I should think they would also have to ban the Internet and even the telephone and require distant communications to rely on letter-writing.
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NBC will be tarred and feathered for days maybe weeks over this. And yes, they should not have put the network in this position. Josh has a new edblog up about it but I disagree with him. Who cares if there was a bidding war for an election denier, Trump enabler. She’s toxic.
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If the news media had an ounce of integrity, they would not allow election-deniers on the air even as guests to flog their preferred topics.
Host: Today we have Congressman Bob to talk about what he’s calling an invasion on our southern border. But first, Bob, can you affirm that the 2020 election was fairly decided?
Bob: Well, there were certainly irregularities that would cause some to doubt…
Host: [cuts mic] I’m so sorry but there’s a baseline of truth we need to abide by, so we can’t hear your thoughts on immigration today. Next up…
Instead they tried to hire one, using their brand to certify her as trustworthy.
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I’m sure Newsmax would be happy to have her. Or One America. Or Blaze.
But those 13 news folk that were removed to make room for her, financially, will still not be re-hired.
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Well, that’s easily remedied in states they’ve gerrymandered themselves into permanent control over.
Yeah, but after they find a way to justify letting states close their borders to their own residents and/or outsiders, they won’t have to let those “blood pollution marriages” into the state haha
Uncle Thomas knows lots of things perfectly well and doesn’t give a fuck about anything but is agenda, which just so happens to coincidentally align with the agenda of whichever Legree is paying him.
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It’s a federal criminal law. Those prosecutions go through DOJ, not private parties. Plaintiffs here tried Comstock as a bank-shot argument against FDA approval of mifepristone, but they’re losing that argument. It doesn’t give anyone standing for anything.
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Don’t bet on it. Ronna’s been cast out of trumpworld. And she’s not exactly telegenic.
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True as far as it goes, but you can bet your ass that a Trump DOJ will run with it INSTANTLY.
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Rashida Jones must be very nervous about her own job security about now.
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Josh’s take sounds like a conspiracy theory. Think stupidity from NBC. Occam’s razor?
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Per CNN:
“While NBC News president Rebecca Blumenstein and senior vice president of politics Carrie Budoff Brown were most directly responsible for McDaniel’s hiring, a decision that MSNBC boss Rashida Jones did not object to it at the time, the buck ultimately stops with Conde, who hold the real power at the Peacock Network. McDaniel’s hiring could not have happened without Conde’s blessing.”
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The relevant section prohibits the use of “any express company or other common carrier or interactive computer service.” Not so easy peasy.
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So how much money will Ronna pocket for doing squat* but adding a notch to her MAGA victim card?
"* not that she would have done anything even had they feted her with a pedestal for her soft-core fascism.
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Was not completely aware of the fact that it’s a series of laws and not just one. But according to Wikipedia:
" The restrictions on birth control in the Comstock laws were effectively rendered null and void by Supreme Court decisions Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)[6] and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972).[7] Furthermore Congress removed the restrictions on contraception in 1971 but let the rest of the Comstock law stand.[8]"
If the Sick SCOTUS Six wants to pull another Dobbs then they won’t be doing the Repukes any favors with that one.
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The Comstock Act of 1873, formally “An Act for the Suppression of Trade In, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use,” was the fruit of lobbying by Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), Secretary of the “New York Society for the Suppression of Vice,” which he founded. He was also an appointed Special Agent for the US Postal Service from the 1873 until his 1907 retirement, with full police powers–he also worked closely with the NYPD to arrest suspected offenders and to confiscate contraband materials. More than anyone else, probably, Comstock was responsible for the prohibtion of “obscene” literature/images (if you ever wondered why Ernest Hemingway’s tough-guy characters say things like “those crudding muckers” instead of the words that every man actually knew), contraceptive devices, contraception information to non-married people, what we now call sex toys, and of course sending medications intended to cause an abortion, through the mail or parcel delivery services, from 1873 until the 1960s. All of the states eventually enacted state-level “Comstock laws” which more or less copied the federal act.
A loud Christian moral crusader in an epoch that was filled with them, Comstock was opposed to (among other things) drinking, cursing, women’s suffrage, abortion, contraception, “obscene matter,” masturbation, and sex workers. He arrested many a publisher, distributor, abortionist, and saw them tried and convicted. Towards the end of his life he said proudly that he had been responsible for 4000 arrests and driving at least 15 offenders to commit suicide–the latter including Ida Craddock (1857-1902) the early feminist, freethinker, and contraception activist, arrested, prosecuted, and convicted for distributing in the U.S. Mail her self-published manual on sexuality and birth control, in the form of a “marriage manual” entitled The Wedding Night, in 1899. Craddock had been the vindictive Comstock’s target for years, and blamed him by name in her suicide note. He estimated that he had destroyed 15 tons or more of obscene publications and tens of thousands of “filthy” images.
The progressive and forward-thinking Americans of the time loathed the man and his laws, although powerless to do anything about them except to blast what they named “comstockery” (first known use in 1895), defined as “excessive opposition to supposed immorality in the arts; prudery.”
The Comstock Act was in full effect until 1971, when in the wake of Griswold v. Connecticut (the “right to privacy” leading case in 1965), Congress repealed only those portions relating to contraception. However the rest of the Act was treated as a dead letter for the intervening decades although still on the books as a federal law. I personally thought it had been altogether repealed long ago, until these ultra-conservative groups and judges, including Clarence Thomas today, recently began to point to it as a legal pathway for prohibiting all abortion–including by mifepristone sent through mail or parcel services to would-be customers/users. The struggle continues/la luta continua.
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OT
Via cnn…
But I can’t help it…
NY judge issues gag order on Trump in hush money trial, blasting his ‘threatening, inflammatory, denigrating’ statements
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Hahahahahs(snort) hahahaj
In yer eye donsld…
Too bad the judge did not revoke his bsil and put donald’a sorry ass in jail
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That photo…look carefully…it’s a window into what it looks like when she’s sneering at an infidel…
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Jessica Ellsworth, attorney for Danco Laboratories, the maker of mifepristone, responded that the act has not been enforced in about 100 years.
Hawley had a different response when Thomas asked about the Comstock Act again. “The act says that drugs should not be mailed either through the mail or common carriers,” she said. “We think the plain text of that is pretty clear.”
The prohibition for insurrectionists to run for office is clear text in a constitutional amendment, and the SCOTUS voted 9-0 to ignore it.
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