Wednesday Reads: Softy
Posted: March 23, 2022 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2022 Elections, abortion rights, birth control, Black Women Lead, China, COVID19, fetus fetishists, LGBTQ, morning reads, Myanmar, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Russia, Ukraine |34 Comments
Watching the confirmation hearings, I want to run down the street screaming!
Senate Judiciary Republicans claim Judge Jackson’s confirmation is not about race — when every single American with a pulse knows, beyond the shadow of a doubt — it’s all about fucking race.
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) March 22, 2022
Auntie would like to congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on day 2 for her confirmation hearings.
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) March 22, 2022
If it were Auntie, I would have told those M'Fukin' RWNJ Douchebags to take a flying fuck. 70% of Americans would have agreed.
Today's grilling of #JudgeKetanjiBrownJackson was abusive. 13 hours facing tag-team fascist assholes takes a toll
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) March 23, 2022
Not one of them would ever submit to the same from their constituents
We’ve learned quite a bit more about the Republican senators questioning her than we have Judge Jackson. None of it is good. Dignity, thy name is Ketanji. @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/4aEKDsReJZ
— Marc Murphy (@MurphyCartoons) March 23, 2022
Now, cartoons from Cagle website:
Called it pic.twitter.com/pGW2aZSNQD
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) March 22, 2022
Opinion | Beep, beep https://t.co/vFWHBiVyh2
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) March 21, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) March 21, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) March 21, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) March 22, 2022
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 21, 2022
Seriously though…
Dear Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you absolutely do not have to keep pushing Putin's propaganda for invading Ukraine. In fact, it would be better if you did not. https://t.co/qS3prTxBXC
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 23, 2022
I don’t know what’s going happen if these assholes get control of House or Senate in November.
I’ve said for a decade that the modern GOP is laser-focused on repealing the last 70 years of legal and social progress. I thank the senator for accidentally spilling the beans and proving me right.
— John Cole (@ColeToon) March 23, 2022
It really speaks to how confident Republicans are that they've successfully destroyed democracy that they don't worry too much about the blowback of denouncing decisions that legalized birth control and interracial marriage.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 22, 2022
Speaking truth… #AbortionisHealthcare #RepPamelaStevenson #Kentucky pic.twitter.com/unVnCT8xR8
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 23, 2022
Republicans will move to ban all abortions, gay marriage, and interracial marriage. I'm tired of pretend it could never happen here. They're broadcasting it in broad daylight. They're already doing it. It's about fucking time we believed them.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 23, 2022
They want to question Judge Brown Jackson about being too soft on child sex crimes..while passing laws that force twelve year olds to have their rapist’s baby.
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@antifaoperative) March 22, 2022
“Dog whistles are supposed to be things that you can’t hear but that you receive in the subconscious,” Mr. Tushnet said. “This is all quite open.”
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 23, 2022
Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P. Plays to Base and Fringe https://t.co/aRhQIi0goX
–@jonathanweisman & @jazmineulloa
Did anyone ask Amy Coney Barrett her views on CRT? Wasn’t it around then too?
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 23, 2022
The entire purpose of these hearings is to link Critical Race Theory with child pornography and pedophilia in advance of the next election cycle. It has nothing to do with confirmation or SCOTUS.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) March 22, 2022
Two things made clear today: Ketanji Brown Jackson will be an extraordinary Supreme Court Justice and it’s critical for the Democrats to retain control of the Senate.
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) March 22, 2022
The basic premise, the very foundation, of the @SenJudiciaryGOP is that unless you are white, you can’t possibly be an impartial jurist.
— 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐳𝐳𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫🌻 (@Snozz_Wanger) March 23, 2022
And to be clear, @tedcruz, @johncornyn & @lindseygrahamsc are living proof that Yes, babies can be racist.#KetanjiBrownJackson #SCOTUSHearing pic.twitter.com/J9pb6X2a72
⚡️President’s Office launches humanitarian aid website.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 23, 2022
The official website https://t.co/aGm1nVrEXn helps to find out how to send and whom to address humanitarian aid. The portal also provides contacts of foreign and Ukrainian humanitarian hubs.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine opened the first official investigation of the rape of a #Ukrainian woman in Brovary district committed by the #russian soldier.
— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) March 22, 2022
We heard rumors earlier, but this is the first time confirmed by the official complaint made by the surviving woman.
This thread:
Evidence presented by the Soviet prosecution at the #Nuremberg Trials:
— Fran Hirsch (@FranHirsch) March 21, 2022
"Before their retreat from Mariupol the German occupational authorities burned down all the 68 schools of the city, 17 kindergarten schools . . . and the Palace of the Pioneers."
Rohingya refugees welcome US decision to call Myanmar atrocities a genocide | Myanmar | The Guardian https://t.co/ftZx5jnUHt
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) March 22, 2022
Before Monday's crash, the Boeing 737-800 NG was considered among the safest aircraft in operation. https://t.co/kEK43DVAZi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 22, 2022
We should be hitting a million US Covid deaths soon:
999,699 Coronavirus deaths
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) March 23, 2022
Omicron subvariant now accounts for over half of all COVID-19 cases in New England, CDC says https://t.co/FJ6irehHDn via @BostonGlobe
— Ann MacGibbon (@BostonBoomer) March 22, 2022
Banjoville area making news again, this from Lumpkin county…
#ONEV1 #FreshVoicesRise @Rashad_Richey
— Mike (@calmb4storm0) March 22, 2022
This is just an example of getting out to vote at the county level. Chester should never hold office for his hate crime.
‘I’m a white civil rights activist’: Former KKK leader running for office in North Georgia https://t.co/bg2KvoFy06
But in weather news:
UPDATE: At least one dead in tornado that hit New Orleans and major damage reported: “There are houses that are missing,” the St. Bernard Parish sheriff said. “One landed in the middle of the street” https://t.co/KRP751JzZf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 23, 2022
Heartbreaking scene from New Orleans Metro. Significant damage reported in Arabi/Lower Ninth Ward. 📸Clint, Chalmette looking towards Arabi. @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/oZA1sI74hZ
— Scot Pilié (@ScotPilie_Wx) March 23, 2022
A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans on Tuesday night, spawned by a storm that produced multiple tornadoes through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, killing one person and causing multiple injuries and widespread damage. https://t.co/6QEDeAWlq2
— Channel 2 KWGN (@channel2kwgn) March 23, 2022
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Homes completely shifted and thrown off their foundation. Evidence of intense winds w/ large tornado tonight in Metro New Orleans, Louisiana. 📸Zuzka Haider, Arabi @NWSNewOrleans will survey tomorrow. @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/gANrCnlrbO
— Scot Pilié (@ScotPilie_Wx) March 23, 2022
Starting April 1, we highlight the decades-long career of Anita Loos (1888-1981), considered the first female screenwriter on staff in Hollywood, credited in over 150 films. All screenings in 35mm & 16mm with guest speaker @caribeauchamp! 🎞️ RSVP: https://t.co/p6jlT2KwJZ pic.twitter.com/6kJMjYRNgw
— UCLA Film & Television Archive (@UCLAFTVArchive) March 21, 2022
Ending with this, only to say..not all dogs:
The difference between cats and dogs is pretty subtle. 😏🤣🐈🦮 pic.twitter.com/d9LNbLHdfb
— Fred Schultz (@FredSchultz35) March 22, 2022
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Morning…
Some updates:
A few other things:
Fuck:
The cartoons are especially good today. I always look forward to seeing them.
Yes, some of the cartoonist are on the top of there game. There are so many right wing cartoons that truly aren’t commentary, they become outright racist and I know free speech…but at what point does it cross the line into something more sinister.
Lindsay Graham is too emotional to be a Senator. He should go home and get some therapy.
No kidding. That was embarrassing! He kept interrupting and Durbin kept telling him to stop.
Durbin let him get away with it and let him go way past his time. He should
have shut him down. Leahy was so shocked that he had to leave the room.
Imagine what they would say about him if he were a woman. They’d be blaming menopause!
Shocking!
Wait. What? Too many stacked up reversals for me. The Cliff Notes summary might be?: Repubs draw (even more) gerrymandered map, thrown out in court, Supremes reinstate super-gerrymander under cover of dark docket.
I’m assuming Sotomayorand Kagan wouldn’t be dissenting if it was a reasonable ruling?
Thx for the Cliff Notes. I had to read the original a few times to figure it out. I thought the Rs on SCOTUS were all in favor of states’ rights. But only when it suits them.
That Is disgusting.
I hadn’t seen this. Sheesh.
I was, fortunately, a mile east of that tornado and it was moving quickly to the NE when it crossed the Mississippi River. This is likely the second EF3 in the history of the area. The first was in New Orleans East in 2017. We normally do not get the kinds of tornados that stay around for long periods of time. This one really did. I live in a place where Climate Change impacts us all the time. I can only wonder what this year’s hurricane season will bring.
Thank heavens you weren’t in the bullseye! Must have been terrifying. Sounds like you may have been close enough to hear it!
The strange thing is I really didn’t but even those in it said it was moving so fast they heard it for only a minute or 2.
Madeline Allbright has died at 84.
That is so sad…she was an important figure to me when I was a young woman…and I’ve always admired her strength.
Oh no! I always respected her.
This:
I could watch that 100 times.
I dislike Cruz, but he asked a fair question. If “self-identification” for sex is valid, then self-ID is for race is valid. Even more so, because there’s far less difference between Hispanics and Asians than there are between women and men.
Damn pity that Jackson’s bought into the sex-characteristic version of “Rachel Dolezal is valid.” Jackson’s otherwise excellent.
No shit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/russia-ukraine-war-news-biden-live-updates/
Glad they finally decided that, although it was obvious. Now, what are we going to do about it? It cannot be just talk; we must act.
Good to see the change. The US hasn’t accepted many Ukrainian refugees yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/24/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/