News is breaking thick and fast, and we cats are here for it. It's only Wednesday, but take a gander at this week's excellent stories:
Yesterday's pro-choice vote in Ohio was indescribably delicious. It's impressive that so many people turned out on an August Tuesday in an off-year because they grasped what, in the end, was a fairly complicated situation. Think about it: Voters had to understand exactly what the Republicans were trying to do to the constitutional amendment process, how it linked to abortion, why it mattered, that voting "no" was good, and that they should get out and stand in line, maybe for a while, to cast their ballots on a hot summer day.
Best of all, despite Ohio's lopsided result, the crazy right-wing nutjobs will take no lessons from it. In fact, expect them to demand that all the 2024 GOP candidates double down. Watch for a call for a national ban, since even red states can't be trusted to save the babies — which will continue to doom them at the polls. The loss of Roe is infuriating and distressing because women are dying. But it's been a, pun intended, supreme political gift. Keep the momentum going!
Moving a little south, it appears that DA Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, is preparing to ask a grand jury to indict at least a dozen people next week. (Just like the big-mouth foreperson predicted in February, right?) Oh, gosh — please, please make two of them Lady Lindsey and Rootie Giuliani. In addition to Trump, of course.
Finally, Black Twitter continues to revel in Saturday night's riverfront brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, and it's fabulous. Tweeps keep cranking out video narrations, re-enactments and memes, one funnier than the next. Rosa Parks, Aquaman, and hats thrown in the air Mary Tyler Moore-style all figure prominently. And, of course, folding chairs.
Now that we've seen the crucial three minutes of the recorded fight, it's clear that the whole thing was kicked off by some drunken white privilege, and could have been a real tragedy if brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles hadn't rushed to rescue a Black man from — if not death — a real Rodney King beating. We don't even feel bad about the white woman who got hit over the head with that chair. As Black Twitter has eloquently observed, "Those white men and women tried to enforce a centuries-long racial hierarchy through violence, but Black folks said hell no." We cats wish them joy, and we PURR.
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