Talk of prosecuting women for abortion pillsroils antiabortion movementAlabama attorney general became the most prominent Republican official yet to suggest that abortion seekers could be chargedThe comment reflects a simmering divide within the antiabortion movement, which has long sought to treat women seeking abortions as “victims” and not as targets for punishment.
We can see where this is going. The urge to prosecute women who get or try to get an abortion is strong and relentless with anti-abortion radicals. Sooner or latter the psychological barriers will fall, and women will routinely be prosecuted as murderers. That will take a couple of years to come about, but it very likely is coming, maybe ~85% chance in the next three years.
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More classified documents found - Biden is screwed, Trump probably gets off the hook (again):
President Biden’s legal team found additional classified documents when they searched a second location after finding secret government papers in a different Biden office in early November, according to a person familiar with the investigation.Legal representatives for the president found additional classified material at a second location, a person said Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The person would not say when that material was found.
What a mess. This will probably neuter any investigation into what Trump did, even thought it should not make any difference at all. But no one is saying much right now. So as usual, we will have to wait for months. Or years. Or forever.
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Regarding the pulse of democracy and tolerance -- things are not getting much better:
At points in the past half-century, many U.S. antisemitism experts thought this country could be aging out of it, that hostility and prejudice against Jews were fading in part because younger Americans held more accepting views than did older ones.
But a survey released Thursday shows how widely held such beliefs are in the United States today, including among younger Americans. The research by the Anti-Defamation League includes rare detail about the particular nature of antisemitism, how it centers on tropes of Jews as clannish, conspiratorial and holders of power.
The survey shows “antisemitism in its classical fascist form is emerging again in American society, where Jews are too secretive and powerful, working against interests of others, not sharing values, exploiting — the classic conspiratorial tropes,” Matt Williams, vice president of the ADL’s year-old Center for Antisemitism Research, told The Washington Post.
Last year was the fifth hottest ever recorded on the planet, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday. It was part of an unabated broader warming trend as humans continue to pump massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The year “2022 was yet another ... of climate extremes across Europe and globally. These events highlight that we are already experiencing the devastating consequences of our warming world,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement announcing the annual findings.
She said data from 2022 provides “clear evidence that avoiding the worst consequences will require society to both urgently reduce carbon emissions and swiftly adapt to a changing climate.”
Source: WMO
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