Hope everyone had great week. I did the thing where I fell asleep on my laptop again. It’s only fair really…It’s been A. Week.
Hollywood actors join writers on strike as industry halts
https://wapo.st/3OeJAmW
This is fine everything is fine
Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/13/heatwave-california-arizona-florida-texas-records/
Color me shocked!
Stonks!
Stock futures are mixed ahead of big bank earnings: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Sprots!
Ons Jabeur digs deep to battle past Aryna Sabalenka into Wimbledon final
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/13/ons-jabeur-digs-deep-to-battle-past-aryna-sabalenka-into-wimbledon-final
Today in Turtle Content:
Have an amazing weekend!
More turtle content.
https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/ct-best-cleaners-workers-save-baby-turtles-18177762.php
The FDA has approved an over the counter birth control pill. The question of affordability is still up in the air.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/over-the-counter-birth-control-pills-have-been-approved-lets-make-them-inexpensive-and-easily-available/
I strongly suspect they’ll be expensive.
Nongeneric daily (mostly) medication will definitely add up without some kind of insurance.
From a pure dollars and cents perspective, it’s incredibly cost effective for private and public insurers to back family planning, and it would mean a drop in abortions, but none of that matters to the rightwingers. It’s all about spite.
Absolutely. I can’t find the quote, but in the last few days I read that some right-wing politician said “If they don’t want babies then don’t have sex.”
I strongly suspect that every right wing state in the country will ban the use of the medication before it hits the market.
I think the gay marriage link above is an indication of one way it will go.
We’ll see state officials like Medicaid administrators and insurance commissioners refuse to follow federal mandates based on “religious” objections, and crooked judges issuing wildly broad injunctions.
I am eternally amazed by how much wilfull denial some members of target groups can go through to pretend that they personally will be exempt. Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles will continue to pretend that the threat to their liberties is coming from a few Yale sophomores and not the GOP which is setting them up for arrest for being married. Even Clarence and Ginni Thomas had better watch their backs before they accept a vacation invitation from a Texas billionaire.
It will be interesting to see how “my religion keeps me from filling birth control prescriptions” goes to “my religion forbids me from tolerating birth control on the shelves of a store that I don’t own.”
Make no mistake, it absolutely will.
I would add, thanks to DECADES of shitty public health education in red states, lies from religious groups, and confusion over Dobbs, even if it’s on the shelves there’s going to be a lot of populations that still don’t use it.
I read an article today about how 24% of Missourians polled thought hormonal birth control was illegal or didn’t know if it was legal. Something like 40% thought IUDs were illegal.
Florida Man not off the hook yet.
House Ethics Committee reaching out to witnesses in revived Matt Gaetz probe
I’m surprised any witness hasn’t asked Gaetz “Why aren’t you in jail, groomer?”
Marge got Mean Girled.
‘I enjoy being a free agent’: Marjorie Taylor Greene defiant after expulsion from Freedom Caucus
Too sleazy for Crazy Town, Too crazy for Sleazy town.
I’m going to miss my TV stories.
The studios have a proposal to let them shoot background actors for AI, pay them for a day, and then own their likeness forever without compensation.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/sag-aftra-strike-studios-ai-proposal-sounds-like-black-mirror-right
It’s along the lines of how they proposed to be allowed to use AI to stripmine written material without compensating writers guild members.
The funny part to me is how we can replace all the execubots with AIs before writers/performers.
With AI execubots, I can’t see much changing except maybe fewer comic book movies and reboots.
Yeah, let’s defund the IRS…
https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-treasury-yellen-0b3240e16760753f1ed6479a060a1b2b
Jim Jordan, chicken fucker!
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/jim-jordan-just-cant-stop-fucking?publication_id=1162742&post_id=134590857&isFreemail=true
WTF?
A lot of fingers pointing at Discovery’s CEO Zaslav… “Mr 250 million in 2021”
He and his fellow execubots greed united two groups that traditionally don’t get along (performers and writers.)
Wonder why the huge fluctuations?
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2662275888/
Payment for secrets
I applaud SAG joining the writers on strike, but I simply cannot take Fran Drescher seriously when she speaks.
That’s unfortunate for you. She is clearly very serious. I’m glad enough people could get over their misogynistic preference for a non nasal female voice to elect her as president of SAG-AFTRA.
Thanks for branding me a misogynist when it’s much more that I sing “That’s how she became the NANNYYYY” every time I see her. (Side note: It also blows my mind, still, to this day, that Daniel Davis is not, in fact, British.)
How are we not talking about this story?