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I was ignoring it. I'll be bluntly honest, I do not give two fucks about Kanye Omari West, his music, his politics and his hissy fits. I am aware he released his long anticipated album on August 29.
Kanye West is a troubled soul.
This album is tributed to his mother Donda C. West. She died after a botched cosmetic surgery in Mexico in 2007.
I know that he and Pusha T are feuding with Canadian media mogul/rapper Drake. I know the two are going to be pushing a chart battle. I know that Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West have lost a lot of support among fans because of their support for Washed Up 45 and her step dad's bid for California governor. Her step dad is a transgender woman who is a Republican candidate for governor in the California recall.
West's antics are controversial.
The Donda album is the tenth of the media mogul and former presidential candidate. It is released on Def Jam Recordings and Getting Out Our Dreams, LLC (Good Music). The album contains explicit lyrics.
However, the album is primarily hip-hop and gospel. It experiments with hip-hop, pop, trap and boom rap.
The album is executive produced by West, Mike Dean and Swizz Beatz. It has 27 tracks and it is over 108:49 minutes.
The album production credits include Kanye West, Mike Dean, 88-Keys, Ojivolta, Dem Jointz, Sean Solymar, E. Vax, Arrow Sunday, AllDay, AyoAA, David x EL, Sloane, BoogzDaBeast, DJ Khalil, Ronny J, Nascent, 30 Roc, Zentach, DrtWrk, TT Audi, Boi-1da, FnZ,Warryn Campbell, Cory Henry, Digital Nas, Cubeatz, Wallis Lane, Swizz Beatz, Gasaffelstein, Mia Wallis, Wheezy, Sucuka, Shuko, Bastian Volkel, Fya Man, Cashmere Brown and Bailey.
The features include Syleena Johnson, Jay-Z, Sunday Service Choir, Dem Jointz, Vory, Playboi Carti, Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby, The Weeknd, KayCyy Pluto, Baby Keem, Travis Scott, Lil Durk, Rooga, Lil Yachty, Buju Banton, Stalone, Young Thug, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, Kid Cudi, Tony Williams, MUSYCA Children's Choir, Conway The Machine, Westside Gunn, Royce Da 5'9", Jay Electronica, Larry Hoover, Jr., Chris Brown, Pop Smoke, Roddy Ricch, Shenseea, DaBaby, Marilyn Manson, Ty Dolla Sign, Jay Electronica, The Lox and his own mother Donda West.
West felt heat for his controversial picks of Chris Brown, DaBaby and Marilyn Manson. comes similar to Drake's use of former R&B singer turned the sexual predator who facing a federal trial for sex trafficking and child pornography.
Also scrapped were productions from Dr. Dre. Dre and Dawaun Parker initially were on board with the production of the album. I am guessing their roles were scrapped.
There were cuts from the album. Andre 3000, Pusha T, Consequence, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, 6ix9ine, Ant Clemons, Tyler The Creator, Soulja Boy and Nas were scrapped from the album.
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Aubrey Graham known as Drake releases his latest album, Certified Lover Boy on OVO Sound and Universal Records. The Canadian media mogul was supposed to release the album in January but it was delayed due to personal injuries.
Drake is trying to beat the odds.
The album was dedicated to the late models Nadia Ntuli and Mercedes Morr. Moor was killed in Texas by an alleged stalker in a murder suicide. Ntuli was killed in a car accident while staying in Dubai.
Drake had the official artwork of twelve emoji's of pregnant women in varying clothing colors, hair colors and skin tones. It was designed by English artist Damien Hirst. Some criticized the album cover as lazy and ugly.
Regardless of what they think, the album is considered to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200.
The executive producers of the album are Drake and Noah "40" Shebib. The album production credits include Drake, Noah "40" Shebib, Masego, Maneesh, Supah Mario, Young, Borino, Ojelade, OZ, Ambezza, Thomas, Eli Brown, AP, Dez Wright, Travis Scott, WondaGurl, Sweet, Patron, TM88, Too Dope, Cadastr, Arsenault, OG Ron C, Kid Masterpiece, Lusti, Cadastgtre, FaxOnly, Jean Bleu, Walters, Yebba, Francies, Vinylz, Nik D, Metro Boomin, Johnson, Cardo, KND, Govi, Tressor, Monsune, Nineteen85, Bink, Clibb, Houssain, KaneilOnTheOne, 3ddy, Yume, PartyNextDoor, Aliby and Anthony Hamilton.
Drake also brought some A-listers on the album. Drake's longtime collaborators include Future, Young Thug, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Lil Durk, Travis Scott, Lil Baby and Jay-Z. But also on the album Drake recruited 21 Savage, Project Pat, Yebba, Tems, Ty Dolla $ign and Kid Cudi.
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Controversial podcaster and conspiracy theorist tests positive for the coronavirus. He is considering taking a treatment not recommended by the FDA and CDC. Again, he's gonna fuck around he'll find out.
Joe Rogan announced on Wednesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus, adding that he took a series of medications, including ivermectin, a drug primarily used to treat parasites in animals that the Food and Drug Administration says people should avoid.
Rogan is an American comedian, podcaster, and UFC color commentator.
Rogan began his career in comedy in August 1988 in the Boston area. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1994, he signed an exclusive developmental deal with Disney, and appeared as an actor on several television shows including Hardball and NewsRadio. In 1997, he started working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as an interviewer and color commentator. Rogan released his first comedy special in 2000. From 2001 to 2006, he was the host of Fear Factor. In 2009, Rogan launched his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which led him to increased success and podcast superstardom.
Spotify signed an exclusive licensing deal with Rogan in May 2020 and has repeatedly touted his success in its company earnings reports. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek stood by and promoted the podcast host amid the controversy over Rogan's April remarks. Ek told Bloomberg at the time, "What I will say is we have 8 million creators, and hundreds of millions of pieces of content. We have a content policy and we do remove pieces that violate it."
Spotify did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rogan said he has postponed his show in Nashville, which was scheduled for Friday.
"My apologies to everyone," Rogan said. "Obviously it is nothing that I can control. It is what it is. Crazy times we're living in."
Although the coronavirus vaccines can prevent transmission and hospitalization, the virulent Delta variant has been the source of a small proportion of "breakthrough" cases that can affect older and immunocompromised people.
Of course, there's folks who are fully vaccinated but end up getting the coronavirus. As with vaccines, nothing is 100%. The vaccines are capable of preventing the coronavirus. At best, it's a 94% prevention rate which means 1 out of 500 could be infected even if they're vaccinated.
President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.
But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war.
With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.
The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.
Pathetic.
According to the CDC, there is still not enough information on antibodies for COVID-19 and whether they can prevent someone from getting reinfected. It still recommends that people with a positive antibody test follow recommendations for protecting themselves and others.
The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about anything. It's a living organism that causes mild symptoms that include: fever, sore throats, chills, respiratory issues, loss of taste or smell and other unknown symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or health issues, your risk increases.
Death does happen to at least 40% of those who are affected by COVID-19.
If you're not vaccinated, your chances of death increases to 48%.
Healthy people can die from this. Take this seriously. You only have one life!
If you need more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov.
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A global pandemic, wildfires, destruction from the hurricanes and of course, gridlock in Washington, DC are the primary factors to the disappointing jobs report. But of course, we'll be focused on the negative job approval of President Joe Biden.
So the latest polls have Biden under 50% job approval. The junk food media spent weeks covering Afghanistan and it's pullout. When the last American forces left, we've moved on back to the actual issues we're facing. A destructive hurricane landed in Louisiana and it left a path of destruction all the way into the Northeast.
Over 1,000 people have died from Hurricane Ida. Businesses are destroyed. Homes are destroyed.
We also have the pandemic which is not ending. With misinformation being peddled by the far-right, Republican leaders and Washed Up 45, Americans are refusing to get vaccinated. Those who are not getting vaccinated are catching the delta strain of the coronavirus. The strain is proving to be more lethal than the original. Four far-right agitators on talk radio died.
We have over 675,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus. By mid-September we will surpass 700,000 deaths. The refusal to get vaccinated or using untested medication is causing death.
The folks who refuse to get vaccinated are using an treatment that isn't even safe. The use of Ivermectin has spiked because of idiots on radio and the internet are telling folks this is a "fast treatment."
Congress job approval is at record lows.
This treatment is not safe says the FDA. But the anti-government, anti-Biden, anti-mask, anti-vaxx folks will do it anyway.
The Karens in Texas passed a law that outlawed terminations of fetuses at six weeks. The Supreme Court refused to halt the legislation and it set up another fight in which Congress will have no chance of getting it passed. The infrastructure bill is slowly being dragged along. The Squad, the independent senator from Vermont, the Democratic senator from Arizona and the West Virginia Democratic senator are going to cause the bill to fail because of their ridiculous principles.
The far-right are obsessed with Vice President Kamala Harris' laughter. They are playing on sexism and racism when they're dealing with the first African American/South Asian woman to be the vice president.
They are calling Biden incompetent because he pulled out of Afghanistan. A war that's been ignored for over five years since Barack Obama left office. Washed Up 45 negotiated a deal for the American troops to pull out of the country by May 1. Biden honored it. During the time, the Taliban's propaganda won over residents. They forced the corrupted leaders out of Afghanistan and took back power. The far-right and war hawks in the junk food media were calling Biden's withdrawal a failure. Some Republicans who have more concern over issues in Afghanistan and Israel are calling for Biden's impeachment.
The insurrection is still an issues. Republicans are threatening media and telecom companies. They fear the House Committee on the insurrection will unearth potentially criminal acts being done by a handful of these idiot lawmakers. The QAnon Leader Karen McCarthy (R-CA) threatened to hold those companies accountable if they decide to follow the subpoena. Rep. Karen Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Karen Kinzinger (R-IL) have backed the committee and are determined to get to the bottom of the insurrection. Republicans are threatening to kick them out of the conference for being appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
We have went from "Biden's Bad Week" to "Biden's Border Crisis" to "Biden's Socialist Deal" to "Biden's Failures In Afghanistan" to "Biden's Bad Job Numbers" in less than seven months of this presidency.
So CNBC reports that the jobs report missed the anticipated mark. The unemployment rate drops though. Here's a factor, no one wants to work for less than $13 dollars an hour. No one wants to deal with idiots who refuse to follow CDC mandates. No one wants to subjected to hostilities from Americans who are willing to spread the coronavirus. Most Americans want a fair pay and fair living.
COVID-19 is affecting the unvaccinated and children.
Job creation for August was a huge disappointment, with the economy adding just 235,000 positions, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires.
The unemployment rate dropped to 5.2% from 5.4%, in line with estimates.
August’s total — the worst since January — comes with heightened fears of the pandemic and the impact that rising Covid cases could have on what has been a mostly robust recovery. The weak report could cloud policy for the Federal Reserve, which is weighing whether to pull back on some of the massive stimulus it has been adding since the outbreak in early 2020.
“The labor market recovery hit the brakes this month with a dramatic showdown in all industries,” said Daniel Zhao, senior economist at jobs site Glassdoor. “Ultimately, the Delta variant wave is a harsh reminder that the pandemic is still in the driver’s seat, and it controls our economic future.”
Leisure and hospitality jobs, which had been the primary driver of overall gains at 350,000 per month for the past six months, stalled in August as the unemployment rate in the industry ticked higher to 9.1%.
Instead, professional and business services led with 74,000 new positions. Other gainers included transportation and warehousing (53,000), private education (40,000) and manufacturing and other services, which each posted gains of 37,000.
Retail lost 29,000, with the bulk coming from food and beverage stores, which saw a decrease of 23,000.
The report comes with the U.S. seeing about 150,000 new Covid cases, spurring worries that the recovery could stall heading into the final part of the year.
“Delta is the story in this report,” said Marvin Loh, global macro strategist for State Street. “It’s going to be a bumpy recovery in the jobs market and one that pushes back against a more optimistic narrative.”
The month saw an increase of about 400,000 in those who said they couldn’t work for pandemic-related reasons, pushing the total up to 5.6 million.
“Today’s jobs report reflects a major pullback in employment growth likely due to the rising impact of the Delta variant of COVID-19 on the U.S. economy, though August is also a notoriously difficult month to survey accurately due to vacations,” said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens.
Employment also remained well below pre-Covid levels, with 5.6 million fewer workers holding jobs and the total workforce still smaller by 2.9 million.
Another key Fed metric, the employment-to-population gauge, stood at 58.5%, up one-tenth of a percentage point from July but still well below the 61.1% pre-pandemic level. The measure looks at total jobholders against the working-age population.
Unemployment is due to the coronavirus.
August’s numbers have been volatile in past years and often see substantial revisions. They come amid other positive signs for employment.
Weekly jobless filings have fallen to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, but a large employment gap remains.
It’s not that there aren’t enough jobs out there: Placement firm Indeed estimates that there are about 10.5 million openings now, easily a record for the U.S. labor market.
Fed officials are watching the jobs numbers closely for clues as to whether they can start easing back some of the policy help they’ve been providing since the pandemic started.
In recent weeks, central bank leaders have expressed optimism about the employment picture but said they would need to see continued strength before changing course. At stake for now is the Fed’s massive monthly bond-buying program, which could start getting scaled back before the end of the year.
However, if the jobs data gets softer, that could prompt Fed officials to wait until 2022 before tapering its purchases. Fed officials have been clear that interest rate hikes will come well after tapering starts.
Still, the news wasn’t all bad for jobs.
The previous two months saw substantial upward revisions, with July’s total now at 1.053 million, up from the original estimate of 943,000, while June was bumped up to 962,000 from 938,000. For the two months, revisions added 134,000 to the initial counts.
Also, wages continued to accelerate, rising 4.3% on a year-over-year basis and 0.6% on a monthly basis. Estimates had been for 4% and 0.3% respectively.
An alterative measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons fell sharply, dropping to 8.9% in August from 9.6% in July.
The labor force participation rate was unchanged at 61.7%, still well below the 63.3% in February 2020, the month before the pandemic declaration.
Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.
Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!
1. DEAD 2. BORN 3. IN PRISON 4. IN PRIMARY SCHOOL 5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL 6. IN HIGH SCHOOL 7. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING 8. VOLUNTEER 9. DISABLED 10. STAY AT HOME PARENT 11. RETIRED 12. QUIT ON THEIR OWN 13. NOT HIRING QUALIFIED 14. NATURAL DISASTERS 15. ACTIVE MILITARY 16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED 17. LAID OFF 18. FIRED FROM THE JOB 19. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY 20. OUTSOURCING 21. IMMIGRANTS TOO AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED BY I.C.E. 22. SHAMED BY SOCIAL MEDIA (BY ACTIVELY TAKING PART IN ILLEGAL ACTS).
Things are returning back to normal. Over 78% of Americans have at least gotten one of the coronavirus vaccines.
However, they are struggling trying to hire employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour.
Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.
Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market.
Yes. We can't always assume that folks are lazy.
Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.
Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.
Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience. Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments led us to losing over 620,000 Americans. President Joe Biden has a four seat House majority and a spilt in the Senate.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local councilman, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
An Ef-4 tornado hits Annapolis, Maryland. The aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
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The catastrophic damages from Hurricane Ida ran from Louisiana to Rhode Island. The calls to pass the Biden infrastructure bill are growing. With the House of Representatives still on vacation, the need to get this bill on President Joe Biden's desk is needed.
The president already has enough headaches.
The Karens of the Congress and far-right media. The Republican leaders, the television/social media Republicans and conservative agitators on Fox.
The Supreme Court. The six Karens who shift decisions to favor anti-science, anti-woman and white supremacy.
The two Democratic senators from Arizona and West Virginia. The democratic socialist who is an independent from Vermont. He caucuses with the Democrats.
Six progressive lawmakers who are part of the so-called Squad. The unproductive lawmakers who are more on social media and television. The performance art instead of the legislative duties.
The conspiracy nuts who are obsessed with the president's health, his son Hunter Biden, Afghanistan, "owning the libs" and refusing to acknowledge he and the vice president won the election fair and square.
Mocking Vice President Kamala Harris' laughter and attacking her for not doing what they want her to do.
The very same idiots in the junk food media hawking over Afghanistan are now asking for Biden to do something that he's been doing since he came to office.
So far we have lost over 30 Americans to this hurricane. Ida was going into Louisiana as a Category 4 and it landed on Sunday very destructive. The state of Louisiana has over 43% with power. Most of the Southern tier parishes are calling a mandatory curfew.
Those who stayed are now forced to wait in line for a fuel, water, a decent meal, ice and a generator.
With excessive heat warnings in the south, folks are literally dying waiting for the needs. Of course, some of these folks are the ones who probably were criticizing Americans for being on unemployment.
These folks were probably attacking fellow Americans for having food stamps or living in low income homes.
These folks probably don't have flood insurance or full coverage on their vehicles.
Massive flooding in New York City.
Still, suffering remained widespread three days after Ida battered Louisiana and parts of Mississippi as the fifth-most-powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. Some low-lying communities remained largely underwater. Roughly a million homes and businesses still had no electricity, and health officials said more than 600,000 people lacked running water.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was pleased that power had returned for some people, saying it was “critically important to show progress” after the storm. But he also acknowledged that much more work lay ahead.
“I’m very mindful that it’s a start, and only a start,” he told a news conference.
The death toll rose to at least six after a coroner confirmed a 65-year-old woman had drowned in her Louisiana home and police in Maryland said a 19-year-old man was found dead in an apartment complex flooded by heavy rain from Ida’s remnants. And the staggering scope of the disaster began to come into focus, with a private firm estimating total damage from Ida could exceed $50 billion.
In southern Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish, Gayle Lawrence lost two cars, refrigerators and almost everything in her garage to floodwaters. Her garage was filled with marsh grass and dead fish. Scores of other homes in the neighborhood were also flooded.
“The house is solid. It didn’t even move. But when the water came up, it destroyed everything,” she said.
In Jefferson Parish, hospital staff, food bank employees and other critical workers were hampered by a gas shortage, said parish president Cynthia Lee Sheng. The parish neighbors New Orleans and saw widespread destruction from Ida. Authorities were still waiting for floodwaters to recede enough for trucks carrying food, water and repair supplies to begin moving into Lafitte and other low-lying communities.
“Today we’re a broken community. It won’t always be that way,” Sheng said after meeting with Edwards.
Emergency officials in nearby Terrebonne Parish took to Twitter to caution evacuees considering returning home that “there are no shelters, no electricity, very limited resources for food, gasoline and supplies and absolutely no medical services.”
With all of New Orleans blacked out except for those running generators, Byron Lambert woke up startled about 1:30 a.m. when light suddenly came on down the hall from where he slept. He first thought it was a burglar, then realized his home had electricity.
Lambert’s house in eastern New Orleans was among more than 11,000 homes and businesses that had power restored early Wednesday, according to the electric company Entergy. The company also said it restored power to Ochsner’s main hospital campus in Jefferson Parish and several hospitals near Baton Rouge.
“When it came on it startled me. I’m like ‘All right! We got power,’” Lambert said, his enthusiasm tempered by the knowledge of what others were going through. “I’m fortunate, but they have a lot of people that aren’t as fortunate as me, and I pray for them because it’s rough.”
There were still 989,000 homes and businesses without power, or 44% of all state utility customers in southeast Louisiana, from the New Orleans area to Baton Rouge, according to the state Public Service Commission. Phillip May, president and CEO of Entergy Louisiana, told reporters Wednesday that he predicts “a lot more progress” in coming days. Still, he said full recovery will be slow, with thousands of power poles and transformers knocked out by the storm.
In neighboring Mississippi, 32,000 customers had no electricity.
Hard-hit areas in southeast Louisiana were under a heat advisory Wednesday, with forecasters warning combined heat and humidity could make some areas feel like 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius). Officials scrambled to offer food, water and places to cool off.
National Guard troops had handed out more than 141,000 meals, 143,000 liters (37,777 gallons) of water and more than 500 tarps in Louisiana as of Wednesday morning, according to Edwards’ office. In New Orleans, officials opened seven places where people could get a meal and sit in air conditioning. The city was also using 70 transit buses as cooling sites, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
Flooding in Virigina.
Meanwhile, more than 1,200 people were walking through some of Ida’s hardest-hit communities to look for those needing help, according to the Louisiana Fire Marshal’s office.
Search and rescue missions were tapering off, but continued in four parishes that still had floodwaters, Brig. Gen. Lee W. Hopkins of the Louisiana National Guard said on a Zoom call. That’s compared to 31 parishes in the hours immediately after the storm.
President Joe Biden was to visit Louisiana on Friday to survey the damage, the White House said.
In New Orleans, where the mayor estimated roughly half the population had evacuated, there were additional signs of recovery. Flags hung from dangling power lines to help drivers avoid them, and in one neighborhood, someone decorated the downed lines with strands of tinsel in an echo of Mardi Gras.
City crews removing debris from roads and cutting up fallen trees had some streets almost completely cleared, while others remained cluttered with obstacles.
A few corner stores were open, many taking cash only, though some had working ATM machines. In many areas, National Guard troops or law enforcement stood posted at pharmacies and gas stations, where drivers waited in long lines for fuel.
Louisiana’s transportation department announced that all interstate systems across the state had reopened and been cleared of debris. AT&T, which faced widespread cellphone outages after Ida, said it was currently operating at more than 90% of normal capacity.
As a clearer picture of Ida’s devastation emerged, the hurricane likely caused $50 billion to $60 billion in total damage, estimated Karen Clark, who has calculated catastrophic risk since 1987. Her risk modeling company, Karen Clark and Company, figured just $18 billion of those losses would be insured.
Those estimates would rank Ida anywhere from the fifth- to seventh-costliest U.S. hurricane based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Katrina, Harvey, Maria and Sandy were well over that amount. NOAA says 2017’s Irma incurred about $55 billion in damage and 1992’s Andrew about $53 billion in 2019 dollars.
The Supreme Court allows Texas abortion law to move forward.
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I am not a fan of termination of a fetus but I am not a woman. I believe women should have the right to make a decision involving their health. Women should have equal rights, equal pay and equal tasks.
Women should not be subjected by the government on what's right for their health or safety.
If a person was born biologically male (or female) but identifies as a woman (or a man), it's not my business to decide on who she (or he) is. I respect her (or his) right to be who she (or he) identifies as. Transgender Americans deserve the right to be who they are.
The Karens in Texas have successfully pass its voting restrictions law and its six week abortion law.
The Karens also got a boost of support from five of the Supreme Court justices.
The War in Afghanistan is over. But the civil war in the United States is on. The culture wars are ramping up again and the Republicans are playing on the fears yet again to make a desperate attempt to win back Congress and later the White House.
You know, I thought conservatives were the people who want "freedom." These are the same idiots who want to say it's "My body, my choice" when it comes to wearing face masks. These idiots are screaming at women's health providers for performing these difficult decisions.
No women thinks abortion is good. It's a painful procedure and it does live traumatic effects on women.
Terminations of fetuses often are in regards to a woman's decision on the grounds of:
Rape and incest.
Not being financially stable to raise children.
Life threatening issues to the woman's life or the fetus.
Unplanned or unwanted pregnancies happen. A woman could face post-traumatic stress when they have children. A woman could be unfit to be a mother. The Republican state governments already trying to strip away the safety net which allows food stamps, rent relief, disaster relief and daycare.
The very same idiots want women who have multiple children from different partners to stop having children. They want single mothers to work. The same idiots who believe "no free lunch" applies to a single mother raising children.
Why should the government be in the business on how to decide on what's the right decision for a woman?
There are procedures done in the health care provider. It's safe and effective.
The pill can be given within 10 weeks of a pregnancy. It will induce a miscarriage which leads to cramping, pain and heavy bleeding.
Surgical abortion which requires a gentle suction and it be done with local anaesthetic.
Also a dilation and evacuation can be done.
These procedures are safe, effective and will not affect the woman's body. Again, it will be painful but not life threatening. Women who decide to carry a termination are often scared to do it. It's no free ride to have these procedures. It can cost up to $40,000 for a termination.
The laws these states are trying to pass are infringing on a woman's right to make a difficult decision on whether they should term a pregnancy. The far-right and Christian extremists are trying to intervene by protesting near providers and harassing women for carrying out the decision.
The Supreme Court has proven time and time again that they're out of touch with America. This should be an early indicator for Democrats to move forward in ending the filibuster or win the Senate and improve the majority.
Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog wrote on the emergency decision being rejected by the five Karens in the Court.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday night took a step that anti-abortion activists have hoped for, and abortion-rights supporters have feared, since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg nearly a year ago. By failing to respond to a plea for them to intervene, the justices allowed a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions to go into effect early Wednesday morning. The abortion providers challenging the law say that it will bar at least 85% of abortions in the state and will likely cause many clinics to close. The justices could still act on the providers’ request at any time.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority once again takes progress back.
The law bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy – a time when many people do not yet know they are pregnant – and allows private citizens to sue anyone who helps a patient get an abortion. The Texas legislature passed the law as part of an effort to undercut the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established a constitutional right to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability, generally understood to occur around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Court watchers and people on both sides of the abortion debate kept vigil into the early hours of Wednesday morning, waiting for an order that never came from the justices. Many experts expected the court to act before midnight central time, when the law was scheduled to take effect. Instead, the court – at least for now – declined to block the law despite the fact that it defies Roe and Casey, the future of which are squarely at issue in a separate case, to be argued in the upcoming 2021-22 term, involving a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The law at the center of the Texas case, known as S.B. 8, prohibits doctors from performing abortions if they can detect a fetal heartbeat, including the kind of cardiac activity that normally occurs at roughly the sixth week of pregnancy. In a twist intended to make the law harder to challenge in court, the law does not rely on state officials to enforce the ban. Instead, the law tasks private individuals with bringing lawsuits against anyone who provides or “aids or abets” an abortion. Anyone who brings a successful lawsuit can collect $10,000 or more from the person who is found to have violated the law. The unusual private-enforcement scheme distinguishes the Texas law from other states’ abortion bans, all of which have been blocked by court rulings ordering state officials not to enforce them because they run afoul of Roe and Casey.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the law on May 19. Abortion providers went to court to challenge the law in July. They argued (among other things) that the law violates their patients’ constitutional right to end a pregnancy before viability.
After the district court denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss on Aug. 25, the defendants turned quickly to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The court of appeals granted the defendants’ request to put the district-court proceedings, including an Aug. 30 hearing on the challengers’ request for a preliminary injunction, on hold, and it denied the challengers’ request to expedite the appeal, setting the stage for the challengers to seek emergency relief in the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon.
In asking the court to block the law from going into effect, the challengers stressed that the six-week mark is “a point in pregnancy at which a State may not prohibit a patient from deciding whether to end her pregnancy.” They assured the justices that they could stop the enforcement of the law without necessarily tipping their hand on the substance of the underlying dispute, but they painted a dire picture of the consequences if the court did not act. They told the justices that, because the court of appeals had rejected their plea to expedite the appeal, “the rights of Texas women to obtain a legal abortion” will be “in jeopardy for months or more” while the litigation winds through the courts.
Texas' abortion law will be in the Supreme Court.
The Texas attorney general and other defenders of the law urged the justices to stay out of the dispute. Even if S.B. 8 were unconstitutional, the state contended, there still would be no reason for the Supreme Court to intervene because courts are limited in their power to grant relief before laws have actually been enforced. In general, courts can bar people from doing something, but they have no power to “expunge the law itself,” the state said. And in this case, the state contended, the challengers sued Texas government officials who “explicitly do not enforce the law” as well as an anti-abortion activist who has testified that he will not bring any lawsuits under the law. That means an order from the Supreme Court at this point would have no effect and would exceed the court’s authority, the state argued.
The fact that the challengers can’t sue state officials before the law goes into effect, the state continued, does not make the law unconstitutional: If the abortion providers are sued in state courts for violating S.B. 8, the state assured the justices, they can defend themselves by arguing that the law is unconstitutional.
As the deadline for the law to go into effect approached, Whole Woman’s Health – the lead plaintiff in the case, indicated on Twitter that its staff and doctors would continue to provide care right up until 11:59 central time. Shortly before midnight, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller tweeted that the company had “just finished care for our last patient in Texas today.” Summarizing the state of play, Hagstrom Miller concluded, “And now we wait.”
