Saw someone actually lay out how messed up the situation is in Wisconsin to relatively little notice on another site & I didn’t know that situation was like. That unknown. But
Wisconsin is no longer democratic & is a test case for right-wing rule’s endgame
Not democratic in a political party sense. Not democratic in a “it is no longer a democracy in most senses” sense
It went for Biden in 2020 (& blue every recent Presidential election bar 2016) and Democrats won every state office in 2018…
…but it’s impossible for them to have a majority in the legislature. Even the 50/50 split implied by election results is impossible
After a Democrat won in 2018 they stripped the Governor of all his power. All he can do is veto bills & call special sessions…
…which end in seconds bc the right just immediately gavels them closed. Sessions on gun violence & abortion ended instantly, with no debate, and thus nothing but far-right laws can even go up for a vote
Not only do they not confirm his appointees but they won a court case saying anyone appointed by a past Governor can stay in after their term if no one new is confirmed
Since the right won’t confirm anyone new, people appointed by Scott Walker effectively have their offices permanently, four years later
People going “just vote!” feels so weird bc, yeah, in this case voting is vital, we need a Democratic governor to veto bills, but also you can literally “just vote” & nothing else. Changing the system or even the smallest positive advance is impossible. The best result is upholding the status quo & delaying the right’s full takeover of the few offices they don’t control by another four years, something you can’t count on being able to do bc they’ve spent the past two years testing the waters of letting the legislature just overrule election results completely
Anyway this is the future, today! and we live in hell
In an email dated June 23, White House aide Kathleen Marshall, who works in its office of intergovernmental affairs, wrote to Coulter Minix in Beshear’s office that Chad Meredith was “to be nominated tomorrow” to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The subject line of the email read “Close hold,” and the body of the correspondence included a summary of Meredith’s resume.
Minix responded the same day, writing in part: “appreciate the heads up.”
On June 24, the Supreme Court rocked the nation by announcing its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate federal abortion rights. CNN reported this week that White House counsel Dana Remus had assured senior aides that the ruling would not come on that Friday, amid Democrats’ growing frustration about perceived lack of urgency from the Biden White House following the Roe decision.
He had nearly two months’ advance notice, and not only did he not plan to do anything in response, he was planning this
“Not a good look” by Biden White House standards: nominating a Federalist Society anti-abortion lawyer to a federal judgeship as part of the world’s most harebrained horse-trading scheme on the exact day Roe v. Wade gets overturned
Eh, don’t worry about it: doing the same thing but it’s two, three days beforehand, maybe even a whole week. Look the important thing is that there’s no way on earth it’ll be that specific Friday
As the Act states, “Different family structures, based on a relationship of affection, are created among relatives, whatever the nature of the relationship, and between spouses or in common-law unions.”
“The members of the families are bound to perform family and societial duties on the basis of love, affection, consideration, solidarity, fraternity, co-participation, protection, responsibility and mutual respect.”
In other words, a family is not successful based on its structure or the number of members.
A family is a social structure that recognizes itself as such and takes on the duties and responsibilities it entails
remember when Kurt Blome the chief Nazi scientist in charge of human experimentation as it pertained to biological and chemical warfare and which included things such as spraying concentration camp prisoners with sarin gas as well as deliberately infecting them with malaria, bubonic plague, typhus and other diseases to try and find various ways to weaponize diseases in addition to giving cancer to prisoners and when he was captured at the end of the war and stood trial at Nuremberg the US government meddled in his trial to get him acquitted so he could be recruited for Operation Paperclip and conduct biological warfare studies for the US and his official US military file omitted mention of him having been prosecuted at Nuremberg
Didn’t like… an absolute ton of Japanese scientists from Unit 731 end up recruited by the US instead of getting prosecuted, too?
The aftermath to the cover-up of Japanese medical war crimes has been extensively documented elsewhere.1,9,10,27 Unlike the U.S., the Soviet Union tried twelve captured Japanese military personnel from Unit 731 in Khabarovsk for war crimes and later published the proceedings.1,10,28 U.S. authorities dismissed the proceedings as communist propaganda, though in hindsight the information presented was reasonably accurate.10,29 The relatively light sentences given to the perpetrators, compared to the seriousness of the charges against them, suggested that the Soviets, like the Americans, traded leniency for access to data.1,10
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