These days, far more is both knowable and known about prospective Supreme Court nominees well in advance of their nominations. Yet the process has mutated from “advise and consent” to “multi-month political campaign.”
Tag: justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Uterus Collector, Barbados, & Amazonian Waorani Tribe (40m) – Episode 381
Episode 381 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: the passing of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and where they agree and disagree on issues; a serial batterer/rapist gynecologist in Georgia stealing women’s uteruses; the island nation-state of Barbados removing Queen Elizabeth as their Head of State; and Amazonian tribe, the Waorani, win their lawsuit to protect half a million acres of indigenous land from private oil interests.
Social Isolation Is Damaging an Entire Generation of Kids
This resignation to ongoing government lockdowns, endless social distancing, mandatory mask orders, and travel restrictions—even as the virus wanes in the US—is damaging to our social and economic health, and may be particularly problematic for children who are separated from their peers.
Politics and Violence Go Hand in Hand
As America’s latest long hot summer drags into autumn, politicians and pundits are getting louder and more shrill in their denunciations of political violence. Considering the sources, those denunciations smack of hypocrisy.
Ian M. Returns, Minneapolis Experience, & Voluntaryist Silver Linings (55m) – Episode 368
Episode 368 welcomes back Ian Mayes to have a chat with Skyler on the following topics: working in the neighborhood where George Floyd was killed; his experience with the Minneapolis protests and riots; Kyle Rittenhouse; lockdown created tinderbox across the country and world; Minneapolis “defund the police” campaign; lack of real anti-authoritarian sentiment; political coalition building and guilt by association; civil wars and anarchists; Portland neighborhood “wake up” protests (Reason interview); voluntaryist welfare actions, ie. silver linings; restorative justice systems (Kibbe interview); and more.
Please Wake The Fuck Up
If you’re sickened and outraged by the heinously evil crap that a lot of people in power have done, especially to children, GOOD! You should be. There are some evil shits who need to stop existing.
Kamala Harris’s Ancestry, Amazon Product Liability, & Yale’s Racial Discrimination (48m) – Episode 354
Episode 354 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: fact-checking the claims that Kamala Harris descended from a large plantation and slave owner on her father’s side and a supremacist caste status on her mother’s side; the California court ruling that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by products sold by third-party sellers and fulfilled by Amazon; and the US Department of Justice determining that Yale University discriminates against “white” and Asian student applicants.
Kamala Harris’s Problem Isn’t Her Identity; It’s Her Character
As you no doubt know by now, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has chosen US Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate. You’ve probably also noticed the first salvo of Republican attacks on Harris: She’s “not really black,” and she may not even be a “natural born citizen” as required by the Constitution to hold the office of president or vice president. No one sane or intelligent finds either of these attacks convincing.
Clarification of Misnomer Terminology
You’re not “progressive.” You’re RE-gressive. You’re anti-progress. You actively seek the destruction of progress and freedoms that have taken literally thousands of years of bloodshed, toil, suffering, and sacrifice to bring even this far.
MOVE Bombing: The Story of How Philadelphia Became “The City That Bombed Itself”
The case of MOVE is an unusual one, because they cannot simply be shoe-horned into the usual “they were just minding their own business and then the cops came in with overwhelming force” narrative that more or less applies at Ruby Ridge or at Waco. This is not to imply that the actions taken by the Philadelphia Police Department were appropriate – there were children inside the MOVE townhouse. However, it is important to note that MOVE had a history of violence.