Speaking of Wisconsin, here’s a thread from the Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party:
Tune out the noise. Focus on the stakes. If you want the freedom to make your own decisions about abortion, birth control, IUDs, or IVF in 2025, then you care what happens in Wisconsin in the next 127 days. đ§”
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
Itâs a comprehensive plan to end American freedom and democracy. Controlling womenâs private medical decisions is one key piece of that.https://t.co/PyOr4f8USm
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
This is likely just the start of their assault. We just saw Republican senators block a Democratic bill protecting access to contraception, and another protecting access to IVF. Many far-right groups are explicit that their goal is to end access to both.
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
The Wisconsin legislature passed a law in 1849 that said âthe willful killing of an unborn quick childâ constituted felony manslaughter. That archaic language, from before the invention of modern medicine, put Wisconsin doctors at risk of prosecution.https://t.co/bpxWQS6101
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
It took 15 months, but thanks to the efforts of WI AG Josh Kaul, in July 2023, a Dane County judge ruled that the pre-Civil War law does not prohibit abortionsâallowing services to resume in September. A win for reproductive health rights in WI⊠for now. https://t.co/XnaxeYC222
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin by just 0.77% of the vote. We are a purple state, so razor-thin margins under 1% have decided who gets our 10 electoral votes in 4 of the last 6 elections.https://t.co/zjIs8TmkwS
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
If Trump wins, heâll intensify his assault on reproductive rights. He said women should face âpunishmentâ for having abortions, supports letting states prosecute doctors and monitor women, and is âlooking atâ policies to restrict birth control. Believe him.
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
In 2022âmere months after Dobbsâstates like California, Vermont, and Michigan voted to protect abortion rights. Butâsurprise!âdeep-red states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Montana voted to keep abortion legal, too.https://t.co/GBiLnho4SD
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
Which brings us to right now.
Some Democrats are pulling out their hair, gnashing their teeth, wringing their hands.
Others are organizing.
Which kind do you want to be?
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 30, 2024
Baud
Excellent question.
zhena gogolia
Yep.
Mike in NC
I was channel surfing sometime in 2016 when I came upon an interviewer asking Fat Bastard about abortion. It was clearly a subject he didnât give a shit about until told it was of vital importance to the religious far-right. So he blurted out something about how the sluts âneeded to be punishedâ and tried to move on.
Hang it around his neck and bury the asshole at the ballot box in November.
A Ghost to Most
Abortion is just a canard for Christian supremacy.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Remember that this election is all about Hair Furor’s massive threat to US democracy.
One manifestation of that is his carrying the standard for the American Taliban vis a vis abortion rights. Everybody here knows that.
The Extreme Court handed us, unfortunately, a martyr for the cause, Roe v Wade, so we should use it like a martyr. We should be putting some representation of that on every sign, banner, billboard, etc., and wave it around like we were Medieval French and the English just burned Joan of Arc at the stake.
And GOTV. Always GOTV.
LanceThruster
The Leahy Law was bypassed by making the arms shipments to Israel grouped into a unit whose dollar amount was under that which would have had it apply. Was that because there was concern that such scrutiny might determine these munitions and war materials were used in violation of human rights? I recall an Arab-American being questioned about her “uncommitted” vote in the Michigan Democratic primary who stated that she did not feel she could put her own reproductive rights ahead of the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.
I remember when I first learned that Frederick Douglass declined to include women’s suffrage in his push for black suffrage and saw what a difficult decision that was for him worried that it might scuttle the change he sought to bring about.
Most the presidential races in my lifetime (1st national race vote was for Jimmy Carter) have been declared as too important to be a purist. Now is not the time. Maybe later. This seems to have brought us to a point where concerns about Shrubya seem quaint in comparison, though they still involve war crimes.
For better or worse (crazy to even put it in those terms), some people feel that being asked to turn a blind eye to complicity in genocide as a bridge too far. At least AIPAC will have the plausible deniability that it wasn’t Biden’s Israel stance whether one thought it was too little or too much that returned Trump to power.
zhena gogolia
@LanceThruster: ĐĄĐșĐŸĐ»ŃĐșĐŸ лДŃ, ŃĐșĐŸĐ»ŃĐșĐŸ Đ·ĐžĐŒ!
Quinerly
Totally unrelated. I was going through today’s threads that are dead. I am pretty sure those sites that sell Forever Stamps at a discount are scams. I did a quick Google, plus I know someone who was taken by one of those sites awhile ago and posted on FB about them being counterfeit. She had bought from a site advertised on line
Edited to add https://www.reddit.com/r/philately/comments/tzzw9b/is_selling_discounted_forever_stamps_a_scam/
Omnes Omnibus
Added to POTUS schedule just now: “7:45 PM … THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling”
UncleEbeneezer
@LanceThruster: Every refusal to vote for Biden is a vote for letting Israel “finish the job” as Trump has promised. Â Every non-voter will be complicit in MORE weapons to Israel, and end to ANY hope of a US-supported Cease Fire and the spilling of MORE Palestinian blood.
BeautifulPlumage
OT, but we made it through June without any major fascist terror incidents at Pride events. I had feared that the crazies would be out considering all of the BS that MAGA have been spewing about trans people and all LBGTQ+ folks. I think this means that a lot of the would-be assholes are pinned down – in jail, being intercepted, worried about the FBI, etc. Anyway, just my positive thought for he day..
Omnes Omnibus
@LanceThruster: When were you unbanned?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@BeautifulPlumage:
We had some minor incidents leading up to our 50th Pride Parade starting when the head of the CO GOP said some whackadoodle anti-gay shit and the crazies responded by stealing flags and stuff.
This occurred in our ‘hood right up until the Parade but it was all minor.
It’s a far, far cry from back in 1979-80 when the Gay Rights group at CU-Boulder had an office on the ground floor of the student union with a window that was right along where most students walked. They were constantly getting their windows smashed and of course nobody was ever charged.
Instead the following year, the school moved their office into the basement. Saved money replacing the window 6 times a semester.
Progress. Progress.
Quinerly
@Quinerly:
Those of you buying discounted stamps on line for postcards….please be careful.
https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/counterfeit-stamps
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I hope he uses his unaccountability wisely.
SiubhanDuinne
BREAKING, just heard that Biden is going to comment on the SCOTUS immunity ruling tonight at 7:45 pm Eastern. I ASS U ME that means heâll speak, but I suppose he might just issue a written statement. Either way, I look forward to what he has to say. I expect it to be fierce.
BeautifulPlumage
According to Joe.My.God. the dairy farmer/cocaine yacht guy lost a suit and the commenters are mooooving in with the puns.
Kristine
@zhena gogolia: Oh, I learned a Russian phrase today!
Must remember it.
schrodingers_cat
I donated to Biden’s campaign. Made a new Twitter header. I will also work my butt off this fall canvassing for Ds. I am not going to let NYT tell me what to do.
If anyone wants to use my Twitter header you are welcome to do so with due credit
Back to lurking. See you later.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Seems to require sign in now.
artem1s
It’s been clear to me for awhile that on election night we’re all going to be watching WI. If the election night map looks anything like 2020 WI will be a must win state for TCFG to take the EC. If Biden takes MN, PA, MI and WI, it’s game over – GA, AZ and NV would then become landslide territory. If by some miracle NC flips blue that also would mean game over for the convicted felon.
It’s all going to come down to GOTV in urban precincts in Milwaukee. Please let that orange asshole spend every weekend from now until the election pissing off the good people of Milwaukee.
zhena gogolia
@BeautifulPlumage: Thank you!
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Wouldn’t it be great if he came out like some sketch in Kentucky Fried Movie and just announced something outrageous? I’d love that.
UncleEbeneezer
@Kristine: Anoter good one is Chort Staboy “To hell with you.”
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: Oh, man, I can do much better than that.
Kristine
@UncleEbeneezer:
@zhena gogolia:
::taking notes::
zhena gogolia
@Kristine: The classic is “Yob tvoyu mat”
I prefer “Poshol ty na khui”
These are NOT to be used in polite company.
H.E.Wolf
@Quinerly:Â â
Don’t worry. The sites which sell postcard stamps for a discount are selling old (as in, glue on the back) stamps with printed values on them, in pairs to make up a current postcard rate.
So for instance, in 2 weeks when rates go up to 56 cents for postcards, you might get a batch of 32 + 34 cent stamp pairs, for a few pennies’ discount off 56 cents.
It’s the big-discount offers that are a “tell” for scam sites. Thank you for warning us about those!
cain
@SiubhanDuinne:
I hope he shows up in person – looking presidential, lively, and amazing. Because we all need that right now.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Twitter has been acting funky for me all day.
cain
@artem1s:
We need to work extra hard, but also start getting a lock on all the other state legislatures after we win the presidency. We will keep the presidency away from the GOP.
The forces that want to make this fascist only have a limited time – lot of people drunk on Fox News. But the newer generations are not on cable so hopefully we’ll start seeing grift numbers go down.
Kristine
@zhena gogolia:
ХпаŃĐžĐ±ĐŸ
(I hope that’s right)
Quinerly
@H.E.Wolf:
Thanks. I don’t have time to find the BJ thread. I think this site was mentioned.
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/foreverstampsshop.com
UncleEbeneezer
@zhena gogolia: Well, I learned it in Senior Year of HS (1992) and my teacher wouldn’t teach us anything dirtier than that, lol.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I put it on bsky
UncleEbeneezer
@zhena gogolia: Not sure what “Yob” means but the rest is “your mother” so I have a pretty good guess…
lowtechcyclist
As soon as I heard that Wikler was taking over the leadership of WisDems several years ago now, I set up a recurring monthly contribution to them. Money well spent!
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: Haha
zhena gogolia
@Kristine: Yes!
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: You’re right!
Ealbert
@LanceThruster:
This is probably now a dead column, but you just showed why it is so hard to move forward on women’s issues. Somehow there is something that is just so much more important.
stinger
@Ealbert: Yep.