I have seen a lot of Ableism reporting about the Fetterman-Oz debate. Take this horrendous piece of reporting, for example, from senior political reporter at Huffington Post, Daniel Marans. John Fetterman Struggles To Defend Himself In Debate With Mehmet Oz (snippet): Those struggles were apparent in Tuesday night’s debate while his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, … Read more
Vox.com reported, State-level Republicans are going all in on extreme anti-trans, anti-abortion laws: Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are taking up anti-trans and anti-abortion bills at a shocking rate, as lawmakers seize on an enforcement mechanism first tested by Texas’s SB 8. Multiple states — including Florida, Idaho, Texas — and Arizona — have … Read more
Supreme Court Justices have spent their break trying to convince Americans that they are not political, that they are ethereal beings who are above it all. Also, trying to convince themselves that their shit doesn’t stink. It has not gone well, because Americans know that they are being lied to and played for fools. In … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court began the week last Monday with a couple of technical criminal sentencing cases. Greer v. United States is a case about what kind of argument the defendant needs to make in cases alleging that he is a felon in possession of a gun after the Court’s ruling in Rehaif v. United … Read more
Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more