Bravo, Joyce. Thanks again for lifting the veil this criminal administration uses in attempts to mask their illegal activity. Here's to Monday, as trump has already torpedoed the initial Iran talks because he has no one to take his computer or phone away from him. I wish someone would designate his daily/nightly keeper to give trump a strong sleeping pill to keep him from shit-posting about world events where he flip flops on decisions already made. He's OUR worst enemy, not the Iranians! I yield back my time.
He is regressing daily to pure id and ego. Someone needs to take him off the world stage so that he can do no further harm. Congress? Congress? Are you there?
Appreciate your comments. Hopefully, you have contacted your Congress person. Remember, it takes individuals to talk to and organize others when we see times like this occur in this country. And include making people more AWARE of what's happening. This includes writing to your Congressman or Congresswoman, as well as writing/contacting State Legislators and even local political organizations, urging them and others that they must focus on what is happening politically, socially, and economically. And also find out what certain "Leaders" are doing and allowing to happen.
Thank you in advance for your wisdom and legal expertise. The avalanche of corruption and deceit is astounding in this absurd unethical regime. I’m going to have to read this essay twice
There’s so much important legal information to learn. With gratitude Joyce.
WE THE PEOPLE can stop it! We have stopped concentration camos being built and data center centers also. Enough people have to stop burying their heads in the sand and come out punching back. That’s why we demonstrate every weekend in the streets.
I do not understand why a group of skilled professionals geared up for any possible challenge do not deploy a clandestine mission to slip in during the wee hours and take down the tarp and scaffolding blocking view of the remaining letters on the Kennedy Center. If I had the wherewithal, financial and otherwise I know exactly what I would do.
One reason might be because the tarp is currebtly serving as an "Epstein Canvas" right now. Click the link. It's kind of brilliant projection graffiti. Maybe better than a return to "normal", which would certainly be a misnomer.
I wish links (too many all the time) wouldn’t require me to ‘get’ or ‘open’ any of the social media apps in order to see what’s inside. THIS one would have been eye-opening for me! Thx!
I understand. I had never used Instagram until I became involved with Indivisible ~4 months ago. I also never used my fb account except for 3-4 family/friends. They're not essential, of course, but they do help define the reach of any message you want to send.
This was enough for me to download Instagram again! Thanks for sharing this. We need these kinds of shows all over the country, especially near the Mar a lardo golf motel and in DC.
Echoing Boston's revolutionary history and tradition of resistance SDG creates contemporary tapestries of inspiration and hope. You just need to see it, feel better and spread the word. We hear SDG is hitting the road soon, perhaps to a venue near you. Look for it. See it. You won't be sorry (unless you miss it).
YES, YOU CAN!!!! Think about ways to do it. There are legitimate, trustworthy entities that include people who have been elected because of votes like yours or the votes of family and friends. Tell them your thoughts on what is happening. And if possible, contact Media outlets--both local and nationwide. Let them know your feelings/reaction to what is happening.
For me, no meta products, no twitter or any Social Media platforms with the exception of BlueSky & Substack. I will periodically click a link to one of them sent by a friend it doesn’t always work. Or in this case to see what was on the tarp. Regardless of the merit of the projection, I’d prefer the tarp & scaffolding come down.
Thank you for straightforward, but thorough legal explanations of Trump's and his administration's shenanigans, and your chickens ♥️. Would it be possible for you to provide a legal and fiscal update on what's happening with the Ballroom and Arch? Is Trump allowed to continue construction of the Ballroom or just the secure area underground? Is there any pending litigation beyond Judge Leon's decision and the appeals court stay? Is there any legal action to stop the Arch construction? Can Trump still move forward with the Ballroom and Arch construction if Congress doesn't appropriate money for them?
What Trump initially said would be paid for by donors turns out, not unexpectedly, to have been another lie, as we learn that he wants taxpayers to pay $300M for the ballroom.
I hope Democrats, and at least some Republicans, have a plan to remove both the ballroom and the arch, along with that wrestling monstrosity, as soon as they get back into the WH. Next on the agenda should be a re-planting of the Rose Garden. Third should be a removal of all that gold paint.
Also, a way must be found to ensure Trump (or his estate) pays every bit of the cost to return the White House and its grounds to their previous state.
Thank you, dear Joyce, for your lucid explanation of just what in hell is going on! I want to tell you and anyone who's listening, that I will always support you financially so that you can continue to bring the facts to us. It's the least that I can do.
'Wednesday will be the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which stripped women of their right to access reproductive health care. Protecting women’s rights is most definitely not on the table for this administration.’
Just to sort of emphasize this point and take it to its logical end, in my opinion to narrowly say Dobbs only stripped women of reproductive health care is to refuse to understand its real life impact. This deeply misogynist opinion actually removed the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy of all American women. And one of the indications of a slave is the removal of the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy. I submit that American women are no longer citizens: there is no halfsies in citizenship, no such thing as ‘second class’ citizenship under the US Constitution. One is either a citizen or one is not a citizen in her relationship to her government.
So, if American women — more than half the population — are no longer citizens, the only alternative is that they are legally slaves, whether they want to believe it or not. The fundamental human right to bodily autonomy is the basis for all other rights and is not negotiable in citizenship: when someone else owns the legal right to make arbitrary decisions about your body in any sense, you are not a free citizen. It’s as simple as that.
“Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.” 1926 Slavery Convention, article I
Women should make their own PERSONAL decisions based on their belief systems; however, not all should be forced abide by the same belief systems. The court’s decision to take away the rights of ALL women over bodily autonomy is so much more dangerous than just addressing abortion. Some states are so extreme that women are dying or losing fertility because they can’t get the medical care for
Miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other medically associated emergencies with pregnancy. Women who can’t/won’t support other women in reproductive healthcare issues based own personal ideology leave much to be desired in their humanity. Hospitals, doctors and nurses are being held hostage and cannot help women who need sometimes lifesaving medical help.
make sure you don't miss reading joyce's post about far right women saying they would be happy to give up their right to vote in order to live in a conservative country. What a pack of naive fools they are, but their numbers are growing and threaten the rights of every american woman.
There are more of us than them and we will out vote them. Sadly, they get all the drooling press, sort of like when trump was first elected and the same drooling press scrambled to ‘interview’ the fat racist redneck men in diners who claimed it was about the economy. They lied: it was always about racism and misogyny but no one in the cowardly national press called them on it.
You provide links to excellent critical organizations (League of Women Voters in the US and the UN Commission on the Status of Women under UNESCO) that highlight how women all over the country and the world are fighting for our rights building on our vital fundamental human right to bodily autonomy.
The fanatical woman-hating bros love to put out fake stuff to see if we will swallow their movement to enslave us — and too many women who are raised from birth to abase themselves to a male gawd do. The whole tradwife thing was started as misogynist sites run by violent fascist men using religion as a cudgel against women, which of course has been the entire purpose of organized religion from the get go.
But even a majority of republicans support the right to abortion. And people have had enough even in red states.
'Sixty-four percent say abortion should be legal in all (25%) or most (38%) cases, while 36% think the procedure should be banned in all (9%) or most (27%) cases. Support for legal abortion in all or most cases is similar to results of AP-NORC surveys conducted in 2023 (64 %) and 2022 (63%), but down slightly from last year (70%).
Partisan differences persist on whether abortion should be lawful or not. Eighty-five percent of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 59% of Republicans think it should be illegal in all or most cases.'
But my point goes beyond that. I argue since the abrogation of the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy constitutes slavery, then the bottom line is that taking away this right from women makes them slaves under the law. I have yet to see a convincing legal against this position.
The question for even ideologues is whether they want to eliminate all rights?
At common law, may have had dower rights. Couldn't vote. Couldn't hold property in their own name? In 1920 amended the Constitution. Many of the leaders were "progressive Republicans".
No female Republican office holder today should want to repeal the ammendment. None should want to limit state divorce and support laws.
Where are your references that characterize abortion as a ‘wedge’ issue? Whatever that is.
Please look at my links to credible information demonstrating that far from being a monolith against the right to abortion, majorities of republicans are supportive of those rights, as are super majorities of Democrats and independents. If that is what you are calling a wedge issue, then you are drinking the republican kool-aid, because it is not.
First, you have the question wrong. The proper question is whether anyone wants to eliminate women’s fundamental human right to bodily autonomy and it is crystal clear that the fanatical religious fascists want to do just that, thereby relegating women to legal slavery. I don't know how to make this point any more obvious.
Second, the lack of rights you note are all because of the lack of bodily autonomy for women throughout history. The entire purpose of organized religion -- and indeed, government by males -- is to keep women enslaved and broken through terror, rape, and forced pregnancy so they won’t have time, energy, or support to challenge the status quo. It’s actually a pretty simple formula that they back up through the fear of their nasty mythical gawd.
Here’s something for your nightmares:
'October 21, 2022 – Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner violence and firearms, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.’
Let that sink in. Pregnant women are more likely to die due to violence by a male intimate partner — usually with a gun — than by any obstetrical problems. Again, I don’t know how to make this more obvious to those who are not paying attention.
Third, dower rights for wealthy people as practiced in English common law were complicated and not guaranteed. Mostly it’s just that a widow had the right to live in her husband’s house after he died unless she remarried. Hardly the same as protecting her fundamental human right to bodily autonomy.
Fourth, I think it is safe to say that 1920 progressive republicans and republicans today are very different animals. To compare them as if they are equal is nonsense. By the time the 19th amendment was ratified, women had been working and dying for their right to vote since the revolution. See letter from Abigail Adams to husband John in 1776: 'Remember the ladies’. He ignored her, of course.
Fifth, your blanket statement about what republican female officeholders should do is quite startling when compared with what they will do. Just take a look at Joyce Vance’s own senator from AL, britt. She’s a forking religious nut job who has voted to give up her own rights and the rights of all other American women and brags about it. My guess is gawd told her to. She’s a pathetic excuse for a senator and an even more pathetic woman. There’s a special place in her hell waiting for her for this and other votes like it.
Amen, 93clementine. The impact of a forced pregnancy/birth on a woman is, literally, YEARS of indentured care. My 92-year-old gentle mother said, on her deathbed, that you never stop being a mom. Truer words!! My two sons would attest to that statement.
It's almost as if Blanche and Co. believe they can get a reprieve for anything at the SCOTUS. However, their behavior has become so egregious it appears they won't get that far. After just reading "Hitler's First Hundred Days" the courts are the one part of our government which DOESN'T remind me of the Third Reich. (That is except for the SCOTUS!)
To those of whatever political persuasion who have continued to support this tyrannical regime: we will guarantee you nothing more than the fair trial you all deserve.
And make sure to include that attorney fees will be paid by the loser, so we can claw back their ill-gotten gains! (Since they will be losers, they WILL pay!) 🤗
With the demise of the presumption of regularity, shouldn’t grand jury secrecy be reformed also? Those would presumably go hand in hand.
Nothing appears to be changing. The two republican candidates for Governor of South Carolina, each endorsed by [t]rump, whatever that means, are trying to outdo each other as to which is the most [t]rump like, even with all that is going on.
thank you, Joyce, and I hope you had a good Father's Day weekend with your family, and the CHICKENS... we're due for another dose of them, I think! 😅❤️
Blanche is in no way qualified to be our next Attorney General. I'm sure FOX News and Trump see things differently since, for them, loyalty literally trumps all. But, I hope, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee decide that their oaths to uphold the constitution and their patriotism are more important for their country than their sycophancy to our wanna-be strong man.
JV: "Unfortunately for Todd Blanche, who is one of two cabinet-level officials ordered to certify an end to the slush fund in writing, under oath, the Judge will get the last word on what suffices here. "
re: your comment on sycophancy. they should take a lesson from cassidy and cornyn on how well kissing trump's ass or doing his bidding works out for their political careers.
Thank you for the article, Professor. Bravo 👏 Representative Beatty. Let’s hope we can get it operating back to normal again without, Trump’s hand on it and definitely remove that tarp from it.
Bravo, Joyce. Thanks again for lifting the veil this criminal administration uses in attempts to mask their illegal activity. Here's to Monday, as trump has already torpedoed the initial Iran talks because he has no one to take his computer or phone away from him. I wish someone would designate his daily/nightly keeper to give trump a strong sleeping pill to keep him from shit-posting about world events where he flip flops on decisions already made. He's OUR worst enemy, not the Iranians! I yield back my time.
Ms. Vance, your eyes must get exhausted reading through so many documents and then summarizing them for us.
I hope you know how much we appreciate your time and efforts to educate the public and advocate for legal reforms.
He is regressing daily to pure id and ego. Someone needs to take him off the world stage so that he can do no further harm. Congress? Congress? Are you there?
Appreciate your comments. Hopefully, you have contacted your Congress person. Remember, it takes individuals to talk to and organize others when we see times like this occur in this country. And include making people more AWARE of what's happening. This includes writing to your Congressman or Congresswoman, as well as writing/contacting State Legislators and even local political organizations, urging them and others that they must focus on what is happening politically, socially, and economically. And also find out what certain "Leaders" are doing and allowing to happen.
Thank you, Joyce, for staying on top of these cases. You are right; they don't make it to the news. Your analysis gives me hope!
Agreed!
Thank you, Joyce. No one else seems to provide your clear and grounding explanations of these matters.
Totally agree
Thank you in advance for your wisdom and legal expertise. The avalanche of corruption and deceit is astounding in this absurd unethical regime. I’m going to have to read this essay twice
There’s so much important legal information to learn. With gratitude Joyce.
Avalanche of corruption is a perfect way to describe everything.
So true. And HOW can this be stopped?????
WE THE PEOPLE can stop it! We have stopped concentration camos being built and data center centers also. Enough people have to stop burying their heads in the sand and come out punching back. That’s why we demonstrate every weekend in the streets.
I do not understand why a group of skilled professionals geared up for any possible challenge do not deploy a clandestine mission to slip in during the wee hours and take down the tarp and scaffolding blocking view of the remaining letters on the Kennedy Center. If I had the wherewithal, financial and otherwise I know exactly what I would do.
One reason might be because the tarp is currebtly serving as an "Epstein Canvas" right now. Click the link. It's kind of brilliant projection graffiti. Maybe better than a return to "normal", which would certainly be a misnomer.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ1MKh4uakZ/?igsh=ZnJmcDhpOGFhMjV3
I wish links (too many all the time) wouldn’t require me to ‘get’ or ‘open’ any of the social media apps in order to see what’s inside. THIS one would have been eye-opening for me! Thx!
I don’t go to any social media sites…even when links are provided.
I understand. I had never used Instagram until I became involved with Indivisible ~4 months ago. I also never used my fb account except for 3-4 family/friends. They're not essential, of course, but they do help define the reach of any message you want to send.
And you can access fb and Instagram via browser rather than apps. That might not address your concerns but it is different at least in some ways.
This was enough for me to download Instagram again! Thanks for sharing this. We need these kinds of shows all over the country, especially near the Mar a lardo golf motel and in DC.
Since you kind of asked ... see Silence Dogood for truly spectacular projection projects guaranteed to lift your spirits:
https://www.silencedogoodboston.com
Echoing Boston's revolutionary history and tradition of resistance SDG creates contemporary tapestries of inspiration and hope. You just need to see it, feel better and spread the word. We hear SDG is hitting the road soon, perhaps to a venue near you. Look for it. See it. You won't be sorry (unless you miss it).
I have had the same thought!
YES, YOU CAN!!!! Think about ways to do it. There are legitimate, trustworthy entities that include people who have been elected because of votes like yours or the votes of family and friends. Tell them your thoughts on what is happening. And if possible, contact Media outlets--both local and nationwide. Let them know your feelings/reaction to what is happening.
Where's Banksy!
And THAT was the point of my note. I DO NOT use any of them, never have, expect never in the future!
For me, no meta products, no twitter or any Social Media platforms with the exception of BlueSky & Substack. I will periodically click a link to one of them sent by a friend it doesn’t always work. Or in this case to see what was on the tarp. Regardless of the merit of the projection, I’d prefer the tarp & scaffolding come down.
Somewhere I saw the tarps referred to as "Donnie's Diapers." Seems appropriate, covering something--or the absence of something--he doesn't want seen.
Thank you for straightforward, but thorough legal explanations of Trump's and his administration's shenanigans, and your chickens ♥️. Would it be possible for you to provide a legal and fiscal update on what's happening with the Ballroom and Arch? Is Trump allowed to continue construction of the Ballroom or just the secure area underground? Is there any pending litigation beyond Judge Leon's decision and the appeals court stay? Is there any legal action to stop the Arch construction? Can Trump still move forward with the Ballroom and Arch construction if Congress doesn't appropriate money for them?
What Trump initially said would be paid for by donors turns out, not unexpectedly, to have been another lie, as we learn that he wants taxpayers to pay $300M for the ballroom.
I hope Democrats, and at least some Republicans, have a plan to remove both the ballroom and the arch, along with that wrestling monstrosity, as soon as they get back into the WH. Next on the agenda should be a re-planting of the Rose Garden. Third should be a removal of all that gold paint.
Also, a way must be found to ensure Trump (or his estate) pays every bit of the cost to return the White House and its grounds to their previous state.
And maintaining and cleaning up the public golf course!
Thank you, dear Joyce, for your lucid explanation of just what in hell is going on! I want to tell you and anyone who's listening, that I will always support you financially so that you can continue to bring the facts to us. It's the least that I can do.
Ditto
'Wednesday will be the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which stripped women of their right to access reproductive health care. Protecting women’s rights is most definitely not on the table for this administration.’
Just to sort of emphasize this point and take it to its logical end, in my opinion to narrowly say Dobbs only stripped women of reproductive health care is to refuse to understand its real life impact. This deeply misogynist opinion actually removed the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy of all American women. And one of the indications of a slave is the removal of the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy. I submit that American women are no longer citizens: there is no halfsies in citizenship, no such thing as ‘second class’ citizenship under the US Constitution. One is either a citizen or one is not a citizen in her relationship to her government.
So, if American women — more than half the population — are no longer citizens, the only alternative is that they are legally slaves, whether they want to believe it or not. The fundamental human right to bodily autonomy is the basis for all other rights and is not negotiable in citizenship: when someone else owns the legal right to make arbitrary decisions about your body in any sense, you are not a free citizen. It’s as simple as that.
“Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.” 1926 Slavery Convention, article I
https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/sc/sc.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539523000687
https://www.unfpa.org/news/bodily-autonomy-busting-7-myths-undermine-individual-rights-and-freedoms
https://www.unfpa.org/press/human-rights-require-bodily-autonomy-all-%E2%80%93-all-times#
Please, please: let’s not be afraid to call it what it is, no matter how horrifying.
Women should make their own PERSONAL decisions based on their belief systems; however, not all should be forced abide by the same belief systems. The court’s decision to take away the rights of ALL women over bodily autonomy is so much more dangerous than just addressing abortion. Some states are so extreme that women are dying or losing fertility because they can’t get the medical care for
Miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other medically associated emergencies with pregnancy. Women who can’t/won’t support other women in reproductive healthcare issues based own personal ideology leave much to be desired in their humanity. Hospitals, doctors and nurses are being held hostage and cannot help women who need sometimes lifesaving medical help.
The hard pill to swallow is that the evangelicals, who are now a huge voting block, don't care about any of that.
Got to tell it to "Republican women," especially in red states.
https://statusofwomendata.org/explore-the-data/political-participation/political-participation-full-section/
https://www.lwv.org/blog/2026-state-democracy
make sure you don't miss reading joyce's post about far right women saying they would be happy to give up their right to vote in order to live in a conservative country. What a pack of naive fools they are, but their numbers are growing and threaten the rights of every american woman.
There are more of us than them and we will out vote them. Sadly, they get all the drooling press, sort of like when trump was first elected and the same drooling press scrambled to ‘interview’ the fat racist redneck men in diners who claimed it was about the economy. They lied: it was always about racism and misogyny but no one in the cowardly national press called them on it.
You provide links to excellent critical organizations (League of Women Voters in the US and the UN Commission on the Status of Women under UNESCO) that highlight how women all over the country and the world are fighting for our rights building on our vital fundamental human right to bodily autonomy.
The fanatical woman-hating bros love to put out fake stuff to see if we will swallow their movement to enslave us — and too many women who are raised from birth to abase themselves to a male gawd do. The whole tradwife thing was started as misogynist sites run by violent fascist men using religion as a cudgel against women, which of course has been the entire purpose of organized religion from the get go.
But even a majority of republicans support the right to abortion. And people have had enough even in red states.
'Sixty-four percent say abortion should be legal in all (25%) or most (38%) cases, while 36% think the procedure should be banned in all (9%) or most (27%) cases. Support for legal abortion in all or most cases is similar to results of AP-NORC surveys conducted in 2023 (64 %) and 2022 (63%), but down slightly from last year (70%).
Partisan differences persist on whether abortion should be lawful or not. Eighty-five percent of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 59% of Republicans think it should be illegal in all or most cases.'
https://apnorc.org/projects/support-for-legal-abortion-remains-strong/
See particularly MT, WY, AK, KS, and others where people are working hard to move their states into the 21st century.
https://reproductiverights.org/maps/state-constitutions-and-abortion-rights/
But my point goes beyond that. I argue since the abrogation of the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy constitutes slavery, then the bottom line is that taking away this right from women makes them slaves under the law. I have yet to see a convincing legal against this position.
Abortion was and still is a "wedge" issue.
The question for even ideologues is whether they want to eliminate all rights?
At common law, may have had dower rights. Couldn't vote. Couldn't hold property in their own name? In 1920 amended the Constitution. Many of the leaders were "progressive Republicans".
No female Republican office holder today should want to repeal the ammendment. None should want to limit state divorce and support laws.
Where are your references that characterize abortion as a ‘wedge’ issue? Whatever that is.
Please look at my links to credible information demonstrating that far from being a monolith against the right to abortion, majorities of republicans are supportive of those rights, as are super majorities of Democrats and independents. If that is what you are calling a wedge issue, then you are drinking the republican kool-aid, because it is not.
First, you have the question wrong. The proper question is whether anyone wants to eliminate women’s fundamental human right to bodily autonomy and it is crystal clear that the fanatical religious fascists want to do just that, thereby relegating women to legal slavery. I don't know how to make this point any more obvious.
Second, the lack of rights you note are all because of the lack of bodily autonomy for women throughout history. The entire purpose of organized religion -- and indeed, government by males -- is to keep women enslaved and broken through terror, rape, and forced pregnancy so they won’t have time, energy, or support to challenge the status quo. It’s actually a pretty simple formula that they back up through the fear of their nasty mythical gawd.
Here’s something for your nightmares:
'October 21, 2022 – Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner violence and firearms, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.’
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/homicide-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-u-s/
Let that sink in. Pregnant women are more likely to die due to violence by a male intimate partner — usually with a gun — than by any obstetrical problems. Again, I don’t know how to make this more obvious to those who are not paying attention.
Third, dower rights for wealthy people as practiced in English common law were complicated and not guaranteed. Mostly it’s just that a widow had the right to live in her husband’s house after he died unless she remarried. Hardly the same as protecting her fundamental human right to bodily autonomy.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dower
Fourth, I think it is safe to say that 1920 progressive republicans and republicans today are very different animals. To compare them as if they are equal is nonsense. By the time the 19th amendment was ratified, women had been working and dying for their right to vote since the revolution. See letter from Abigail Adams to husband John in 1776: 'Remember the ladies’. He ignored her, of course.
https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165adams-rtl.html
Fifth, your blanket statement about what republican female officeholders should do is quite startling when compared with what they will do. Just take a look at Joyce Vance’s own senator from AL, britt. She’s a forking religious nut job who has voted to give up her own rights and the rights of all other American women and brags about it. My guess is gawd told her to. She’s a pathetic excuse for a senator and an even more pathetic woman. There’s a special place in her hell waiting for her for this and other votes like it.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5751145/save-act-senate-vote-trump
https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/mar/19/SAVE-America-Act-women-vote-citizenship-Trump/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14328-there-is-a-special-place-in-hell-for-women-who
Amen, 93clementine. The impact of a forced pregnancy/birth on a woman is, literally, YEARS of indentured care. My 92-year-old gentle mother said, on her deathbed, that you never stop being a mom. Truer words!! My two sons would attest to that statement.
Yep. But being a mom voluntarily and joyfully and being a mom through forced birth are two completely different things, as you point out.
Exactly!!
It's almost as if Blanche and Co. believe they can get a reprieve for anything at the SCOTUS. However, their behavior has become so egregious it appears they won't get that far. After just reading "Hitler's First Hundred Days" the courts are the one part of our government which DOESN'T remind me of the Third Reich. (That is except for the SCOTUS!)
Thank you for sending "The Week Ahead". I am so happy to be a subscriber!
Interesting that Trump seems to be losing wars in both Iran and Minnesota … no diversity to see here, folks.
To those of whatever political persuasion who have continued to support this tyrannical regime: we will guarantee you nothing more than the fair trial you all deserve.
And make sure to include that attorney fees will be paid by the loser, so we can claw back their ill-gotten gains! (Since they will be losers, they WILL pay!) 🤗
I'm sorry but this is soooooo rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
With the demise of the presumption of regularity, shouldn’t grand jury secrecy be reformed also? Those would presumably go hand in hand.
Nothing appears to be changing. The two republican candidates for Governor of South Carolina, each endorsed by [t]rump, whatever that means, are trying to outdo each other as to which is the most [t]rump like, even with all that is going on.
thank you, Joyce, and I hope you had a good Father's Day weekend with your family, and the CHICKENS... we're due for another dose of them, I think! 😅❤️
Blanche is in no way qualified to be our next Attorney General. I'm sure FOX News and Trump see things differently since, for them, loyalty literally trumps all. But, I hope, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee decide that their oaths to uphold the constitution and their patriotism are more important for their country than their sycophancy to our wanna-be strong man.
JV: "Unfortunately for Todd Blanche, who is one of two cabinet-level officials ordered to certify an end to the slush fund in writing, under oath, the Judge will get the last word on what suffices here. "
re: your comment on sycophancy. they should take a lesson from cassidy and cornyn on how well kissing trump's ass or doing his bidding works out for their political careers.
It's the scorpion and the frog
Thank you for the article, Professor. Bravo 👏 Representative Beatty. Let’s hope we can get it operating back to normal again without, Trump’s hand on it and definitely remove that tarp from it.