A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed during a press conference on Tuesday that the Senate will vote to codify abortion rights next week after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion revealed that the high court is on track to strike down Roe v. Wade.
They should vote on a version of this bill every day. Like the pledge of allegiance.
“EXTRA, EXTRA!! EVERY DEMOCRAT IS PRO-CHOICE AND EVERY REPUBLICAN IS ANTI-ABORTION!! READ IT NOW!!”
anti-Trump comments he made in 2016, including the one in which he compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Comparing tRump to hitler in 2016 was considered bad at the time. Today’s repubs would say ‘hell yeah’ to the comparison.
The best thing I’ve seen so far on the insufficiently considered consequences of this is a tweet warning men that child care usually starts at about a quarter of your salary.
Um, symbolic ain’t gonna cut it.
GOTV.
Not long-term but get the bastards on the record. Make them own it.
As if Republicans care about that. Just one more thing to litigate until the mother’s eyes bleed.
So how does the GQP plan to handle all of the unplanned children resulting from this? Concentration camps?
Since one of the unspoken goals of all of this is to get women out of the workplace and back in the kitchen, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Well, the guys paying it might feel ambivalent.
If successful it’ll be interesting to see all the men replacing servers at Hooters.
The way you talk. The kids will all be curing cancer and being rays of sunshine.
The proposed EU ban on Russian oil and refined products by the end of the year is monumental if it passes. Part of the issue is whether unanimity is ultimately required as in:
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), including Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP);
If so, the proposal is dead in the water.
Hungary and Slovakia have already said they would not take part in any oil sanctions, but von der Leyen did not elaborate on whether they would receive an exemption from the sanctions.
From the dishonest Supreme Court justices to almost every GOP pol and Vladimir Putin, we now live in the era of ‘bad actors acting bad’. The very concept of ‘good faith’ is at risk of being destroyed domestically and internationally: people in positions of power willingly break all existing norms of good behavior and consistently lie about their true intentions. What do parents tell their young children these days…?
Poverty will be enough.
The result of the vote will be as obvious and predictable as the SC decision was. Difference being, Senators are supposed to be craven political hacks.
Some good news here. In a special election last night in western Michigan, a democrat defeated an extremist, Trump-supporting republican in a district, HD-74, that Trump won by 16 points.
They already do with comparisons to Putin.
They wish Putin were here in the States, just to pwn the Libs.
I agree, symbolic isn’t gonna cut it.
Unfortunately, it’s the best that can happen with the current makeup of the Senate.
At this point, having folks on record is all that can be done. The GQP idiots could vote ‘present’ which wouldn’t prove anything, really, but it’s an option for those that are scared of what could happen with an up or down vote.