052 The Erickson Report for April 21 to May 4

052 The Erickson Report for April 21 to May 4

This week:

 

Correction: Ketanji Brown Jackson

 

Julian Assange closer to being sent to US

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1516718259382464513
 

Constitutional convention

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/01/a-constitutional-convention-would-further-endanger-democracy-i-opinion.html
https://defendourconstitution.org/
 

"Bodily Autonomy" is abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/10/2090807/-Biden-s-proposed-budget-left-out-the-Hyde-Amendment-and-advocates-hope-it-stays-that-way
https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/12/state-policy-trends-2021-worst-year-abortion-rights-almost-half-century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women's_Health_Organization
https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why
https://www.azmirror.com/2022/04/20/states-rush-to-revise-their-abortion-laws-as-a-major-u-s-supreme-court-decision-nears/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/5/2090241/-Colorado-governor-signs-bill-guaranteeing-the-right-to-an-abortion-regardless-of-SCOTUS-decision
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/oregon-abortion-providers-gear-increased-demand-idaho-and-elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut  -  1965
https://www.newsweek.com/blackburn-says-scotus-ruling-protect-birth-control-couples-unsound-1690259
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/eisenstadt-v-baird-1972
https://wapo.st/3NyCcQX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not_speak_its_name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom#Decriminalisation_of_homosexual_acts
 

A fun question to ask anti-transgender folks
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-ketanji-brown-jackson-woman_n_624c9967e4b0d8266ab22274
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/6/2090386/-What-s-a-woman-Republicans-struggle-to-answer-their-own-gotcha-question
https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a.pdf
https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions/vaginal-agenesis
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/male-or-female
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/21/2087237/-Nonbinary-people-deserve-so-much-more
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/14/more-than-half-of-transgender-male-adolescents-attempt-suicide-study-says/
https://thefocusfoundation.org/x-y-chromosomal-variations/

Social panics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-modern-witch-hunt/2015/07/31/057effd8-2f1a-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
https://www.bizarrepedia.com/hysteria/
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/childcare-abuse-sex-offenders-satanic-panic/
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/182807

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-great-day-care-sexual-abuse-panic

Link to previous discussion of the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2022/03/050-erickson-report-for-march-17-to-30_66.html

051 The Erickson Report for March 31 to April 13

 

 

 

051 The Erickson Report for March 31 to April 13 

Issue 51 of The Erickson Report

- Some observations about the war in Ukraine

     Negotiations?

     Real cancel culture

- Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages

     Clowns: Sen. Rick Scott; Sen. Mike Braun; Irvington, NJ

     Outrage: SCOTUS takes another bite out of VRA

- Hero Award: Gov. Spencer Cox

- Noted in Passing

     states push to end limits on gay and bi men donating blood

     towns in western MA using alternatives to police on mental health crises

     the real reason for GOPper opposition to Ketanji Brown Jackson