Men often accompany women to their abortions. Now, they are getting sterilizations.

That regression of society didn't take long.

Men have surrendered.

They don't want unwanted children. Abortions are about the men as well as the woman. Pregnancies are not necessarily welcome by the man involved. That is a very big fact and reality of modern society.

June 29, 2022

By Meena Venkataramanan

Thomas Figueroa (click here) always knew he didn’t want children. Growing up in Central Florida, he remembers his classmates getting pregnant as early as middle school and had considered getting a vasectomy for the past few years.

But after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, he rushed to schedule one. He registered Monday for a vasectomy with Doug Stein, a Florida urologist known as the “Vasectomy King” for his advocacy of the procedure.

“It is something I put on the backburner of my mind until very recently, when the Supreme Court decision happened,” said Figueroa, 27, who lives in Tampa. “That was basically the triggering factor right there. It pushed my mind to say: ‘OK, I really do not want children. I’m going to get this vasectomy now.'”

Figueroa is not alone. Urologists told The Washington Post that they have seen a spike in requests for the procedure in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Stein said that before Friday, he received four or five vasectomy requests a day. Since the court’s decision was announced, that number has spiked to 12 to 18 requests per day.

“It was very, very noticeable Friday, and then the number that came in over the weekend was huge and the number that is still coming in far exceeds what we have experienced in the past,” Stein told The Post. “Many of the guys are saying that they have been thinking about a vasectomy for a while, and the Roe v. Wade decision was just that final factor that tipped them over the edge and made them submit the online registration.”

Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists names award winning journalists.

June 24, 2022

From breaking news coverage of Derek Chauvin’s conviction (click here) for murdering George Floyd to comprehensive investigations into police misconduct to in-depth reporting on COVID-19, the 2022 Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists (MNSPJ) highlighted the best of journalism during a challenging year.

Our Peter S. Popovich Award, given annually to the person or organization that best exemplifies the fight for First Amendment rights, went to Jared Goyette. Police fired a projectile at Goyette’s head while he was reporting on protests after Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd in 2020. 

Goyette, a freelance journalist at the time, wasn’t alone in being targeted. He and other injured journalists went on to serve as plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the city of Minneapolis, the Minnesota State Patrol and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Read more about Goyette’s story and the lawsuit here.

Deena Winter of Minnesota Reformer was named Journalist of the Year for strong reporting on police misconduct during protests after the murder of George Floyd, the bankruptcies of My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and more standout coverage. Judges noted the sheer scope of her reporting skills deserved “the highest praise.”...

If Alito isn't leaking decisions he is using the Shadow Docket to sink voting rights.

Over dissents from the three liberal Justices, #SCOTUS issues unsigned, unexplained shadow docket order putting Louisiana's congressional maps (which a district court blocked) back into effect and adding the case to the merits docket for next

The Louisiana congressional map is in violation according to the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

This may was vetoed by the Louisiana Governor.

February 18, 2022
By Wesley Muller, Julie O'Donoghue and JC Canicosa

The White Republican majority (click here) in the Louisiana Legislature exerted its influence on political redistricting with maps that maintain their control across a state that has grown increasingly diverse. Lawmakers concluded a special session Friday with the approval of new lines for Louisiana’s seats in Congress, keeping five majority-White districts and one majority-Black.

Updated maps for the state school board, Public Service Commission and the Louisiana House and Senate also kept the same share of minority districts, despite Census data that show Louisiana with a Black population of 33% and 40% of residents who identify as a minority.

To keep district lines where they want them, GOP legislators will likely have at least two more major hurdles to clear: possible vetoes from Gov. John Bel Edwards and lawsuits from civil rights and voter advocacy groups.

“I remain adamant that the maps should reflect the growth of the African American population in our state over the last 10 years, allowing for minority groups to have an opportunity at electing candidates of their own choosing,” Edwards said in a statement after lawmakers adjourned, “and I do have concerns that several of the maps do not fulfill that moral and legal requirement.”...

There is a method to solve the gerrymandering problem and was the method used before gerrymandering was invented. When the USA Census states there is a population increase there are more US Representatives added rather than manipulating the map. It is a method with respect as it provides more assistance to citizens than simply shifting the same number of US Representatives around the country. 

There are currently 435 US House of Representatives. There were not that many when there were 13 original states.

Hello, America. 

Cassidy Hutchinson has a full understanding of the federal government at it's highest levels.

“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”

— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2

She should consider runninng for office. She would be great.

Trump

“…great malice of forethought…”

Trump and any of his family, former cabinet and/or staff that continues to have national security access should be suspended until further notice. The exception to that is Former Vice President Pence and anyone providing truthful information to the January 6th Committee.

The USA Joint Chefs has the capacity to convene tribunals of personnel past and present that could be a national security threat.

Russian excuses for deaths in mall does not track with the truth.

June 28, 2022
By Paul D. Shinkman

Russia on Tuesday claimed its missile strike (click here) on a shopping mall in central Ukraine that killed more than a dozen civilians in fact hit a military munitions depot, defying international condemnation of an apparent war crime at a time Western countries supporting Kyiv are moving toward new strategies to break the increasingly deadly conflict there.

“The hangar was bombed, where European and American weapons and ammunition arrived,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday morning during a meeting with ministers of the Caspian states....

An earlier attack was on Kyiv's residential areas. It was this strike matched with that of the shopping mall that lead me to the conclusion the river was being used to hit the people of Ukraine. Both these strikes resulted in the death of children. That is genocide. It is completely indiscriminate in the place where the bombs land. If Russia does not have the capacity to avoid areas where innocent people and their children live, work, attend school and shop then Russia should not be conducting such attacks. To continue these strikes matched with the deaths since the beginning of Russia's illegal invasion dictates it is genocide.

June 26, 2022

...One person died and at least six were wounded (click here) in a Russian missile strike that hit a residential apartment block in Kyiv. The city’s Deputy Mayor, Volodymyr Bondarenko, said four of the injured were admitted to the hospital as search and rescue operations continue.

Bondarenko also said a kindergarten was hit in the missile strike but no one was injured, and video from Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a large missile funnel in the backyard of the kindergarten.

Those injured in the residential block included a 7-year-old girl, he said. Her mother, a 35-year-old woman named Katerina, was rescued from the rubble and put into an ambulance. She is a citizen of Russia, but had lived in Kyiv for a long time....

There is every reason to believe these strikes are facilitated by Belarus, especially along the river. If Belarus continues to support Putin's genocide it is as guilty as the Russian military and Putin himself.

These strikes coincides with NATO's meeting and additional sanctions. It could be inferred NATO is in Putin's sights and the USA is correct in putting more troops in Europe.

Something is going on with COVID-19.

There  (click here) is a significant increase of new cases, hospitalizations and 

deaths.

Michiganders are notorious for not using masks.

June 28, 2022

By Arjun Thakker

Over the last week, (click here) Michigan reported 14,353 new COVID-19 cases, an average of 2,050.4 per day, and 174 new deaths, according to data released Tuesday by the state health department.

The daily average for new cases increased by 34.4% compared to last week, and the daily average of new deaths represent a 152.2% increase from the previous report.

These increases are only for a six day week and not a full seven day week in Michigan.

Last week, the state changed its weekly data release from Wednesdays to Tuesdays, reporting only 6 days of cases and deaths for last week....

The Red State culture is just that much of a threat.

I thought, at the time the Supreme Court dissolved the right for every American woman to have a safe and legal abortion, which companies would regret their migration to states like Texas.

Now is an opportunity for Blue States to extend invitations to companies that may have left the state. The Republicans never thought it through as to what may happen in the wake of the practice and policy of extremism.

I am not surprised Governor Baker is looking to bring business back to Massachusetts or new business wanting to make the move. One of the reasons business in the USA flourishes is because of the large number of consumers, but, also because of freedom. Companies have less management concerns in the USA and are heard in DC to their hurdles to prosperity. Not that all decisions side with corporations, but, they do have a voice. 

Oppression; yes it is oppression; such as the cancelling of Roe v. Wade makes doing business and maintaining employees more difficult. Women employees will become less desirable. Women will find it more difficult to be employed. Pregnant women in the work place will be common place and will add to a negative impact on companies with medical and family leave. It is possible to drain an entire office if there are women all become pregnant at the same time. Don't say it can happen, the birth rate after a long electrical black out increases nine months later.

No one in their right minds will want to live in a state such as Texas where rights of citizens are fluid and chronically under threat. The Bible Belt of the USA has always been the highest level of poverty and now it is clear as to why.

June 28, 2022
By Susannah Sudborough

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (click here) said Monday that the state may “encourage” employers headquartered in states that have effectively outlawed abortion to relocate to or expand their operations in the Bay State, The Boston Globe reported.

Massachusetts has some of the strongest abortion protections in the country, and state lawmakers are considering doing more to defend the right to an abortion through funding for reproductive healthcare access, State House News Service (SHNS) reported Monday.

“I do believe that having listened to and heard from a lot of companies over the course of the past several days about what this decision means with respect to their workforces and their benefit plans, that .there may in fact be a big opportunity here for Massachusetts to encourage some employers to either come here or expand their footprint here, as we are a state that takes this issue seriously,” Baker said....