News Roundup: The Republicans that killed Roe head for cover; Putin's hollow army fails again
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The now-telegraphed likely end of federal abortion rights in the United States continues to send the Republican politicians who have plotted that end for decades scurrying for cover; abortion rights remain overwhelmingly popular in this country, despite decades of demonization efforts by far-right theocrats, and the party must now turn its ample hoax-crafting powers on inventing reasons the public should not blame them for the very outcome that Senate Republicans and state lawmakers have devoted their professional lives to bringing about.
National media continues to struggle as well, with political reporters spending more of their time fluffing stories about the indignity of the Supreme Court leaking the draft decision than about the bizarre nature of an Alito decision that scrubs centuries of recognized abortion rights to replace them with eugenics-premised theories and the legal musings of a ravingly misogynistic British witch-hunter.
It may be fitting that the continued constriction of American civil rights is met yet again with media befuddlement and political dissembling, but it doesn’t make it any easier to stomach. Some of today’s news:
- Amazon. Google. Coca-Cola. These are some of the companies that funded the end of Roe v. Wade
- Swing-state Democrats go on offense on abortion rights as Senate Republicans dive for the bunkers
- Matt Gaetz calls women upset about Roe reversal ‘over-educated, under-loved millennials’
- Alito cites racist eugenics theory to support overturn of Roe v. Wade
- Texas provides a chilling glimpse into our post-Roe future
- McConnell has never been so desperate to change the subject as with his Supreme Court gutting Roe
The ground situation in Ukraine continues to be largely stagnant, with battered Russian forces accomplishing not much while their superiors hunt for a Putin-pleasing miracle (or war crimes that could be bent to serve as such):
- Russia tries to counter Ukraine’s counterattack … and fails
- Mapping positions at the start of day 70