Juneteenth, or June 19, will soon be the 12th federal holiday https://t.co/dPaUwa6mZU
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) June 17, 2021
The corporation Spousal Unit works for replaced Columbus Day with Juneteenth on its roster of paid days off. It wouldn’t surprise me if other businesses chose the same route, since ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ is also being proposed as a replacement for Thanksgiving…
it’s not that they’re losing the culture wars, it’s that they’re losing them so gracelessly. pic.twitter.com/lp3HtiDfd1
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 17, 2021
Senators: Your vote to give Americans Juneteenth off in no way absolves you from doing the right thing on voting rights.
You cannot celebrate emancipation while also enabling voter suppression. If you don’t stand with Black voters, then you are standing in their way.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 17, 2021
Foreign affairs:
A lot of Western reporters will parse handshakes, looks, one-liners and Tolstoy quotes, but a man actually poisoned by Putin (twice) probably has wee bit more credibility when appraising Biden's performance. https://t.co/2QwIwKNskz
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) June 16, 2021
How it started: How it's going:#GenevaSummit #GenevaSummit2021 #Geneva2021 pic.twitter.com/Jiz16DFcXk
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 16, 2021
Tu quoque!
President Putin is asked if he doesn't want a "fair political fight" given his opponents are "dead, in prison, poisoned"
He says: "People went into US Congress with political demands… we do not want the same thing repeating here" https://t.co/QXWxPohz9U pic.twitter.com/HRrt6VssPs
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 16, 2021
For the past few years, Republicans in Congress have echoed Russian propaganda. On Wednesday, in Geneva, Vladimir Putin returned the favor: He echoed Republican propaganda. https://t.co/5uPSDdswdL
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) June 17, 2021
Go back in time and explain this to a person in 2002 https://t.co/mwi9y5sZiB
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) June 16, 2021
Spanky
And I should give a shit about what some random asshole (aka “Matt Walsh”) says because why?
debbie
I have no idea who this Matt Walsh is, but checking his tweets, he’s a misguided influencer who’s lost his way. Theocratic fascist, indeed.
Baud
I would have thought a bin Ladin would have a bigger boat.
NotMax
Morning chuckle.
Spaced out linking to it in the earlier fruit thread, an omission now rectified.
:)
Baud
I saw this the other day and forgot to share it.
I thought the Church was set up as a benevolent dictatorship. What’s with the “warning”?
Anne Laurie
Walsh is among the foremost rightwing ‘edgelords’ on social media. If he’s saying it, a myriad of RWNJ myrmidons are busy repeating it to whomever will listen — your Fox-News-watching elders, every Repub legislator, etc.
He’s got nothing, but he (they) are gonna be ugly about their nothingness.
germy
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Tell me about it, they way the press has been talking it is the end of American democracy the last two days.
The is awesome too, take that, Neo-confederate white trash.
Eric S.
From a practical stand point I’m not sure how much this matters to a lot of people. Maybe I’m just jaded but I’m my 25 years in the corporate world I’ve only seen days off for holidays eliminated from the calendar.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Gosh, CRT is so bad. It isn’t as if it tries to undo anything like long term, multigenerational historical revisionism in school curriculum standards or tutorial programs that meet those standards for fifth graders in Tennessee….
germy
Baud
@Eric S.:
Nothing matters to a lot of people, except for privilege and the GOP base. That’s a large part of the problem.
NotMax
@Eric S.
So old can remember when we got separate days off in February for both Washington and Lincoln.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m so old that I can recall my first grade teacher in my all white elementary school referring to black people as “nigras”.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh, you mean that particular conservative You Tube troll with a punchable face who thinks he is a wit. There are so many….
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
NotMax
Yes, it took until we’re well into the 21st century.
Spanky
Just a PSA to point out the ActBlue thermometer for Voces de la Frontera at the bottom (at least on Android).
We have a ways to go.
rikyrah
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
?????
rikyrah
@NotMax:
I do remember that
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Isn’t it great that people are turning all this up? Why, we’ve had ‘political correctness” and “cancel culture” all along! It just went in the other direction.
In another context I once read questions from an exam West Virginia used for students to qualify to graduate high school. It was written by coal companies and it was just pure industry propaganda.
MomSense
@Spanky:
They’re doing such important work. Voter registration, education, protection and advocacy!! Every little bit helps.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
To give is comment some context; not only, as has been reported here, most Russians don’t trust vaccine from their government, there are also popular conspiracy theories that the Soviet Union sill exists and the man we call Putin is actually the latest in a series of clones dating back to the 1920s. The point to examples of the details of Putn’s face changing over time. Basically Putin created this bizzaro land of a country were no is sure of anything and it doesn’t really work.
Anne Laurie
There’s a solid, but still minority, chunk of the American Catholic Church hierarchy & membership that’s basically in the same position as the Republicans in our national politics — not *quite* powerful enough to secede and form their own religion, but dreaming of the day when that might happen.
The global Church, under Pope Francis, is trying to discourage these cultists from doing anything irreversible, because the repercussions could destroy the entire structure. Last I remember, the American Catholic churches provide an outsized portion of the global Church’s budget… but Americans are by and large ‘cafeteria Catholics’, choosing to ignore official Church teachings about LGBTQ+ issues, birth control / abortion, etc.
The global ‘flock’ is growing fastest in developing countries (Africa, particularly), and most of the Churchmen in those countries would just as happily team up with the American tradCaths — but the day that happens, a huuuuge chunk of the well-to-do suburban-American parishes stop donating to Rome, and start working out affiliations with the local Episcopalians or Unitarian Universalists.
*Most* American bishops, obviously, are siding with Pope Francis, at the moment — they don’t want to give up their comfy current careers to start over in some patchwork ‘fellowship community’, or to end up locked in an increasingly impoverished system with a bunch of arrogant nutters.
Sound familiar?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Meanwhile, the End of Slavery is now a national holiday, this is awesome.
So is Tubman replacing that homicidal, economy wrecking lunatic Jackson on the twenty next?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Since you live in Kentucky, that comment provides no clues about your actual age.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Very good explanation. Thanks.
Anne Laurie
Well, Putin’s certainly perfected this particular form of Russian existentialism, and he’s profited hugely from it.
But from what little I know of Russian history over the last century, can we actually say he invented it?
MomSense
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Not sure if I have already mentioned this, but some good friends of mine who own a bookstore stamp all of their 20s with TUBMAN in block letters over his face.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
This is a great point. All those Texas-approved yearbooks I got for so many years (even at my left-populist Catholic high school) skipped big chunks of material that teachers would have to be individually interested in supplementing. As I remember the sequence, it went from abolition to Civil War by noble states rights freedom fighters who were heroic and wise while serving something questionable. It then went straight on to evil carpetbaggers.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Sadly true, at least in the sticks.
RandomMonster
I don’t have to time travel—I can’t explain that to someone in 2021.
NotMax
@Kay
Obligatory?
:)
(Ad came and went faster than you can say “strip mining.”)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Wait, wut?
debbie
@MomSense:
It’s probably heresy to say this, but I think we need our own version of ALEC that would serve to assist and advise all of the state and local groups.
rikyrah
Douglas Moran (@dougom) tweeted at 5:55 PM on Wed, Jun 16, 2021:
Isn’t Kaitlin Collins the “reporter” who asked Biden about the 2024 election in his first news conference after less than 100 days in office?
Don’t yammer at me about what a great journalist she is; her agenda is pretty clear.
(https://twitter.com/dougom/status/1405298103616303107?s=03)
germy
@debbie:
Joe Manchin is on the ALEC alumni list:
https://www.alec.org/about/alumni/
NotMax
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story. Was part of an incredibly misbegotten ad campaign.
germy
@NotMax:
“Frosty the Coal Man is getting cleaner every day.”
There. That should get the kids on board.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
I have a “Tubman on 20s” t-shirt I wear all the time. I love it.
mrmoshpotato
Shit. So are the Russthuglicans still Putin’s bitches, or is Putin now the Russthuglicans’ bitch. It’s all so confusing. Is Russia our 51st state now?
Cermet
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: And don’t forget that he started the prison/slave state that became the norm in the South. There are countless graves of black teens/men who where illegally enslaved via trumped up charges and placed into forced work units (including mines and steel mills). They were tortured if they didn’t work hard enough with the most dangerous jobs. Forrest payed the State 1.6 cents a day so be could farm the prison inmates to company’s at huge markups/profits. Soon States’ entire legal systems geared to find, and imprison black teens and men to feed this forced slave labor system. This existed in mass till at least WWII. Slavery never ended it just became a State system allowing wealthy whites to exploit it. This is a history no one teaches even in the North
rikyrah
Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) tweeted at 6:31 AM on Thu, Jun 17, 2021:
Hi all, I have decided not to participate at this year’s Championships at Wimbledon and the Olympic Games in Tokyo. It’s never an easy decision to take but after listening to my body and discuss it with my team I understand that it is the right decision
(https://twitter.com/RafaelNadal/status/1405488173493456898?s=03)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
It made me say “what” so many times that Samuel L. Jackson shot me.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
Bet they killed it over internal complaints that it implies that coal was ever dirty.
Always assume evil and stupid with Appalachian conservatives.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: ?We love the coal mines, a rum pah black lung?
germy
Gather ’round, students. Learn Joe Manchin’s History of Democracy
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I was thinking the same thing. “These little singing coals are implying we were dirty at some point… Kill the ad.”
Immanentize
Hi all.
I just thought I’d to share further adventures in my Plague of Death. (Which would be a good album name for my fictional band, Cobra Pope)
Last Saturday, my nephew and Godson died of kidney disease. He was 40. As his Godfather, everytime I saw him (couple of times a year) I would ask him if he was going to church. “Nope,” he would “God told me I get a pass.” Cracked me up. He was a good fellow and a very talented musician. He would have gotten along with MomsSence’s boys, I suspect. Here he is a few years back singing a song: Waiting on a Train
I would prefer not to be Joe Btfsplk.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
“But we spent 2.8 Mil producing it and…”
”Don’t care. We’ll just jack up residential rates to make it up. Kill the ad.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize: Sorry, Imm. What a tragedy
germy
@Immanentize:
Damn. Too young.
Starfish
@Immanentize: I am so sorry for your loss.
Barbara
@Immanentize: I am so sorry. The world itself is diminished when the life of such a good person is cut so short.
Elizabelle
@Immanentize:
Talented guy. I am so sorry.
Baud
@Immanentize: My condolences.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Damn.
sanjeevs
@Immanentize: Sorry to hear. That is way too young.
SFAW
@Anne Laurie:
AL, I luvs ya, but weren’t the Myrmidons actual warriors? Not gun-sword-humping nutjobs? [OK, Teh Google tells me the current definition changes that somewhat — e.g., comparing (sort of) Achilleus to Hitler — but I put that in the same category as “bemused” now means “amused” to some people.]
SFAW
@Immanentize:
So sorry for you and your nephew (and the rest of his/your family). Much too young.
Dorothy A. Winsor
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
I’ll let you leave and come back in, after THAT suggestion.
Putin being the bitch of/for any of those traitorous morons? Get real.
Nicole
@Immanentize:
I’m so sorry, Imm. He sounds like he was a great, and funny guy. May his memory be a blessing.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Whoa. I’d like to see her actual words. I don’t trust reporting.
TomatoQueen
@Immanentize: So very sorry about the loss of this fine man.
Shakti
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Anecdata: I HATED Forrest Gump before I knew who Nathan Bedford Forrest was. They absolutely did not teach me who this guy was in my history classes up north. And I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address.
I went back and rewatched Ken Burns The Civil War with my parents. They couldn’t get over the piles of dead bodies and why people still flew the Dixie flag. It heavily features Shelby Foote.
Also: holy crap, Shelby Foote just sounds like a dude who is just trying to find love on the apps and doesn’t want to be single anymore:
“one of the most attractive men who ever walked through the pages of history”
“he’s an enormously attractive, outgoing man once you get to know him and once you get to know more facts”.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Anne Laurie: Yes, perfected is the word. This is the country that coined the phrase “Potemkin Village” after all.
sanjeevs
Florida Dems in disarray
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/17/secret-recording-florida-republican-threat-hit-squad-494976
Ken
That reminds me, I was half-expecting a thread on the Ohio House’s expulsion of Householder.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: Damn. So sorry for your loss. :(
Baud
@sanjeevs:
I can’t believe the GOP thinks they can outsource American jobs like that and get away with it.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: I agree!
At Voces, they work with people every single day on things like driver’s licenses and citizenship. If we can raise the money to fund this field organizer position, we wouldn’t be funding those activities, but it’s that engagement every single day that gives the political arm of Voces its credibility with their voters and the ability to have a major impact on voting in Wisconsin.
To me, just knowing that the votes they turned out in 2020 exceeded the margin of victory in Wisconsin in 2020. We are going to need even more votes to help compensate for all the ways the Rs are making voting more and more difficult.
germy
@Baud:
Here’s a clip:
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Do we really have to repost that picture of Breitbart, a man who died from a stroke during a internet flame war, in full fantasy armor?
Betty Cracker
@sanjeevs: The ironic thing about this story is that Luna, the woman who was threatened, is a bona fide kook, so when she alleged that Braddock threatened her, lots of folks dismissed it. Now there’s a recording that proves it’s kooks all the way down. Hopefully this insanity lets Dems hang onto the seat. And I’m not the least bit ashamed to say that’s my primary concern.
Viva BrisVegas
@Baud: Doesn’t Catholic orthodoxy also oppose the death penalty?
I suppose it’s too much to expect consistency in denying communion, as that might embarrass a large chunk of the Supreme Court.
Spanky
@Immanentize: Well … shit. Sorry to see you grieving another premature loss. Take care of yourself.
WaterGirl
@Spanky: All 2021 Fundraising is the first item in the hamburger menu on mobile, and the Voces thermometer is the top thermometer in All 2021 Fundraising. So hopefully that makes it easy to find, even on mobile.
sanjeevs
@Betty Cracker: My favorite part is where Braddock denies its his voice but still threatens to sue for having his call recorded without his permission.
Baud
@germy: Thanks!
Spanky
@sanjeevs: Jeeeeenius!
WaterGirl
@Spanky: Oh, and I guess this would help, too!
Voces de la Frontera Action
WaterGirl
@germy: That is so great!
Kathleen
@Immanentize: My deepest condolences.
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: Oh, Imm. I have no words, only tears.
WaterGirl
@sanjeevs: Oh my god. Just when I thought there was nothing the Rs could do that would surprise me anymore.
Kathleen
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I was on a Fair Fight call with Stacy and Sherrod Brown and Brown said he thinks the For the People voting Act will be passed in Congress.
The Thin Black Duke
@Immanentize: I’m sorry.
Fair Economist
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
That’s about what I got taught in Alabama. I was rather shocked when as young adult I read about Reconstruction and realized “wait, the carpetbaggers and scallywags were the good guys!”
WaterGirl
@germy:
WaterGirl
@sanjeevs:
That’s just like the rape defense we would see in court when I worked with the local rape crisis service:
“I didn’t do it, but if I did do it, it was consensual.”
Baud
@Kathleen:
?
Fair Economist
@Immanentize: Oh, so sorry about your nephew. He sounds like someone we’d all like to have around. Sometimes life and death are so unfair.
Fair Economist
@mrmoshpotato:
They’re still his, but he recognizes they need help. A good sign, actually.
Suzanne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I was taught — in 1992 or thereabouts — that AIDS turned your skin black.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: My condolences. You’ve certainly had more than your share of shit.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
They don’t mention The Battle of Brice Cross Roads? that’s telling an incomplete story and opening the door to the Neo Confederate Revisionists. It’s like dimissioning Robert E Lee as a slave owner.
Anyway
In my corner of the corporate world we don’t get MLK , Presidents, Columbus, Easter — doubt the PTB will add Juneteenth any time soon.
I love the word Juneteenth.
JPL
@Immanentize: Hugs.
SiubhanDuinne
@Immanentize:
That’s terrible, Imm. I’m very sorry.
Cameron
@sanjeevs: Sounds like Matt Gaetz. “I never met her, and I didn’t know she was underage, anyway!”
zhena gogolia
@Immanentize:
I’m so sorry. That is terrible.
zhena gogolia
@Immanentize:
Beautiful song.
mali muso
@WaterGirl: Thank you for sharing the thermometer, I just donated. I was sorry to miss the live blog, but read the thread later and am excited for BJ to support this very worthy organization.
@Immanentize: So sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.
Ken
@Immanentize: There are times when the only words are those of the angel Aziraphale in Good Omens: “Sometimes you just had to hope that the divine plan had been properly thought out.”
Ghost of Joe Liebling*s Dog
Ah, damn, @Immanentize. How awful … I’m so sorry.
MomSense
@Immanentize:
I’m so sorry. Just listened to him and – what a beautiful soul. ?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Anne Laurie: american pope timothy i of st. louis & new york will have your apostate behind at the inquisition.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@rikyrah: he’s not done cycling.
Mary G
@Immanentize: You have suffered more blows than any human being should have to bear. May his memory be a blessing.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
So sorry for you loss, Imma :(
Ken
@rikyrah: @MontyTheClipArtMongoose: “Hi, they’ve scheduled the ‘amateur’ games much too close to the ones I get paid for, so I’m going to have to skip this year.’
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: i thought andy b died from some steppedon coke that the russian inteligence ministry supplied to his dealer, such that steve bannon could takeover & reposition breitbart dot com as a maga clearinghouse.
Shakti
@Betty Cracker: Seconded. Also, I don’t understand Charlie Crist’s thinking in running for governor again.
Here’s one contender for his seat:
Michele Rayner.
The link also mentions Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin and Eric Lynn. I’m kind of worried Anna Paulina Luna will win.
MomSense
@Immanentize:
What an incredibly beautiful song. Tears.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Suzanne: big skin cancer energy.
rp
@Cameron: Arguing in the alternative (offering mutually exclusive/competing theories) is perfectly valid in court. In day-to-day life…not so much.
japa21
Obamacare upheld 7-2.
Miss Bianca
@Immanentize: Oh, Imm. So sorry to hear it. My condolences.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
I want my Tubmans :)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Pleasantly surprised…. the SC rejected the Texas suit
japa21
@Immanentize: So sorry. You have had more than your share of this pain.
Ken
Let’s see if I’m psychic — Alito and Thomas?
Wait, is is psychic or cynic?
gbbalto
@Immanentize: Very sorry to read this. My condolences!
japa21
@Ken: Alito and Gorsuch.
Betty Cracker
@Shakti: I don’t know WTF Crist is thinking either. Giant ego, I guess? I mean, he lost to Bat Boy! Don’t run again, FFS! But since Crist is gonna Crist no matter what we say, I hope someone good wins the nom and hangs onto that seat. Rayner would be a huge upgrade, IMO.
lowtechcyclist
A minor point, but I’m only counting ten currently existing Federal holidays; Juneteenth would be the eleventh, not the twelfth. The ten are:
New Year’s Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Presidents’ Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s DayVeterans’ Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
At least, these are the days the Federal agency I work for gives me as a day off, without charging it against my annual leave. I don’t think they’re swindling me out of a holiday.
CaseyL
@Immanentize:
I am so sorry. Looks (and sounds) like he was a great guy.
Baud
@japa21:
Alito doesn’t surprise me. Gorsuch has ruined his reputation.
burnspbesq
Apparently standing still matters.
CaseyL
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
@japa21:
That’s two pieces of incredibly good news today: Stacey Abrams supports the compromises that Joe Manchin will also support; and SCOTUS upheld the ACA. (Though only on standing, not on the merits – so one assumes the bastards will try again.)
burnspbesq
Link to opinion.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-840_6jfm.pdf
burnspbesq
@CaseyL:
It’s going to be difficult to find a plaintiff with standing. Who is damaged by having to pay a penalty that is equal to zero?
catclub
But I want it THIS year! Why else would they vote so fast on June 15th?
WaterGirl
@mali muso: If there is interest, we will do a zoom with them in a couple of weeks. Staring on Sunday, they have organized a 9-day march:
Baud
@CaseyL:
Next reconciliation bill, Dems should add a $1 penalty. That’ll eliminate this argument.
catclub
@japa21:
The dissenters may have simply dissented from the ruling on standing.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
If they thought there was a chance in Hell of marshaling the minimum required number of states to ratify the technically still pending Corwin Amendment they’d jump on it like fleas on Fido.
CaseyL
@Baud: No, thanks – as narrow a reed as that is, plantiffs would be able to claim a specific injury, and SCOTUS could use that to dismantle ACA. I’ll settle for “lack of standing” with this Court.
Can’t say for sure “lack of standing” is a trend to dismiss dangerous RW court cases, but SCOTUS also used that reasoning to avoid Trump’s election lawsuits. So I kind of wonder.
rikyrah
ABC News (@ABC) tweeted at 9:14 AM on Thu, Jun 17, 2021:
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, deciding the plaintiffs had no standing to bring the case. @dianermacedo reports.
Read more: https://t.co/zmdq9Pa7Ns https://t.co/SvzBuwGjuY
(https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1405529382609833993?s=03)
Baud
@CaseyL:
They would have standing, but they would lose in the merits. They’re whole argument is that the mandate isn’t a tax withhout a penalty.
Baud
@CaseyL:
I always thought this was a standing case.
westyny
Really sorry to hear this, Immanentize. It sounds like his memory will be a blessing. @Immanentize:
VeniceRiley
My company already replaces Columbus with Caesar Chavez.
SFAW
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
No and no. Fortunately, I missed that pic.
Baud
All the right wingers on the court hate Scalia’s opinion in Smith.
FWIW, Barrett and Kavanaugh are positioning themselves as more moderate than Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.
rikyrah
@CaseyL:
So, who would have standing to push a bullshyt case like this?
debbie
@Kay:
I just listened to some woman OH state legislator explain the bill she introduced that would ban the “academic” definition of CRT. These bastards must be stopped. Period.
Ken
It looks like the next standing argument would have to be based on intangible harm, like “mental suffering at the thought that the ACA exists”
SiubhanDuinne
@Kathleen:
I’m scheduled for a Fair Fight training call this afternoon. Strangely excited to be gearing up for more political voluntarism. And I’m taking all sorts of adult education classes online. It’s nice to have a calendar again!
Leto
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry, Immanentize.
Kayla Rudbek
@Immanentize: so sorry for your loss.
rikyrah
Angela D. Lemke ? (@grateful14u) tweeted at 10:03 AM on Thu, Jun 17, 2021:
You can thank President Barack Obama for your preventive health screenings and Wellness rebate checks America.
It’s all in the Affordable Care Act and that benefits all Americans.
(https://twitter.com/grateful14u/status/1405541670569922564?s=03)
Baud
@Ken:
They’ll try again within a week with a new theory.
Original Lee
I’m hoping this thread isn’t dead yet. I need to consult the wisdom of the Jackals.
My elderly mom is 6 feet tall and skinny. She has expressed a desire for a power recliner with lift chair functionality. There are many on the market, but she needs one for tall people. All of the chairs I’ve looked at for tall people are also for wide people. She lives in a one-bedroom apartment, so having a ginormous chair is not helpful in terms of floor space, plus I don’t think she’d feel comfortable in a chair that she could take a bath in.
Are there recommendations?
Matt McIrvin
@CaseyL: My impression (IANAL) is that US legal practice is for courts to strongly prefer to decide a case on standing rather than on the merits if they possibly can–because if there’s no standing, there’s no case. In a sense it’s a means of limiting the power of the courts: they can’t rule on the law unless they actually have a valid case before them.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ken:
Thomas’s opinion made it clear he would have voted to strike down the ACA on the merits, but this wasn’t a judgment on the merits, it was purely a judgment that Texas did not have standing to bring the case. By the same token, we can’t be sure what Gorsuch’s decision on the merits would have been. One of my shocks in reading about important court cases recently was learning that conservatives on the Supreme Court aren’t complete partisan hacks, except maybe Alito. Thomas is less a partisan hack than a nutcase, but that leans to the same thing. Most of the time, even on important cases, the law matters. The conservatives may have horrible interpretations of the legal system, but they do actually usually pay attention to the law. That’s why trans rights were upheld. The lawyer arguing for trans rights knew Gorsuch’s legal buttons, and pushed the way trans rights comply with how Gorsuch views the law.
Again, Alito, Thomas, and the now-dead Scalia are exceptions. The former is a raging ‘fuck you, libtards’. Thomas is so insane he might as well just be a partisan hack. Scalia was known for his skill in twisting the law into a pretzel to get whatever result he wanted.
The conservatives can surprise you. They’re awful. A conservative majority is a bad, bad thing. But they’re not the monolithic ‘destroy all liberal progress’ you would think from looking at them.
Matt McIrvin
@Frankensteinbeck: I recall Scalia could occasionally go in surprising directions because of a faint civil-libertarian streak. More often than Alito or Thomas.
sdhays
The only time in my career that I’ve gotten Columbus Day off was when I worked for a government contractor. Same for MLK Day. Veterans Day is “postponed” to the day after Thanksgiving. I hope that Juneteenth isn’t treated the same way. It should be considered equivalent to July 4.
Another Scott
@Original Lee: Dunno.
J’s mother was a tiny thing and we had trouble finding even a simple padded chair for her, so I feel your pain.
Maybe browse Wayfair and get an idea of what’s out there. They specify seat width in the description, so you can have an idea of sizing as you go through them. (I don’t quickly see “recommended for 6′ tall people” there though). Other sites seem to group them by person-size. But, yeah, tall and thin will be a challenge.
(I’ve never bought anything from Wayfair, myself. Just an example.)
HTH a little. Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
My understanding is that since there is no tax, which was the justification Roberts used to protect it last time, the whole law (like Medicaid expansion) is inseparable from the tax and therefore is all illegal.
NB: I sure wish they had made medicaid expansion a separate bill: “Here is the new Medicaid.” I think the reason was that the taxes on high incomes paid for both that and the exchange insurance subsidies.
catclub
Share the ginormous chair with a skinny friend. You’re welcome.
rikyrah
@CaseyL:
Ms. Abrams isn’t about the ponies and unicorns. Get FEDERAL LEGISLATION on the books. 1. You can build upon it. 2. Give the DOJ another weapon in their arsenal to defend Voting Rights.
J R in WV
@sanjeevs:
OK, that’s the funniest thing yet today on Balloon-Juice~!!~ What a clown this guy is…
Shakti
@Betty Cracker: I think he’s really counting on his name recognition in Florida and personal charm to get him this governor’s seat over DeSantis. I don’t he ever recovered from the shock of losing to Marco Rubio and wants another bite at it after serving another term as governor.
Does he even realize every one of DeSantis’ moves is calculated to win the right wing money machine and suppress voter turnout? He’s my rep and I haven’t heard from him, really.
Original Lee
@Another Scott: I will check out Wayfair. The sites that specialize in lift chairs will say stuff like, appropriate for persons up to 5’8”, or recommended for persons 5’10” or taller. That’s for the back support and front-to-back seat measurement and footrest length, I have to assume.
Original Lee
@catclub: LOL.
Another Scott
Breaking news.
GovExec – Most Federal Employees Will Receive Friday Off for Juneteenth
With President Biden scheduled to sign a bill Thursday afternoon making the anniversary of the end of slavery a federal holiday, OPM confirmed that federal workers will have Friday off.
The government can work quickly when sensible people agree. Yay!
Cheers,
Scott.
rp
@Matt McIrvin: Yes…he had some core beliefs that weren’t necessarily tied to partisanship. So he had more integrity than Alito.
debbie
@Immanentize:
So sorry. Too, too young.
TomatoQueen
@Original Lee: Recent experience in ordering/receiving a power lift chair for my father, who is 90, six feet two, has COPD and congestive heart failure, and has lost almost 100 pounds in the past year, which is a good thing as he was very heavy. He must keep his lower legs elevated for a good part of the day, so on the day his old power chair finally died, we had to replace it quickly, and were temporarily stymied by how furniture shopping works–the sample might be on the sales floor, or far more likely you will be ordering out of a book or on the net without ever sitting in the thing, and waiting as long as 12 weeks–otherwise we would’ve done LaZBoy based on past experience. But we ended up purchasing from omg Bob’s Discount Furniture, because they had a power chair on the sales floor–nobody else did–that fit my father. Every ergonomic & shopping site I looked at said for people 5’8″ and over, don’t buy anything shorter than 40 inches from the floor to the top of the back of the chair. My father’s chair is 42 inches and he likes it. The measurement from the floor to the top of the seat is important also (nothing like crunched hamstrings from sitting) and you want a minimum of 19″, no less, and likely 21 if you can get it.
After my experience ordering a headboard and frame and 1 little manual recliner, I wouldn’t order anything from Wayfair ever again as long as I live and after that they should be shot into an active volcano.
Original Lee
@TomatoQueen: Thanks for sharing your experience. ATM, we are renting one from the local medical supply service. It’s a Golden Tech Cambridge. We figure we can try it out for a month and then decide if we want to buy it, or go LaZBoy. The LaZBoy site says 4-7 months for delivery, Golden Tech says 6-8 weeks for the color Mom wants plus the footrest extension. We might not need the footrest extension, but I do have to wonder when the model that’s supposed to be for people up to 6’2” has an optional extension for people with long legs.