DL Open Thread Saturday May 7 2022 – WTF?! THIS IS APPALLING

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DSU Womans Lacrosse Team Racially Profiled by Georgia State Police

Sydney Anderson Breathe, but not too heavy. Look, but do not appear guilty. Speak, but never answer back. These are the constant reminders of being Black In America. After playing three games in the hot southern heat, all the Delaware State women’s lacrosse team wanted to do was make it back to Delaware with ease. However, things went left when they got pulled over by Georgia State police. On April 20 at 10:31am, Tim Jones, black bus driver, was stopped by Georgia State police. The officers claimed it was a traffic violation because buses are not permitted to drive in the left lane. The cops came on the bus to inform the students that they would be checking their luggage for any possible narcotics, such as marijuana, heroin, methane, and ketamine.
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DL Open Thread Friday May 6 2022

Support Bush's "Abortion Providers Protection Act"

Laws that create special classes (where crimes against them get additional punishments) are mostly bullshit virtue signaling - as in "WhAt? yUo d0nT zuPp0rt tHe p0LICE!?!?!"  I mean if you support cops, get them de-escalation training.  If you support teachers, fucking pay them. But this special class bill that El Som covered by HB 234 and mentioned by El Som (here) strikes me as different.  Here he have a class that will actually need protection in the post Roe V Wade world.  If you attack someone working in women's reproductive health care, you should have the book thrown you.

DL Open Thread Tuesday May 3 2022

This obliterates all other news. I don't have much to say about it other than to point out that some argued that the court wouldn't do this because it would risk "stirring up" Dem voters. Those people are idiots. It is the Democrats who don't act for fear of "stirring up" Republican voters.

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade  decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey– that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes

DL Open Thread Monday May 2 2022

I like Zelenskyy. He is always on message, "Great. Thanks. Send More." Pelosi Goes to Kyiv House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Ukrainians' “ferocity” and promised military and financial support after…