Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 2 weeks ago • 100%

Beans and rice cooked in diluted pineapple juice, with peppers, corn, and pineapple tidbits. Then your usual taco fixins (lettuce, onion, tomato, hot sauce) on a store-bought tortilla.

politics queermunist • 3 weeks ago • 95%

thetricontinental.org

>**Fascism is an insufficient term**, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type. Also, [Guerilla History pod companion episode](https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-far-right-of-a-special-type-10-theses-w-vijay-prashad) to go with the article. What really struck me was *Thesis Five*: the far right of a special type provides a partial answer to the loneliness epidemic that comes with advanced capitalist alienation. It doesn't build real community or friendships or relationships, it's more like everyone being in the same fandom. They wear signifier merchandise and signal to each other with specialized language and all consume the same significant cultural products, but they don't actually build real community. Instead they build ephemeral pseudo-anonymous online communities and temporary community through mass mobilization (rallies, marches, etc). They often don't know each other by their real names, or anything about each other's families, or their tastes outside of what they use to signal how antiwoke they are to each other. But this is the closest thing millions of people have to community, even while the epidemic of loneliness continues untreated. Building community is a radical act.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 2 months ago • 93%

It's got onion and tomato and lettuce and cucumbers and jalapenos and bell peppers and smokey tvp and some spicy sauce 🤤

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 2 months ago • 94%

The potatoes are mixed with fried tvp, peas, and carrots. The cauliflower are breaded and airfried, coated with a spicy buffalo barbecue sauce. Miiiight have cooked a little too much tho 😅 Also here's an action shot 

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 4 months ago • 97%

Carmelized onions and garlic, cubed potatoes, bell peppers, and egg substitute; topped with hot-sauce, with a cup of white chai on the side.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 5 months ago • 96%

Just a simple chili made with four tomatoes, one onion, half a bell pepper, a three chipotles in abado sauce, a clove of garlic, a couple tbsp of chili powder, a tbsp of oil, and then topped with nooch and air fried kidney beans. I think I'll spring for mango or pineapple next time.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 5 months ago • 93%

And here they are ready for action 

chat queermunist • 6 months ago • 100%

Okay so I knew we had a holiday on Easter weekend at my job and I assumed we'd have Good Friday off, since that's what literally every other job I've had has done and since it's a semi-holiday. Nope, we got Monday off. April fools! 😂 So now I just burned two attendance points because I was a no-call-no-show *and* lost out on holiday pay. Death to America.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 6 months ago • 85%

Did you know soy sauce Top Ramen is vegan? Maruchan isn't so don't get em confused! The greens are raw sweet peas and green onion.

Palestine queermunist • 7 months ago • 97%

www.democracynow.org

>SUSAN ABULHAWA: I want to say that the reality on the ground is infinitely worse than the worst videos and photos that we’re seeing in the West. There is a — you know, beyond people being buried alive en masse in their homes, their bodies being shredded to pieces, these kinds of videos and images that people are seeing — beyond that, there is this daily massive degradation of life. It is a total denigration of a whole society, that was once high-functioning and proud and has basically been reduced to the most primal of ambitions, you know, being able to get enough water for the day or flour to bake bread. And this is even in Rafah. >And the people in Rafah will tell you that they feel privileged because they’re not starving to death, while their families in the north, the ones that they can reach, because Israel has basically cut off 99% of communication — what remains are basically communications by people who have, you know, set up some ingenious ways to keep internet in the north. But most people in the north have no idea what’s happening. As a matter of fact, at one point — I’m sure you all know Bisan Owda, who is on Facebook. She explained to me she often goes up to the border between Khan Younis and the middle area in the north where you can’t go beyond, and she explained to me that an aid truck, that sort of pushed its way through but was eventually fired on, had — people came up and ran up, thinking that the war was over and people were returning to the north. So, most people in the north are in total darkness and hunger and really have no way of communicating, no way of figuring out where to get food. >And, you know, what we’re hearing on the ground is surreal. It’s dystopic. What I witnessed personally in Rafah and in some of the middle areas is incomprehensible. And I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that. I recommend listening to the whole thing, but this is the most harrowing part for me. The death toll is likely a massive undercount and, if the Zionists have their way, *we will never be allowed to know the truth.*

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 7 months ago • 79%

I've been slowly adding more and more veggies through experimentation, but now I'm at the point where I either need to use bigger tortillas or just be more picky about which veggies I want 😅 this is the configuration I'm using right now, though in the summer I like to use avacado instead of sauce.  I heat the tortillas in a pan with a light coat of walnut oil and black pepper and assemble my fixins in the pan itself.  Sauce is also homemade! I save all the vinegar from pickled jalapenos and then mix that with equal parts coconut oil in a heated pan, then combine it with whatever seasoning I'm feeling like during that batch (rn I'm using nooche, though sometimes I go for an onion sauce or mustard). It's not super precise so there's no recipe, I've just got a feel from experimentation. Also the fake-on bits are actually a cheap local veriety I've found. Basically just smoke and salt flavored crunchy soy chips. Once I'm done, I pack up my chopped veggies to do this again in a couple days. I usually make four at a time every two days, and these are my pre-shift and mid-shift work meals. Served with a thicc pea protein chocolate drink. 

News queermunist • 7 months ago • 87%

www.cnn.com

And you all told me the blue maga border bill that Republicans rejected was 4d chess.

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 7 months ago • 87%

Kidney beans and rice with taco seasoning, caramelized onion and garlic, *and* I found out I can get dried habaneros near me! Definitely growing those this year, I forgot how good they are (haven't had any since before the pandemic 🥲 ) Also that Perrona sauce is... okay. It's really sweat, throws off everything. Also not nearly as spicy as I was hoping! It's a cool color, you can't really tell but it's actually green, but it just didn't hurt me the way I like 😌

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 8 months ago • 85%

Pintos and white rice seasoned with cumin, cayenne, garlic, nooch, salt, msg, walnut oil, and then served with taco fixins on hard shells 💪

Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 9 months ago • 80%

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Vegan Home Cooks queermunist • 9 months ago • 66%

I used to think I didn't really like beans, but when I got an airfryer I decided to see what they'd be like if I cooked them differently. Amazing~✨ Smaller beans become a delicious crunchy topping or filling, highly recommended, but what's *really* interesting is those huge butter beans. They're *disturbingly* similar to chicken breast when cooked this way, so I cooked up some white rice, cut up some ice cold broccoli, and fried up some butter beans 8 minutes with walnut oil at 400^o^ F And that's it! Super simple but so so *sooo* good.

World News queermunist • 10 months ago • 92%

www.reuters.com

In Khan Younis, many of those taking flight on Monday were already displaced from other areas. Abu Mohammed told Reuters it was now the third time he had been forced to flee since abandoning his home in Gaza City in the north. "Why did they eject us from our homes in Gaza (City) if they planned to kill us here?" he said. At a home in Khan Younis that was struck overnight, flames licked the collapsed masonry and grey smoke billowed out from the rubble. A child's stuffed toy of a sheep lay in a pile of dust. Boys were picking through the wreckage. Next door, Nesrine Abdelmoty stood amid damaged furniture in the rented room where she lives with her divorced daughter and two-year-old baby. "We were sleeping at 5 a.m. when we felt things collapse, everything went upside down," she told Reuters. "They told (people) to move from the north to Khan Younis, since the south is safer. And now, they've bombed Khan Younis. Even Khan Younis is not safe now, and even if we move to Rafah, Rafah is not safe as well. Where do they want us to go?"

News queermunist • 10 months ago • 80%

www.theguardian.com

The end of the article jumped out at me: >The Palestinian health ministry said 40 patients died on Tuesday, after five days without the fuel needed to power generators that fed dialysis machines and other vital medical equipment. The hospital had also run out of clean water, and doctors said they were subsisting on dates to survive as food supplies dwindled to nothing. >Corpses were piled in front of the hospital, with staff too terrified to move between buildings. The UN’s office for humanitarian affairs said staff at al-Shifa, for decades the linchpin of Gaza’s medical system, had begun preparations for a mass grave to entomb 180 bodies in front of the facility, as there was no way for them to leave in order to bury the dead.

Antiwork queermunist • 10 months ago • 92%

www.nbcnews.com

Of particular note: >The Association of American Railroads, which represents freight railway operators, said its members have been hiring in recent years to address staffing needs and recognize employees' desire for better scheduling. The group said the number of overtime hours worked by BMWE union members increased to 4.7 hours per week in 2022, compared to 4 hours in 2016. >Cory Ludwig, who works as a machine operator repairing railway tracks in Iowa, said he’s been working Saturdays and some Sundays along with 10- to 12-hour shifts since September. Recently, he worked 13 days without a day off. With the mandatory Saturday work, he’s had to rely on friends and relatives to take care of his five-year-old and nine-year-old kids. He said the overtime demands have increased as he’s seen the number of workers assigned to his crew go down. >“You fall asleep and then you wake up in the morning and you go right back to work. It can really break a person down, it gets really wearing on a person after a while,” Ludwig said. “With less people trying to do the same amount of work, working long hours, working multiple weeks in a row without one day off, you get irritated and you get burnt out.” >Recently one of the union’s members had been working 22 hours straight when he fell asleep on the job, an error that could have put his colleagues’ lives at risk but also could have been avoided had the employee had a rest period, said Ballew. Another member was recently disciplined for refusing to work through his scheduled days off on short notice so he could care for a family member having health issues, Ballew said. >“The stress it puts on marriages and parenting and the things you leave behind for your spouse to deal with or the things you miss, that kind of stress builds up,” said Ballew. “In the rail industry, we have noticed recently a spat of suicides and I can’t help but think there is a correlation there.” Thank God Biden stopped the railroad strike! I swear if I hear another fucker say that the railroad workers got everything they wanted because Biden helped them negotiate I'll lose it. Good thing I voted for the lesser evil in 2020! Gosh if I had stuck to principles we'd have had a genocide or something 😒

chat queermunist • 11 months ago • 98%

www.democracynow.org

I recommend listening to the whole thing, but here's the nug: >YOUMNA ELSAYED: Yes, I just want to say one thing. I want to say this, and I want the world to remember my words. In my culture, in my language, we say, ”Kama tadinu tudan, walaw ba’ada heen.” In your culture, in your language, they say, “What goes around comes around.” And when it comes around, like this whole world is watching the genocides happening in the Gaza Strip, we shall be watching, too. Israel fucked up. God damn journalists saying this openly? I mean, obviously the Western press won't cover this, but this is after Biden went whining to Qatar to reign in Al Jazeera lol I held my nose for that shit in 2020 "to stop fascism" but fuck, this motherfucker endorsed genocide anyway. Not making that mistake again 🤢

Ask Lemmygrad queermunist • 11 months ago • 89%

>Article II >In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: >- Killing members of the group; >- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; >- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; >- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; >- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group Clear enough, right? Under this definition Israel's occupation and war of extermination is absolutely genocide, unquestionably. The goal is to kill, mutilate, and displace the Palestinian people. The goal is the total ethnic cleansing of Gaza, by any means necessary. Israel's war on Gaza is genocide. However, under this definition are the *completely justified* goals of Hamas also genocide? They intend to destroy the settler-colonial monstrosity that is Zionism and eradicate the nation state of Israel; Palestine from the river to the sea. That, technically, means they are committed with intent to destroy the national group of Israelis by displacement, death, or simply making them into Palestinians after destroying Israel's government. That doesn't seem right to me. I am absolutely in solidarity with Hamas and Palestine in their struggle against the Zionist entity. An occupied people destroying their occupier's government and settler identity can't be considered genocide, because it creates this legal and ethical equivalency with the settlers. And yet, *technically*, that seems to be the case. Am I wrong? And, by pointing out this technicality, am I just a dog for Zionism?

World News queermunist • 11 months ago • 65%

The nug: >While assertions have been made by both sides about the incident and death toll, the available evidence is less clear. However, analysis of the video footage rules out most explanations aside from an Israeli strike. >The devastation underlines the heightened risk civilians are facing as tens of thousands flee the north, on Israeli orders, during hostilities. The bodies of at least three children can be seen in multiple clips verified by the FT. >At least 1,400 Israelis have been killed, according to the government, including many women and children. At least 2,500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardment, about half of them women and below the age of 18, according to Palestinian officials. >On Saturday, Israel told Gazans that it would refrain from bombing two evacuation routes for six hours, including Salah-ad-Din street, where these explosions took place, so that civilians could continue to move south

Antiwork queermunist • 1 year ago • 92%

>Following months of negotiations with Teamsters, UPS announced in June that it would install air conditioning in new trucks starting next year. The company said it would send new trucks to the hottest parts of the country first, if possible. The company also said it would retrofit its existing package cars with cab fans, exhaust heat shields, and cargo area ventilation. >"While these improvements will make a difference in the months and years ahead, we had to fight like hell to secure them," the Teamsters union said in its social media post Thursday. "Chris Begley should still be alive to experience them. All companies, including UPS, need to remember that their past failings to protect workers can have deadly serious consequences in the future." Chris Bagley should still be alive and it's a damn shame the Teamsters failed to protect him from social murder. Only new trucks? Only next year? They drove trucks without fans, heat shields, and ventilation? **What the fuck.** The Teamsters could have, at the very least, demand a total halt on driving trucks without **fucking fans**. "Oh but that'll cause package delays!" Well I guess we just have to *murder drivers* for the sake of logistics. If anyone tells me how great and historic the new contract is one more fucking time I'll fucking lose it.

>I want to read you two recent headlines from New York magazine. They were written within a week of each other. The first is “A.O.C. Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now,” and that accuses you of compromising on your progressive ideals as you work within the party system. And then came the rebuttal, which was “The ‘A.O.C. Left’ Has Achieved Plenty,” which argued that your wing has pushed the party leftward. Why do you think your role is still being parsed this way by Democrats and by those on the left? >>Part of it is because we haven’t really had a political presence like this in the United States before. I think very often you had this consummate insider that was bankrolled by corporate money and advancing this, frankly, very neoliberal agenda. And those were the people that we were used to seeing in power. And so I think over time there’s been an inherent association between power, ascent and quote-unquote selling out. >>I often say to my grass-roots companions that the left, for a very long time, was not used to having power in the United States. And so when we encounter power, we’re so bewildered by it — Yes, the reason we are suspicious of you is because we're too fucking stupid to understand. Thank you boss queen!!! >Moving your ideas internationally, even if they might conflict with the foreign policy of the leader of your own party? >>I wouldn’t necessarily characterize my foreign policy goals as oppositional to the president’s or to the United States. I am a member of Congress. I have sworn an oath to this country, and I take that oath very seriously. That says it all, doesn't it? >Do you feel more comfortable in the Democratic Party now? The way you described it initially was fraught. They rejected you, and you were definitely trying to change the party. You have said you’ve pushed the party leftward. Many would agree. So is it OK to be a regular Democrat now? >>The activist in me always seeks to agitate for more. I think despite there being progress, many people are still woefully underserved in this country. But the Democratic Party has changed dramatically in the last five years. Even if you just look at the numbers, I believe it’s something around 50 percent of House Democrats have been elected since 2018. And so what is considered center and moderate now is dramatically different than what it was five years ago. No no wait, *that* says it all. Being center and moderate is good now folks!

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 50%

www.bleedingheartland.com

>County GOP activists could have picked a less controversial nominee for the auditor's race, but they stuck with Whipple. The move backfired spectacularly. Overreaching is the norm for the Party now because the base doesn't give a shit about electability anymore. That's good for Democrats... until Republicans stop caring about elections entirely.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 50%

Imagine the thought process of "the election was stolen, so I'll vote harder next time" Extremely American

Firefox queermunist • 1 year ago • 92%

Look at it! What *is* that? It looks kind of like a cross section of a human, *kind of*, except the eyes are pools of blackened fire and the brain is sending electrical pulses out to... are those Jupiters? Why? ***Why???*** This is absolute nightmare shit lol

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 60%

www.bleedingheartland.com

>"Good things are going to happen in this country, and it just might take a different generation to help lead us there," Vivek Ramaswamy said a few minutes into his "fair-side chat" with Governor Kim Reynolds on August 12. The youngest candidate in the GOP presidential field (he turned 38 last week) regularly reminds audiences that he is the first millennial to run for president as a Republican. >But here's the thing: a large majority of Iowa GOP caucus-goers are Gen X or older. >The Republican Party of Iowa does not publish details about caucus-goer demographics, but entrance or exit polls from the last three competitive caucuses give us a rough idea. Those surveys indicate that GOP caucus-goers under age 45 comprised only about 28 percent of participants in 2016, about 31 percent in 2012, and about 26 percent in 2008. It's a pretty long article but it tells you all you need to know about this guy: his 10 Commandments are especially dire, because he's essentially distilled everything Republicans believe into bite-sized talking points. They're all nonsense, but I could totally see these resonating with people who have adult children that don't talk to them anymore. If Trump actually gets sent to prison before the caucuses, this guy might have the swag to replace him.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 89%

www.kcrg.com

Do you get it now? The law doesn't apply to them.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 80%

www.kwwl.com

>Most of the incident was captured on video from multiple angles. Rather than argue that he didn't do it, Huston's defense is arguing that he had the right to drive through the protestors because his traffic light was green. >In the videos shown in court, many of which haven't been seen before, Huston's truck appears to approach a car at the light. When the light turned green, the truck is seen swerving around the car and comes up to the protestors who are crossing, before stopping when it collided with a pedestrian. It's truly amazing what motorists think they can get away with.

Late Stage Capitalism queermunist • 1 year ago • 81%

www.romper.com

>Rather than struggling to rebalance the division of labor between breadwinning and caregiving, why not spread the roles out more broadly among a greater number of committed adults? HMM YEAH WHY NOT *HMMMMMM* >“Given all of the physical, financial, mental, and emotional labors of raising children,” a college professor colleague of mine explained to me, “why wouldn’t you want to spread that around?” He spent over a decade as one of three legal parents to his now adult twins, and although he believes the arrangement worked out well for everyone involved, he preferred to remain anonymous because formal tri-parenting is still so rare. We used to fucking do that before capitalism crammed us all into nuclear families, and now that capitalism has entered decay we're finding out that we need extended families. But do they recommend moving in with parents or siblings? *Nah*. If families didn't keep buying new houses then how would the economy grow??? >Finally, as increasing numbers of millennials and members of Generation Z decide to forgo childbearing in protest against climate change, the housing crisis, or the growing precarity of their financial futures in a brutal gig economy, the growing acceptance of alloparenting might offer unique opportunities for them to experience parenthood. Rather than struggling to rebalance the division of labor between breadwinning and caregiving, why not spread the necessary roles out more broadly among a greater number of committed adults? "Finally, as increasing numbers of people see the end of the world approaching and wish only for a quick death, the growing acceptacne of alloparenting might allow them to get a taste of what was once a fundamental human experience!" You will own nothing and be happy.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 56%

The mention that this is happening because of actions of creditors made me look up wtf they're talking about. Y'all?[ It's not good](https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/08/04/hospital-calls-receivership-action-a-power-grab-that-puts-patients-at-risk/) >Preston Hollow Community Capital, a specialty finance company that claims Mercy is in “a financial freefall,” wants a district court judge to appoint a receiver who will take control of the hospital’s assets. Preston Hollow claims the 234-bed, acute care hospital is incurring “unsustainable financial losses” and argues that a receiver is needed to avoid a shutdown of the hospital. >Mercy is now seeking dismissal of Preston Hollow’s petition for receivership, calling it a “pretextual power play by an investment fund that puts the medical team, employees, patients and larger community at risk.” >In new court filings, Mercy argues that Preston Hollow’s legal action was triggered by the Mercy board of directors’ refusal to go along with the finance company’s “aggressive and improper demands to abruptly change management.” American healthcare everybody!

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 71%

Abolish the border.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 69%

www.bleedingheartland.com

>>I'm not out to my parents as non-binary (they would reject it most possibly). I want to come out at school to all new teachers, that way i can just slowly come out. this law would be a disaster to any of my plans, which is why I find it scary to imagine me in Iowa.I'm not out to my parents as non-binary (they would reject it most possibly). I want to come out at school to all new teachers, that way i can just slowly come out. this law would be a disaster to any of my plans, which is why I find it scary to imagine me in Iowa. >If "First, do no harm" is a principle in caring professions, Iowa elected officials are demanding adults cause harm to vulnerable kids in schools, and teachers have an obligation to resist policies whose purpose is to inflict cruelty. In fact, we know that using chosen names can literally be life-saving for transgender kids, as being able to use chosen names is directly linked to a decrease in depression and suicide. As a basic human courtesy, it’s the bare minimum, costs us nothing, yet can mean everything. I like Bleeding Heartland, but one criticism I have is how they don't actually ascribe motives to fascists. They still try to maintain this bizarre appearance of """neutrality""" by just presenting the facts and not actually examining our enemies. **The entire point is to harm queer children.** They want us to commit suicide before we're old enough to vote against them or spread our deviant ideas to other children. They want to increase depression and suicide. "The cruelty is the point" is trite, they're not just meanies that want to hurt us. They're fascists. This is social Darwinism.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 45%

www.cnn.com

I can't tell you how happy I am that this criminal is going to win the primary and drag this election cycle straight into hell lol

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 64%

whoradio.iheart.com

Gotta love the People's Republic of Johnson County

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 54%

www.thegazette.com

>The school district’s plan “hollows” out the city,“ O’Donnell said. >“Schools are development drivers. People move to neighborhoods because of public safety and because of schools,” O’Donnell said. Moving schools out of the core of the city is “one way I know for sure they’re not going to move to those neighborhoods. I believe your property is going to be worthless without schools in those neighborhoods.” >“I want to support shiny new schools where all the growth is and I want to make sure we are not giving up on our city schools,” O’Donnell said. “By not investing in the west side, I’m afraid that’s going to happen.” >Dale Todd, a city council member, said the “elephant” in the room is “white flight,” the phenomenon of white people moving out of urban areas, particularly those with significant historically marginalized populations, and into suburban areas. “Those issues are at the root of not just this district but other districts all over.” Bulldoze the suburbs.

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 58%

www.nbcnews.com

>At least one candidate, however, seems poised to benefit from Reynolds’ approach: Donald Trump. >The former president has criticized six-week state abortion bans as being “too harsh,” skipped the Family Leadership Summit and trashed the popular Reynolds for remaining neutral in the caucuses (a long-held tradition by the state’s governor). It's not clear whether he will sit down with her at the state fair. This fucking county - Trump is now the lesser evil in the GOP lol wtf

Iowa queermunist • 1 year ago • 68%

>A Polk County judge has temporarily blocked Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" law as a court challenge plays out, meaning abortion is again legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. >Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the "fetal heartbeat" law at about 2:45 p.m. Friday at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of conservative Christians where half a dozen Republican presidential contenders also took the stage. >It took effect immediately, banning nearly all abortions after doctors detect cardiac activity in the embryo. That can occur about six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. >There are narrowly defined exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities and cases of medical emergency. >Reynolds said Monday she would fight the ruling. >"The abortion industry’s attempt to thwart the will of Iowans and the voices of their elected representatives continues today," Reynolds said in a statement. "But I will fight this all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court where we expect a decision that will finally provide justice for the unborn." >House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst, D-Windsor Heights, said Monday that the ruling is "a win for reproductive freedom and it will save lives." >"It’s simple: politicians and judges have no place interfering in someone else’s decisions about when to start a family," Konfrst said in a statement. "Reynolds and Republican lawmakers are so busy playing politics to appease the special interests that they’ve stopped listening to the strong majority of Iowans who do not support their abortion ban." Iowa judge blocks 'fetal heartbeat' law, but allows Board of Medicine to write rules >The Iowa Legislature passed the law in a marathon daylong special legislative session on July 11, which drew massive protests and heckling from the galleries as lawmakers voted around 11 p.m. >Abortion providers and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa quickly filed a lawsuit, alleging that the law violates Iowans' inalienable rights and their rights to due process and equal protection under the Iowa Constitution. >The providers — Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Emma Goldman Clinic and Dr. Sarah Traxler — asked for the law to be temporarily blocked, saying it would irreparably harm Iowans. Lawyers defending the state said the law should remain in effect because it protects the state's "vital interest in unborn life." >Polk County District Judge Joseph Seidlin heard arguments from both sides on Friday. >In his ruling, Seidlin said he would grant the the plaintiffs' request for a temporary injunction, blocking the law from taking effect while the lawsuit continues. He noted that "there are good, honorable and intelligent people — morally, politically and legally — on both sides of this upsetting societal and constitutional dilemma." >Despite the injunction, Seidlin's ruling allows the Iowa Board of Medicine to go forward with writing administrative rules to govern the law's implementation. Doctors and critics of the law have raised concerns that without rules, it's unclear whether doctors could face penalties for providing abortions, and how women could verify that they qualify for the law's exceptions. >"Should the injunction entered today ultimately be dissolved, itwould only benefit all involved, patients and providers alike, to have rules in place to administer the law," Seidlin wrote. >How are abortion providers reacting to the court ruling? >The ruling means Planned Parenthood clinics will be open in Iowa on Tuesday to resume providing appointments for patients. >"While we know that the state may seek an appeal, we are proud to resume services for our patients and provide patient outreach to help break through the state of manufactured chaos that is our new normal," said Ruth Richardson, CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States. >Iowa law requires a 24-hour waiting period before receiving an abortion, meaning Wednesday is the earliest that a patient could receive an abortion. >For abortion providers, Monday’s ruling brought a complete swing from the mood at the end of last week, as they scrambled to see as many patients as possible before Reynolds’ signature put the ban into effect on Friday. Richardson said Planned Parenthood staff stayed late on Thursday night seeing patients and making calls. >"There were hundreds of phone calls that were made as we were trying to prepare patients for this new reality," she said. >Sharon Wegner, an attorney at the ACLU of Iowa, said the court's ruling recognizes that the law "bans abortion before many people know that they are pregnant, at just six weeks after a last menstrual period or about two weeks after a missed period." >"We are relieved that Iowans will be protected in their ability to seek abortion care for the time being under the order issued today," Wegner said. "This order is essential to protecting the bodily autonomy rights and freedom of Iowans, as well as their health and safety, while this unconstitutional and dangerous abortion ban is litigated." >In her statement, Reynolds criticized abortion providers for resuming services. >"In their own words, the abortion industry stressed the need for a temporary injunction so they could continue with 200 scheduled abortions in the next two weeks," she said in her statement. "While life was protected for a few days, now even more innocent babies will be lost." >Reynolds signed a nearly identical law in 2018 that was permanently blocked by the courts. >The governor tried unsuccessfully to revive it after state and federal court decisions last year rolled back protections for abortion, but the Iowa Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 on the case in June, leaving the law blocked. >Following the court defeat, Reynolds quickly called the special session and urged lawmakers to act again to restrict abortion. >What legal standard will be used to review abortion restrictions? >One of the questions in the current case is whether abortion merits additional protections under the Iowa Constitution. >Last year, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that there is not a fundamental constitutional right to abortion in Iowa, overturning a prior decision. >But the ruling declined to say what standard Iowa courts should use to evaluate abortion restrictions in the future. Instead, it left in place an "undue burden" standard for abortion restrictions, meaning any law that imposes a substantial obstacle for someone seeking an abortion should be struck down. >One week after the Iowa Supreme Court's 2022 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the "undue burden" standard at the federal level. The state's lawyers say the state should instead use "rational basis," the most permissive standard of review, to consider whether Iowa's abortion laws are constitutional. >Seidlin said the 2022 Iowa Supreme Court ruling left the "undue burden" standard in place, requiring him to follow that standard when evaluating whether the new law should be blocked. >"This court does not get to declare that our Supreme Court got it wrong and then impose a different standard," he wrote. "Such would be an alarming exercise of judicial activism. This court is bound to decide this matter pursuant to the instruction of our Supreme Court." So abortion is legal for a little longer while they shuffle deck chairs. I want to specifically highlight "While life was protected for a few days, now even more innocent babies will be lost." If these cretins *actually* believed that abortion is murder, they wouldn't just pout about this court decision and wait quietly for abortion to be made illegal again. They would do something about it and "save lives" at any cost. They don't actually believe this shit. They'll let the courts settle this quietly because they don't actually care about aborted fetuses, at least not specifically. They only care about having power over women, and that's not enough motivation to do anything drastic. They can be patient because they know no actual lives are being lost and women will still get owned when the courts wrap this up.