In Justice Alito’s draft opinion reversing Roe, he writes about “an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment,” up until Roe in 1973.

He cites, as historical authority, Sir Matthew Hale.

Let me tell you about Hale & his views toward women.
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2/ The Alito draft says Hale “described abortion of a quick child who died in the womb as a ‘great crime’ and a ‘great misprision.’”

3/ Hale became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1671. In his views of women, he was not a forward-thinking fellow — *even* by the abysmally low standards of his era.

(Here's an illustration of Hale, from the National Portrait Gallery in London.)
https://t.co/CQtI4eK4DU

4/ To Hale, English gentlewomen were “the ruin of families.” Young women were a particular source of despair. They “learn to be bold,” he complained, and “talk loud.”

5/ I researched Hale while writing, with @txtianmiller, the book “Unbelievable.” The book was an extension of a story we wrote for @propublica and @MarshallProj called “An Unbelievable Story of Rape.”
https://t.co/Z5ibbUBPdi

6/ Hale believed that for women, it was easy to accuse a man of rape. He believed that for men, such accusations were hard to defend, even if innocent. He advised that jurors be warned — explicitly, and at length — about the threat of the false accuser.

7/ He came up with quite the list of factors for jurors to weigh. Jurors, he wrote, should consider: Is the woman claiming rape of “good fame” — or “evil fame?” Did she cry out? Try to flee? Make immediate complaint afterward? Does she stand supported by others?

8/ Hale’s words became a standard feature of criminal trials in the U.S.

As long as 300 years after Hale’s death in 1676, many an American jury would be cautioned with what courts called the “Hale Warning”: an instruction to be especially wary of false accusations of rape.

9/ But that wasn’t Hale’s only legacy.

In 1662, at Bury St. Edmunds, Hale presided at the trial of two women accused of witchcraft. Hale instructed the jury that witches were real, saying Scripture affirmed as much.

10/ The jury convicted Amy Denny and Rose Cullender, after which Hale sentenced both women to hang.

Thirty years later, Hale’s handling of this trial, preserved in written record, served as model in Salem, Massachusetts, in the infamous witch trials of 1692.

11/ Hale is known for his legal treatises. But just as revealing is a letter he wrote to his granddaughters, dispensing individually tailored advice.

Granddaughter Mary, he wrote, needed to “govern the greatness of her spirit,” lest she become “proud, imperious and revengeful.”

12/ Granddaughter Frances could make a good housewife, Hale wrote, provided she be “kept in some awe, especially in relation to lying and deceiving.”

13/ As for granddaughter Ann, Hale perceived a “soft nature,” and therefore forbade plays, ballads or melancholic books, “for they will make too deep an impression upon her mind.”

14/ This letter was 182 pages long. When it came to advice, Sir Matthew Hale was full of it.

15/ Young women, Hale wrote, “make it their business to paint or patch their faces, to curl their locks, and to find out the newest and costliest of fashions.” …

16/ “If they rise in the morning before ten of the clock, the morning is spent between the comb, and the glass, and the box of patches; though they know not how to make provision for it themselves, they must have choice diet provided for them…”

17/ The letter reveals a man about as cheerful as his portrait suggests.

Wrote Hale: “The whole constitution of the people of this kingdom is corrupted into debauchery, drunkenness, gluttony, whoring, gaming, profuseness, and the most foolish, sottish prodigality imaginable.”

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@jeff_thompson It's Roe today.
Tomorrow it will be LGBTQ.
Then it will be allowing a state religion.
And English only.

Some will say I'm being melodramatic.
But on the arc we're going, I see detention camps for political rivals of any kind.

So yeah...speak up. Speak out.
They're coming for us

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@RepMTG

No one agrees with the riot at the Capitol on Jan 6th, as a matter of fact, it upset and shocked me very much.

But the political persecution happening in our country upsets me even more.

I toured the DC Jail and will never forget the broken men singing the National Anthem as

their due process and human rights are violated by the very government in power.

Yes they did wrong, but no different than every single Antifa/BLM rioter that were bailed out by money raised from Democrat leaders like Kamala Harris & Ilhan Omar and

then had their charges dropped by liberal DA’s who probably cheer on the persecution of J6’ers.

The two tiered justice system needs to end.

Ashley Babbit’s mother & supporters are gathering nightly outside the DC Jail from 7-9:30 pm.

flexghost.
@flexghost1

Miss today’s hearings? Auntie Flexghost packed you a lunch and put some bite sized videos in it. Here are the clips in one spot.

Let’s start with how Sidney Powell ruins everything.

Special thank you to Sidney Powell for single-handedly ruining Diet Dr. Pepper for me.

#January6thCommitteeHearings pic.twitter.com/lxaj51ZmqJ
— flexghost. (@flexghost1) July 12, 2022

Jamie Raskin drops some bombs linking Trump to alt-right terrorist groups

We are watching Jamie Raskin and the #January6thCommitteeHearings literally show collusion between right wing extremists and the executive branch of The United States of America in real time.

This is a "where were you when..." event. pic.twitter.com/y6u6feanlt
— flexghost. (@flexghost1) July 12, 2022

Ok, here is a thread for you.
What happens when you have:
Netflix
Apple
Amazon
WarnerMedia +
Disney+
SonyCrackle (Reboot)
Verizon All Access (after they buy CBS/Viacom)
UniversalSkyMedia
By 2021
Answer? Internet Slows To A Craw and Dies.
Why?
Bandwidth.

Netflix's gets 35% of all internet traffic.
Now we all know Apple Coming to Netflix Corner.
We know that WarnerMedia Planning One
We Know about Disney+
Now how will the net handle 8 Streaming Platforms all at once?
Answer - IT CANT.

But Novid, the speed, the 4K the all everything?
NOOOOO BUDDY.
Even if you could do it and even if AWS ran six million clouds, The Net Will still slow to a crawl. 35%, goes to nearly 90% if any of the 8 or all of the 8 eat at netflix's numbers.

Oh, they wouldn't be running at once.
FOOL. You forget how bad things were when game of thrones season premieres came around. HBO SERVERS FALL DOWN GO BOOM!

Now see if a season like 2021 come around and they air shows on a same day. It gets crazy. AT&T and others gonna realize they cant build out forever. Something will give and it might be your entertainment consumption big time.

Noah Smith
@Noahpinion

1/OK, data mystery time.

This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE

That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.

Let's check this number.

2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".

The report is available here:

3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.

The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.

4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.

Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A

It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.

That estimate is from 2012.

5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.

I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.