Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Reading archive 2022-06-28

Gen Z is influencing the abortion debate — from TikTok - "Savannah, who has a background in musical theater, has initiatives of her own, including writing and performing conservative rap songs. Last year, her music video 'Be Like Candace' caught the attention of right-wing commentator Candace Owens. Soon after, Savannah said, she was invited to be part of the organization Owens co-founded, the Blexit Foundation, which states a vision 'to change the narrative that surrounds America’s minority communities.'"

Opinion  Rudy Giuliani gets caught in another lie — at a supermarket

GOP Rep. Boebert: ‘I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk’

Frustration, anger rising among Democrats over caution on abortion: A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders in the face of hard-hitting GOP tactics on abortion and other issues - "Some activists said Democratic leaders’ exhortation to vote for them to save abortion rights echoes the refrain activists heard on police reform in the wake of Floyd’s killing and on protecting voting rights — two major initiatives that have fallen short despite the narrow Democratic majorities in Washington. 

"'It’s very similar to what happened in 2020: 'Go back to the voting booths.' … It always comes back to 'Now you, the individual, do something,'' said Paris Hatcher, executive director for Black Feminist Future. 'But we’ve elected these people who are in office at this very moment to take action on things like this. It becomes a very passive way to pass the buck when we have elected them to make things happen that center on the well-being of the people.'" [ed. note: political power is derived from the individual's vote - that's what democracy is. You elected an official, not a demigod. We need more votes.]

Opinion  Susan Collins needs to own up to her decision to back Kavanaugh

Harris says she ‘never believed’ Kavanaugh, Gorsuch would uphold Roe

What Ruth Bader Ginsburg really said about Roe v. Wade - "One thing you’ll notice from the above is that Ginsburg calls the court’s decision hasty and “breathtaking,” she suggests it would have been better to go slower and focus on equal protection, and she laments legislators being taken out of the process so quickly and absolutely. But what she doesn’t say is that there is no constitutional right to an abortion or that Roe was wrong. Indeed her comments take issue mostly in how it arrived at a conclusion she supported, and how sustainable it made that right.

"And Ginsburg assured in her 1993 confirmation hearings that she did support it being a right. 

"Abortion 'is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity,' she said. 'It’s a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.'"

Yes, Capitol Rioters Were Armed. Here Are The Weapons Prosecutors Say They Used - "At least three people arrested in connection with the Capitol riot are facing gun charges, though the government has not alleged that those three were part of the actual breach of the building. Other defendants are suspected of possessing guns during the riot but, like the vast majority of the estimated 800 rioters, were not searched that day."

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