Link Me Up, Scotty - Twenty-Eighth Amendment Edition

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Food for Thought: Wouldn't it be swell if we ratified a twenty-eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing health care as a basic right? It would finally shut down the "Fuck you, I've got mine" Republicans currently ramrodding their Libertarian Dystopia version of a Heath Care Bill through the Senate.
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Why the Republican's Health Care Bill isn't really about Health Care at all but about cutting taxes for the rich. Who is surprised by this immoral turn of events? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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"Missouri’s Senate is considering legislation that would allow employers and landlords to discriminate against women who use birth control or have had abortions. The bill, which has the support of the state’s governor, Eric Greitens, was approved by the Missouri House Tuesday." Because nothing says "We're worthy heirs to the enlightenment" like slut-shaming, misogyny, gross invasions of privacy, and laws that strengthen the patriarchy. Well done, Missouri, well done, indeed.
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And speaking of misogyny, here are the vital statistics on the 13 white, male Senators who wrote the Senate Health Care Bill in secret and without hearings. It's like gerrymandering for the Senate!

Now's the time to start letting your Senators know if you think this Bill isn't the right way for the United States to go.
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"Researchers have shown for years that men tend to be more confident about their intelligence and judgments than women, believing that solutions they’ve generated are better than they actually are. This hubris could be tied to testosterone levels, and new research by Gideon Nave, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, along with Amos Nadler at Western University in Ontario, reveals that high testosterone can make it harder to see the flaws in one’s reasoning." I find this discovery shocking and unprecedented, said no professional woman ever.
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From the "No one is the villain in their own story" files: My favorite Christian Pastor takes on the idea that not everyone can be right in their perceptions of themselves.
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So the excrescence that is 45's "travel ban" finally passed partial Constitutional muster with SCOTUS. And so it begins.
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GRAIN OF SALT WARNING: Medium is classified as having mixed factual reporting because some of their contributors are not journalists. 

If you're not following Amy Suskind's list of crap that 45's administration is doing to normalize their authoritarian ambitions, you should be.
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SCOTUS has ruled that Arkansas must list same-sex parents' names on birth certificates. In defense of their initial refusal to do so, the State argued "The state's system "is designed to ensure — with very narrow exceptions — that an original birth certificate reflects a child's biological parentage," the state said in papers filed with the Supreme Court."

Uh-huh. I'm sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with the idea that the Gayz are icky.
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GRAIN OF SALT WARNING: Alternet is considered a left-bias source with mixed factual reporting. The piece linked below is a personal analysis, i.e., opinion, and should be taken as such.

Some interesting observations from a man who grew up in Christian, white America, and considers most of their troubles to be self-inflicted wounds.
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Today's sources as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check:
  • The Washington Post: Paper of Record. Mainstream media source with a left center bias and a high degree of factual reporting. 
  • Newsweek: Mainstream media source with a left-center bias and a high degree of factual reporting. 
  • Kaiser Health News: Specialty media source with the least bias and a high degree of factual reporting. 
  • New York Times: Paper of Record. Mainstream media source with a left-center bias and a high degree of factual reporting. 
  • Stuff That Needs to be Said: The personal blog of Pastor John Pavlovitz.
  • Medium: On-line media source with a left-center bias and a mixed degree of factual reporting. 
  • NBC News: Mainstream media source with a left-center bias a high degree of factual reporting. 
  • AlterNet: On-line media source with a left bias and a mixed degree of factual reporting.

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