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<\/p>\nYesterday, it occurred to me that one of these days,\u00a0 am going to set up and schedule an Open Thread where the top of the post just says “Yesterday,” and nothing else.\u00a0 Fortunately, today is not that day.\u00a0 But I’m sure it will come.\u00a0 When it does (maybe more than once), don’t worry about me.\u00a0 If I managed to get everything else up, I’ll be fine.\u00a0 I just meant to fill that in early, got scatterbrained, and forgot to go back and finish it.<\/p>\n
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Democratic Underground (Smackdown 2019) – Hawley needs to reconsider!<\/a> The 19th – \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 bills aren\u2019t new. They\u2019ve just been revived.<\/a> Trump[**]\u2019s Nightmare Song Should Be \u201cGeorgia On My Mind\u201d<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, it occurred to me that one of these days,\u00a0 am going to set up and schedule an Open Thread where the top of the post just says “Yesterday,” and nothing else.\u00a0 Fortunately, today is not that day.\u00a0 But I’m sure it will come.\u00a0 When it does (maybe more than once), don’t worry about me.\u00a0 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4173,3751,3721,3866,4115,3838],"class_list":["post-47569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-georgia","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-lies","tag-history","tag-justice","tag-russia","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Cease and desist order was given to Senator Hawley last month and he has yet to comply over copyright infringement laws. What might be the issue? A national media photographer took that famous picture of the Senator with his raises fist before he was to vote against President Biden win over Trump. That photo is being sold by Hawley.
\nClick through, and do scroll down the comments.<\/a> There is a variant on that photo in one comment which needs to be seen. Accidental violations of copyright can be atoned for … but copyright and other forms of intellectual property shold not be messed with.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – [Logan Casey, senior policy researcher and adviser for the MAP] said the bills are relics of the AIDS crisis, when panic about homosexuality dictated school curriculum. It also dates back to the infamous \u201cSave Our Children\u201d campaign led by activist Anita Bryant in the 1970s to overturn anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in Miami, Florida. \u201cOnce the HIV epidemic came into the picture, then a bunch of states started considering and enacting laws that banned instruction on sexuality and homosexuality in public education, channeling this \u2018Save Our Children\u2019 campaign energy and the fear and prejudice during the HIV epidemic,\u201d Casey said.
\nClick through for more history.<\/a> “Republican lawmakers say the new spate of curriculum bills allow parents to decide what their children learn about sexuality at a young age,” which is incredibly naive. It will aactually insure that children lean fictions from their peers rather than facts from responsible adults. (It will also make them more vulnerable to sexual abuse.)<\/p>\n
\nQuote – You\u2019ll notice that there is a dead month from May 30 to June 1st, when the panel will begin hearing testimony. But it isn\u2019t really a dead month. Willis will be able to use it to present evidence before the grand jury to obtain search warrants and subpoenas. This will empower her investigation to move farther, faster. But Willis dangled a little bit more.
\nClick through for both<\/a> the background and the new teasers. This is good news. Glenn will be talking about it also – I’m not sure when that will pop up on the Video thread, since I try to keep his videos consecutive.<\/p>\n
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