For abetting abortions. My point is that you can bring suit knowing that you’ll lose, because the law ensures that you won’t face any consequences.

So, what’s to stop people from suing anti-abortion activists under this law? Yes, the suit will fail, but I think the law explicitly prevents the party being sued from recovering any money from the person suing. Bring suit against the entire Texas Republican delegation, and keep doing it until they change the bill. I’m…

I eagerly await Kevin McCarthy’s explanation of why it’s all the Democrats’ fault that Cawthorn is basically threatening violence if his party loses elections. It’s not super surprising to me that Congress includes some trash people who say things like this, but the silence from GOP “leaders” and the fact that so many…

I think the Atlantic framed it as “everyone is getting vaccinated, either through a controlled, heavily tested, effective shot, or by getting the virus which has already killed millions of people around the world”. A lot of people have decided to let the virus do the vaccination for them.

This is amazingly helpful. I had an intuition that this was overstepping, but this is a very clear explanation of exactly why.

I think they are studying it, there’s just not evidence that it works yet.

She sounds like an amazing person. Routine medical care shouldn’t require heroic sacrifices like this.

My understanding is that this decision is actually costing them money too, since the money they were getting more than covered the cost of the food. That is, they’re losing money just to stick it to poor families.

Thanks, that’s incredibly helpful.

a woman who won a $4 million judgment against him for allegedly sexually abusing her when she was 16.

That was gracious of you, so let me acknowledge that in fact it’s impossible to know for certain if or how I would have reacted differently in a different situation. But I have definitely condemned the police for violence against White people before, and have acknowledged that deadly force was reasonable in some…

Yes.

And a lot of people already knew he was Black. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that in the greys here on the Root. Or maybe it was in e-mails on the Clapback mailbag?

Police are far too quick to use deadly force. However, when there’s an armed mob chanting “Hang Mike Pence” literally breaking down the doors, that seems like a situation where it has to be considered self-defense or defense of others. It would have been better if Ms. Babbitt had not been shot, but she made that…

This discussion hasn’t been about “why the shoe line was pulled” it’s about “why people were upset”. So your comments are not wrong, but they’re also not germane.

Maybe, but according to public opinion polls, a majority of Christians and even a plurality of Protestants thinks that homosexuality should be accepted. It’s only White Evangelicals who are still really opposed, they’re just really loud about it.

Except this isn’t remotely like that. If he had shown himself sodomizing a picture of Jesus, then yes, this would be equivalent. Given the esteem Muslims show the Bible, you don’t have to do the whole “if he had done this to Muslims” thing, this is landing on Muslims in basically the same way it’s landing on…

Of course, many were quick to point out that the offense taken was to a perceived exploitation of Christianity, not the use of the blood itself

Stupid games, four years worth of stupid prizes. I just feel bad for the kids who have to deal with all this shit.

Kermit has been involved in some very dubious memes.