Thu, May 14 · 7:00 PM EDT
To all new people, our group is against Christian nationalism. Christian zoom bombers invaded our meetings until we were required to vet everyone who attends. Directions about how to get vetted are included after our meeting details below.
It seems that every month has a new avalanche of insane governmental actions destroying prior functional rights and/or norms. Two come from the Judiciary this month. The Supreme Court completed its systematic destruction of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, with it removal of the last vestiges of Section 2. At least one of the two Louisiana House of Representative districts now served by minority members will be reconfigured to eliminate that representation. This enables the raw racism supporting our current efforts to transition to authoritarianism. My guess is that there will be no minority Representatives from Louisiana in the next congress.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Friday, May 1, has issued an order ending all telemedicine mailings of mifepristone. The Supreme Court has for the moment stayed this order. Authoritarian regimes almost universally remove the reproductive rights of women. They think that where, how and women reproduce should be determined by men. I am continually outraged that the right-wing struggles so passionately to use Christian nationalism to turn women into reproductive livestock. The FDA is likely to weigh in on this issue with discredited science retracted from all journals in which they were published.
These two judiciary findings combined with the prior decision to allow the torture of LGBTQ people, oh, they want to call their torture “conversion therapy,” is sufficient to have only straight white males to be seen as real people with rights to be respected.
I am posting this on Star Wars Day. It is called that because May 4 sound a lot like the Star Wars theme, “May the force be with you.” Paul Krugman sees an unfortunate parrallel with the war with Iran. In Star Wars a scrappy small group with inferior weapons destroyed the Empire’s Death Star. Iran has excellent expertise with drones. Their rockets have been delivering a lot of damage to almost every vessel they targeted. They control the Strait of Hormuz and are shrugging off our repeated promises to inflict war crime level devastation on their country. We are unlikely to dislodge them without either a ground invasion that Americans passionately do not want or a diplomatic agreement where they get much more than our negotiators want to give them.
As usual the gutting of science and medicine and attempts to limit freedom of the press continues.
Will democracy and science and reason survive? We will see. We will cherish and support each other as we cope with these never ending tidal waves of madness. Let’s connect and share our thoughts on how to find our joy and nurture it in others until sanity returns.
For all new people – Only vetted secular people will receive the meeting links with a separate email. Please see the instructions at the end of this post. Our meetings are much more pleasurable without Christian trolls zoom booming our discussions. The vetting is worth the effort.
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Our meetings have become a target for organized zoom bombing. Our major topic of discussion has been Christian nationalism and its hideous impacts across America. They have good reason to try to force us to stop our meetings. This requires us to work to preclude militant religious extremists from wrecking our meetings.
We will not post the zoom link for our meeting. The zoom link information will be delivered by email or direct personal messaging to trusted attendees only. I am now comfortable that this procedure works well enough so that a zoom waiting room will not be required.
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--People can UNSUBSCRIBE by replying to a future zoom invite with UNSUB in the subject line.
