Originally published at: Right-Wing Justices Eager To Assert That Trans Case Has Nothing To Do With 2020 LGBTQ Win
The conservatives Wednesday were quick to argue that the trans health care case before them was completely unrelated to a landmark 2020 case where the majority ruled that employers cannot discriminate against employees on the basis of sexuality or gender identity. The likeliest hope for the trans rights side was to recreate the majority from…
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This, like the Dobbs decision has legal professionals usurping the judgment of medical professionals. And the answer to the question levelled by Kamala Harris to Brett Kavenaugh during his confirmation hearing, “Can you think of any instance where the courts interfere in medical procedures for men?” is still a resounding NO.
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The conservative Supreme Court members are like a whirling dervish…without the balance.
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It’s crazy that the Conservative majority thinks it’s okay to let individual states decide what rights Americans have. The question should really be should Americans have more rights in some states than others? We’ve been down this road before with citizenship rights of Blacks, civil rights of Blacks, reproductive rights of Women, Same Sex Marriage …
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We are in a land so far beyond self-parody at this point that it hasn’t even been named yet.
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Tapper: You said you don’t like all these anonymous accusations, and I should be able to interview these people. I’m saying, ok, shouldn’t Hegseth release this woman from her NDA so that I can do what you suggested at the top of the interview, you wanted me to do?
Scott: Absolutely not.
Rick Scott being interviewed on CNN
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In short: the court is practicing medicine without a license!
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Banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy from minors
It seems to me a medical question for the experts. There’s no Constitutional issue, and there’s no indication the therapy carries any more risk for a 17 yo than it does for an 18 yo. Let people decide.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Not government : - )
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Seems like an opportune time for more discussion on TPM about the fact that much of this shit is not meant for the public’s consumption, but for the consumption of other unjournalists. It’s competitive and performative “hot taking”. Unjournalist 1 gets out of the gate first with Hot Take 1, so Unjournalist 2 can’t just re-publish Hot Take 1, he has to manufacture Hot Take 2 in an effort to out-do Hot Take 1 and so on and so forth like some sort of game of Brain Rot Telephone. By the time we’re at Hot Take 4 or 5, the initial “story” (i.e. the facts and actual nature of it) has been so distorted and obscured as to have morphed into a fantasy land of hot take fucktardery…a magical alternate reality landscape of bright, primary-colored psychedelia where thousands of hallucinating Unjournalist Zombie Teletubbies are dancing around mindlessly, high on the sweet bouquet of their own farts, fighting to gain control over the Voice Trumpet, hoping they can Noo-Noo up a Pulitzer via sophistry vomit that amounts to high school level creative writing assignments worthy, at best, of a B- (like this one lol).
And that’s not even addressing the fact that Hot Take 1 was almost certainly abject nonsense to begin with.
We need to start understanding the Zombie Fourth Estate ITSELF as social media writ large…a form of Bluesky IN AND OF ITSELF, and one in which only the zombies are permitted to participate. And…heehee…that allows me to fit it into my current favorite brain worm of talking about social media platforms as Skinner Boxes. All the elements are there for teasing out a metaphor that shows the Zombie Fourth Estate is an operant conditioning bubble in which all the zombies are receiving positive reinforcement pellets for hitting ALL THE WRONG LEVERS.
Anyone ever asked the Pulitzer folks whether they envision it as a possibility that sometimes maybe NOBODY deserves one?
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But her emails…
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Gonna go out on a limb here, but there should be one comment board per day rather than one for each article. Centralize the convo. It’s how the site’s patrons tend to behave anyway.
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Ain’t that nice.
These corporations are the dog that caught the car, methinks, with their idea of a wet dream of a president who is so ignorant of how things actually work, except for lawsuits to weasel out of paying for services rendered.
Coz, people aren’t going to like what the corporations are going to pull, this shit is the tip of the iceberg.
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Anyone have context, background, and motive on the United Healthcare shooting? Another senseless shooting. My thoughts and condolences to his loved ones.
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You really think this was completely senseless without any link to what his company did to someone or their loved one? I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this shooting was a direct result of someone being screwed by UHC and deciding to mete out their own measure of justice.
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These conservative justices have no connection to the concerns of living people, Robert’s Court reminds us that law is fiction, based on fiction, based on fiction. Their deliberations are as lame as Star Wars fans discussing how true a latest Star Wars episode is to the original.
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Sorry I watched the video footage of that. You can’t unsee something. Brutal.
There’s got to be more to the story though. Is it possible it was random? Sure, but the victim was followed around, so that doesn’t fit the pattern of a random being in the wrong place at the wrong time scenario.
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This is a bit off topic, but I need someone to explain this to me: why is everyone fucking acting like the Felon/Rapist and Its Abomination Administration already running things? Why do I hear about these envoys running around the Middle East or things happening for which they have no goddamn power? Did I miss some memo?
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That was my first thought.
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I must disagree. That’s a pretty good rant sentence. “Hallucinating unjournalist Zombie Teletubbies” is good stuff.
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