Did you know that if you are a pregnant woman in the Red states of Missouri, Texas, Arizona, or Arkansas and you are seeking a divorce the government will not allow you to get it until after the baby is born, and then there are a host of other problems. I see this as yet another aspect of the Republican Taliban’s actions to subordinate women, a growing trend in Red states that is becoming the reality of life for women in those states.
Pregnant woman cannot get divorced in these four states Credit: Getty
There are four states where judges cannot legally finalize a divorce if a woman is pregnant with no exception for cases involving domestic violence, according to The American Pregnancy Association.
While the laws in Missouri, Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas allow for couples to file for divorce, the court must wait until after a woman gives birth in order to finalize child custody and child support.
Two of these states – Missouri and Texas – are subject to trigger laws where, since the overturning of Roe v Wade in June 2022, abortions are automatically banned in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy.
Thom Hartmann gets it. He lays out what the Republicans are doing at the state level in the states they control and it is appalling. This is a. measure of how far The Great Schism has progressed. We are becoming two very different countries with an increasingly dysfunctional federal government. I confess what surprises me is how many MAGAt Americans vote for what is happening in their states and really don’t care about democracy. I think it is because these people haven’t ever actually lived in an authoritarian state, and have no idea what the christofascists intend to do to their lives
Guests listen as Former U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on March 4, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty
Why are conservatives calling for the end of American democracy? At the CPAC meeting this week, a well-known rightwing influencer, Jack Posobiec, went off on a rant about how important it is for conservatives to band together to end democracy in America and, presumably, replace it with Christofascism like in Russia. “Welcome to the end of democracy!” he declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said as he held up a cross. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
This, frankly, should not be surprising. It was 1951 when Russell Kirk, the godfather of the modern conservative movement, published his book The Conservative Mind: […]
I picked this from half a dozen other stories of MAGAt family criminality. How in the world did the voters of Colorado elect someone like Lauren Boebert to represent them? Didn’t someone do some research on her and her family Will they vote her into office again, I wonder? Is anyone noticing how many MAGAt politicians are crooks of one kind or another? I see these stories frequently, I just haven’t been running them, but I have come to see them as a trend not isolated stories. The Republican Party seems to be criminal from top to bottom. That’s not a partisan comment, just a statement of fact.
MAGAt Republican Lauren Boebert Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / USA Today
The son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.-Colo) was arrested Tuesday on more than 20 criminal charges in the latest incident of ongoing Boebert family issues.
Jail records show he faces 22 counts altogether, five of which are felonies. The charges include criminal possession of ID documents with multiple victims, conspiracy to commit a felony, first degree criminal trespassing and theft.
“This is an ongoing investigation, no further information will be released at this time,” the Rifle police said in the post.
Tyler Boebert was still in custody as of 9:45 a.m. Mountain Time Wednesday at a $8,250 bond, Garfield County Jail records showed. Rep. Boebert acknowledged the arrest in a statement Wednesday, saying he “should be held accountable for poor decisions.”
‘I love my son’: Lauren Boebert releases statement on son’s arrest
Here is some good news for EV owners. Not a big deal, but it makes the EV charging network a little larger.
Rivian charging station
Rivian is following in Tesla’s footsteps with its decision to open its public charging network to all electric vehicles (EVs) later this year. The announcement came in the company’s latest letter to shareholders, outlining plans to expand access to the Rivian Adventure Network (RAN).
While Rivian’s Adventure Network is currently smaller than Tesla’s Supercharger network, comprising 400 DC fast chargers in 67 locations across the US, the company aims to make all these chargers available to all EVs before the end of the year. Although no RAN stations have been built in Canada yet, Rivian has ambitious plans to install thousands more chargers at hundreds of stations across North America.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe had previously hinted at the company’s intention to open up its charging network, and now there’s a clear timeline for this initiative.
“In the second half of 2024, we anticipate opening up our Rivian Adventure Network to non-Rivian owners,” the company stated in its Q4 2023 shareholder letter. This move aims to provide other EV owners with access to Rivian’s reliable charging solution, leverage fixed costs associated with each charging site, and tap into […]
I don’t care for some of the language in this article, but the point it is making is correct and very alarming. Today I listened to interviews at a Trump rally and was appalled at the ignorance, hate, and resentment of the White men and women, mostly middle-aged or older. When asked what shaped their opinion they cited the Fox propaganda network, similar sources, and what I recognized as phony AI-generated misinformation.
Illustration by Alexander NaughtonArt for The Intrinsic Perspective
The amount of AI-generated content is beginning to overwhelm the internet. Or maybe a better term is pollute. Pollute its searches, its pages, its feeds, everywhere you look. I’ve been predicting that generative AI would have pernicious effects on our culture since 2019, but now everyone can feel it. Back then I called it the coming “semantic apocalypse.” Well, the semantic apocalypse is here, and you’re being affected by it, even if you don’t know it. A minor personal example: last year I published a nonfiction book, The World Behind the World, and now on Amazon I find this.
What, exactly, are these “workbooks” for my book? AI pollution. Synthetic trash heaps floating in the online ocean. The authors aren’t real people, some asshole just fed the manuscript into an AI and didn’t check when it spit out nonsensical summaries. But it doesn’t matter, does it? A poor sod will click on the $9.99 purchase one day, and that’s all that’s needed for this scam to be […]
