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September 1, 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
Yesterday R36 opined (paraphrasing here) we should go to the polls and obliterate these American jihadists. While there are several actions by the hatriots every day to buoy this idea, one particularly vile stunt they pulled two days ago needs some sunlight: #TalibTed
No, the Taliban Did Not Just Hang an Interpreter From a US Helicopter
Here’s a link debunking the lie, Michael
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/taliban-hanging-black-hawk/
Yesterday's Colorado COVID activity:
Hints of activism from the right:
Abortion Bounty Hunter Tip Line opens in Texas.
As Of Midnight, Texas Is Living In A Post-Roe World
You can now report someone seeking an abortion or abetting an abortion and make $10,000. The tipline will sue on your behalf to protect your anonymity, and protect you from being sued for false reporting. (If so how do you get your $10,000?)
The procedural shenanigans are complicated, including a judicial sleight-of-hand that bypassed all hearings and arguments at the lower court level as well as the Supreme Court. Supposedly, because the State of Texas is not enforcing the law (the bounty hunters are the enforcers), you can't file a challenge to the constitutionality of the law.
The Supreme Court let the law stand on its shadow docket without hearing arguments, without comment, and without showing the vote.
Yet one more reason to refuse to step foot in that shit-hole state.
People should fight back. Call in the names of prominent right wingers, who support the law, as closeted abortion supporters.
I like the way you think, CHB. Let them try to prove they didn’t.
Yes, I'm a traditional conservative. One of the founders of the US modern conservative movement, the late Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) was pro-choice. He also warned the country against the so-called religious right.
I remember Barry Goldwater in 1981 saying that Jerry Falwell, Sr. (not the dude with the pool boy) needed a swift kick in the ass when Falwell started questioning Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment because she was rumored to being pro-choice.
re: "you can't file a challenge to the constitutionality of the law."
Not quite … Scotusblog highlights are By Amy Howe on Sept. 1 at 9:38 a.m.
Constitutionality will undoubtedly be argued — what has happened thus far is the courts have not blocked the law. The first time the law is used, there will no doubt be a challenge, and that will start a process of creating the court decisions to ultimately determine if the abortion law saying 6 weeks and the bounty system for enforcement are constitutional.
I hope you're right, J i D. In the meantime, Texas is an unfriendly place to be a woman of reproductive age.
I suspect that thousands will continue to buy "Plan B" or abortifacient medicine from south of the border. The problem is, there is no quality control, nor oversight from a doctor for the few who get complications from a pharmaceutical abortion. It is safer than the coat hanger back-alley abortions of yesteryear, but not "safe". There are also domestic groups , like the Cobalt Abortion Fund in Colorado, providing funds to those who need them.
The larger problem is with the insane vigilante provisions of the Texas law, which allow any random person to sue anyone for "intending" or "trying" to get an abortion. That part is surely unconstitutional and will be banned.
WOTD from Josh Marshall: "Taking Stock Of The Great and Cowardly Press Freakout Of August 2021"
It's a Talking Points Memo kind of day.
Biden simply followed the agreement negotiated by Trump and Pompeo. Agreements and treaties aren’t automatically abrogated by a change in national administration.
^^^this^^^