The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
Making money is no reason not to pay taxes. The top bracket was 80% during Eisenhower and it's steadily dropped to 37% so you are getting a good deal and you shoukd be paying more.
I don't think anyone is saying shouldn't pay any taxes.
How much should Kafka Fan pay? What makes her/him paying $75k a "good deal"? What is Kafka getting for that?
Maybe it's not important but I wasn't referring to Go Fund Me but rather to organizations that have sprung up to specifically provide diapers. If this doesn't says poverty, what does? I know that the food pantries in my city are all claiming to be busier than ever. I might have been cut off reality when I lived in NYC and the immediate burbs but in my 11 years in Michigan, things got much worst for folks during Covid because the tourist economy isn't as resilient as a tech center like NYC. I don't think we need more time to observe what happens when regressive policies are put in place. We are living it.
Gotcha. When I Googled whether food banks here are more busy, I got an article from 2023. I also got an article about the food banks here bracing for Trump's budget cuts but it doesn't mention the need has increased.
We have diaper banks here and I'm not sure they are newly popped up, but my guess is they are established.
Obviously there might be some regional differences with where you live being in worse shape than were I live. We are coming off a record year for tourism in 2024. Not sure how the future tourism is going to hold out but because international travel is down.
Maybe it's not important but I wasn't referring to Go Fund Me but rather to organizations that have sprung up to specifically provide diapers. If this doesn't says poverty, what does?
Has anyone factored the incident of forced births as a contributing factor? It would be interesting to see whether there's any correlation. Forced childbearing is known to have a negative effect on women's economic well-being.
Let me backtrack some now that I'm thinking about it more.
I am not taking him at his word that he is just now getting diagnosed and considering treatment options.
I think he's revealing the cancer, not saying "I was just diagnosed".
Often with prostate cancer, the treatment is no treatment and just to watch. But if it's aggressive cancer, that doesn't make sense either.
He never reported his PSA tests like other presidents have. I think he might have had the diagnosis for a while, maybe years.
I think a sitting President not being upfront about a health crisis or condition is irresponsible. Unlike the rest of us, it's not necessarily a private situation. Then comes the question "who else knew about it and covered it up".
He could have been effective with prostate cancer, it doesn't always have to be a debilitating diagnosis.
I also know from my friend's experience and the experience of patients prostate cancer with mets to the bone can pop up rather quickly. (I take care of post-prostatectomy patients).
If it's just under a wait and watch care plan I don't think it's anyone's businesses. When treatment affects your ability to serve, that's when it becomes our business. Some prostate cancers are fulminate. This became a non story and Republican distraction technique after he was out of office. The Republicans are having success distracting the public.
So ... while donny and elonia are having their Peyton Place moment, who's keeping an eye on Stephen Miller and his personal schutzstaffel? I've been seeing video of community resistance to ICE raids - in some surprising places. I hear it's getting pretty exciting in Los Angeles this weekend. The word is out in some communities to keep chill. The assumption being that Miller et al are being deliberately provocative. They want to manufacture grounds for declaring martial law. Which is, in turn, legally triggers the alien enemies act and the suspension of habeas corpus.
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A good way to escalate tensions is to bring in a bunch of heavily armed people to engage in "crowd control" using escalating levels of violence. It sure has the media focused on something bedside Elon telling people what he knows about Trump and Epstein.
So ... while donny and elonia are having their Peyton Place moment, who's keeping an eye on Stephen Miller and his personal schutzstaffel? I've been seeing video of community resistance to ICE raids - in some surprising places. I hear it's getting pretty exciting in Los Angeles this weekend. The word is out in some communities to keep chill. The assumption being that Miller et al are being deliberately provocative. They want to manufacture grounds for declaring martial law. Which is, in turn, legally triggers the alien enemies act and the suspension of habeas corpus.
The beat goes on ...
Speaking of Los Angeles, there's a new discussion on The Bulwark on the subject. William Kristol and Adrian Carrasquillo talking about the federal escalation currently occurring there. They're making the same observations about a build-up to martial law that I've been reading over in the left hand path for months.
GMTA, fer shur.
If you're on YouTube, search the Bulwark channel for "Stephen Miller's Real and Insane Agenda".
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Anyone who reads and learns from history has an idea of what is coming. For instance, we knew from Mussolini what relationship right wing authoritarians nurture with education and the sciences.
Bill Kristol and Sam Stein look at the growing authoritarian impulse behind Trump's immigration policy, the targeting of journalists, and the political fight with California.
....But that morning, border patrol agents were spotted across the street from the Home Depot, gathering around 9 a.m. Word quickly spread on social media. Passersby honked their horns. Soon, protesters arrived. Home Depot eventually closed.
The clashes between authorities and protesters lasted for hours in both Paramount and nearby Compton, though it was far from widespread. The chaos covered the area directly around the Alondra Boulevard store, but it was enough to provide for dramatic TV video.
Two Times reporters spent much of the day and night there Saturday. Here is what they saw....
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Outrage had been growing in Los Angeles and its Latino immigrant community after a week of stepped up enforcement actions.
The day before, federal officials raided a retail and distribution warehouse in the Fashion District downtown, a business district fueled by immigrants, and arrested a top union official. Leading up to the workplace raid, federal agents arrested immigrants as they came to scheduled check-ins or made courthouse appearances up and down the state, tearing apart families. One father was arrested in front of his 8-year old-son. Parent groups raised alarms after a Torrance elementary student and his father were set for deportation. For many, talk about deporting violent criminals didn't ring true. "This whole rhetoric of coming after hardworking families is what we are all concerned about,” Solache said. "When you come o do raids at businesses, that is where the anger comes from.”
He said he and many others came out to observe and send a message that immigration enforcement wasn't welcome in their community.
ICE and other Federal Agencies have a facility in the Paramount Business Center Across from Home Depot and they were staging at that facility. It seems the next piece of information is if there was not raid or planned raid at Home Depot, why were they staging and what action were they preparing to take. Seems like this is a self inflicted problem created by social media. The L.A. outrage is due to ICE coming just not for criminals, but hardworking family members, workplace raids and arresting those coming to scheduled check-ins -- people who've applied for asylum. Can understand their concerns. It's amazing to me how many people are so quick to give up their right to assemble and welcome the national guard being there.
Yes. And in downtown LA, where I've been for work for the last couple of days, it's been really chill. You wouldn't know anything out of the ordinary is happening.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump "has created the conditions" surrounding the Los Angeles protests. The governor went on to call Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard "a manufactured crisis," then addressed White House border czar Tom Homan's threats of arrest. "Tom, arrest me. Let's go," Newsom said. The governor also plans to sue the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard.
Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed."
Beerman, BSN
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I don't think anyone is saying shouldn't pay any taxes.
How much should Kafka Fan pay? What makes her/him paying $75k a "good deal"? What is Kafka getting for that?