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5th circuit court halts abortion pill access by mail

yunyun333 19m ago

The court order, citing Louisiana’s claims that making pills available by mail has allowed patients there to access the medication despite the state’s near-total abortion ban, said that “Louisiana has shown that it is irreparably harmed without a stay.”

For various legal reasons, although SCOTUS ruled against universal injunctions in Trump v Casa, now no one gets to mail pills anywhere until the FDA completes its safety review, even though Louisiana is the one complaining that women keep managing to get abortions anyways. This is lame and we should just have the opposing states fight (in court). Blue states have already enacted "shield laws" and red states have countered with "We can sue you anyways" laws.

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https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/02/massachusetts-trump-gerrymander-texas-california-democrats

yunyun333 3hr ago

Is Massachusetts gerrymandered? If the distribution of Rs is even enough, it's basically impossible to create a reasonably contiguous district with enough Rs. A cursory look at the map doesn't reveal any obvious ways to carve out an R district, and it seems that few state republicans complained about the last redistricting..

Ultimately we should just get rid of single member districts.

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yunyun333 1d ago

I refuse to believe Gaza was a serious issue. There were not enough Dearborns to impact the election. Not that the Israel issue isn't seriously divisive (perhaps within both parties, soon) but "it's the economy stupid" is usually a good explanation for things.

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yunyun333 2d ago

The founders believed states would have much more power and guard it jealously. The Gettysburg address was the tipping point between "The United States are..." and "The United States is". Then the depression and the war ensured federal dominance.

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yunyun333 3d ago

Well, it's more likely to work than charging Comey with writing "8647" in seashells, but there's really not much to say about this.

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yunyun333 3d ago

The New Orleans shooter managed to cook up some homemade RDX, though he forgot that it requires a detonator. Bizarre display of semicompetence from an Army vet.

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yunyun333 3d ago

This guy was a caltech grad and he couldn't come up with a better plan than "run past a security checkpoint and hope there aren't more guards"? He didn't even get onto the floor of the ballroom itself. What happened to good old fashioned ANFO?

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yunyun333 6d ago

Where does this end?

In the short term, robo-caretakers for the ballooning aging population. In the medium to long term, artificial wombs for mass production of wards of the state. Sexbots will help top off the bread and circuses. AGI will pay for all of this of course.

Or, continued mass migration from the wellsprings of fertility. One seems more realistic than the other.

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yunyun333 8d ago

Hostile powers with nukes aimed at each other certainly pushes the world closer to nuclear use. One Soviet submarine officer prevented the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear; another successfully nothing ever happens'd a false early warning. India and Pakistan is the most likely flashpoint for nuclear war; they are neighbors, have actually fired missiles at each other, and India even managed to accidentally fire a nuclear capable missile into Pakistan a few years ago. All it takes is one stupid misunderstanding and an overzealous trigger man. Iran and Israel have the mitigating factor of distance, but Iran's paucity of early warning systems will increase paranoia.

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yunyun333 9d ago

There's a thin line between informants and agitators.

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yunyun333 10d ago

Oh, I was just adding on to your point about the study. The healthcare system would implode if we tried to impose Medicare or Medicaid prices on providers.

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"The program in this country with the lowest health care prices happens to be one where there's a very high percentage of government involvement. That's Medicaid. So, we do know where we have low prices in our health care system. And that would argue that we need more government involvement. "

yunyun333 10d ago

-A comment from a presumably intelligent healthcare professor on a recent healthcare podcast

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yunyun333 10d ago

Redistricting is retarded. Look at Louisiana. First the legislature draws up a map with 5 non-black majorities and 1 black majority. This is challenged in court and found to violate the VRA so they go back and draw up a new map with 2 black majority districts (Louisiana is 1/3 black). Another group of 'non-African-American voters' challenges the new map for being racially gerrymandered and a federal panel agrees, so now they might have to change the map again pending SCOTUS decision.

Redistricting changes that would significantly shift the results (based on the most recent election) should just not be allowed. Why can every other country make this work?

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yunyun333 11d ago

Yes, and people conflating this with historical antisemitism are pretty clearly off the mark. You can't explain it with reference to, idk, shylock or the dreyfus affair (do 5% of Americans know who alfred dreyfus was?)

To the antiracist left/liberal, Jews are white colonialists and Arabs are brown natives. There is very little that the oppressed can do against their oppressors that deserves full-throated condemnation.

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yunyun333 14d ago

Vance apparently asked for a 20 year halt on enrichment (and handing over the remaining uranium). Now they're thinking about releasing $20b of frozen assets in exchange. It's hard to see how this isn't just the JCPOA but worse in most aspects.

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yunyun333 14d ago

Per NYT, Israel told the US that they had intel about a meeting between Khameini and other IRGC leaders in a few days time and pitched it as the best time to strike. If the US had declined to get involved, Israel probably would not have gone ahead.

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yunyun333 15d ago

The funny thing is that the economy was generally doing well pre-war. Dow was over 50k as someone pointed out, employment was good. Tariffs were paid for by Americans but weren't as big a drag as expected either, although core goods inflation would have been negative without them? He really could have done nothing, toned down ICE's retardation, and coasted.

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yunyun333 15d ago

Countries that report higher happiness scores also have higher suicide rates, a trend that also holds across US states. It is worse to be depressed when your neighbors are happier.

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yunyun333 18d ago

South Korea is perfectly capable of annihilating Pyongyang even without nukes. The threat simply isn't credible. America could not have threatened the Soviets and Chinese with nukes to get them out of Vietnam, and Nixon's madman theory made him look pathetic instead.

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yunyun333 18d ago

It was also sitting under the rubble of Isfahan since last June; no indication that they were even trying to dig it out. Because it was a bargaining chip (until now).

Nuclear blackmail also doesn't work the way the author thinks it does. Why doesn't North Korea say "Give us $100b and lift all sanctions or we nuke South Korea and Japan"?

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yunyun333 18d ago

For better or for worse, human happiness seems to be tied only lightly to absolute material standards and heavily tied to relative status, position, and feelings of fairness, and the internet and social media are super-stimuli for the human sense of status calibrated towards the Dunbar number.

Relative deprivation/hedonic treadmill.

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