Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Let me file that under fuck it.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Giving up is unforgivable.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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35 or 40 More Like This, Please!

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More ike this, please.

Nominations for the other sitting senators who don’t need to be upgraded to this level of senator?

Every single person here who contributed to the $700,000 we raised for Georgia in 2020 should understand that we helped the two great senators from GA get elected to the Senate.

Open thread.

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Serpentine Rick Scott Slithers Back on Previous Support for Florida’s Abortion Ban

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Invasive Midwestern Python Rick Scott, former Florida governor and current U.S. senator, has an A+ rating from the forced-birth extremists at SBA Pro-Life America. But he’s the latest craven GOP worm to trample pwecious “unborn babies” in a walk-back to protect his political career. Let’s review the tape:

Here’s what Scott said in a June 2022 press release when news of the Dobbs decision broke:

“I firmly believe that life begins at conception and that every child deserves to be welcomed into this world with open and loving arms. Abortion ends a life. It is abhorrent and has no place in our society. While we celebrate the Court’s latest ruling, the fight to protect the sanctity of life is not over.”

And here’s what Scott said in an April 2023 tweet when a statehouse Dem suggested “even conservative Senator Rick Scott” was against the bill* that would ban abortion at six weeks in Florida:

Not true. I am 100% pro-life and if I was still governor, I would sign this bill.

But he changed his tune yesterday:

“[I]n Florida there’s way more consensus around 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. So if I was writing a bill, I’d think that 15 weeks with the limitations (for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother) is where the state’s at,” he told The Hill in an interview. “I think it’s important we do what there’s consensus” for.

Scott was my governor for eight interminable years and has been my senator for yet another five and change, so trust me when I say he gives not one tiny shit about building consensus. No one is clamoring to “sunset” Social Security and Medicare, for example.

Navy Hat Nosferatu is just the latest “pro-life” absolutist Republican who, upon further reflection, has decided that life begins at whatever stage of fetal development is compatible with his own political viability. I honestly have more respect for the extremists who are sticking to their principles in post-Roe America. And to be clear, I have nothing but contempt for those fanatical pricks.

Open thread.

*The bill will become law in about two weeks, meaning every woman living in the former Confederacy (with the exception of Virginia) will be robbed of bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom and access to standard medical care for miscarriages. Something like 1 in 3 American women are living without reproductive freedom now, and that will rise when the third-most populous state joins Team “Control Them Bitches.”

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Be Careful What You Wish For

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This article is written by a conservative, and I vehemently disagree with a bit of it, but I think it’s an important article.

The Conservative Legal Movement Got Everything It Wanted. It Could Lose It All.

The conservative legal movement took shape in the wreckage of the Nixon administration. As America faces the prospect of a second Trump administration, it faces an existential test.

Richard Nixon—neither a conservative nor a constitutionalist—had the opportunity to reshape the judiciary, with four Supreme Court vacancies occurring during his term. Yet a shambolic process and limited judicial vision yielded multiple failed nominations. And one of the justices he did appoint—Harry Blackmun—wrote the opinion in Roe v. Wade, which established a national abortion policy with little legal justification.

The case demonstrated, conservatives argued, that the court had begun to act like a legislature, subverting the careful constitutional design of separation of powers. The drift of the judiciary into policymaking threatened the rule of law and frustrated America’s promise of self-government.

Against the backdrop of Roe v. Wade and the Watergate scandal, which drove Nixon from office and Republicans to a historic minority in Congress—allowing Jimmy Carter to push the courts even further left—the conservative legal movement began to take shape. Students at leading law schools founded the Federalist Society in 1982. It would become the flagship of legal conservatism, standing for the proposition that “it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.” A constellation of other libertarian and conservative legal organizations, centers, and advocacy groups followed. And Reagan-era Attorney General Edwin Meese helped popularize the understanding of “originalism” and the related idea of “textualism,” doctrines holding that laws, including the Constitution, have knowable meaning and should be interpreted according to the ordinary public understanding at the time of enactment.

By 2016, the conservative legal movement could congratulate itself on remarkable success. Its ideas now influenced the law, the academy, and even popular discourse. Republican candidates increasingly self-identified as “constitutional conservatives.” Constitutionalism animated Tea Party rhetoric and the priorities of the Republican majority during the Obama administration.

Then Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual champion of the conservative legal movement for decades, died unexpectedly in February of that year. He left a divided Supreme Court with a historic vacancy in an election year and decades of advances for the legal conservatives in jeopardy of washing away.

Into this moment descended Donald Trump—neither a conservative nor a constitutionalist. A former Democrat and Bill Clinton supporter, with a curious history of praising authoritarians and an unsteady relationship with both truth and the law, seemed ill-fit to the moment. Pressed on his conservative bona fides, Trump replied acidly: “Don’t forget, this is called the Republican Party, it’s not called the Conservative Party.” His rallies featured increasingly illiberal rhetoric and signature chants calling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton.

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Repub Venality Open Thread: Donny & His Little Johnson

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Let the Mockery Begin

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Good.

Better.

Best.

Don Snoreleone.

I made this really small for the peeps who don’t want to look at him.

Let the Mockery Begin

h/t  Leto

But for the rest of you, click on the image to see it full size.

Open thread.

P.S. I put this together last night, and I see that Anne Laurie was thinking along similar lines this morning.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Doing As Much As We Can With the Tools We Have

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Workers are entitled to time off and other job accommodations for abortions — along with pregnancy-related medical conditions like miscarriage, stillbirth and lactation — under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to finalized federal regulations published Monday.

The regulations provide guidance for employers and workers on how to implement the law, which passed with robust bipartisan Congressional support in December 2022 but sparked controversy last year when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included abortions in its draft rules. The language means that workers can ask for time off to obtain an abortion and recover from the procedure.

The EEOC says its decision to keep the abortion provisions in its final rules, despite criticism from some conservatives, is consistent with its own longstanding interpretation of Title VII, as well as court rulings. The federal agency added that the new law does not obligate employers or employer-sponsored health plans to cover abortion-related costs, and that the type of accommodation that most likely will be sought under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regarding an abortion is time off to attend a medical appointment or for recovery, which does not have to be paid.

The act requires most employers with 15 or more employees to provide “reasonable accommodations” for a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions — including fertility and infertility treatments in some cases — unless the accommodation will cause the employer an undue hardship. The EEOC’s regulations will go into effect on June 18.

Labor advocates hailed the new law as especially important for women of color who are most likely to work in low-wage, physically demanding jobs but are often denied accommodations for everything from time off for medical appointments to the ability to sit or stand on the job. Major business groups also supported the law, citing the need for clarity about the accommodations that employers are required to give pregnant workers…

I can remember — because it was just changing, and not easily, when I entered the workforce in the 1970s — when it was standard business procedure to fire any woman who became pregnant, on the grounds they were ‘too much trouble’ or ‘made other employees / customers / uncomfortable’, and besides they were only going to leave and not come back once they gave birth. That didn’t change because bosses suddenly became enlightened; it required a lot of women (and their legislators, many of them women) to fight for every scrap of dignity.

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