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Annie Airplane's avatar

Newsom's plan is a temporary new map that would constitutionally roll back when TX (maybe others), roll back their gerrymandering or by a certain date in the future. He is not proposing eliminating the commission or long-term gerrymandering. I have not always been a fan, but these past couple of months I have a new appreciation for our Governor. At a turning point, hiding and hoping is a losing strategy.

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Marie's avatar

I cry all day long. I feel so helpless but our Nazi government isn’t going to help us. We need to destroy a large part of project 2025 and the monsters who created it including uncle Thomas and his white bitch, evil sam alito and his flag screeching banshee wife, fucker kavanaugh and does he even still have a woman who sleeps in his house and John roberts - the only TACO with a teenier penie than our dick tater. Oh and Amy in a coma barrette is keeping her head down because she has two adopted children imported from Haiti. I wouldn’t let them out the door and I probably would never let them out of my sight and I would keep my SCOTUS clothes on at all times in case the masked thugs who disappear people of color know what a judicial robe actually looks like. She probably should have stopped with the black robe instead of black children. Unbelievable. After my rant, I do have a point. Remember Thalidomide? That was a world wide horror drug used to treat nausea during pregnancy which resulted in horrible deformities in newborn children. Google it for any of you younger that boomers or basically uninformed which is why we are here anyway. America subsequently (amazingly since women and children didn’t matter back then but I guess since some of the deformities were boys, they decided to do something - democracy, right?) created all kinds of agencies to avert this kind of disaster. Well the orange turd is the new disaster. Our government has failed and we must save ourselves. I’m old enough to have been produced during our thalidomide moment from the 1950s. Fortunately, my parents were too poor to go to a doctor let alone treat nausea. Don’t trust me, I’m a doctor. Government stepped in fairly well but mostly, giants of medicine and public health have appeared throughout the world’s history, Sir Alexander Fleming with penicillin (serendipitously, took the weekend off from the lab and penicillin grew, who knew?), Louis Pasteur (Typhoid Mary and pasteurized milk instead of raw milk you f*ing rfk jr - you babies Google the damn story) making milk safe, James Garfield who died of his physicians’ bare hands probing his gun shot wound over a month after the shooting even though Europeans were lauding the concept of antisepsis (American morons poo pooed it), John Snow cholera and water safety with attributions for the foundation of public health, Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine saving untold numbers of children and adults from crippling debilitating deadly disease with a few drops on a sugar cube and taking no profit or pay for this, don’t forget John Adam’s wife who inoculated her own children with cow pox to hopefully avoid small pox which killed hundreds daily around the world while her husband was an ambassador in Europe (Ludwig von Beethoven suffered that disease and had a terribly hideous pock marked face, Turlogh O’Carolan - a peasant Irish harpist Bard travelled the countryside in the 1600’s blinded by smallpox and entertaining aristocracy for his keep and well being). Government reacts, people solve problems BUT only with the help of big funding. That is why we need our big ‘ol fat government. I already miss it. I’ll probably die missing it. I hope not. I hope don john quixote dies way before our government (likely) and before me (maybe - my cankles aren’t nearly as swollen as his and I have no male member to swell up so bad one gets Fournier’s disease and that tater rots off and takes one out with it). That would be fitting, a dick tater’s dick kills him. King Herod, Roman Emperor Galerius and fittingly, Harvey Weinstein apparently (and in Harvey’s case definitely) had Fournier’s gangrene. Sometimes, what goes around, comes around. Usually these victims suffer from a fractured penis, clearly not a good thing to have. I did watch a lovely young man die from this. It was innocent and horrible. Just sayin’. Should Barbie Bondi just leavitt alone? That’s usually how you break a penis - ridin’ the horse.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Oklahoma Demands Doctors Sign Anti-Abortion Loyalty Oath to Keep Medicaid Funding

American women need to get ready because it’s coming A national abortion ban will be on the floors of Congress within the next year unless the Nazis get skitterish because of the 2026 midterms

The Nazi regime would be happy to push this onerous Project 2025 agenda item but they’re testing this at local red state’s level In this vein Oklahoma becomes a testing ground for how the Nazis will be pushing doctors around in getting their agenda implemented

This is soooo abusive and delegitimizing to physicians specifically OB Gyn’s who by physician’s oath must take care of Medicaid patients By creating an anti-abortion loyalty oath the Nazis are pushing doctors into a corner essentially saying to physicians that we will cut the financial legs out from underneath you unless you play ball

Since OB Gyn’s are now mostly employed by corporations that run hospitals, this comes down to the decision of medical corporate America to stand up to this Nazi ploy Of course the corporations will listen to the physicians who work for them but ultimately it will be a corporate decision Will they capitulate like the legal community or will medical corporations stand for what is right for patients? Time will tell

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Karen Smith's avatar

RE: gerrymandering. Dems absolutely need to take this bull by the horns and match the GOP step for step. If they don't and fall back to "we need rules and we'll follow them because that's the good thing to do" it'll be like bringing a ham sandwich to a gun fight.

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Jane in NC's avatar

While we're talking about controlling history and especially the erasure of certain things, let's please not forget all the women and POC whose achievements have been removed from the Pentagon and other federal facilities. Trump is trying to erase women and POC as if they never existed or contributed to the history and accomplishments of this country.

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Larry Kelley's avatar

This article needs editing. You say Trump is the only President to have been removed from office twice. I must have missed something . . . . He was there for 4 years, out for 4, then now he's back . . . . .

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Jane in NC's avatar

That was a misstatement, for sure. In the video, Susan makes clear that Trump was impeached twice, not removed twice.

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Eileen's avatar

She could probably edit the article to make it correct.

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