BREAKING: President Joe Biden says the “stability of our law” requires that the Supreme Court doesn’t overrule Roe v. Wade and that he will work to codify the right to abortion following an apparent leak from the high court. https://t.co/jo63ev57lG
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 3, 2022
May be a good day to think about doing away with the filibuster first?
I remember late 2016 having to defend why I was voting for “that woman” for President, not to conservatives, but to many liberals who were outraged at how Bernie was treated by the DNC (despite Bernie himself, not being a Democrat). “Yes, well, the alternative is Trump. Historically, most of my votes have not gone to my preferred candidate, but to the candidate who is not the worst case scenario who may get the chance to put in one or two Justices that would completely fuck everything up.” I didn’t expect Trump to get 3 picks to really solidify his fascist legacy. But here we are.
(Also, at the time of her death, a lot of people were defending RBG’s decision to not retire during Obama’s term. Yes, she was a great woman in every respect. And she done fucked up something special in trying to extend her term for as long as she did.)
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
A lot of women are going to pay a terrible price now. There’s something fundamentally wrong with a country who cares more about gun rights than the rights of women (and the LGBTQ community, and people of color. Because, we all know what will be the next targets for this monstrous court and political party.)
April 26 (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) lost $126 billion in value on Tuesday amid investor concerns that Chief Executive Elon Musk may have to sell shares to fund his $21 billion equity contribution to his $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N).
Tesla is not involved in the Twitter deal, yet its shares have been targeted by speculators after Musk declined to disclose publicly where his cash for the acquisition is coming from. The 12.2% drop in Tesla’s shares on Tuesday equated to a $21 billion drop in the value of his Tesla stake, the same as the $21 billion in cash he committed to the Twitter deal.
Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said that worries about upcoming stock sales by Musk and the possibility that he is becoming distracted by Twitter weighed on Tesla shares. “This (is) causing a bear festival on the name,” he said.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
So the TL:DR version. DeSantis wanting to punish Disney for not bending the knee to his shitty anti-LGBTQ laws will hurt his own state.
Getting rid of Disney World’s government isn’t likely going to hurt the Mouse, Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a new research note published Tuesday.
“We don’t see a material negative outcome from this situation for Disney; and financially speaking, we think it could end up being a positive development,” analysts Bryan Kraft, Benjamin Soff and Connor Murphy wrote.
Last week, the Legislature voted to eliminate the special tax district which allows Disney’s government to provide its own roads, utilities, fire services and other infrastructure needs at the massive theme parks and resorts. Reedy Creek is set to be eliminated by June 2023.
State Republicans wanted to punish Disney after company CEO Bob Chapek voiced opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education measure, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by critics. Disney also announced the company was pausing campaign donations in Florida. Chapek was already under pressure from the Left and LGBTQ+ activists for not speaking out against the controversial bill sooner.
Now, Orange County property owners could face tax increases of 15% to 20% on average, and the county would need to absorb Reedy Creek’s financial obligations, including a $1 billion bond, the note said.
I’ll just never understand the gun fetish in this country.
Firearms became the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the United States in 2020, according to new research using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The finding comes after a record 45,222 people died from firearm-related injuries in 2020 in the U.S., according to a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Most of the deaths were from firearm homicide.
Researchers from the University of Michigan noted that an alarming number of the deaths, 10,186 (22.5%), were of people ages 1 to 19.
For more than 60 years, motor vehicle accidents had been the leading cause of deaths of young people, but since 2001, the number of those deaths has dramatically decreased. There were about 3,900 deaths in 2020. Meanwhile, firearm-related deaths have been on the rise since 2013; there was a 29.5% increase from 2019 to 2020.
I mean, one guy criticized you once and you called him a pedo guy. So…..
Imagine being the richest person in the world and using your time and money to just be a troll.
Yeah, I’ll be deleting this blog’s twitter account the moment that the sale is official.