Tuesday Cartoons: One Sly Muthafukker
Posted: June 10, 2025 Filed under: just because 16 Comments
What is going on in L.A.?
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Stay safe, this is an open thread.
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So there is a hearing on the hill about the budget re: Hegseth expense of military deployment in L.A.
needless to say, I listened to about 3 minutes of Hegseth’s bullshit and I had to mute it. I think all this is just a pretext for Trump using the insurrection act. Please take care of yourselves and get ready for the worst.
And this was the few minutes I saw:
I agree.
Thanks JJ. I’m getting overwhelmed with events. Today is my Mom’s birthday, and I’m going to spend the day thinking of her. I miss her so much.
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I can’t wait to see what Fascists Alito and Thomas do with this.
Opinion | The Supreme Court Case Over Trans Youth Could Also Decimate Women’s Equality
The principle of sex equality itself is at stake.
Opinion by Naomi Schoenbaum
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what is likely to be the term’s blockbuster case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case considers the constitutionality of state laws that ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. While the case itself addresses only a law from Tennessee, 26 states have passed similar laws that will be affected by the outcome.
A blanket ban on such care risks devastating effects for those youth who need it. But as the argument made clear, that is not all that is at stake. The case is also about women’s rights, and a fundamental legal principle that helped to secure them: Courts should be skeptical of laws that discriminate on the basis of sex.
With the defenders of Tennessee’s law challenging that bedrock principle, it is not only transgender equality, but sex equality more broadly that is in doubt. Depending on the outcome, Skrmetti could be the next Dobbs, adding another nail in the coffin to women’s legal freedoms — and freedoms we all enjoy regardless of sex.
The United States is challenging the Tennessee law on the basis of the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which has been interpreted to guarantee sex equality. Under this provision, sex-based laws — that is, laws that on their face classify people on the basis of sex — are subject to what is known as heightened scrutiny, which means that courts will invalidate them unless there is a persuasive reason to draw a sex-based line.
SB1, the Tennessee law at issue in this case, bans certain medical treatments only when they are prescribed to allow a minor to affirm a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth. The very same treatments are unrestricted if they are prescribed for any other purpose, such as treating delayed or early-onset puberty.
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar made clear at the argument that this constitutes sex discrimination. She offered an illustrative example: “[T]ake Ryan Roe, who is one of the individual plaintiffs here. He wants to take testosterone in order to live and identify as a boy, and he’s prohibited by SB1 from doing so because his birth sex was female. But, if you change Ryan’s birth sex and suppose he was assigned male at birth, then SB1’s restriction lifts.” Drawing a line between biological females and biological males — one can get the treatment and the other can’t — should trigger demanding judicial scrutiny of the law.
Perhaps the key question was whether this is really a case of sex discrimination. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett deemed the sex discrimination analysis rather “formal,” with both asking some version of whether, as Justice Kagan put it, “what’s really going on here is … discrimination against, a disregard for, young people who are trans,” rather than any disregard based on sex. Whether the court treats this as a case of sex discrimination matters a lot. Chances of the challenge prevailing on a theory of transgender discrimination, rather than a theory of sex discrimination, are slim to none. Discrimination against transgender people is not now subject to heightened scrutiny, and the Supreme Court hasn’t added a new protected class in decades. A win for the challengers will almost certainly go through the path of the sex discrimination theory.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5342176-mike-johnson-tar-feathers-gavin-newsom/
“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) should be “tarred and feathered” for how he has responded to the violent protests in Los Angeles, while declining to say whether he agreed that the governor should face legal consequences.
His comment came in response to a question at a press conference about President Trump endorsing the idea of his border czar Tom Homan coming to arrest Newsom.”
This is insane and threatening public officials is against the law. Where’s Kash and his FBI?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.Xe54.SPWwePwmha9G&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwY2xjawK1XvtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFhbkNzQ2tXVDdmMWluUlV3AR6F7AwgV9DPeimY4vPdA5VCBGZ2VuWUF4sDkJpzBYuOBVpZ_m2bPnXsMxPu8w_aem_mK-Jiofr2P0hnT9kl9oH6w
Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.
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Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats.
They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part.
There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids.
The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops.
The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climactic dogfight over the city’s downtown.
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