#Tina Smith

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Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:

A group of women Democratic senators introduced a repeal of the 1873 Comstock Act Thursday, citing the threat of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president. This archaic law needs to go, and talking about it—and the GOP’s plans—is an excellent way to get the word out to voters about Republicans’ radical agenda.

The Comstock Act banned the mailing of contraceptives, “lewd” writings, and any “instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing” that could be used in an abortion. It’s been more or less superseded by the Supreme Court and new laws in the past century and a half, but it remains on the books. Like a dormant volcano, it sits waiting for a shift in the political ground to erupt. Patty Murray of Washington, one of the co-sponsors, talked about the threat in a press conference Tuesday.�� “Donald Trump and his allies are planning a detailed road map, they’ve given it out, to rip away a woman’s right to choose in every single state in America,” she said. Lead sponsor of the bill, Tina Smith of Minnesota, told The Washington Post that there is  “a very clear, well-organized plan afoot by the MAGA Republicans to use Comstock as a tool to ban medication abortion, and potentially all abortions.” “My job is to take that tool away,” Smith added.

The shift was presaged by the focus of Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in their arguments in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, in which the court unanimously preserved access to the abortion pill. The ruling wasn’t on the merits of the FDA’s decision to expand access to the drug, but rather on a technicality of whether the physicians’ group bringing the challenge could sufficiently claim that they were harmed by it. In that case, Thomas and Alito all but told future plaintiffs how to bring back this challenge: by invoking the Comstock Act. They specifically asked the attorneys arguing the case of the FDA’s pandemic-era decision—made permanent in 2023—to use the Comstock Act in their challenges.

Good to see the Senate Democrats take action to propose the repeal of the odious Comstock Act (even if the Republicans block it like usual). #RepealComstock

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Senators Klobuchar, Smith Secure Funding for Minnesota Farmers, Rochester Roads

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith (both D-MN), ranking member and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, announced that an expected $2 billion in agriculture disaster relief and farmer aid will soon be made available for Minnesota producers, small businesses, and families impacted by extreme storms and flooding last year. The funding also will help cover an estimated $28 million for…

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It shouldn't be a surprise to me that the senators who are still supporting the genocide in Palestine are the ones who won't accept gender neutral prefixes when contacting them 🙄🙄

Requiring a name prefix is dumb anyway, but not allowing Mx. is such an easy thing to do. It's a microaggression to force your constituents into a binary when they contact you. You work for US! And you can't even show respect for all of us. 😒 Shame on you Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar.

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Auli'i Cravalho as janis imi'ike icons

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justice for my girls

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Cunty lady pantheon

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my irish ancestors watching me thirst over british men:

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

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(2/2) and we both were asking her for an autograph. As she was signing it, I was taking a photo (or more?) of you and Tina. She was saying something but I don't remember what now. I thought it was funny that we were in Italy speaking English to a French woman? anyway, it was 1970s Tina but in the dream it was like today if that makes sense. I thought saring that cause I think you will love it :) Tina looked beautiful but a bit tired, she was kind to us but in a rush...

Second part of this very cool dream!!

I love the fact that we were there, the both of us and you took pics of Tina with me, I wish it was true!! who knows if in another dimension or in a parallel universe this happened, that would be very nice.

You made my day today, thank you so so much for sharing!!

Eleni xoxoxo

[message sent to me the 20th January 2025]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sebastian Murdock at HuffPost:

The bald eagle, a powerful symbol of the U.S., has officially become the country’s national bird. The move came Tuesday with President Joe Biden signing a bill into law to amend the United States Code. The raptor had already served to represent American strength for nearly 250 years; Congress designated it the national emblem in 1782. The bipartisan bill had been introduced in the Senate months ago by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.). It passed Congress unanimously.

The Bald Eagle, which has been a cultural icon in the United States for centuries, is now officially the national bird of the USA, thanks to President Biden signing the bipartisan bill into law that was sponsored by Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis (WY) and Markwayne Mullin (OK) and both of Minnesota's Democratic Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar.

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Mean Girls: The Musical. January 12th.