Anyone else trying out Kagi search?
January 24, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
More news dropped today about the damage MAGA Republicans are doing to the United States. A report published today in JAMA Internal Medicine estimates that in the 14 states that outlawed abortion after the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, 64,565 women became pregnant after being raped, “but few (if any) obtained in-state abortions legally.”
… let’s repeat… since R v W overturned, in just 14 states, 64,565 women became pregnant after being raped and were unable to obtain legal abortions…
January 20, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
An interesting HCR this morning…
The attempt to create distrust of large financial institutions is part of a larger attempt to destabilize the institutions of democracy. Trump is the figurehead for that attempt, but it is larger than him, and it will outlast him.
It’s Always Been Michael, Never Mike :: Essays On Attention Paid
Feminine me is tossing masculine me’s uniform aside. Boring! She has brought purple, magenta, blue/green, and blue into the mix. Her preferred clothing purveyors are J. Jill and Poetry. She likes contemplating questions like, what color lipstick looks good on me? Should I get purple highlights in my hair? Should I get my brows done? What sort of eye makeup should I wear?
Creativity is less a ‘what’, a thing that is done, than a manner in which whatever it may be is approached. It is not an entity, but a disposition towards the world.
(Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
January 16, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
This is aa good general statement of where we are at in the election in generageneral, but this stood out…
White evangelicals heartily endorse a crook and a rapist apparently because they expect that he will put in place the world they envision, one controlled by white, patriarchal evangelical Christians.
… every Christian who doesn’t share the evangelical point of view should be out there loudly and continuously denouncing it… this is an absolute perversion of Christian faith…
Finished reading Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
This is a great book with lessons for men and women, but particularly for women. It also hit me at a very important transition moment in my life and helped to solidify the foundations of that transition.
And just now our dogs got into a rare fight over a treat. That’s enough excitement for the day, thank you very much!
We attended a super spreader event last night… we had fun but now wait to see if our covid luck has run out. The performer is Vibeke Saugestadt, a friend of ours. She was debuting her new band. I am told she has a good following in Norway where she is from.
Frittatas are great for using up things in the fridge. In this case smoked ham and kale. Happy Martin Luther King day!
January 14, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
Any public figure, choosing to call Trump out now and loudly falls, into the category of hero as described above, as they will surely be punished by Trump if he is elected. May we all find our hero nature in the coming months.
Wow!… just WOW!
In 1994, there was no television on the island of Fiji; there were also no eating disorders. British and American television were brought to the island in 1995. By 1998, 29 percent of the girls had developed severe eating disorder symptoms. Thirteen percent developed these symptoms within one month of the introduction of television.”
— Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski a.co/esVFwG0
January 4, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
If DOJ manages to put him in jail he’s never coming out.
The first article of the U.S. Constitution reads: “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument [that is, salary, fee, or profit], Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
January 4, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released a 156-page report showing that when he was in the presidency, Trump received at least $7.8 million from 20 different governments, including those of China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Malaysia, through businesses he owned.
2023: A Bad Year for Drag Queen Foes
Interesting look at anti-drag legislation that isn’t succeeding in the courts this year.
This was the year Republican lawmakers went all-in on targeting drag performers–and got a resounding _nope _from federal courts. In all four states where anti-drag laws were challenged this year, federal judges ruled them unconstitutional.