ShazzieB
ShazzieB's JournalI cannot wait to see this!
I just went to the link and watched every one of the trailers and teasers, some more than once. I think this series is going to be highly informative, eye-oening, and heart-wrenching. It's also going to piss off a lot of people, not all for the same reasons.
I don't think a lot of Americans are aware of just how little we actually did as a country to help the Jews of Europe when they were being rounded up and methodically exterminated. It's not that we did nothing, but we could have done SO much more. Some are not going to want to believe the facts, because they are so uncomfortable. We Americans like to think of ourselves as the "good guys," and we don't like being reminded of the times when we weren't.
Then there are the haters, the antisemites, the Holocaust deniers. Some of them are deeply invested in denying or minimizing what the Nazis did, while others believe the Nazis didn't do enough, and none of them will be happy with the way this flies in the face of their ideology. Their reactions are not going to be pretty.
But boy, does America ever need this! Especially right now, with antisemitism on the rise and democracy fighting for its continued existence. I would even venture to say that this is exactly what we need.
Louisiana woman who alleges she was denied abortion after fetus' fatal diagnosis says 'it should not
Source: CNN
Louisiana woman who alleges she was denied abortion after fetus' fatal diagnosis says 'it should not happen to any other woman'
(CNN)A pregnant Louisiana woman who alleges she was denied an abortion despite the fetus being diagnosed with a fatal condition says other women should not have to experience her plight.
Nancy Davis said she is planning to get an abortion in another state after a Louisiana hospital allegedly chose not to perform the procedure even though her baby was diagnosed with acrania, a rare congenital disorder in which a fetus' skull does not form inside of the womb.
Acrania is a lethal condition with death within the first week of life, according to the Fetal Medicine Foundation.
Davis' case reflects the confusion and wrenching decisions faced by mothers and health care professionals after the June 24 US Supreme Court ruling to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/us/louisiana-abortion-nancy-davis-fatal-condition/index.html
So now we know who she is, and I'm really proud of her for taking this very public stand. I'm glad she hasn't given up on getting an abortion, and I hope it won't be much longer.
ETA: I never heard of acrania before this, but I found some ultrasound images online, and it looks truly horrific. There is literally nothing to keep the brain inside the fetus's head. I won't describe it further, but if you really want to know, google "acrania ultrasound."
That quote sums it up perfectly.
There is NO margin of error here. None, zero, zip, nada. I'd be shocked if the DOJ weren't being cautious. Why wouldn't they be? They are navigating in completely uncharted waters here, and the stakes are about as high as it gets.
Moving on the slobfather quickly is not nearly as important as getting it RIGHT. A swing and a miss is not an option. They have to hit a home run on the first pitch. And not just any home run; they need to hit it out of the park and into the next county, if not the next freaking dimension.
In addition to the above, we need to accept the fact that there is a lot we don't know. We can't read Merrick Garland's mind, and we have no way of knowing what he is thinking or what he is planning, much less what factors he has to take into account that we have no knowledge of. Assuming we know anything about his intentions, much less his emotional state (i.e. that he's scared), is highly unrealistic.
He either knows what he's doing or he doesn't. If he knows what he's doing (and his track record says he does), we have to trust that he's doing what needs to be done. If he does NOT know what he's doing (which I strongly believe is NOT the case), we're all fucked anyway, and arresting TFG tomorrow would not change that.
Google Maps Regularly Misleads People Searching for Abortion Clinic
Chey was a 19-year-old college sophomore living near Orlando, Florida, when she discovered she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion. She didn’t have anyone she could ask for guidance, so she searched Google for a nearby clinic. “I wanted to find somewhere close to my partner, so I could tell him and bring him with me,” she said in a recent interview.
A Google Maps query for an abortion led her somewhere that offered the opposite: a so-called crisis pregnancy center—a type of non-medical organization with a mission to encourage women like Chey to go through with their unwanted pregnancies.
Google Maps routinely misleads people looking for abortion providers, a new analysis by Bloomberg News has found. When users type the words “abortion clinic” into the Maps search bar, crisis pregnancy centers account for about a quarter of the top 10 search results on average across all 50 US states, plus Washington D.C., according to data Bloomberg collected in July. In 13 states, including Arkansas, South Carolina and Idaho where the procedure is newly limited, five or more of the top 10 results were for CPCs, not abortion clinics.
Chey had no reason to mistrust the result; the Alphabet Inc.-owned search giant in recent years has worked to become a destination for accurate medical information. But CPCs, which are generally backed by religious groups, never provide abortions or refer patients to clinics that offer the procedure. Instead of the help she wanted, the center gave Chey a rubber fetus and a stack of pamphlets with false claims that abortions lead to mental health issues and a higher risk of breast cancer in women.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-google-search-abortion-clinic-crisis-pregnancy-center/
This stuff really grinds my gears!
Big government is fine with them IF...
...it's up in some pregnant person's uterus or sniffing around the genitals of trans kids. Or shooting dirty looks at gay people for having the gall to exist.
The GOP: proudly policing your private parts and personal proclivities whether you like it or not!
A mom's campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town -- and her own family
Weston Brown had given up challenging his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But that was before she started coming after library books.
For months, the woman in the clip had been demanding that the Granbury Independent School District ban from its libraries dozens of books that contained descriptions of sex or LGBTQ themes — books that she believed could be damaging to the hearts and minds of students. Unsatisfied after a district committee that she served on voted to remove only a handful of titles, the woman filed a police report in May accusing school employees of providing pornography to children, triggering a criminal investigation by Hood County
Now, in the video that Weston found online, she was telling the school board that a local Christian pastor, rather than librarians, should decide which books should be allowed on public school shelves. “He would never steer you wrong,” she said.
Weston, 28, said his heart was racing as he watched and rewatched the video — and not only because he opposes censorship. He’d instantly recognized the speaker.
It was his mother, Monica Brown.
The same woman, he said, who’d removed pages from science books when he was a child to keep him and his siblings from seeing illustrations of male and female anatomy. The woman who’d always warned that reading the wrong books or watching the wrong movies could open the door to sinful temptation. And the one, he said, who’d effectively cut him off from his family four years ago after he came out as gay.
MORE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/moms-campaign-divided-texas-town-family-rcna42031
This story is well worth the read, imo, but I share it with the caveat that it is heart-breaking.
I am not anti-religion in a general sense, but I am anti the kind of religion that morphs into hate and intolerance and leads someone to do the kinds of things this woman is doing.
My heart goes out to Weston Brown and everyone like him who has been mistreated by their parents due to their sexuality and/or gender identity. Monica Brown does not deserve to have this remarkable young man as her son.
A mom's campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town -- and her own family
Weston Brown had given up challenging his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But that was before she started coming after library books.
For months, the woman in the clip had been demanding that the Granbury Independent School District ban from its libraries dozens of books that contained descriptions of sex or LGBTQ themes — books that she believed could be damaging to the hearts and minds of students. Unsatisfied after a district committee that she served on voted to remove only a handful of titles, the woman filed a police report in May accusing school employees of providing pornography to children, triggering a criminal investigation by Hood County
Now, in the video that Weston found online, she was telling the school board that a local Christian pastor, rather than librarians, should decide which books should be allowed on public school shelves. “He would never steer you wrong,” she said.
Weston, 28, said his heart was racing as he watched and rewatched the video — and not only because he opposes censorship. He’d instantly recognized the speaker.
It was his mother, Monica Brown.
The same woman, he said, who’d removed pages from science books when he was a child to keep him and his siblings from seeing illustrations of male and female anatomy. The woman who’d always warned that reading the wrong books or watching the wrong movies could open the door to sinful temptation. And the one, he said, who’d effectively cut him off from his family four years ago after he came out as gay.
MORE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/moms-campaign-divided-texas-town-family-rcna42031
This story is well worth the read, imo, but I share it with the caveat that it is heart-breaking.
I am not anti-religion in a general sense, but I am anti the kind of religion that morphs into hate and intolerance and leads someone to do the kinds of things this woman is doing.
My heart goes out to Weston Brown and everyone like him who has been mistreated by their parents due to their sexuality and/or gender identity. Monica Brown does not deserve to have this remarkable young man as her son.
Trumpy be like
this snowman.
The snowball has started rolling down the hill, picking up momentum, getting bigger and bigger. There's no stopping it now.
Yes, he's gotten away with a lot of crap in the past. Wiggled out of some very tight spots (2 impeachments, etc.). But there is something called a tipping point, one definition of which is "the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place." (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipping%20point)
That is where we are now. Trump is nothing but a flimsy snowman, and the big ass snowball is coming for him. Nothing is going to stop it now.
If somebody was pointing an AR-15 at me, I think I would assume life or limb was at risk.
To me, that would go without saying. I think I would feel so threatened that I would be willing to do whatever was necessary to eliminate that threat. It wouldn't be about whether it's right or wrong to defend property or money with lethal force. It would be about "this miscreant here is ready to kill me and very well-equipped to do it, so if I have a way to stop him in his tracks, then hell, yes, I am going to do just that."
I'm not arguing about what would be most morally right or politically correct or anything like that. I'm talking about what my gut reaction would be. It's easy for us to sit here and armchair quarterback this thing, and talk about whether that store owner "should" have done x or y, but I think it's a whole different thing when you're literally staring death in the face.I wouldn't blame anyone in a situation like that if they went straight to defending themselves the best way they knew how, and I don't blame that store owner.
P. S. Just for the record, I am not and never have been a gun owner, and don't ever plan to acquire one. (The extent of my experience with firearms was shooting a 22 rifle at a summer camp, in very controlled conditions, decades ago.) I am strongly in favor of common sense gun safety laws, especially banning assault rifles.
Airbnb removes Mississippi 'slave cabin' from listings after viral TikTok video
Oh, but there's no such thing as systemic racism in the U.S. How dare anyone suggest such a thing! 
“Properties that formerly housed the enslaved have no place on Airbnb,” the property-rental company said in a statement to NBC News. ”We apologize for any trauma or grief created by the presence of this listing, and others like it, and that we did not act sooner to address this issue.”
Airbnb added that the company is working with experts to develop new policies to address other properties associated with slavery.
The property at the forefront of the controversy is the Panther Burn Cottage at the Belmont Plantation in Greenville, Mississippi. It is no longer listed on the site.
Read the whole story and see the Tik Tok video here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airbnb-removes-mississippi-slave-cabin-listings-viral-tiktok-video-rcna41092
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