The double-speak is so strong it makes my head spin.
But the prison agency and the Texas attorney general’s office, which has staked its reputation on “defending the unborn” all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, are arguing the agency shouldn’t be held responsible for the stillbirth because staff didn’t break the law. Plus, they said, it’s not clear that Issa’s fetus had rights as a person.
“Just because several statutes define an individual to include an unborn child does not mean that the Fourteenth Amendment does the same,” the Texas attorney general’s office wrote in a March footnote, referring to the constitutional right to life.
For more than two decades, in legislation passed by lawmakers and defended in court by the attorney general’s office, Texas has insisted “unborn children” be recognized as people starting at fertilization. And although it has traditionally referred to all stages of pregnancy, from fertilized egg to birth, as an unborn child, the state repeatedly referred to Issa’s stillborn baby as a fetus in legal briefings.
It’s a stark shift in tone from the state’s self-proclaimed status as “a nationwide leader in the protection of the unborn” in the anti-abortion fight. A few months after Issa lost her unborn child, now-suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a press release that he would “continue to fight tirelessly for the rights of the unborn.” Paxton had not yet been impeached and was still at the helm of the agency when the state’s motions in Issa’s case were filed.
Higgins also pushed back on the notion that Democrats and the liberal left engage in their own echo chambers.
“Critics would say that the liberal echo chamber is CNN, MSNBC and mainstream media,” he said. "I would say in response to that, that quite frankly it’s b*******. “At the RNC all we had to do was repeat talking points and it would go on Fox News as is. Democrats don’t do that, the DNC [Democratic National Committee] doesn’t do it.”
He added: “Also, I think an important thing about what differentiates the left and right and the media—the left has no similar echo chamber as evidenced by the lack of a left-wing freedom caucus.”
Even the ex-Republican staffer doesn’t pull a “both sides” because he knows firsthand that it’s not true.
B-but I thought both sides are equally bad? Please dude let me reasonably debate this one with you in the free market of ideas please just this once bro
Look at you, man. You’re shaking from whataboutism withdrawal. I thought we talked about this, you were going to start honestly engaging with people and putting your team aside; what happened?
“Kentucky’s largest school system cancelled the second and third day of classes”
“…the bus for her two elementary school children was scheduled to pick them up at 6 a.m. for a 7:40 a.m. school start. The bus stop is almost a half-mile from their home and there are no sidewalks.”
Gomis called the district’s transportation department but was told nothing could be changed, she said. Kentucky law allows bus stops for elementary students to be up to a half-mile away while middle and high school students may walk up to one mile.
It probably doesn’t hurt a high schooler to walk a mile (although it would suck ass in the winter), but a half-mile for a first grader every morning no matter the weather? That should not be legal.
That’s true for kids at my daughter’s middle school too, but I’m actually glad they don’t walk it because there aren’t even any sidewalks around the school, let alone between the schools and their houses. So some kids have a 90 minute bus ride and other kids have a 2 minute bus ride. All they have to do is build sidewalks and it will fix that problem.
Our state requires “safe walking routes”. I’m not sure about the distance to a bus stop, but I know for walking to school it’s up to a mile for elementary school, if there are sidewalks. Otherwise they’re bussed.
Why should half a mile of walking be illegal for first graders? There’s a solution to rain and snow: it’s called a jacket and umbrella. Source: I walked almost exactly half a mile to school in first grade.
Unless the weather is catastrophically bad, even first graders can walk half a mile.
The issue here is the carcentric, children-killing infrastructure, not the distance.
Not only Kentucky. I live in a rural California town of around 2000 people. There are no sidewalks except for the 1/4 mile in front of the elementary school, and that wasn’t built until a kid was hit by a car 6 years ago. Last year a 4th grader was killed by a drunk driver walking home from school on the main road through town - which has no sidewalk. Most of us drive our kids to and from school now, particularly since an attempted abduction happened earlier this year. Bus service is available, but costs $185 a year per child and requires being at the stop an hour before school starts. My daughter won’t let her kids walk the 1/4 mile to the bus stop unattended. Not in these times. I think the bus may become even more unpopular since the special ed driver was arrested last week for molesting kids.
There are no sidewalks in my (very large) subdivision, but all of the roads are far wider than necessary and could absolutely have a sidewalk on each side. But since there aren’t any, you have to dodge people walking and jogging all the time. And people speed down the twisty roads too.
I think the headline is misleading is all. The law in question deals only with persons who have a license to carry. If a person does not have a license to carry, it remains illegal for them to bring guns to the beach.
Don’t both-sides this. Republicans are overflowing with scandals and staying in office even though the evidence of their guilt is in the public record.
Republicans are trying to muddy the water by accusing Biden of corruption, but if you’ll notice, they have ZERO evidence to back it up.
If you actually care and you want to push some good policies what would you do? Run independent and have no shot or make won’t moral compromises and run as a Democrat? Idk what I would do honestly. But the Republican platform is literally big business and authoritarian control. There’s no intention in not trying to keep corrupting the system when someone runs for that party.
Republicans are insane fascists, racist, assholes but if you think democrats aren’t pro big business I have an igloo in Florida to sell you. All their insider trading, meat riding big tech until a year or two ago, and forgiving PPP loans to mega corps screams pro big business to me.
Corrupt or not, Biden is every bit as self-interested and neglectful to the poor and middle class as every Democrat since Carter.
He’s a shitty president, and the fact that he’s done absolutely nothing meaningful as cost-of-living has risen 30% to 50% for most Americans is going to get a open fascist elected in 2024.
I mean, the article you mentioned name drops Biden a lot, but the only citation to anything related to him is just a quote from a speech. It feels like an AI wrote it, haha.
Did he actually do anything meaningful to help the UPS negotiations?
We can confirm he hasn’t done anything meaningful to change the minimum wage. He hasn’t done anything meaningful to make our health care system less predatory. He hasn’t done anything meaningful to stop the forced scarcity of the housing supply. Over his decades in Washington, he’s done a lot to help the prison industry keep its prisons full and to make student borrowers permanently indebted, and I’ll never get over how he promised $2000 checks if voters delivered Georgia. and then sent out $1400 checks (of our own money) instead.
Apart from managing to cobble together a few pretty sentences (granted, a huge feat for a Biden) what has he done that helps the poor and middle class as a whole in any meaningful way?
I guess we should just be excited that he keeps finding ways to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars off to some other country’s war instead.
Your statement represents a child’s perspective, it lacks any and all nuance. It almost demands a Harry Potter spell from a president to show a direct result that immediately follows a flash, a bang and a puff of smoke - that’s not how it works.
It’s a trap to try to get someone to defend Biden with passion, but he’s far from a bad president. You show your ass multiple times in your statement though and it’s pretty clear where you stand generally. You’re not a serious person.
Something I haven’t seen in the comments but is very important to the equation… Louisville has a very messed up bussing situation and has for years.
I’m not SUPER aware of the details, but that’s because I live on the southern Indiana side of the river (just miles away from Louisville). My wife moved over here years ago specifically to avoid this issue for her kid before he was in the school system.
Louisville has a long standing policy where there is some sort of lottery that chooses what school you go to, rather than your school being determined by your nearest available.
The idea was clearly based on good intentions… to ensure that kids from any neighborhood would have the same opportunities, etc etc.
However, in reality it is a nightmare. Louisville isn’t the largest metro area or the most sprawling, but still, trying to bus students from every school to every part of the county is ridiculous.
I think they made some changes in the past few years to make it easier to get a closer school, but again I’m not super up to date on it because it doesn’t affect me other than the bus routes being an issue every year and hearing about it on the local news.
It’s gotten worse and worse over the years though.
Again, I’m sure there are much more informed people with better info on this out there, but until they jump in I figured I’d add some pertinent info since this isn’t a local lemmy community.
Come on, misogyny is definitely part of the ideology of the right, but let's not act like there aren't plenty of liberal misogynists - have you ever read a Reddit thread having anything to do with women?
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