[Abortion fight in the states] Kentucky abortion ban on pause; judge to block Florida ban

By artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 3:21pm |

BREAKING: A judge cleared the way for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state’s near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/fKEifuUDtU
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 30, 2022

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good splainer thread for what's going on in Florida

BREAKING: Judge rules that HB5, FL's 15 week abortion ban, is unconstitutional and violates the privacy provision of the State Constitution & he supports a temporary statewide injunction. His order will not happen until he signs it.

An important win for abortion rights in FL.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

.@GovRonDeSantis and his administration will appeal this decision because he is an extreme anti-abortion politician who thinks we should criminalize and ban abortion, and so we must KEEP FIGHTING and hold the line here in the State of Florida for women & pregnant ppl everywhere.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

It's unclear how long this order will last, we will not know the specifics until we see the final order.

Anti-abortion extremists have tried to eliminate this right to privacy for decades. Twice just in the last ten years. They failed because Floridians care about privacy.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

I will also add how confusing and stressful all of this is for patients and health center staff.

They have been working long hours to serve as many patients as possible, and don't really know when or if they can continue, or for how long.

It's sick that politicians do this.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

And it's YOUR TAXPAYER FUNDS paying for this shit. These are Florida attorneys funded by the STATE trying to ban abortion.

We can change that if we fight at a local level, and vote people like @GovRonDeSantis and @AshleyMoodyFL out.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

Seems like the Judge won't sign the order until next week... so HB5 will likely still go into effect tomorrow and then be paused.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

Here’s the Judge’s opening remarks — we still are waiting for the actual order to be released and signed and it will no doubt be appealed by DeSantis.

But still: an important victory for abortion & privacy rights. pic.twitter.com/mpJo4wwRQP
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 30, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 3:36pm

Just to put this out there, NEW MEXICO is a SAFE and non-extradition state... meaning, you can have an abortion in NM and your red communist state can NOT come for you or the physician who assisted you in making an almost impossible decision
— Anarys Oberon #WeAreStarfleet (@AnarysO) July 1, 2022

She is correct

https://sourcenm.com/2022/06/28/gov-executive-order-nm-will-not-cooperate-with-other-states-legal-actions-against-people-seeking-abortions-here/

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 2:38am

Kansas:

The vote is on August 2nd. In order for abortion to be outlawed, the KS legislature would have to pass a bill, and the governor sign it. (Unless there's enough votes in the #ksleg to override a veto.) A year from tomorrow would be the earliest possible.
— Brenda Granger (@rramom59) June 30, 2022

Kansas has a Democratic Governor and abortion is still legal here at the moment.
— SheisAngryandMotivated (@bthechngu1t2c) July 1, 2022

VOTE NO on August 2nd #Kansas. The proposed amendment to the KS constitution should be voted down! It would remove the right to abortion that now exists. It would give state legislators the right to pass laws regarding abortion. Register to vote by 7-12-22. Need not pick a party.
— PabloCasals58 (@casals58) July 1, 2022

This is a lie. The state of Kansas already has abortion restrictions in place and those do not go away if the amendment does not pass. #VoteNo on August 2nd. pic.twitter.com/38fyPgcnxW
— Andrea Hetlinger (@AndreaHetlinger) July 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 2:52am

Wisconsin

Women in WI don’t have the option to get abortions in blue counties bc we no longer have anyone providing them in the state. Organizations are helping reschedule cancelled appointments/arrange travel to MN/ILhttps://t.co/saOVQnqcA3
— steph (@steph_schieble) June 27, 2022

read the whole thread if you want to understand the complicated current situation regarding an 1849 Wisconsin law

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 3:01am

Also Wisconsin:

I wrote about democratic backsliding in WI, which has been characterized by Republican unwillingness to accept the outcome of free and fair elections. Sometimes they allege the election was fraudulent, sometimes they just ignore the results. https://t.co/vxrchoDH9B pic.twitter.com/mUnqPUyW2w
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) June 30, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 5:31am

BIG NEWS: NY State Senate just passed legislation enshrining abortion rights in the State constitution.

Also prohibits gov't from discriminating based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, or pregnancy.https://t.co/bZBEQyGmb7
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) July 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 6:10pm

As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for procedure

Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette, Indianapolis Star, July 1, 2022

On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.

Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.

Could Bernard help?

Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictions to abortion policy along with inflation relief.

But for now, the procedure still is legal in Indiana. And so the girl soon was on her way to Indiana to Bernard's care.

Indiana abortion laws unchanged, but effect still felt across state

While Indiana law did not change last week when the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking Dobbs decision, abortion providers here have felt an effect, experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of patients coming to their clinics from neighboring states with more restrictive policies.

Since Friday, the abortion clinics where Dr. Katie McHugh, an independent obstetrician-gynecologists works have seen “an insane amount of requests” from pregnant people in Kentucky and Ohio, where it is far more difficult to get an abortion.

A ban on abortions after six weeks took effect on last week in Ohio. Last Friday the two abortion providers in Kentucky shut their doors after that state’s trigger law banning abortions went into effect.

Indiana soon could have similar restrictions.

That pains doctors like Bernard.

“It’s hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks we will have no ability to provide that care,” Bernard said.

What to know about abortion in Ohio: Who can be charged? What about ectopic pregnancy?

For now, Indiana abortion providers have been fielding more calls from neighboring states. Typically about five to eight patients a day might hail from out of state, said McHugh, who works at multiple clinics in central and southern Indiana. Now, the clinics are seeing about 20 such patients a day.

Kentucky patients have been coming to Indiana in higher numbers since earlier this spring when more restrictive laws took effect there, McHugh said. [....]

also see

Ohio abortion update:Ohio Supreme Court rejects attempt to immediately block six-week abortion ban

and

Abortion ban election impact:After Roe v Wade overturned, Ohio Democrats shift message to abortion, GOP to economy

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:58pm

Some real strange immigrant-secrets-type things going on with the case of the rapist of the 10-yr.-old in Ohio. I think it would be safe to say we don't know the full story yet:

NEW: Ohio 10-year-old's alleged illegal immigrant rapist, 27, was listed as minor in abortionist’s report to state, @ThomasCatenacci reports: https://t.co/g86KlhSBka
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 15, 2022

WATCH: The mother of the Ohio 10/y rape victim tells Telemundo's @MariaVargasPion that the child "is fine", and "everything they say about (Gerson Flores) is a lie." pic.twitter.com/Vtpyn404g7
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

This portion of a broader interview sheds significant light on the familial dynamics of this case, and further vindicates all skepticism over how the story broke and was handled. We don't even get to this point without the critical work of @MeganFoxWriter and so many others.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

This appears to confirm my thesis of a domestic situation wherein the confessed rapist is also the paramour of the victim's mother (other familial relation is possible but less likely). Unfortunately, I saw many such cases while working as a court interpreter.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

The mother's distressed defense of the rapist suggests that
a: She is also here illegally and fears deportation
b: The defendant is the family's sole source of income
c: There is a likelihood of other children in the home
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

d: Mom is exposed to removal of the children under dependency proceedings (failure to protect). Has there been such a filing yet and if not why not?
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

Other questions: what was the time gap between the initial reporting of the rape and the filing of criminal charges? Why did the referring abortion provider not report the rape to authorities? Was the child forced to live with her rapist in furtherance of an abortion narrative?
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

Was the child compelled to stay quiet until after news of the abortion was leaked to the media? If so, how so?
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

Was criminal reporting of the rape of a Latina girl suppressed or delayed in furtherance of a political agenda?
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

These questions need to be answered ASAP.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 2:00am

Adoption splainer

pic.twitter.com/RQJQSVqcqZ
— Basicwhitegirl6767 (@MrsJones6767) June 26, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 3:14am

Elect me as your next Governor and I will keep abortion legal in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/YiQ55j9LFb
— Josh Shapiro (@JoshShapiroPA) July 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 4:52am

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee issued a directive Thursday that bars state police from cooperating with out-of-state investigatory requests related to abortion in his efforts to make the state a "sanctuary" for those seeking the services https://t.co/8nEBYi0bi6
— CNN (@CNN) July 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 5:25am

VERY clever lady doctor, experienced at figuring out workarounds of the laws of other "states" -

[...] "From where I prescribe as a medical doctor, which is from Austria, I'm acting according to the regulations and also to the medical ethical guidelines and laws," Gomperts said.

Working on a new option

Given the shifting regulatory landscape in the U.S., Gomperts said her organizations are also pursuing a new long-term strategy to get one of the pills used for a medication abortion approved as a contraceptive in the United States and the European Union [....]

[....] "The situation in the U.S. now is exactly the same as in Poland or in Malta, where we've been working for more than 18 years now," Dr. Rebecca Gomperts told CBS News. "Because access to abortion is now becoming so difficult... I think that everybody that can should get the medicines in their homes for themselves, or in the future, for somebody else that they know." [....]

Rebecca Gomperts says Aid Access has been receiving 4,000 inquiries per day since Roe v. Wade was overturned https://t.co/UOla0ytEeo
— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) July 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 12:56pm

Playing the birth complications odds - which is life threatening enough?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/death-risk-pregnancy-despite-lifesaving-e...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:51pm

Where The Midterms Could Most Affect Abortion Access

By Nathaniel Rakich, Geoffrey Skelley and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux @ FiveThirtyEight.com, June 29, 2022, AT 6:00 AM

[....] As of 5 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, nine states have already banned or restricted the procedure, and by the end of July, at least another six will have joined them. But the post-Roe landscape could change even more dramatically after the 2022 midterm elections — especially in states where control of state government is on the line and where the future of abortion policy is up in the air.

We’ve identified seven states where the results of the midterms could decide whether abortion is protected or banned. Here are the relevant races in those states as well as how abortion policy could change following each possible electoral outcome [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 6:04pm

Pro-life blind spots continued

Despite trying to take multiple birth control pills as a makeshift Plan B (which wasn’t available then), I found out I was pregnant. I was able to get access to abortion care at @PPFA along with a counseling referral since I couldn’t talk to anyone in the military 2/
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 4, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 8:48am

Florida judge blocks new 15-week abortion ban. Trump Afterbirth DeSantis will head to his henchmen to appeal it, of course. #BansOffOurBodies #RemoveRon https://t.co/D8UIuBh61V
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) July 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 2:10pm

Requests for vasectomies have tripled since the Supreme Court's abortion ruling, according to the Cleveland Clinic https://t.co/IiVmB1z7H3
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 2:41pm

If you're carrying a baby to term for someone to adopt & you run into complications? You're fucked.
One of H&R Block's 57 reasons why this Supreme Court approach sucks.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/06/2022 - 2:44am

Anyway France had a pretty intense debate about abortion recently and moved their limits from 12 weeks with exceptions to 14 weeks with exceptions. This is because the courts don't make abortion limits in France the legislature does. That's what SCOTUS said America should do.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 8, 2022

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Europeans don't understand the weeds of American law, a lot of Americans don't!
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 8, 2022

in reply to this

I actually think this is a gracious exchange on twitter. Someone admitting they don't fully understand something and want to learn more. How often do you see that? pic.twitter.com/iy1KGloHmP
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 8, 2022

and you know, he's right! And he's being nice not calling the E.U. dumb hypocrites for that vote!

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 11:39pm

And not only that, let's look at the current abortion law in Poland, another state of the united states of the E.U.:

Abortion in Poland is legal only in cases when the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is at risk.[1] The last change in the Act on Pregnancy Planning of the Republic of Poland took place on 27 January 2021, when publication of the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in the Dziennik Ustaw RP took place.[2]...

what dumb hypocrites, really! They let each state decide! They have no right to an abortion in the E.U. as a whole.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 11:49pm

You left out the gratuitous shot at Polish leftists for supporting such a losing cause/doing a crappy job/not selling something the people want.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/06/23/polish-parliament-rejects-bill-to...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/09/us/abortion-stories-black-women-reaj/...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 8:19am

Will humanizing abortion help?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/09/us/abortion-stories-black-women-reaj/...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 8:13am

A DFW woman was pulled over and ticketed for driving alone in the HOV lane. She's 34 weeks pregnant and tells the cop her unborn child counts as a passenger since Roe V. Wade was overturned. The state can't have it both ways, she argues. https://t.co/eFTvElIMhG
— Dom DiFurio (@DomDiFurio) July 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 11:25am

Actually makes sense for woman 8 1/2 months preggers to drive in the safer lane.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/09/2022 - 5:31pm

A Louisiana doctor prescribed Cytotec to make the insertion of an IUD less painful. Walgreens called the physician to ask if the prescription was for an abortion, she told them it was for an IUD & the pharmacist still refused to fill it. https://t.co/YGir1Skf3r
— Kat Macfarlane (@KatAMacfarlane) July 10, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/11/2022 - 9:57pm

Does Alito know this? Maybe could insert an IUD up his ass w/o lubricant to give him 1st hand experience.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 5:50am

Stupid woke non-female pregnancy BS

Dumb fucking activist and Huffpost think they "schooled " a Senator by playing games with maybe 7 fucking non-female pregnancies in the whole goddamn world vs 140 million female births each year and perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 that amount of FEMALE aborted pregnancies. So shut the fuck up, you self-absorbed overinflated bullshitters and let WOMEN get the fucking help they need without interlopers trying to seize the spotlight. Ok, a few transgenders can get pregnant - take a bow, sit down, and shut up now - it's not about you, or it's 99.99% not about you. Yeah, you got an asterisk in the Guess Book of World Records - should we build you your own national highway system to show you how special you are vs the 150million+ naturally born women in the US? Fucking Absurdistan.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/professor-schools-sen-josh-hawley-for-his...

https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-body/pregnancy-health/trans-and-non...

Before coming out as transgender man, David Minerva was living as a woman in a lesbian relationship. Unlike my own very loud knowledge of the body dysphoria that pregnancy would have caused me, Minerva tried to ignore it when he became pregnant. He hoped being pregnant and delivering a child would help him sink into the idea of womanhood. It felt like a final effort to try out what he thought it meant to be a woman. But what he found was more discomfort. At first, it was hard for Minerva to understand why his pregnancy experience made him "bristle."

"I was deeply uncomfortable with how cis-normative the whole culture of pregnancy was. Phrases like 'pregnant women' and 'expectant mothers' made my skin crawl and made me feel wrong," says Minerva.

Being in a building for "women" during childbirth felt oppressive and made him think of his transgender male friends who were pregnant. It made David think of himself too. The gendered language, assumption of gender, and default terms used by nurses and doctors that referred to all birthers as women and moms made him feel excluded and unwelcome, like he didn't belong, even if the medical providers were warm and caring

Fuck me - "women" in quotes. If I was born with 2 cocks i might feel "excluded" that the world presumed every guy had 1, is that it? Why don't they make urinals with 2 dips so i don't feel "excluded". How CIS-normative a million years of development with only women getting pregnant is? Have these people seen the movie "Freaks"? Deal with it. 4 billion females have to shift their language all around because a few transgenders want to play the birthing game? Get fucking stuffed. And i really don't think of people who do odd things with their bodies as Freaks - we're here to break barriers and have fun or not, our choice. I've known super radical gender changing /body changing individuals, would like to think of them as friends. But demanding everyone adopt your specific terms as a distinct mini-minority is narcissism and craziness.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 3:12pm

Breaking News: A judge in Louisiana temporarily blocked the state’s abortion bans for the second time, allowing the procedure to become legal again. https://t.co/uRyxlk6N8h
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 8:17pm

BREAKING: A Columbus man has been charged with raping and impregnating the 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana to get an abortion. https://t.co/FkXq3d1ZXf
— Haley BeMiller (@haleybemiller) July 13, 2022

BTW he's an illegal immigrant

Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner said the case did not warrant Fuentes — who is believed to be undocumented — to be held without bond.

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 3:52pm

These news outlets aren't even trying to report on reality. Instead they're reporting on a "reality" created by a deliberate right wing media shitstorm, which was largely the intent of the media shitstorm: to distract from the very real effects of GOP policy.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 15, 2022

Did they actually report the actual news at all?
1) 10 year old becomes pregnant
2) Doctor saves her
3) Rape charges filed
4) IN now threatening to prosecute doctor
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 15, 2022

(not sure where to put this - Media, Abortion, or counterweight to the "left wing woke causes all the irrational debate" meme)

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 7:46am

see also what I plopped upthread on the rape case

http://dagblog.com/comment/318777#comment-318777

on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 2:00am

girl's mom doesn't want to talk, claims what is being said about rapist is all lies etc. I might add that one consider the idea that the doctor may have wanted to keep it quiet according to mom's wishes but in actuality in most state law situations doctors can't do that if it's suspected "child abuse" and in this case, it not doubt is.

Life is complicated, doesn't always fit the political narratives! Things like: guess what, illegal immigrants often don't like social workers, or anyone butting into their business, go figure...

edit to add: if true, why did the accused rapist initially get i.d.'d as a minor? was it just a mistake or someone's foolish intent to have the case treated as if he were one?

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 1:59pm

Yes, getting rid of a complex situation before it turns into a life is a big improvement for the world, even if there's some sadness that not every pregnancy is welcome, just like not every intimate intercourse isn't good sex or romantic. This grandiose scheme that it all has to work out cuz God made it that way is crazy tunes.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 3:11pm

1/ What's fascinating about this is you have a situation where the guy confessed to the crime and is being charged and DNA samples are being taken, but conservatives -- generally pretty law and order-y -- have decided it's a hoax b/c the mom seemed to defend him in a TV interview https://t.co/PTTGMnq7ru
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 15, 2022

2/Why would she defend him? I dunno! This sounds like a pretty fucked up dynamic. A 10-year-old was raped. Almost all the available evidence suggests he did it. That people are harping on the one tiny, strange piece of evidence pointing in the other direction tells you something.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 15, 2022

Peter Moskos retweeted this reply to the above

Criminal lawyer here. The mom almost always defends the boyfriend who raped the daughter. Fucked up situations. Sigh.
— AlwaysWritingABrief (@WinnieCooper81) July 15, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 6:01pm

Judge approves resumption of West Virginia abortions

From 1h ago 14.37

A West Virginia judge on Monday blocked officials from enforcing a 19th-century ban on abortions after the US supreme court overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that recognized the right of women nationally to terminate pregnancies, Reuters reports.

The decision by Kanawha county circuit judge Tera Salango clears the way for the state’s lone abortion clinic to resume services, which it suspended out of fear of prosecution following the high court’s 24 June ruling.

We’ll have more details soon...

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 4:22pm

More evidence that abortion bans are resulting in some harrowing scenarios in cases of miscarriage. It's hard to tell how common these cases are, but still deeply worrying. https://t.co/b4KfalXsvA
— Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63) July 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/18/2022 - 6:13pm

I see Axios has got this so we can go there instead of here: Dashboard: The latest on Roe v. Wade and abortion

The latest:

Abortions can continue in Louisiana after state ban is blocked

Nearly 1 in 10 people traveled out-of-state to get an abortion in 2020, report finds

Georgia's six-week abortion ban to take effect immediately

Poll: Over half of Americans disapprove of Supreme Court following abortion ruling

90% of U.S. companies silent on abortion after Dobbs, survey finds

Doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim moves to sue state AG for defamation

Abortion pill demand soaring following Roe's demise

Abortion training set to change after Dobbs decision

Supreme Court lets Indiana's parental consent abortion law take effect

Judge temporarily blocks West Virginia's 1800s pre-Roe abortion ban

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 6:02pm

WOW EXCELLENT AD! Short and so to the point. Genius really!

strong Christianity-focused ad released today from @Kansans4Freedom https://t.co/gmfAIpQTQL
— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) July 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 4:10pm

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[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across...
[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed

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BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W

Read the article at https://x.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1731713272942940365?s=20

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Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As...
Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba

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Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023

Read the article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manuel-rocha-ambassador-arrested-cuba_n_656d1e2ae4b028b0f3d07478

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[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny
[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny

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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From...
Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From a Neighbor

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Imperialism for me but not for thee?

It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

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The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

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By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

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@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

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"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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