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HMMM, I wonder. A Democratic politician signing a bill using the cynical gambit Republicans developed to restrict one of the Repubs’ 2 highest priorities and running ads in the 2 largest Republican states led by the 2 highest profile opponents to the de facto front runner of the Republican Party nomination for the presidential race in 2 1/2 years and denying any presidential ambitions. (Wait for the follow up bill in CA regarding private lawsuits for restricting abortion rights – unless I miss my guess it’s hot in the wake of the gun bill). The only thing missing is an ad buy from Kathy Hochul.
couldn’t pass up cagle’s “running from the mob”
My guess is that Newsom watched the California elections along with listening to many Dems to come up with the plan to do something. If nothing else he is showing people that Dems can show some brass by taking the fight to the facists. And, he may get those under sixty-five back into the D fold.
SCOTUS got those under 65 “back into the D fold” when they did away with Roe. Republicans refusing to protect contraceptives got the attention of anyone SCOTUS may have missed.
Newsome needs to think long and hard about what transpired with his marriage/divorce with Don Junior’s girl-fiend before he decides to run for POTUS in 2024. That’s what she said.
BiD
That marriage to Miss THANG does open questions about Newsom’s judgement or another example of his weird sense of humor.
The House’s 228-195 vote, largely along party lines, sends the bill to the Senate, where three Democratic Senators, Ed Markey (Mass.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), have filed a similar version, although Democrats face a difficult hurdle in order to pick up 10 Republican Senators to reach the 60 votes needed to pass.
The Right to Contraception Act seeks to codify into federal law individuals’ ability to obtain and use contraceptives, including birth control pills and emergency contraception like Plan B, and protects health care providers that offer them.
[…]
All 220 Democrats in the House, along with eight Republicans — Liz Cheney (Wyo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Maria Salazar (Fla.) and Fred Upton (Mich.)— voted for the bill, while two Republicans did not vote either way, instead voting “present.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday’s strike as “spit in the face” of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements.
Two Russian Kalibr cruise missiles hit the port’s infrastructure and Ukrainian air defenses brought down two others, the Ukrainian military’s Southern Command said. It didn’t specify the damage or say whether the strike caused casualties.
“It took less than 24 hours for Russia to launch a missile attack on Odesa’s port, breaking its promises and undermining its commitments before the U.N. and Turkey under the Istanbul agreement,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. “In case of non-fulfillment, Russia will bear full responsibility for a global food crisis.”
Nikolenko described the missile strike on the 150th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “spit in the face of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made great efforts to reach agreement.”
[…]
“This is all you have to know about “agreements” with the Russians. Explosions in the seaport of #Odesa. One day after the agreement with #Turkey and #UN was signed re export of #Ukraine’s #grain under which #Russia has committed not to shell the port,” Ukrainian parliament member Solomiia Bobrovska tweeted.
Brachuk has advised residents to stay in shelters as the air alerts continue.
The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget A. Brink, called the Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa “outrageous,” saying the Kremlin continues to “weaponize” food and must be held to account.
Friday’s deal promised to unblock ports on the Black Sea to allow the safe passage of grain and oilseeds — some of Ukraine’s most important exports.
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ha, at least he had the sense to divorce her
“…broken more times than a Russian promise.” -Uncle Martin/My Favorite Martian
looks like mid-term ads will be pretty entertaining… example senate race in PA
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discuss new ads out of the Senate race in Pennsylvania between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, and the meme war taking place between the two candidates online. Scarborough and Brzezinski also discuss Oz’s history of false statements.
I just think Junior’s gargoyle would kick up all sorts of personal stuff/accusations, true or not, if Newsome runs. Also, my relatives who watch Faux Noise don’t like him because they’ve been fed the Nancy narrative (former and very loose family/in-law ties) and they have been poisoned against Pelosi. Well, they’re Republicans, so they wouldn’t vote for him anyway.
Fetterman is trying to get Oz chosen as New Jersey’s person if the year, or something.
“Among the most alarming things the FBI uncovered pertains to Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near US military bases in the rural Midwest. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.”
“…anyone can catch the virus through close skin-to-skin contact. In the case of children, the agency said this could include “holding, cuddling, feeding, as well as through shared items such as towels, bedding, cups, and utensils.”
There’s about to be a run on gloves, bleach and hazmat suits.
Keith Olbermann did a story an a child with monkey pox about 15 years ago. The parents were ignoring the kid while being interviewed, she fell backwards over the chair on which she was standing, and KO laughed. So did I. The kid was fine, but it was hilarious. I believe she caught it from their pet ferret.
I wish a clip of that KO interview existed, but I’ve not been able to find it. Also hilarious, KO interviewing Sylvester Stallone’s psychic mother.
“Unfortunately, the demands of our respective careers have made it too difficult for us to continue as a married couple,” the pair said in the statement. “Over the past 10 years, we have developed a tremendous bond of love and respect for each other. That will never change.”
Let’s see if that “tremendous bond” can withstand a campaign.
lol @ BiD attempting to sink his campaign in earnest
Newsom is running a brilliant national campaign for state office. He’s taking the fight to Republicans, and it’s the kind of political style for which we as lib/prog/Dems have been yearning for more than a decade 👍
Just pointing out his campaign will cause a lot of unnecessary drama that Dems don’t need. It’s gonna suck the oxygen out of the room.
Saw a proposal on Twitter for a 5K Hawley Run as a Dem fundraiser
If Kimberly Un Guilfoyle had something unknown on Newsom it would have been heard by now. There are far worse things about her and more recent. As for him he tried something like this using the gay marriage issue and he and his campaign manager with an idiot strategy set the issue back for years
Bannon. Lock him up
Another Merrick headache. CNN reports DOJ close to a decision on whether to indict Hunter.
Just spitballing here but what if someday there’s a contest between Newsom and Harris for prez nomination. A California showdown.
He’s a team-player and wouldn’t run against Harris
…setting up for 2028
(i read as much in an article that cited staffers and insiders, after i had proposed him as a 2024 candidate, much to the consternation of Mr. S, from whom we’ll apparently never hear again 😭)
“In Texas, where temperatures have reached more than 105 degrees this week, the cost of electricity was “beyond affordable” for most low-income households. On average, families spend about 8% of their income on energy expenses…”
“In Texas, there is no state law that requires landlords to provide air conditioning in a rental home or apartment.”
California is a big enough prize itself, something like the world’s 6th largest economy, global policy driver, akin to head-of-state elsewhere
“Bunding, an ancient and low-tech building technique, is having a profound impact on degraded land in two disparate places.”
“The barriers trap water running off the ground and allow it to penetrate the earth. Grass seed sown inside the bunds grows, and over time greenery extends beyond them, dramatically transforming the landscape.”
Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years
Newsom would be a terrible president
He’s not very bright his life is checkered with bad decisions. Including sexual indiscretions of the icky kind while in office.
He wasn’t a very good mayor and is not an especially good gov.
s
STURG
Please come back. It will be too sad without you.
I know I’m on your naughty list but you are worth more to me
then picking on Biden.
Come home!
I will always have a soft spot for Schwarzenegger as an incorrigible flirt. Roughly 1981 and his hand caressing my wrist as I poured his coffee with “Darlink, you must come exercise with me sometime.”.
Ahnold another person who should never have been elected to public office. He flooded the capital grounds setting up a spot where he could smoke
Sturg! Come back! I can’t defend POTUS Joe alone.
Thank goodness Ahnold wasn’t eligible to be prez. Jamie, You have my sympathy.
“One of Donald Trump’s favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is “unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
“…the Wall Street Journal, also published an editorial harshly critiquing the former president.”
“…close viewers have also picked up on some signs that Fox might be souring on Trump.”
They are setting up Pence for 2024.
Picking the-whitest-man as the Republican nominee won’t work, either. Pence’s churchiness will just make the SCOTUS-created wedge even bigger. Blue tsunami.
a wicked sense of humor?
the hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you ploy: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/california-newsom-gun-bill-texas-abortion-law/index.html
HMMM, I wonder. A Democratic politician signing a bill using the cynical gambit Republicans developed to restrict one of the Repubs’ 2 highest priorities and running ads in the 2 largest Republican states led by the 2 highest profile opponents to the de facto front runner of the Republican Party nomination for the presidential race in 2 1/2 years and denying any presidential ambitions. (Wait for the follow up bill in CA regarding private lawsuits for restricting abortion rights – unless I miss my guess it’s hot in the wake of the gun bill). The only thing missing is an ad buy from Kathy Hochul.
couldn’t pass up cagle’s “running from the mob”
My guess is that Newsom watched the California elections along with listening to many Dems to come up with the plan to do something. If nothing else he is showing people that Dems can show some brass by taking the fight to the facists. And, he may get those under sixty-five back into the D fold.
SCOTUS got those under 65 “back into the D fold” when they did away with Roe. Republicans refusing to protect contraceptives got the attention of anyone SCOTUS may have missed.
Newsome needs to think long and hard about what transpired with his marriage/divorce with Don Junior’s girl-fiend before he decides to run for POTUS in 2024. That’s what she said.
BiD
That marriage to Miss THANG does open questions about Newsom’s judgement or another example of his weird sense of humor.
House Passes Bill Protecting Contraceptive Access — Heads To Senate Next (forbes.com)
lucy and the football russian style
Russia hits Ukraine’s Black Sea port in wake of grain deal | AP News
Russian missiles strike Odesa one day after grain export deal agreed – KVIA
ha, at least he had the sense to divorce her
“…broken more times than a Russian promise.” -Uncle Martin/My Favorite Martian
looks like mid-term ads will be pretty entertaining… example senate race in PA
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discuss new ads out of the Senate race in Pennsylvania between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, and the meme war taking place between the two candidates online. Scarborough and Brzezinski also discuss Oz’s history of false statements.
I just think Junior’s gargoyle would kick up all sorts of personal stuff/accusations, true or not, if Newsome runs. Also, my relatives who watch Faux Noise don’t like him because they’ve been fed the Nancy narrative (former and very loose family/in-law ties) and they have been poisoned against Pelosi. Well, they’re Republicans, so they wouldn’t vote for him anyway.
Fetterman is trying to get Oz chosen as New Jersey’s person if the year, or something.
Lucas Kunce is trolling Hawley hard.
https://mobile.twitter.com/lucaskuncemo/status/1550493172714848258
Really like the idea of a “Josh Hawley 5K” as a Dem fundraiser.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-huawei-china-defense-department-communications-nuclear/index.html
“Among the most alarming things the FBI uncovered pertains to Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near US military bases in the rural Midwest. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/health/monkeypox-children-vaccine/index.html
“…anyone can catch the virus through close skin-to-skin contact. In the case of children, the agency said this could include “holding, cuddling, feeding, as well as through shared items such as towels, bedding, cups, and utensils.”
There’s about to be a run on gloves, bleach and hazmat suits.
Keith Olbermann did a story an a child with monkey pox about 15 years ago. The parents were ignoring the kid while being interviewed, she fell backwards over the chair on which she was standing, and KO laughed. So did I. The kid was fine, but it was hilarious. I believe she caught it from their pet ferret.
I wish a clip of that KO interview existed, but I’ve not been able to find it. Also hilarious, KO interviewing Sylvester Stallone’s psychic mother.
California gubernatorial bingo…good times.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Newsom-wife-decide-to-end-3-year-marriage-3324582.php
“Unfortunately, the demands of our respective careers have made it too difficult for us to continue as a married couple,” the pair said in the statement. “Over the past 10 years, we have developed a tremendous bond of love and respect for each other. That will never change.”
Let’s see if that “tremendous bond” can withstand a campaign.
lol @ BiD attempting to sink his campaign in earnest
Newsom is running a brilliant national campaign for state office. He’s taking the fight to Republicans, and it’s the kind of political style for which we as lib/prog/Dems have been yearning for more than a decade 👍
Just pointing out his campaign will cause a lot of unnecessary drama that Dems don’t need. It’s gonna suck the oxygen out of the room.
Saw a proposal on Twitter for a 5K Hawley Run as a Dem fundraiser
If Kimberly Un Guilfoyle had something unknown on Newsom it would have been heard by now. There are far worse things about her and more recent. As for him he tried something like this using the gay marriage issue and he and his campaign manager with an idiot strategy set the issue back for years
Bannon. Lock him up
Another Merrick headache. CNN reports DOJ close to a decision on whether to indict Hunter.
Just spitballing here but what if someday there’s a contest between Newsom and Harris for prez nomination. A California showdown.
He’s a team-player and wouldn’t run against Harris
…setting up for 2028
(i read as much in an article that cited staffers and insiders, after i had proposed him as a 2024 candidate, much to the consternation of Mr. S, from whom we’ll apparently never hear again 😭)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/us/heat-wave-low-income-communities-reaj/index.html
“In Texas, where temperatures have reached more than 105 degrees this week, the cost of electricity was “beyond affordable” for most low-income households. On average, families spend about 8% of their income on energy expenses…”
“In Texas, there is no state law that requires landlords to provide air conditioning in a rental home or apartment.”
California is a big enough prize itself, something like the world’s 6th largest economy, global policy driver, akin to head-of-state elsewhere
ok enjoy weekend 🤖 ✌️
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/world/greening-deserts-science-newsletter-wt-scn/index.html
“Bunding, an ancient and low-tech building technique, is having a profound impact on degraded land in two disparate places.”
“The barriers trap water running off the ground and allow it to penetrate the earth. Grass seed sown inside the bunds grows, and over time greenery extends beyond them, dramatically transforming the landscape.”
Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/22/rio-grande-drought/
Newsom would be a terrible president
He’s not very bright his life is checkered with bad decisions. Including sexual indiscretions of the icky kind while in office.
He wasn’t a very good mayor and is not an especially good gov.
s
STURG
Please come back. It will be too sad without you.
I know I’m on your naughty list but you are worth more to me
then picking on Biden.
Come home!
I will always have a soft spot for Schwarzenegger as an incorrigible flirt. Roughly 1981 and his hand caressing my wrist as I poured his coffee with “Darlink, you must come exercise with me sometime.”.
Ahnold another person who should never have been elected to public office. He flooded the capital grounds setting up a spot where he could smoke
Sturg! Come back! I can’t defend POTUS Joe alone.
Thank goodness Ahnold wasn’t eligible to be prez. Jamie, You have my sympathy.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/media/murdoch-trump-jan-6-new-york-post-wall-street-journal/index.html
“One of Donald Trump’s favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is “unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.”
“…the Wall Street Journal, also published an editorial harshly critiquing the former president.”
“…close viewers have also picked up on some signs that Fox might be souring on Trump.”
They are setting up Pence for 2024.
Picking the-whitest-man as the Republican nominee won’t work, either. Pence’s churchiness will just make the SCOTUS-created wedge even bigger. Blue tsunami.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/22/texas-elections-tarrant-county/
“Right-wing group is quietly conducting review of 300,000 Tarrant County ballots from 2020 primary”
* Ft. Worth is in Tarrant County
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