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  1. 17 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Just voted at the Leander public library. Something that struck me as a little odd...they had a separate line for the Democratic and Republican primary. Normally I wouldn't have thought much of it, but in a time where you've got to be more conscious of your surroundings in public it rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. I guess the bright side was the R line looked to be about 45 minutes long and the D line only had 3 people in it when I walked up. I was in and out in about 5 minutes. Lots of blue hairs in the R primary line. There was even a van from a retirement home in the parking lot, which I didn't think was allowed anymore? 

    *To clarify, once you checked in everyone used the same pool of machines. There were drop boxes for each party, but a common pool of machines. 

    yeah that's not too cool but not sure what's a good way to discretely determine which primary you're voting in, if you have to get the ballot and feed it in the machine. My neighborhood is very lefty as am I generally, but I've voted in the R primary a number of times for obvious reasons. One time voting at my kid's elementary school, I'm in a robust line of people who are presumably neighbors when the poll worker asks me and I say "republican" and the workers ooh'd and aah'd like I was a zoo specimen and one said to another, "we've got one!" 

    I was NOT pleased. 

  2. 5 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    Let’s say a strategic-minded leftist is considering voting for Haley in the primary. Which other R candidates in TX / Travis County would be worth an anti-MAGA protest vote?

    please vote for the CCA judges who dared to cross Paxton (i.e., followed the law): Keller, Hervey, Slaughter      (sigh)

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  3. the whole idea of rights that aren't enumerated are reserved to the people is turned on its head by Christian nationalists. See, e.g., Alito, Thomas: if shit wasn't spelled out in law upon the founding of the country, that right doesn't exist. It's always set up to perpetuate the benefit of the landowning males who were the only ones with rights in practice back then. Therefore, we look for a "right to abortion" spelled out instead of a right of adults to bodily autonomy via life/liberty/pursuit of happiness/due process. 

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  4. On 2/21/2024 at 1:55 PM, Nicole44 said:

    Yep. Just moved around between kinfolk and winds up with daddy and daddy’s wonderful friend. Daddy (black tshirt)  is pictured with the monster POS: also not sure what this event is being pictured but it’s bizarre, no? 

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    Thankfully and mercifully, I have never lived nor spent a ton of time in East Texas. But those who have in recent times -- is it still kosher *ahem* to go around in public around large groups of people without bothering to cover up your hardcore nazi ink? 

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  5. 2 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

    Since ONE of the ways birth control pills and IUDs work is to prevent a fertialized egg from properly implanting how long before we start arresting Alabama women, doctors, and pharmacists and charging them for numerous manslaughter charges?

    The pill prevents ovulation, it's the much less commonly used "mini-pill" that allows fertilization and then prevents implanting.... not that the nutjobs actually care about that distinction in their crusade.

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  6. 11 hours ago, wild_turkey said:


    Also, it would be nearly impossible to argue against IVF without also opposing oral contraception and IUDs. Those methods allow fertilization to occur in vitro, but then prevent the fertilized egg from implanting into the endometrium. So I suppose everyone in Alabama is committing murder when they have sex while taking birth control?

     

    A point of clarification: nearly all oral contraception prevents ovulation; it does not allow it and then act to prevent implantation. The exception is the progesterone-only "mini-pill" which is most often taken by women who are breastfeeding, so as to avoid estrogen passing to the baby. It keeps the lining of the uterus thin so as not to allow a fertilized egg to implant. Of course, that distinction is immaterial to those now going after the "the pill" writ large because most don't actually give a shit about whether there's a fertilized egg. They just want to return to the good old days of women lacking control over their fertility and getting punished and stigmatized via pregnancy and forced birth (obviously).

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  7. I have three nieces, one is studying to be a PA, the other 2 in college/grad school. I hope they all get the fuck out of this or any other red state. Hell, I hope my son ends up elsewhere too so if he knocks a chick up, they aren't beholden to become teen parents if she doesn't want to go that route. Fuck. Shit affects everyone, not just women of childbearing age.

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  8. 23 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Just read how this all started. Jesus—

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Terrible incident but I mean, come the fuck on. I'm sure there are other torts they could have pursued for damages, but hey let's go for the big one -- wrongful DEATH? There was only one way this was gonna go with them taking it to the retrogrades on SCOA. I'm sure they had some predictable interest groups "helping" them out too. Good job, moronic dickweeds. 

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  9. I just love the reference in that opinion to the embryos as small people. 

    Yea, though they were smol and frozen, and shivered in the depths of the clinic at Fourth and Main, I say to you that the righteous Alabama Man will protect thee because God gets mad if his image is effaced by the destruction of smols.

  10. Yeah, Garza can get gone. 

    I know a lady who's ex-husband tried to kill her, twice. His current charge (agg assault-family violence w/strangulation) carries a 2-10 year range. But he's had MULTIPLE previous convictions, so he'd be enhanced with a range up to 99 years if they charged it right. Assistant DA is not involving my friend in court dates, isn't saying anything but that "nothing is happening" and hasn't even shown interest in my friend's audio recording of the assault. ADA did ask her what she'd like to see happen, and my friend basically said, 10 years. The ADA said "oh my boss would never go for that."  

    If you're not pursuing violent crime and keeping the most dangerous fuckers like this one off the street, what the FUCK are you even doing as DA?

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