9/18-23 News and Open Thread
Tens of thousands in NYC march against fossil fuels as AOC hails powerful message
Tens of thousands of climate activists took to the streets of New York City on Sunday in a “march to end fossil fuels”, with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling the crowd that the movement must become “too big and too radical to ignore”.
To cheers from the crowd, the progressive Democrat criticized the US continuing to approve fossil fuel projects, something which the Biden administration did earlier this year with the controversial Willow project in Alaska.
“We are all here for one reason: to end fossil fuels around the planet,” Ocasio-Cortez told a rally at the finish of the march, which ended close to the UN headquarters where world leaders will gather this week. “And the way we create urgency is to have people around the world in the streets.”
She said: “The United States continues to be approving a record number of fossil fuel leases and we must send a message, right here today,” adding that despite record profits the support for the fossil fuel industry was “starting to buckle and crack.”
(FYI, not one peep in the NYT about this rally)
I ignore any poll that says “likely voters.”
Right, there was a WSJ poll last week that involved a group that was 60% registered GOP. Corporate media lies, always.
In fact, I read somewhere that to date there have been 32 million new registered voters since Dodd, young women and the men in their lives. I wonder who they’re going to vote for, and if they answer their phones for polls. I wouldn’t believe any conclusion drawn around any so called poll.
Snapshot in time, nothing more at this juncture.
Absolutely, and sometimes snapshots are posed.
U.S. Senators Can Now Vote in Sweatpants
T and R x 6, and thanks Ms. Benny!! 🙂 You and jcb ever need OT/Nest help, let me know. I’ve read a few emails about the climate crisis marches. Tremendous turnouts. That’s no surprise that the captured MSM doesn’t report them.
Look who’s flapping her big stupid yahoo mouth. Hubster told me Matt Gaetz is thinking about running for FL governor. Can I throw up now? Sick Rott, DeSyou-know-what, and now Gaetz. I wish I was 45 years younger cos I would not be living here!! I sure hope Nikki Fried can pull off a miracle.
Boy ,who’s worse DeFascist or Geatz? If Gaetz would win anyone who wants to keep their 16 and younger daughter’s safe may have to invest in a moder day chasity belt of some sort as they wont be safe around him.
The WI GQP is at it again;
Wisconsin Republican leader blocks pay raises in continuation of DEI fight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-republican-leader-blocks-pay-172028371.html
This petty argument by the Wi GQP is blocking already agreed upon pay raises for over 80,000 state workers. The Wi GQP really hates thier state workers.
Some temp good news out of WI,well at least until the GQP finds a friendly judge to overturn this judges ruling.
Wisconsin Abortion Clinic Booked Up After Judge Rules Pre-Civil War ‘Abortion Ban’ Is Not a Ban
After Wisconsinites went over a year without access to abortion, Planned Parenthood resumed offering abortion services at the organization’s clinics in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday. The news follows a recent ruling from a state judge that determined a pre-Civil War trigger law from 1849—which automatically banned abortion in the state after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—doesn’t actually apply to medical abortion.
“There is no such thing as an ‘1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin,” Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper ruled in July. She wrote that the law’s language, which states that “any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony,” is referring to “feticide,” not voluntary abortion.
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In the last year, we’ve seen particularly outlandish attempts by top anti-abortion politicians in Wisconsin to justify the archaic law, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stating at campaign events last fall that he’d support a referendum for abortion rights—if and only if voters stared at embryos and fetuses in jars before casting their ballots. Earlier this year, Republicans in the legislature proposed a bill to seemingly soften the blow of their abortion ban with… a $1,000 tax credit offered to “parents” with “unborn children for whom a fetal heartbeat has been detected”—certainly on the low end for compensation for forced pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also reported last fall that Pro-Life Wisconsin intended to use the state’s 1849 ban and its language recognizing the personhood of an “unborn child” as an opening to “ban most common forms of contraception and birth control and prohibit in vitro fertilization.”
Other abortion providers in Wisconsin will also start offering abortion services again. One provider, Dr. Kristin Lyerly, who also offers abortion services in Arizona, Minnesota, and Illinois, told the Wisconsin State Journal on Monday that she moved across state lines to Illinois to provide abortions with several other native Wisconsin providers last year, and often encounters patients from Wisconsin. “There’s always a powerful moment when we are seeing a patient in Illinois and we ask them where they came from and they say ‘Wisconsin,’ and we say, ‘We are too,’ and there’s just this immediate bond and understanding that all of us know that this is important care, and that we will do everything we can to make sure that they can access it,” Lyerly said. She continued, “I’m really looking forward to coming back home. My kids are at home. My whole family’s there and has been for generations.”
The resumption of abortion services in Wisconsin is a rare, urgently needed post-Roe win, especially as abortion access continues to thin across the Midwest. Still, Lin says she and other abortion rights advocates in the state are being vigilant: “There still remains the shadow of uncertainty that this could be taken away from us, from one day to the next.”
More at
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-abortion-clinic-booked-judge-205852096.html
I am glad this is being explored. Hard to say how much or any of it will be adopted. From the Trib:
As most of you know the Tip Culture has gone off the deep end in this country, espically with the guilt tip options at the end of a transaction. Just recently a delivery guy spit on the food he delivered as he felt his tip wasnt large enough from a customer.
Interesting ad for Andy Beshear’s gubernatorial re-elect:
It’s in your face, yet very subtle about abortion rights in general.
UAW strike expands to Mercedes supplier in Alabama
Biden officials no longer traveling to Detroit this week to help resolve UAW strike
Looks like the 4th Estate’s reporting has rubbed off on the communications team for Biden. I think Biden needs to stay out of it and support it from DC, as Su and Sperling are doing now. Otherwise, he will lose the union vote because Fain has made it clear that Biden has to earn their vote, and Biden’s fat cats can’t win him the vote with contradictory ploys.
Dave Dayen
The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
“It’s hard to actually get a handle on how many jobs on net would be lost by the EV transition, if any; some analyses even project an increase.”
When craprate America is so focused on their next quarters profits and bonus they tend to lose sight of the big picture. Hell the the US was given a clear warning about the ICE 50 years ago with the Arab oil embargo. Craprate America ignored it and here we are playing the same game with big oil.
This sounds just like the rise in temp hires under Raygun. Speaking of strikes, etc., I read that the heavy hitters in commercial fiction writing like John Grisham, Michael Connolley and Harlan Coben are suing over copyright threats from AI like Chat whatever.
If Fain has any brains, he will NOT support the orange maggot either.
He does not, from what’s being reported.
Leave it to the orange maggot to stir things up some more cos his jailbird arse isn’t incarcerated where it belongs!