{"id":59460,"date":"2022-07-18T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=59460"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:54:24","slug":"postcards-from-the-class-culture-wars-7-18-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2022\/07\/18\/postcards-from-the-class-culture-wars-7-18-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the class & culture wars (7.18.22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cWell, the Establishment Clause had a good run<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of today, you have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney\u2026 but the police have no obligation to respect those rights and you have no avenue to enforce them<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the legislature and the attorney general, crack open your history books \u2014 the Supreme Court has a new standard if it wasn\u2019t done back then we can\u2019t do it now<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the law in Arizona is worse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we saw a patient in Dayton who has cancer. Her doctors told her she would have to terminate before she received chemotherapy treatment. She will have to travel to Indiana<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMunoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion \u2014 the usual standard of care \u2014 would have been illegal under Texas law<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis all goes back to the fact that we don\u2019t trust women<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cResidents in the town of Millinocket, Maine, say they are outraged and disappointed after a local insurance agency displayed a racist sign remarking on the Juneteenth holiday<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut by the time that training was ordered, the officer had been involved in the killing of another African-American man<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all ok but we\u2019re angry, very very angry<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, you know, I don\u2019t want to be afraid for the rest of my life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Republican Study Committee\u2019s plan were implemented<\/a>, Social Security and Medicare would be partially privatized, food stamps would be slashed, Head Start would be phased out, Medicaid funding would be decimated, the Affordable Care Act would be weakened, labor unions would be undermined, the EPA would be gutted, abortion would be banned, birthright citizenship would be eliminated, Donald Trump\u2019s border wall would be funded, and even the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would see its doors permanently closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cArizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn said Arizona communities would \u2018collapse\u2019 without cheap prison labor<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch an investigation should also examine the intolerable activity of retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and how his actions were aided by Governor Bryan<\/a>t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd even the contender who has garnered mainstream support had an \u2018admittedly lame\u2019 hobby acting in low-budget horror pictures, one of which included a zombie biting off a man\u2019s genitals<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe furry days are over when I\u2019m governor<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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