Links Dump for 4/29/2024

Senators call on postal board to abandon DeJoy’s USPS reforms

Texas is a sovereign state, not a sovereign country,

I’m an ER Doctor. If the Supreme Court Upends EMTALA, Patients Will Die.

Abortion Back at SCOTUS: Can States Ban Emergency Abortion Care for Pregnant Patients?

Fronting legal costs for Trump’: Federal complaint says ex-president and GOP firm violated multiple campaign finance laws by obscuring over $7.2 million in shadowy fees

Facist alert- Greg Abbott condemns student activists: ‘These protestors belong in jail’ After the DPS tried to break up a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Governor doubled down on his recent executive order suggesting that students could be expelled for their activism.

Breaking: Arizona House Repeals 1864 Ban

While this is undoubtedly great news, we can’t get ahead of ourselves. If Arizona’s law is repealed, it would reinstate a 15-week ban. (Better than a total ban, but still.) And while a pro-choice amendment is making its way to voters in November, Republicans accidentally it slip recently that they’re considering proposing their own fake ‘pro-choice’ measures. These amendments would sound pro-choice, but would actually enshrine Republican bans if passed.

That strategy seems to be moving forward: NBC News reports that Republicans voted today to advance three resolutions that Democrats expect are those fake measures (the GOP pushed them forward without explaining what they were).

Chris Love of Arizona for Abortion Access, the group proposing the actual pro-choice measure, said this looked like “the first step toward referring up to three anti-abortion measures to the November ballot aimed at confusing and deceiving voters in hopes of pulling votes from the Arizona Abortion Access Act.”

As I wrote earlier this week, this is a tactic we’re seeing in multiple states and need to keep an eye on.

The Grisly Reality of Abortion Care in Idaho Was Laid Bare Before the Supreme Court on Wednesday A decision favoring Idaho, with its total abortion ban, could lead to a whole series of laws that would undermine other federal public-health regulations.

Christian lawmaker says teachers should be allowed to hit students with disabilities

A Coal Billionaire is Building the World’s Biggest Clean Energy Plant – Five Times the Size of Paris

Trump’s isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments

Texts show Trump advisers’ plot to use false electors to ‘flip states’

The Abu Ghraib case is an important milestone for justice Three Iraqi survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib finally get the chance to have their voices heard and seek redress. From 2004

General Fay’s report, released in August 2004, found that torture techniques on the detainees included the use of dogs, nudity, humiliation and physical abuse. It described torture, including “direct physical assault, such as delivering head blows rendering detainees unconscious, to sexual posing and forced participation in group masturbation”.

Both Fay and Taguba’s investigations, and a subsequent one by the US Senate Armed Services Committee in 2008, uncovered that the atrocities at Abu Ghraib were not isolated. The horrors were part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” torture policy and reflected tactics authorised by senior officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the torture practices were brought over to Abu Ghraib from Guantanamo Bay and Bagram, a military base in Afghanistan, where also detainees were tortured.

Have We Learned Nothing About How Protest Works? History tells us that violent oppression only calls out more demonstrations.

Why does the church need more, ahttps://www.debunking-christianity.com/2024/04/three-big-items-clergy-dont-want.htmlnd more, and more buildings?