Category Archives: Resistance

The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order

[NOTE: i’m somewhat slow on the uptake, but numerous shocks of 2022 have pounded home the sense that the principal architect of our increasingly dominant regime of minority rule is the Supreme Court. To get more up to speed on this process, I’m reading Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s fine new book, The Scheme. Whitehouse has been … Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order →

Indiana Judge vs. State Abortion Ban: Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged

[NOTE: I’m no lawyer, but this opinion seems to come under the heading of “sauce for the goose . . .” and the part of the Constitution about the government is not to officially favor any specific religion, which its recent Dobbs decision obviously does. I’ll be watching for updates on the decision’s fate. Religious … Continue reading Indiana Judge vs. State Abortion Ban: Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged →

Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina

In the recent midterm elections, the North Carolina vote suppression party fell only one seat short of reclaiming the veto-proof majority, which they had deployed like a sledgehammer on human rights until governor Roy Cooper’s political skills broke through it. Now, as he explains here, they are looking to the rightwing bloc on the U. … Continue reading Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina →

Updates: Ex-Neutral Finland Ready for War if Russia invades, Premier Says

[Note: the sudden about face of Finland & Sweden away from their longtime neutral stance to seek Nato membership was for me like a double lightning strike: I’ve never visited either one, but could see they knew Russia up close, and through hard experience. For that matter, it was clear neither nation was a shrinking … Continue reading Updates: Ex-Neutral Finland Ready for War if Russia invades, Premier Says →

Indiana AG Targets Doctor who helped 10 year-old rape victim

Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect.