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May 6, 2022
Zoe Lofgren, on Ari Melber, said the Jan 6 Committee won't have even an interim report until fall.
Fall technically doesn't even end until mid-late December.
If the DoJ is waiting for the Jan 6 Committee's final report to start to really drill down (as I have seen many on here claim), it likely will not start until 2023. By then there may well be a Rethug-controlled House and/or Senate spraying a firehose of fuckbaggery 24-7 and causing mass chaos.
I so hope the DoJ does not wait until then. I was really wishing they would crank up the seditionist lawnmower as soon the House hearings were over.
May 6, 2022
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/happening-movie-review
The lede of this review looked different when I started writing the piece Monday afternoon. I was going to write about how Happening was a little film that could, one that beat Oscar-nominated giants like The Power of the Dog for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival last year. Then, on Monday night, Politico revealed that the Supreme Court had decided to overturn Roe v. Wade in a leaked decision written by Justice Samuel Alito. The decision would hand abortion rights back to the states, which means that in many places across the U.S. the act would be totally banned.
Suddenly, writing about a film that chronicles what it looks like when abortion is criminalized took on an entirely new meaning. This weekend, in select theaters, you can go see Happening, a film by Audrey Diwan. It's an unflinching look at one young woman's attempt to get an abortion in 1960s France, when the likely result was either death from a botched procedure or jail if caught. Diwan is bravely unsentimental in her telling of the story, and she chillingly refuses to look away when her heroine's body is pushed to extremes all for something that should be a right.
Based on a novel by Annie Ernaux, Happening centers on Anne, played with searing intensity by Anamaria Vartolomei, a driven college student studying literature. When she finds out she's pregnant she sees her future slipping away, and decides to find an abortion despite the draconian laws in place. She searches for a way to abort with the same vibrating tenor with which she formerly attended to her studies. Her quest becomes her sole focus, her dreams of an independent life slipping away in more ways than one as the academics she once excelled at elude her. Vartolomei wide, piercing blue eyes convey that determination whether she's approaching doctors who urge her to stay silent or deliberately undermine her or sticking a needle inside her body.
By training her camera almost entirely on Vartolomei, Diwan conveys the extent of oppression at play. As the film progresses you can feel the toll the culture of silence is taking on this woman. Her friends fearlessly talk about sex but dare not discuss what happens if you get pregnant as a result of it. When Anne finally does find an abortion provider, the woman orders her to remain entirely quiet for fear of being found out. Diwan films the procedure in its entirety, and the audience witnesses it through Anne's own perspective. We see her legs twitch as the tools enter further up her uterus, her body screams in pain but she stays as mute as possible.
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Go See 'Happening,' the French Abortion Drama That's a Glimpse at Our Future
The film takes place in the '60s, but it's oh so relevant to today.https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/happening-movie-review
The lede of this review looked different when I started writing the piece Monday afternoon. I was going to write about how Happening was a little film that could, one that beat Oscar-nominated giants like The Power of the Dog for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival last year. Then, on Monday night, Politico revealed that the Supreme Court had decided to overturn Roe v. Wade in a leaked decision written by Justice Samuel Alito. The decision would hand abortion rights back to the states, which means that in many places across the U.S. the act would be totally banned.
Suddenly, writing about a film that chronicles what it looks like when abortion is criminalized took on an entirely new meaning. This weekend, in select theaters, you can go see Happening, a film by Audrey Diwan. It's an unflinching look at one young woman's attempt to get an abortion in 1960s France, when the likely result was either death from a botched procedure or jail if caught. Diwan is bravely unsentimental in her telling of the story, and she chillingly refuses to look away when her heroine's body is pushed to extremes all for something that should be a right.
Based on a novel by Annie Ernaux, Happening centers on Anne, played with searing intensity by Anamaria Vartolomei, a driven college student studying literature. When she finds out she's pregnant she sees her future slipping away, and decides to find an abortion despite the draconian laws in place. She searches for a way to abort with the same vibrating tenor with which she formerly attended to her studies. Her quest becomes her sole focus, her dreams of an independent life slipping away in more ways than one as the academics she once excelled at elude her. Vartolomei wide, piercing blue eyes convey that determination whether she's approaching doctors who urge her to stay silent or deliberately undermine her or sticking a needle inside her body.
By training her camera almost entirely on Vartolomei, Diwan conveys the extent of oppression at play. As the film progresses you can feel the toll the culture of silence is taking on this woman. Her friends fearlessly talk about sex but dare not discuss what happens if you get pregnant as a result of it. When Anne finally does find an abortion provider, the woman orders her to remain entirely quiet for fear of being found out. Diwan films the procedure in its entirety, and the audience witnesses it through Anne's own perspective. We see her legs twitch as the tools enter further up her uterus, her body screams in pain but she stays as mute as possible.
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May 6, 2022
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/susan-collins-womens-health-protection-act-roe-v-wade
Earlier this week, Republican senator Susan Collins claimed to be shocked and dismayed at the draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Specifically, the Maine lawmaker was beside herself at the idea that Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had misled her about their positions on the landmark ruling during their Supreme Court confirmations. Collins, you see, was one of the only people on the planet—along with her colleague Lisa Murkowski— who thought that the two conservative justices, nominated by a president who vowed to exclusively appoint judges who would overturn Roe, would not, in fact, overturn Roe. (While the votes could change, Politico reported that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had preliminarily agreed with the majority to strike down the 1973 decision after hearing oral arguments last December.) “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” Collins said in a statement.
Given how angry the lawmaker was about having apparently been lied to, how much she supposedly cares about preserving the right to an abortion, and how the whole thing blew up in her face so embarrassingly, you might think she’d be doing everything in her power right now to prevent such a right from being axed. But you would be very wrong! In addition to saying Tuesday that she would not support abolishing the filibuster to allow the Senate to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade ASAP, Collins declared on Thursday that she would vote “no” on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would establish the statutory right to an abortion and is expected to be voted on by lawmakers next week. Why? According to Collins, it just recognizes too many rights for pregnant people. “It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” she told reporters when asked about her support of the bill, adding: “It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1522264285824663554
Incidentally, according to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Collins’s claims about what the bill would do—and her excuse for not voting for it—are completely unfounded. “Some are saying that this legislation would tell hospitals—certain religious hospitals—that they have to perform abortions,” he said at a press conference without referring to Collins by name. “That is simply not true. This bill simply gives providers the statutory right to provide abortion care without medically unnecessary restrictions. That’s plain and simple. So this rumor is false.”
Obviously, the larger issue here is the question of how Collins continues to get away with claiming to be pro-choice while refusing to support measures to enshrine reproductive rights into law. While she and Murkowski are sponsoring their own bill called the Reproductive Choice Act, it is much more narrow than the the Women’s Health Protection Act, and Democrats, according to The Washington Post, believe it contains loopholes that would allow states like Mississippi to ban abortion after 15 weeks. As Slate’s Christina Cauterucci wrote on Wednesday: “To Collins, the dissolution of the precedent that has saved countless lives and allowed generations of women to pursue lives, careers, and parenthood on their own terms was never going to be an urgent human rights crisis, a worst-case scenario worth setting aside one’s personal interests to avoid. It will be, for her, a fleeting disappointment. Or at least the affectation of one.”
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Susan Collins Says No to Democrats Abortion-Rights Bill Because It Contains Too Many Abortion Rights
The Maine lawmaker continues to insist she is pro-choice, however.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/susan-collins-womens-health-protection-act-roe-v-wade
Earlier this week, Republican senator Susan Collins claimed to be shocked and dismayed at the draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Specifically, the Maine lawmaker was beside herself at the idea that Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had misled her about their positions on the landmark ruling during their Supreme Court confirmations. Collins, you see, was one of the only people on the planet—along with her colleague Lisa Murkowski— who thought that the two conservative justices, nominated by a president who vowed to exclusively appoint judges who would overturn Roe, would not, in fact, overturn Roe. (While the votes could change, Politico reported that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had preliminarily agreed with the majority to strike down the 1973 decision after hearing oral arguments last December.) “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” Collins said in a statement.
Given how angry the lawmaker was about having apparently been lied to, how much she supposedly cares about preserving the right to an abortion, and how the whole thing blew up in her face so embarrassingly, you might think she’d be doing everything in her power right now to prevent such a right from being axed. But you would be very wrong! In addition to saying Tuesday that she would not support abolishing the filibuster to allow the Senate to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade ASAP, Collins declared on Thursday that she would vote “no” on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would establish the statutory right to an abortion and is expected to be voted on by lawmakers next week. Why? According to Collins, it just recognizes too many rights for pregnant people. “It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” she told reporters when asked about her support of the bill, adding: “It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1522264285824663554
Incidentally, according to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Collins’s claims about what the bill would do—and her excuse for not voting for it—are completely unfounded. “Some are saying that this legislation would tell hospitals—certain religious hospitals—that they have to perform abortions,” he said at a press conference without referring to Collins by name. “That is simply not true. This bill simply gives providers the statutory right to provide abortion care without medically unnecessary restrictions. That’s plain and simple. So this rumor is false.”
Obviously, the larger issue here is the question of how Collins continues to get away with claiming to be pro-choice while refusing to support measures to enshrine reproductive rights into law. While she and Murkowski are sponsoring their own bill called the Reproductive Choice Act, it is much more narrow than the the Women’s Health Protection Act, and Democrats, according to The Washington Post, believe it contains loopholes that would allow states like Mississippi to ban abortion after 15 weeks. As Slate’s Christina Cauterucci wrote on Wednesday: “To Collins, the dissolution of the precedent that has saved countless lives and allowed generations of women to pursue lives, careers, and parenthood on their own terms was never going to be an urgent human rights crisis, a worst-case scenario worth setting aside one’s personal interests to avoid. It will be, for her, a fleeting disappointment. Or at least the affectation of one.”
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May 6, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/06/transgender-men-nonbinary-people-abortion-roe/
In the days since Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, conversations about women’s reproductive health have abounded. But many transgender men and trans-masculine nonbinary people say they feel left out of the conversation.
On Tuesday, Alex Petrovnia, 25, took to Twitter to express his frustration. “It is so bitter to be excluded from conversations about reproductive care as a trans man, especially as we have been raising the alarms for this very eventuality for years,” he wrote.
https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1521483386359062529
About a year ago, Petrovnia founded the Trans Formations Project, an organization that provides information about anti-trans legislation and helps individuals identify which state representatives to contact. “For trans people, the crisis has been ongoing,” Petrovnia said in an interview.
Access to reproductive health care is a matter very close to Petrovnia, he said: He and his husband, who is also a trans man, have been trying to get hysterectomies for the past two years. With an impending move to St. Louis, Petrovnia feels it’s crucial that they get them now.
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Transgender advocates say the end of Roe would have dire consequences
Many trans men and nonbinary people say they feel left out of the abortion conversationhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/06/transgender-men-nonbinary-people-abortion-roe/
In the days since Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, conversations about women’s reproductive health have abounded. But many transgender men and trans-masculine nonbinary people say they feel left out of the conversation.
On Tuesday, Alex Petrovnia, 25, took to Twitter to express his frustration. “It is so bitter to be excluded from conversations about reproductive care as a trans man, especially as we have been raising the alarms for this very eventuality for years,” he wrote.
https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1521483386359062529
About a year ago, Petrovnia founded the Trans Formations Project, an organization that provides information about anti-trans legislation and helps individuals identify which state representatives to contact. “For trans people, the crisis has been ongoing,” Petrovnia said in an interview.
Access to reproductive health care is a matter very close to Petrovnia, he said: He and his husband, who is also a trans man, have been trying to get hysterectomies for the past two years. With an impending move to St. Louis, Petrovnia feels it’s crucial that they get them now.
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May 6, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/us-politics-threats-violence-harassment/629739/
By now, the stories are familiar. Most, though not all, start on social media: a post on Facebook or Twitter identifies a name, and then the threats begin. Shortly after the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theorists focused on a video of a voting-machine technician at work in Gwinnett County, Georgia. One Twitter user published the young man’s name, declaring him “guilty of treason,” along with, according to the Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, an animation of a swaying noose. Around that same time, Ruby Freeman, another Georgia election worker, received a flood of menacing emails, texts, and phone calls from people convinced that she had worked to steal the election from Donald Trump, leading her to leave her home and spend months fleeing from house to house. Health-care workers, too, have faced threats. In the fall of 2021, Allison Berry, a local health officer in Washington State, stopped going into the office out of caution following a wave of harassment—including a protest at her former home address—over mask and vaccination requirements imposed in her county.
The federal government appears to be paying attention. In June 2021, the Department of Justice announced the launch of a task force responsible for investigating the sharp increase in threats against election workers. Just four months later, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland directed federal law-enforcement officials to work with state and local authorities in addressing violent harassment of school-board members and public-school employees. And two weeks after that, an association of nearly 3,000 public-health departments wrote to Garland asking him to turn the department’s attention toward a comparable surge in threats against health-care workers.
This new focus by the Justice Department on harassment around the country—and the plea by health departments for the federal government to direct even more resources toward the problem—reflects how the ties of basic decency holding American civic life together have become seriously frayed. According to The New York Times, more than 500 top health officials have quit their job since the beginning of the pandemic, many of whom cited threats and intimidation as a decisive factor. One 2021 survey by the publication Education Week found that 60 percent of principals and school administrators said that their employees had been threatened within the past year over the schools’ handling of the coronavirus crisis. And increased violence, or the threat of violence, has also spread to areas of life that might not usually be inflected by politics. The Federal Aviation Administration tallied almost 6,000 reports of “unruly passengers” in 2021, compared with fewer than 150 in 2019. Service workers have struggled to calm dyspeptic customers.
Americans have a tendency to use the Civil War as a measuring stick of sorts for how bad political divides have become. If the acrimony is bad enough, it’s equivalent to reliving 1861; if half the nation hasn’t yet seceded, perhaps we’ll be all right. But the current vogue for harassment is a reminder that violence doesn’t have to take the form of a shooting war with armed militaries or militias to corrode civic life.
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The Great Rage
Vicious political disagreement is seeping into every corner of life.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/us-politics-threats-violence-harassment/629739/
By now, the stories are familiar. Most, though not all, start on social media: a post on Facebook or Twitter identifies a name, and then the threats begin. Shortly after the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theorists focused on a video of a voting-machine technician at work in Gwinnett County, Georgia. One Twitter user published the young man’s name, declaring him “guilty of treason,” along with, according to the Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, an animation of a swaying noose. Around that same time, Ruby Freeman, another Georgia election worker, received a flood of menacing emails, texts, and phone calls from people convinced that she had worked to steal the election from Donald Trump, leading her to leave her home and spend months fleeing from house to house. Health-care workers, too, have faced threats. In the fall of 2021, Allison Berry, a local health officer in Washington State, stopped going into the office out of caution following a wave of harassment—including a protest at her former home address—over mask and vaccination requirements imposed in her county.
The federal government appears to be paying attention. In June 2021, the Department of Justice announced the launch of a task force responsible for investigating the sharp increase in threats against election workers. Just four months later, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland directed federal law-enforcement officials to work with state and local authorities in addressing violent harassment of school-board members and public-school employees. And two weeks after that, an association of nearly 3,000 public-health departments wrote to Garland asking him to turn the department’s attention toward a comparable surge in threats against health-care workers.
This new focus by the Justice Department on harassment around the country—and the plea by health departments for the federal government to direct even more resources toward the problem—reflects how the ties of basic decency holding American civic life together have become seriously frayed. According to The New York Times, more than 500 top health officials have quit their job since the beginning of the pandemic, many of whom cited threats and intimidation as a decisive factor. One 2021 survey by the publication Education Week found that 60 percent of principals and school administrators said that their employees had been threatened within the past year over the schools’ handling of the coronavirus crisis. And increased violence, or the threat of violence, has also spread to areas of life that might not usually be inflected by politics. The Federal Aviation Administration tallied almost 6,000 reports of “unruly passengers” in 2021, compared with fewer than 150 in 2019. Service workers have struggled to calm dyspeptic customers.
Americans have a tendency to use the Civil War as a measuring stick of sorts for how bad political divides have become. If the acrimony is bad enough, it’s equivalent to reliving 1861; if half the nation hasn’t yet seceded, perhaps we’ll be all right. But the current vogue for harassment is a reminder that violence doesn’t have to take the form of a shooting war with armed militaries or militias to corrode civic life.
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May 6, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/roe-abortion-supreme-court-republican-divide/629768/
The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion presents a major setback for reproductive freedom in America and offers a potential jolt to the upcoming midterm elections. But it also illuminates another, deeper phenomenon in American politics: the urgency and ambition of the Republican drive to lock into law the cultural priorities of its preponderantly white, Christian, and older electoral coalition at a moment of rapid demographic change.
The fundamental divide in our politics today is between those voters and places most comfortable with the demographic and cultural changes remaking 21st-century America and those most hostile to them—what I’ve called the Democratic “coalition of transformation” and the Republican “coalition of restoration.” A decision overturning Roe v. Wade—especially on the sweeping grounds in Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that was leaked to Politico—would sharpen the confrontation between these two coalitions.
Adam Serwer: Alito’s plan to repeal the 20th century
Alito’s draft, if finalized, would place the GOP-appointed Supreme Court majority firmly on a collision course with the priorities and preferences of the racially and culturally diverse younger generations born since 1980, who now constitute a majority of all Americans and who overwhelmingly support abortion rights. It would amplify the already accelerating divergence in the basic civil rights and liberties available to red-state versus blue-state Americans—and not just regarding abortion. It would also solidify the transition toward a political system in which culture, not class, is the principal dividing line between the parties.
That last shift, which President Donald Trump hastened with his overt appeals to the racial and social grievances of the most culturally conservative white Americans, has fueled the increasing volatility and belligerence of modern politics—and it only stands to intensify. Lynn Vavreck, a political-science professor at UCLA, told me she believes that attitudes about cultural change and American identity have already emerged as the principal point of separation between the parties, displacing the New Deal economic issues that dominated for decades after the Great Depression and World War II. But Vavreck says a decision overturning Roe will keep abortion and other social issues center stage and cement the transition toward a polarized politics focused on cultural differences.
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America's Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker
As abortion rights are rolled back in certain states, the gap between the country’s two dominant political coalitions will widen.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/roe-abortion-supreme-court-republican-divide/629768/
The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion presents a major setback for reproductive freedom in America and offers a potential jolt to the upcoming midterm elections. But it also illuminates another, deeper phenomenon in American politics: the urgency and ambition of the Republican drive to lock into law the cultural priorities of its preponderantly white, Christian, and older electoral coalition at a moment of rapid demographic change.
The fundamental divide in our politics today is between those voters and places most comfortable with the demographic and cultural changes remaking 21st-century America and those most hostile to them—what I’ve called the Democratic “coalition of transformation” and the Republican “coalition of restoration.” A decision overturning Roe v. Wade—especially on the sweeping grounds in Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that was leaked to Politico—would sharpen the confrontation between these two coalitions.
Adam Serwer: Alito’s plan to repeal the 20th century
Alito’s draft, if finalized, would place the GOP-appointed Supreme Court majority firmly on a collision course with the priorities and preferences of the racially and culturally diverse younger generations born since 1980, who now constitute a majority of all Americans and who overwhelmingly support abortion rights. It would amplify the already accelerating divergence in the basic civil rights and liberties available to red-state versus blue-state Americans—and not just regarding abortion. It would also solidify the transition toward a political system in which culture, not class, is the principal dividing line between the parties.
That last shift, which President Donald Trump hastened with his overt appeals to the racial and social grievances of the most culturally conservative white Americans, has fueled the increasing volatility and belligerence of modern politics—and it only stands to intensify. Lynn Vavreck, a political-science professor at UCLA, told me she believes that attitudes about cultural change and American identity have already emerged as the principal point of separation between the parties, displacing the New Deal economic issues that dominated for decades after the Great Depression and World War II. But Vavreck says a decision overturning Roe will keep abortion and other social issues center stage and cement the transition toward a polarized politics focused on cultural differences.
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May 6, 2022
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/teacher-appreciation-week-food-deals
It’s not easy to be a teacher. It wouldn’t be easy even if there weren’t outside forces making it exceptionally hard. Overbearing parents. Foundations with deep pockets vilifying teacher unions. School boards making life unnecessarily hard. Lawmakers imposing a political agenda. Budget cuts (which lead to things like underpaid teachers buying their own supplies for students). Oh yeah, and a pandemic. It’s a tough job, and though we love to say we appreciate teachers, most certainly deserve more of that appreciation. So, we have Teacher Appreciation Week every May. It’s a week where students make cards, parents are on the best behavior, and restaurants and companies across the country serve up deals honoring the nation’s hard-working teachers. We’ve done the homework and pulled together some of the best offers for teachers taking place over the next week.
Here are all the places teachers will find deals during Teacher Appreciation Week.
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a lot more deals at the link
Everywhere Teachers Can Get Free & Cheap Food for Teacher Appreciation Week
Teachers always deserve a little extra gratitude. Teacher Appreciation Week is your chance to offer it to them.https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/teacher-appreciation-week-food-deals
It’s not easy to be a teacher. It wouldn’t be easy even if there weren’t outside forces making it exceptionally hard. Overbearing parents. Foundations with deep pockets vilifying teacher unions. School boards making life unnecessarily hard. Lawmakers imposing a political agenda. Budget cuts (which lead to things like underpaid teachers buying their own supplies for students). Oh yeah, and a pandemic. It’s a tough job, and though we love to say we appreciate teachers, most certainly deserve more of that appreciation. So, we have Teacher Appreciation Week every May. It’s a week where students make cards, parents are on the best behavior, and restaurants and companies across the country serve up deals honoring the nation’s hard-working teachers. We’ve done the homework and pulled together some of the best offers for teachers taking place over the next week.
Here are all the places teachers will find deals during Teacher Appreciation Week.
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a lot more deals at the link
May 6, 2022
Ca' di Rajo Prosecco di Treviso Brut (superb wine for only 10 or 12 usd)
Prosecco DOC Treviso Brut stands out for its marked elegance and for its fruity and floral aromas. Ideal for those looking for a dry but pleasant sparkling wine. Complex aroma, with hints of banana, pineapple, wildflowers and bread crust. In the mouth it enhances fruity nuances of apple and pear, supported by a good flavor.
https://www.cadirajo.it/it/prodotto/prosecco-doc-treviso-brut/
Cantina Colli del Soligo 'SOLICUM' Prosecco Biologico Treviso DOC Brut (around 10 usd as well, another great wine)
The Organic Prosecco Treviso DOC Brut comes from the processing of grapes from two vineyards located in the municipalities of Arcade and Nervesa. The land guarantees maximum sun exposure. The breezy climate and the temperature range between night and day allow to obtain a good acid component, important for conferring the typical freshness of sparkling Prosecco. The vines are cultivated following the Organic disciplinary. The grape harvest is manual and takes place in September. As soon as they arrive in the cellar, the bunches are pressed and the must fermented in order to obtain the base wine.This is followed by the sparkling process carried out following the Charmat method in an autoclave.
https://www.collisoligoshop.com/prosecco-doc-treviso/biologico-brut-solicum.html
Pizzeria Da Ezio (from the video) is in a small village right off the Piave river (Veneto region) called Alano di Piave.
That whole area some some of the best food in the world, it is not that crowded, the prices are decent, and so many of the owners are fanatical multi-generational artisanal chefs, obsessive with their local sourcing. It is also a major wine region, with gorgeous natural scenery (Venetian Dolomites, etc). They have eco-tourism all up and down the region.
http://www.pizzeriadaezio.it/
The Land of Piave River: an Italian journey among food, history and poetry
https://thinkingnomads.com/2016/12/land-piave-river-italian-journey-among-food-history-poetry/
‘Classes for teetotallers’ was the first sign I spotted in Italian region Veneto. People here take wine quite seriously, and if you don’t love it already you will learn. I did in six days. My journey in the land of Piave river started with a glass in my hand in a charming inn near Jesolo. It was ‘Ai Pescatori’ in Cortelazzo, an ancient fishermen hamlet where time stands still and on the river still float the traditional colourful boats. Many fishermen still uses ancient fishing techniques, with huge nets and old scales holding the same old mechanisms.
But let’s get back to the real protagonist: the wine. The first stop-over you shouldn’t miss is in the province of Treviso, in Zenson di Piave, where the farm Barbaran made a little miracle and recovered the almost extinct grape variety Rabosina and now makes an excellent wine out of it.
Wine being a sacred thing becomes obvious in the land of Prosecco, between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. Here you may stumble upon the Knights of Prosecco (Cavalieri del Prosecco), a brotherhood founded in 1946 in Valdobbiadene. Today this group goes through its third generation and keeps promoting and safeguarding the local wine production, exalting the tradition and networking among companies and organizations.
Leaving the hills and moving towards the Piave you will enter the land much beloved by Ernest Hemingway, so deeply impressed by this area’s beauty that he called himself ‘a lower Piave boy’ in one of his books. Here is also where the author, a Red Cross volunteer during the First World War, had been seriously wounded. Many are the poets and writers that here lived and worked, surrounded by a stunning peacefulness which nowadays one can still feel in the faint little houses and the green landscapes.
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Prosecco, pizza, and the Piave river region in Veneto, Italy 💙
Prosecco DOC and Denis Lovatel's Pizzeria da Ezio | Prosecco Loves Pizza - [IT SUB EN]Ca' di Rajo Prosecco di Treviso Brut (superb wine for only 10 or 12 usd)
Prosecco DOC Treviso Brut stands out for its marked elegance and for its fruity and floral aromas. Ideal for those looking for a dry but pleasant sparkling wine. Complex aroma, with hints of banana, pineapple, wildflowers and bread crust. In the mouth it enhances fruity nuances of apple and pear, supported by a good flavor.
https://www.cadirajo.it/it/prodotto/prosecco-doc-treviso-brut/
Cantina Colli del Soligo 'SOLICUM' Prosecco Biologico Treviso DOC Brut (around 10 usd as well, another great wine)
The Organic Prosecco Treviso DOC Brut comes from the processing of grapes from two vineyards located in the municipalities of Arcade and Nervesa. The land guarantees maximum sun exposure. The breezy climate and the temperature range between night and day allow to obtain a good acid component, important for conferring the typical freshness of sparkling Prosecco. The vines are cultivated following the Organic disciplinary. The grape harvest is manual and takes place in September. As soon as they arrive in the cellar, the bunches are pressed and the must fermented in order to obtain the base wine.This is followed by the sparkling process carried out following the Charmat method in an autoclave.
https://www.collisoligoshop.com/prosecco-doc-treviso/biologico-brut-solicum.html
Pizzeria Da Ezio (from the video) is in a small village right off the Piave river (Veneto region) called Alano di Piave.
That whole area some some of the best food in the world, it is not that crowded, the prices are decent, and so many of the owners are fanatical multi-generational artisanal chefs, obsessive with their local sourcing. It is also a major wine region, with gorgeous natural scenery (Venetian Dolomites, etc). They have eco-tourism all up and down the region.
http://www.pizzeriadaezio.it/
The Land of Piave River: an Italian journey among food, history and poetry
https://thinkingnomads.com/2016/12/land-piave-river-italian-journey-among-food-history-poetry/
‘Classes for teetotallers’ was the first sign I spotted in Italian region Veneto. People here take wine quite seriously, and if you don’t love it already you will learn. I did in six days. My journey in the land of Piave river started with a glass in my hand in a charming inn near Jesolo. It was ‘Ai Pescatori’ in Cortelazzo, an ancient fishermen hamlet where time stands still and on the river still float the traditional colourful boats. Many fishermen still uses ancient fishing techniques, with huge nets and old scales holding the same old mechanisms.
But let’s get back to the real protagonist: the wine. The first stop-over you shouldn’t miss is in the province of Treviso, in Zenson di Piave, where the farm Barbaran made a little miracle and recovered the almost extinct grape variety Rabosina and now makes an excellent wine out of it.
Wine being a sacred thing becomes obvious in the land of Prosecco, between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. Here you may stumble upon the Knights of Prosecco (Cavalieri del Prosecco), a brotherhood founded in 1946 in Valdobbiadene. Today this group goes through its third generation and keeps promoting and safeguarding the local wine production, exalting the tradition and networking among companies and organizations.
Leaving the hills and moving towards the Piave you will enter the land much beloved by Ernest Hemingway, so deeply impressed by this area’s beauty that he called himself ‘a lower Piave boy’ in one of his books. Here is also where the author, a Red Cross volunteer during the First World War, had been seriously wounded. Many are the poets and writers that here lived and worked, surrounded by a stunning peacefulness which nowadays one can still feel in the faint little houses and the green landscapes.
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May 6, 2022
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of two prominent Republican senators who support abortion rights, said Thursday that she does not support a Democratic measure that would create statutory right to the procedure, arguing that the legislation does not provide sufficient protection to antiabortion health providers.
The statement from Collins comes as the Senate is preparing to vote next week on the legislation, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, and as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a woman’s right to an abortion.
“It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” Collins told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday when asked whether she supports the bill authored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). She added: “It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.”
The measure appears headed for failure with or without Collins’s support, since 60 senators would need to vote “yes” to overcome a filibuster. Democrats hold a slim majority with 50 seats in the chamber and Vice President Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Public polling shows a majority of Americans support the right to abortion in most instances.
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BOB MARLEY & THE WAILING WAILERS - Hypocrites [1967]
Susan Collins voices opposition to Democratic legislation to create a statutory right to abortion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/05/sen-collins-voices-opposition-legislation-that-would-create-statutory-right-abortion/Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of two prominent Republican senators who support abortion rights, said Thursday that she does not support a Democratic measure that would create statutory right to the procedure, arguing that the legislation does not provide sufficient protection to antiabortion health providers.
The statement from Collins comes as the Senate is preparing to vote next week on the legislation, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, and as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a woman’s right to an abortion.
“It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” Collins told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday when asked whether she supports the bill authored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). She added: “It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.”
The measure appears headed for failure with or without Collins’s support, since 60 senators would need to vote “yes” to overcome a filibuster. Democrats hold a slim majority with 50 seats in the chamber and Vice President Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Public polling shows a majority of Americans support the right to abortion in most instances.
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BOB MARLEY & THE WAILING WAILERS - Hypocrites [1967]
May 6, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/red-state-abortion-ban-help-people-move/629756/
For much of American history, freedom from an oppressive legal system could be found by picking up and leaving. During the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans abandoned the Jim Crow South for the North, Midwest, and West; at a smaller scale, LGBTQ people have long fled communities where they felt unwelcome for liberal cities. On some level, Americans—with our unique system of federalism—have always voted with our feet.
The ability to move is especially important at this moment, as the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, empowering state governments to determine the abortion rights of millions. If abortion does indeed become a state-level issue, it will join a host of other civil rights and benefits that depend on location, including the ability to transition, protection from LGBTQ workplace discrimination, and whether teachers can discuss racism in the classroom or even reveal that they aren’t straight. Major differences also exist in social-insurance programs: Twelve states still refuse to expand Medicaid, and the coronavirus pandemic has showcased just how much public health and safety nets depend on one’s zip code.
Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler: There’s no knowing what will happen when Roe falls
Blue-state politicians know that they can largely define how well rights are protected within their borders and, in the case of abortion, have promised to ensure ongoing access. After Politico published an article revealing that the Court may soon fully overturn Roe, California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged to enshrine the right to choose in the California Constitution. “We will do everything in our power to defend abortion rights in Connecticut,” Governor Ned Lamont said. “Let me be loud and clear: New York will always guarantee your right to abortion,” Governor Kathy Hochul stated.
What blue-state politicians are not doing is ensuring that people in other states can find refuge in Democratic states. For decades now, what was once commonplace—Americans moving from state to state—has been made exceedingly difficult, largely because of cost-of-living concerns. Declining rates of interstate mobility show that many Americans are stuck where they are, consigned to the political decisions of governments they may profoundly oppose, without an escape valve. Low-income Americans have also been forced out of expensive, typically blue states to less expensive, typically red ones, where their access to basic government protections may be nonexistent, but at least the average home price doesn’t exceed $600,000. Those who stay are resigned to watching more and more of their paycheck go to rent, and record numbers find themselves teetering on the edge of homelessness.
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The Right to Move Is Under Attack
Declining rates of interstate mobility show that many Americans are stuck where they are, consigned to the political decisions of governments they may profoundly oppose.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/red-state-abortion-ban-help-people-move/629756/
For much of American history, freedom from an oppressive legal system could be found by picking up and leaving. During the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans abandoned the Jim Crow South for the North, Midwest, and West; at a smaller scale, LGBTQ people have long fled communities where they felt unwelcome for liberal cities. On some level, Americans—with our unique system of federalism—have always voted with our feet.
The ability to move is especially important at this moment, as the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, empowering state governments to determine the abortion rights of millions. If abortion does indeed become a state-level issue, it will join a host of other civil rights and benefits that depend on location, including the ability to transition, protection from LGBTQ workplace discrimination, and whether teachers can discuss racism in the classroom or even reveal that they aren’t straight. Major differences also exist in social-insurance programs: Twelve states still refuse to expand Medicaid, and the coronavirus pandemic has showcased just how much public health and safety nets depend on one’s zip code.
Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler: There’s no knowing what will happen when Roe falls
Blue-state politicians know that they can largely define how well rights are protected within their borders and, in the case of abortion, have promised to ensure ongoing access. After Politico published an article revealing that the Court may soon fully overturn Roe, California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged to enshrine the right to choose in the California Constitution. “We will do everything in our power to defend abortion rights in Connecticut,” Governor Ned Lamont said. “Let me be loud and clear: New York will always guarantee your right to abortion,” Governor Kathy Hochul stated.
What blue-state politicians are not doing is ensuring that people in other states can find refuge in Democratic states. For decades now, what was once commonplace—Americans moving from state to state—has been made exceedingly difficult, largely because of cost-of-living concerns. Declining rates of interstate mobility show that many Americans are stuck where they are, consigned to the political decisions of governments they may profoundly oppose, without an escape valve. Low-income Americans have also been forced out of expensive, typically blue states to less expensive, typically red ones, where their access to basic government protections may be nonexistent, but at least the average home price doesn’t exceed $600,000. Those who stay are resigned to watching more and more of their paycheck go to rent, and record numbers find themselves teetering on the edge of homelessness.
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