DL Open Thread Saturday June 25 2022

Good mornin', starshine The Earth says, "Hello" You twinkle above us Coons, Biden and LBR twinkle below…
The Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry is partying like it is 1868.
Essentially, Justice Alito argued that for an unwritten liberty right to be legitimate, it must be deeply rooted in the nation’s history and have been understood to exist when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Back then, he wrote, many states had criminalized abortion and there was no understanding that women had a right to end their pregnancies.
Many people are wondering how this leaves Justice Clarance Thomas marriage to insane rightwing nutcase Ginni Thomas intact, but invoking the well known precedent of "LOL, Fuck YOU!" Thomas seems ready to damn the torpedoes. Collins is shocked. Biden thinks Dems need to vote HARDER! Coons thinks this came out of the blue, (had nothing to do with the US Senate where bipartisan compromise is still possible [see recent gun deal crumbs scoffingly served up by Mitch McConnell]). Lisa Blundt Rochester (rightly) thinks the work of the Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry will fall "disproportionately on women of color and in rural communities across the country"  but (wrongly) thinks the answer is to VOTE HARDER. Can someone let me know when the Democratic strategy of offering nothing to voters other than scolding admonitions to "VOTE HARDER!" has actually worked?  Because from where I'm sitting it seems like offering voters nothing except  scolding admonitions to vote harder is exactly the strategy that got us here.    

REV & Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial (Day 6) – The Auditor Who Really Needed an Auditor

The very office that is charged with rooting out the state government's "waste fraud and abuse" was a hotbed of waste fraud and abuse. It's 6 days in and the trial finally touches on the fact that while Kathy was doing all this shit and bringing on her daughter and her daughter's buddy and making up loyalty oaths and misusing the state seal to glorify Kathy McGuiness, the thing she wasn't doing was her fucking job. Now that's not a crime, but it should be judged like one by the voters.
More witnesses on Day 6 of the Kathy McGuiness trial: more haters, more p-cards, and more hostile workplace environments. We also learn more about the man, the myth, the legend: Thomas Van Horn.

Five Planets Lined Up

A line of five planets will be visible during the early morning hours throughout the end of June, The best morning to look up will be June 24, three days…