First, the stupid and hysterical, journalisming’s finest:

THE ANTI-VACCINE RIGHT BROUGHT HUMAN SACRIFICE TO AMERICA

Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to ritual human sacrifice. The immediate panicky focus on resuming business as usual in order to keep the stock market from crashing was the equivalent of “those who offered human sacrifices to Moloch,” according to the writer Kitanya Harrison. That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.” The anthropology professor Shan-Estelle Brown and the researcher Zoe Pearson wrote that people who continued to do their jobs outside their homes were essentially victims of “involuntary human sacrifice, made to look voluntary.” Meanwhile, people on the right likewise compared the inconvenience of closing down public places to ritual sacrifice.

The really neato part of this article is that even if “the right” had done everything he wanted, he’d still be able to write a fluff piece like this condemning them. He hates them because they are “the other,” the rest is window dressing and presenting like a mandrill.

Biden said he’d put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. Here’s who he may pick to replace Breyer

In what will be one of the most monumental endeavors of Joe Biden’s presidency, the retirement of Stephen Breyer sets the stage for an immensely important decision by the President.

Breyer’s seat may be the only one that Biden fills on the Supreme Court, and it may not be one he fills at all — if Republicans retake the Senate before the President’s choice for a replacement is confirmed.

On the campaign trail, Biden vowed to put a Black woman on the high court, which would be an historic first. A short list of potential nominees had been circulating Washington well before Breyer’s retirement plans became public, and officials in the White House Counsel’s office built files on various candidates in anticipation of a potential vacancy. Now, those efforts will ramp up significantly and the President will likely hold one on one meetings before announcing his pick.

Bah! Where is Kamala? Where is Michelle? Where is Whoopi?

 

No, This School District Is Not Putting Litter Boxes In Bathrooms For Students Who Identify As Cats, The Superintendent Says

A Michigan superintendent had to refute a wild rumor that a litter box was provided in a school bathroom for students who identify as cats last week after a video of a parent raising the claim at a school board meeting spread on social media.

“It is unconscionable that this afternoon I am sending this communication,” Midland Public Schools Superintendent Michael Sharrow wrote in a community message Thursday. “There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.”

So many denials are sus. And in 5 years, not having litterboxes for transanimals will be considered a hate crime. And articles like this will be quietly deleted…