{"id":51517,"date":"2023-04-18T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51517"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:43:37","slug":"open-thread-april-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/open-thread-april-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I received a “Damn-Giver Dispatch” email from John Pavlovitz. Some of y’all probably did also. But, in case you didn’t, or in case you did but missed this column, I want to link to it: “Yes, I\u2019m A ‘Hateful’ Human Being.”<\/a> I really like the way he turns things around. It’s the closest we can come to holding a mirror up to the deluded. Some, of course, will never see anything but what they want to see. But – sometimes – we have to try.<\/p>\n

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Daily Beast – Black Teen Shot in the Head After Ringing the Wrong Doorbell: Family<\/a>
\nQuote – The alleged gunman, who has not been identified [to the media], was taken into custody and brought to a police station to give a statement. Placed on a 24-hour hold, he was released pending further investigation, something the chief of the Kansas City Police Department spent much of a short Sunday press conference justifying. \u201cThe vast majority of cases to include violent crime involve the suspect being released pending further investigation,\u201d Chief Stacey Graves said. \u201cIn this case, the prosecutor requires more information from investigators that would take more than 24 hours to compile throughout the weekend.\u201d
\nClick through for story.<\/a> You may have seen it. The killer opened the main door, and there was a glass door which he shot through. There is video of him calmly sweeping up the broken glass. The “right” house was one block over, on a street with the same name except “Terrace” instead of “Street.” The victim is still alive, miraculously. Virgil was 21 when he survived major head injuries (from a car crash). No one ever fully gets back everything lost from injuries like that.<\/p>\n

The 19th – A Black Texas couple chose their midwife\u2019s care over a hospital. Now their newborn is in foster care.<\/a>
\nQuote – A custody case currently unfolding in Texas has separated a newborn from her parents and highlighted two systemic realities in the United States: the policing of Black families by child welfare systems and the disregard of midwifery expertise by many doctors. It has been 20 days since infant Mila Jackson was taken from her parents by Child Protective Services in Texas after they sought guidance from their licensed midwife to treat a common infant condition rather than following a directive from their pediatrician. Now a court will decide if she\u2019ll be returned to their custody.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> With good prenatal care and no complications, a trained midwife is at least as competent as a doctor. Women were having babies assisted by midwives for centuries while doctors thought it was a waste of time to wash their hands between patients and were killing people thereby. Some of these child welfare people need to be tied down and forced to watch all the seasons of PBS’s “Call the Midwife.”<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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