It’s really a lot like Gun Control— a significant majority supports some action but.....only the loud minority actually bases their votes on it and that minority is dominated by those who support the status quo or even less.

SB 8 will get rejected by the Court— largely because SCOTUS doesn’t want to encourage states to find “creative” (read asinine) ways to get around judicial review and diminish their own power.

Dobbs, OTOH, is or could be the whole ballgame. 

Oh I get the felony murder statute— which has some serious flaws I’m not going to address— but this is a pretty tenuous fricking stretch of it— it’d be one thing if a child was killed in shootout with cops— regardless of who pulled the trigger I could see a justification for charging the teens; or if say someone was…

He’s not shitty enough when the frontrunner is a disgraced Governor who resigned due to a combination of sexual assault, blackmail, revenge porn and campaign finance allegations (and yes the threat of revealing donors in the latter case is what probably ultimately forced his hand but the former three were enough to…

And yet....somehow not as bad as the putative frontrunner in the race who resigned as Governor under pressure from the due to Sexual Assault, Revenge Porn and Blackmail allegations (and perhaps more significantly for his political future sadly— a court order to reveal the donor lists he’d illegally taken from his…

This and it’s also pointing the problems with concept of the Drow-- like it’s showing why “Dark Elf” as evil is kind of fucked up.

This. The Community thing (and admittedly this is from a white man so I’m not the offended party) seems to be actually pointing out how problematic the concept of the Drow are (which to be fair- bad but not Tolkein bad). 

I have been thinking about that, I do wonder if the difference in response might also be the target-- head of Players Union vs. Commissioner of the League-- to understate it greatly one of those guys has the sympathy and support of owners and the other doesn’t.   (Not saying this explains it entirely but I do think it…

Eh...I agree but I also think that doing so outside of a relationship with a provider is at best an emergency option-- at the very least to have someone to call to reassure folx that they worked properly and catch the rare side effects. 

This.  I do think the Coeytaux quotes are both problematic and, at least for clinics frankly false but the article itself doesn’t seem to be downplaying the impact or threat-- I’m actually going to re-read it later to see if somehow I missed a tone or something. 

The inherent disconnect between this:

“Francine Coeytaux, co-founder of Plan C, a group mentioned in the poll, told Khazan that abortion clinics in Texas and abortion funds for Texans are not promoting abortion pills because it might undermine their own work.”

and this:
“In Texas (as Khazan notes), doctors can’t…

His dad punching him for doing the right thing to relegate Richmond (make the extra pass) at the end of Season 1 made me a lot more open to a redemption arc-- it kind of made everything click into place in terms of his shithead behavior up to that point (and afterwards). 

The thing about this scene that rang a bit false was none of the other players taking a shot-- given how prevelant it is in sports the chances that not a single other player had an overbearing if not physically abusive parent who clearly lived vicariously through them seemed slim--admittedly seeing say McAdoo or even…

A bit worried the other convicted MN cop’s appeal being granted might give Chauvin traction on one of his grounds for appeal from what I’ve read the legal argument is similar (but I’m not a lawyer). 

They do seem to have one challenge a year that’s almost brutally unfair but that’s largely a product of the time they shoot in and that it’s in a tent (setting a Chocolate or Sugar sculpture in Summer heat). 

I just want to actually see the Technical Instructions and maybe a list of requirements for the Showstopper

What “got done” be specific because most if not all of the big ticket shit Trump ran on in 2016 didn’t “get done”-- there’s no full wall, the ACA still stands, Hillary didn’t get “locked up” etc

The problem is there’s no real leverage point on Manchin— especially with no margin to lose a single vote. 

What in the last 40 years of American democracy makes you think Democrats have some sort of hard “party boss” partisanship-- hell, even Republicans who fall in line more have a huge problem with that (if they didn’t they’d have been able to repeal the ACA in 2017)? 

Yeah....that part was in the Texas law too-- in both cases it feels like something that should violate the whole constitutional bar Ex post facto law but I’m not a lawyer?