“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
[William Congreve’s play, The Mourning Bride (1697)]Miffed
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“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
[William Congreve’s play, The Mourning Bride (1697)]
from above NPR link: The name-brand drug Mifeprex was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration more than 20 years ago. Since then, it has been used millions of times, and major medical groups say it has a strong safety record. A generic version was approved in 2019. Now, the drug’s future is in jeopardy. A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction that undoes the FDA’s approval of mifepristone nationwide beginning this Friday. Meanwhile, a competing ruling out of Washington state could limit the Texas injunction’s reach. The Biden administration has appealed the Texas decision and requested an emergency stay of the injunction. A federal appeals court is likely to weigh in this week. Ultimately, it may be up to the Supreme Court to resolve the conflicts. […] As of Monday, there is no change yet to Americans’ ability to access mifepristone. But that could change as soon as this Friday, when the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is set to take effect. […] Meanwhile, there’s a competing ruling out of Washington state, where the attorneys general of 17 states and the District of Columbia had sought to force the FDA to expand access to the drug. The judge in that case, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice, an Obama appointee, didn’t go that far. But he did rule Friday that the agency cannot alter access to the drug while the lawsuit proceeds. That decision could offer relief if the Texas injunction goes into effect —… Read more »
in other news
Leaks of government intelligence reports have created a full-blown international crisis, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appears compromised by decades of undisclosed luxury gifts from a Hitler-loving GOP donor, and the Republican-led legislature in Tennessee claims race played no factor in the expulsion of two Black lawmakers.
on those leaks Leak of secret US defense papers could be ‘tip of the iceberg’, report says | US national security | The Guardian […] The investigative journalism group Bellingcat traced the leak back through a series of channels used by different internet communities, mostly involving teenagers with interests ranging from military gear, Orthodox Christianity, music and video games, all using Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers. Racist language was common on the internet forums involved. Several Discord users told Bellingcat that the original source of the leak was a server used only by 20 people, which went by a variety of different names, most frequently Thug Shaker Central. It was set up by followers of a popular YouTuber called Oxide, who posts videos about weapons and other military paraphernalia. The sources said that the first leaks on Thug Shaker Central dated back to last October, and involved far more documents than have so far come to light. The most recent leaked documents are dated as recently as early March. The leaker allegedly was acting as the server’s administrator and set up a channel within Thug Shaker Central called “Bear vs Pig”, about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The documents did not spread beyond Thug Shaker Central until late February, when one of the users of the “Bear vs Pig” channel, a teenager who went by the name Lucca, started posting 107 of the photographed documents on a more widely used server, WowMao, for fans of a UK-based Filipino YouTuber known for… Read more »
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled.
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
for sure “times they are a-changing” for GOPers poll-wise wapo: Support for abortion rights in general has trended upward since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, with Republicans seeming to pay a price at the ballot box in the 2022 midterms. Positions favoring abortion rights won when the issues were put directly to voters, including in red states. But even in that context, the abortion pill would seem to be an unusually dicey issue for the Republican Party: A Reuters poll last month tested precisely this issue, asking whether people would support federal courts overturning access to mifepristone. Just 27 percent expressed support, while 7 in 10 Americans opposed such a ruling. A month earlier, the same poll asked whether medication abortion should remain legal in the United States. Americans agreed it should, 65 percent to 21 percent, with even 49 percent of Republicans agreeing. The numbers echo other polling on whether people should be allowed to receive the pill via the mail. A Public Religion Research Institute poll in February showed people opposed banning that by 72 percent to 26 percent. The same poll last year found that 56 percent of Republicans also opposed such a ban. A Marquette University Law School poll last year found Americans opposed a ban on women getting prescriptions for the pill from out-of-state providers by 76 percent to 23 percent. These last two questions, it bears emphasizing, weren’t even about whether the pill should simply be available — just whether people should be able to get it via the mail and from out-of-state providers (i.e.… Read more »
editorial board’s Opinion | Judge Kacsmaryk relied on ideology, not law, to block abortion drug – The Washington Post Two opposing rulings by federal judges late last week have set the country up for a possible Supreme Court showdown over the abortion pill mifepristone. But first things first: Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s effective injunction invalidating the medication’s approval nationwide needs to be put on pause. This decision, from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, overturns the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone while relying on an 1873 anti-vice law to find that abortion drugs can’t be sent by mail or other delivery service. All of this applies even in states where it remains legal for a woman to terminate her pregnancy. […] The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, to which the Justice Department has already filed notice of its appeal, might end up sorting through these arguments itself. So might the Supreme Court, now that Judge Thomas O. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington has ordered the FDA, contrary to the Texas ruling, to maintain the status quo. But regardless of whether that status quo ends up surviving the appeals process — as it ought to — it should remain in place at least until that process is over. The 5th Circuit or, if necessary, the Supreme Court should stay the Kacsmaryk injunction while litigation plays out. There is no reason to disrupt the state of affairs that has… Read more »
other songs (other than dylan’s) come to mind such as
Lukas Nelson Shares Harrowing New Song After Overturn of Roe v. Wade – Rolling Stone
If this goes through, they are going after birth control pills.
Viagra, you are safe as kittens.
Who will get to write the history books of this era? Who will be allowed to read them in the future?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/asia/taiwan-air-force-pooh-patch-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
“The patch shows an angry Formosan black bear holding Taiwan’s flag and punching Winnie the Pooh, with the slogan “Scramble!” – referring to what the island’s pilots have had to do with increased frequency over the past three years as China sends more aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone – a self-declared buffer that extends beyond the island’s airspace.”
“China’s Communist Party claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory despite never having controlled it and has not ruled out taking the island by force. Tsai’s government rejects China’s sovereignty claims, saying only Taiwan’s people can decide their future.”
Hmmm, if Taiwan exports most of its goods, including semiconductors, to China, I guess we are their new customers? And, I guess those patches weren’t made in China.
ps – Remember the Philippines. A lot of this is about that.
BiD, picking up on a comment of yours from yesterday, we went to NYC a couple of times last year in the March/April and June/July time frames. We ate outside, stayed and hung out mostly in lower midtown – 40th Street – to the lower West Side down around 14th St. Things seemed pretty normal there. Even Times Square seemed about as it had pre pandemic. I will say the subways seemed a little dirtier than normal and maybe it was my imagination, but there seemed to be more younger folks who didn’t seem to have a purpose for hanging in them. I’ll say that was a bit uncomfortable, but that might just be a function of my age.
the hill:
Rep. Justin Jones retakes oath after Metro Council reappoints him to seat (tennessean.com)
pogo – I was there in March & April. We may have passed each other. I had to laugh at the weed trade near T Sq.
One guy said he was giving away free weed because he over-bought (high inventory – ha!) and I just needed to pay the “tax.”
The next day a guy asked me for money to buy a “small bag” of weed. Dude, your timing is terrible. There was a guy here yesterday giving it away.
Another guy started to hit me up for money as I walked by, and made the mistake of putting his hand on my shoulder to stop me from walking away. He felt me tense and let go. Could’ve lost a nut if he hadn’t.
I love NY.
I don’t do the subway. A friend who used to live in the city turned me into the bus. Ride up and down the streets and walk the avenues. It’s faster and cleaner and you’re out in the city instead of in a hole in the ground.
The OMNY pass thing is great. No more Metro cards, just tap your phone or credit card.
Generally our hops up and downtown in NYC are in excess of 20 blocks, and we always walk crosstown.
Damn…..that’s Brutal.
Just saw a sign on the internet which read, “Kid Rock announced earlier today that he has decided to move his entire music catalogue from the 8-track bin at Goodwill Thrift Stores.”
plea from louisville doc today
“i would simply ask you to do something because doing nothing which is what we’ve been doing is not working “
and another one from new KY congressman who says “public safety isn’t political”
Think of all of the medical bills piled on to the victims of gun violence and there families, whether or not they survive.
pogo – Busses aren’t just for short hops. If it’s that short, just walk. I am talking 20 blocks. But, the fewer who use it makes it easier for those who do.
take that, gym boy. have anymore stupid ideas?
Manhattan DA sues Rep. Jordan over Trump indictment inquiry (msn.com)
So, drugstore tabloid “the Globe”, owned by AMI, run by David Pecker, of trump indictment fame, is running front-page hit-pieces against DuhSantis, similar in type to those it used to run against HRC. The headline i saw today accused the former Navy JAG officer and current portly dweeb of torture. It gave me a chuckle, thought i’d share
That is to say, if one of those people is to be a “star-witness”, it doesn’t seem such participation would be willing, considering he is still carrying dipshit’s water.
What could dipshit have done for said sensationalist to keep the latter so dutifully servile is my curiosity
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/kfile-michigan-gop-chair-kristina-karamo-comments/index.html
So much coo-coo in one article. So much.
“In a September 2020 podcast, she claimed Black Lives Matter’s leaders were “Marxist witches” and said,”it’s rooted in Pagan religion, and you’re channeling spirits and you’re performing satanic rituals to get your movement done.”
“Karamo also believes that demonic possession is real…”
“Karamo has baselessly accused music stars like Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Cardi B, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish of being tools of Satan. She claimed Beyoncé used an album to convert Black Americans to paganism…”
“After losing every statewide office and full control of the state government for the first time in nearly 40 years, Michigan Republicans elected Karamo – who made these comments and many others within the last few years – as their new state party chairwoman and the first Black person to lead the state party.”
Finally……Gym Jordan gets a decent suit.
–some twitner
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/business/leon-levine-family-dollar-founder-dies/index.html
LLeon Levine, who built Family Dollar into a discount retail giant catering to America’s lower-income and middle-class shoppers, has died at 85.”
“The Leon Levine Foundation, the philanthropic organization Levine later founded, confirmed in an online statement he died on April 5.”
“Levine found a niche appealing to lower-income customers in mostly rural areas. He would look for new store locations by driving around and checking supermarket parking lots. Fresh oil spots on the pavement meant the locals drove older cars and didn’t have much money for repairs…”
“We’re just the opposite of a Wal-Mart,” Family Dollar president George Mahoney told the Associated Press in 1993. “Our customers don’t want the hassle of shopping in a huge store, or they lack the funds to shop there.”
https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/mike-pence-says-donald-trump-can-take-care-of-himself-in-alabama-speech.html
“Not everyone in attendance was a supporter.“
NEW THREAD by sturge (unbeknownst by him)