 52

    I won another weekend and I didn’t have to use a QR code to ‘Buy Tickets to Donate to a future moviegoer to do it’

    I’m now a $1b over that picture made by the pervs who keep getting arrested for child rape.

  53. 53

    Just saw on Seattle Fire Department social media, SFD personnel are on their way to Maui. That’s a pretty far Mutual Aid response, but it’s what Firefighters do. SFD answers those weather from Tukwilla, Tacoma, or anywhere in the country. Judging from the devastation, probably some from special squad MCI1or MCI2 are going.

  55. 55

    @48 “Although I also think this is just colossally stupid.”

    Stupid criminals are to be celebrated, because they’re easy to catch and make prosecutors’ work simpler.

  57. 57

    “Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Donna Brazile said on Sunday that the GOP might not be a ‘mainstream’ party again.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/4151112-brazile-says-gop-may-never-be-mainstream-again/

    Oh, but wait! Crazy extremism is mainstream. After years of indoctrination by Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and others, half of Americans now believe the government is hiding alien bodies and Hillary Clinton drinks babies’ blood, but don’t believe Biden won the election. I agree with Brazile, though, that the GOP will never again be what it was.

  58. 58

    Unlike Biden, who’s sharp as a tack, Pence is having memory problems:

    “Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday he ‘doesn’t recall’ if he was told by White House officials at the time of a false elector scheme to overturn certain 2020 election results prior to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4150876-pence-says-he-doesnt-recall-if-he-was-told-about-false-elector-scheme-leading-up-to-jan-6/

    Mugsy had memory problems, too, when he was asked how the body got under the bridge.

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