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Trump emmerde le Monde [cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags 80th birthday, bad manners, bully, cover, global warming, immigration, Libé, profanity, Together Against Trump, UN, unfiltered, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, wind farms on September 25, 2025 by xi'an
Munich at 61⁰N
Posted in Books, pictures with tags Alaska, Daily Mail, Donald Trump, Munich Agreement, Russian invasion, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War, Together Against Trump, UK tabloids, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, WW II on August 29, 2025 by xi'an
Madam President [alt reality]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags alternate history, art, civil rights, cover, Kadir Nelson, Kamala Harris, The New Yorker, Together Against Trump, US elections 2024, US history on January 20, 2025 by xi'an
mixed news on the Western [abortion] front
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags abortion, abortion rights, AfD, anti-abortion organisations, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Bundestag, Catholic Church, CDU, Center for Reproductive Rights, Europe, far-right, French Constitution, Germany, Italy, Mike Pence, Nazi State, Newspeak, Poland, public health system, The Guardian, Together Against Trump, UNiTE to End Violence against Women, US politics, women's rights on May 6, 2024 by xi'an
In the past weeks, a mix of negative and positive moves about abortion in Europe and the USA (which among other bans resuscitated a 1864 near-total abortion ban in Arizona and saw sad-faced Mike Pence complain in TNYT (!) about mad-hatter and opportunist Donald Trump “retreat from the pro-life cause”):
France has added that “The law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed” to the Article 34 of the French Constitution, which is intended to make access to abortion a fundamental right but still remains a formal move as it can be reinterpreted restrictively (which conditions?!) and does not state anything about the practical side of universally ensuring this access, which might be severely hindered by a dearth of willing practicians or the introduction of constraints on clinics, as seen for many years in the US, prior to the revocation of Roe vs. Wade.
Poland has seen its MPs from its lower house vote on four bills on abortion for further study, of which two propose legalising abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy and cancel the current quasi-complete ban on abortion.
Germany Bundestag is working on a bill that would outlaw the intimidation of people around abortion clinics offering abortion. The country should however more much further by making abortion legal, which is not the case now (even though there are “exceptions for abortions with counseling in the first trimester, and for medically necessary abortions [incl. or serious social or emotional distress] and abortions due to unlawful sexual acts”) and actual access to abortion practitioners proves a challenge. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) are unsurprisingly opposing this legalisation.
Italy saw Meloni’s far-right government allowing anti-abortion activists to enter abortion consultation clinics!!, as part of a package of measures funded by the EU!!!. with the [newspeak] argument that they “must not criminalise those who are against abortion. [The Government has] always allowed freedom of conscience on issues of this kind [and] believe it is right for everyone to behave according to their own beliefs and conscience.”
and it only gets worse [verbatim]
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Abraham Lincoln, Agent Orange, air pollution, America, baby Trump, Barack Obama, cliffs, coronavirus epidemics, COVID-19, decency, Donald Trump, Dover cliffs, EPA, hydroxychloroquine sulfate, incompetence, pandemic, revisionism, Spanish flu, Together Against Trump, US politics, US presidents on May 21, 2020 by xi'an
“They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.” DT, 03 May
“We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this [pandemic.]” J. Kushner, 29 April
““We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here, and isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful Presidency of President Obama?” K. McEnany, 25 February
“You all know what happened in 1917.” DT, 27 April
“Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As the pandemic has spread fear, disease and death, national leaders across the globe have been severely tested. Some have fallen short, sometimes dismally, but there are also those leaders who have risen to the moment, demonstrating resolve, courage, empathy, respect for science and elemental decency, and thereby dulling the impact of the disease on their people.” NYT editorial, 30 April
“In the past month alone, the [US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] has dialled down regulations on automobile emissions and fuel efficiency put in place under former president Barack Obama; it has weakened rules on mercury and other pollutants emitted by power plants; and it has shied away from strengthening standards to reduce fine-particle air pollution.“ Nature, 28 April“
“It would have been bad even with the best of government. It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of ‘what’s in it for me’ and ‘to heck with everybody else’ — when that mindset is operationalized in our government.” Barack Obama, 09 May
“““Trump’s constant antics are a danger to the American people. The current approach to science and expertise within the Trump administration is a shame on many levels. Trump’s talking nonsense risks misleading the public, and it distracts top scientists who spend emotional energy neutralizing the damage he causes when they should be tackling the virus (…) Many scientists were dreading that the president would be faced by a test just like coronavirus. “ John Holdren, 03 May
“Probably it was incompetence. Somebody was stupid.” DT [an expert in the field], 10 May
DT, 18 May
