The Supreme Court Has Just Invented a New Way to Harass Vulnerable People

In a landmark ruling, the six conservatives ruled to limit people’s ability to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination—thus making it easier to discriminate.

By Elie Mystal APRIL 29, 2022



One of the qualities I loathe most about the conservative justices on the Supreme Court is their indefatigable creativity. These people, the six of them who control the court and thus the very definition of human rights in this country, seem never to tire of inventing new ways to harass marginalized communities and diminish the chance that vulnerable people will receive fairness and justice in this world.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court engaged in another of these rounds of creative cruelty. This time, the conservatives found a new way to limit the ability of people to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination from service providers, thus making it easier for those providers to discriminate in the first place.

The case, called Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, involves a woman, Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind and communicates through American Sign Language. Cummings went to Premier Rehab in Texas for physical therapy, where she requested that an ASL interpreter be made available for her appointments. But Premier Rehab refused, instead insisting she could communicate with written notes and gestures or lip-reading. Cummings found a different physical therapist, but sued Premier Rehab for a violation of the antidiscrimination rules in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-cummings/

Reminds of this right wing court when it came to class action lawsuit's........

Yep they ruled that you can't bring a class action......

Russians Steal Ukrainian Farm Equipment - Only To Find It Remotely Disabled

"When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," the contact said.

By Ed Scarce — May 1, 2022
Among many thefts, a John Deere dealership in Melitopol was completely ransacked, the valuable tractors and combine harvesters taken away. Only problem? They've been deactivated and won't run. I guess the Russians aren't used to modern farm equipment.

Source: CNN

Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership -- and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.

But after a journey of more than 700 miles, the thieves were unable to use any of the equipment -- because it had been locked remotely.

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/russians-steal-ukrainian-farm-equipment

A Community Hospital in Deep-Red Wyoming

After significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different.

BY MAUREEN TKACIK APRIL 27, 2022

A few weeks after Elaine Tillman was murdered in her Lander, Wyoming, emergency room bed by a fellow psychiatric patient, a state health inspector showed up to interview staffers of the SageWest community hospital, ostensibly about their N95 mask supplies.

“I told him I had as much as the next guy, I guess,” remembers a nurse who worked at the hospital during the Thanksgiving 2020 attack and its aftermath. Like most rural hospitals, SageWest had 99 problems more urgent than its PPE supply. A day after Tillman’s assault, a COVID outbreak had sickened enough nurses to shut down their sister hospital in Riverton, but that was more a reflection of SageWest’s shortage of humans than masks. On paper, the hospital system had 141 beds between its two outlets in Fremont County, but never enough nurses to staff more than 35 or 40. So staffers had to work sick until their PCR test results came back from the state lab.

“And then he gets a little quieter and starts asking, you know, how long it takes the police to arrive if we called, do we have enough staff to watch potentially violent patients, and um, don’t we have any security guards around here?” the nurse continued.

https://prospect.org/health/community-hospital-in-deep-red-wyoming/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=John+Fetterman+vs++Wall+Street+%7C+Your+Prospect+Weekend+Reads&utm_campaign=%28a%29+Weekend+Prospect+Reads+04302022+-+Non-Recurring+Reg+Readers&vgo_ee=gLQIdMAUEJu%2F94MEutwfLxwUnRnlmwiuCIJkd9A7F3A%3D

I use to live in area of that Wyoming country and it was just amazing how they want to just jump on that band wagon on conservative value roots and how it don't square with the "tax plan" of being a libertarian or put another way a conservative........but they sure as hell gave cattle ranchers and oil tax breaks....

Ukraine Releases Video Game That Lets You Drive Their Fearsome Tractors

Special Grand Jury Will Convene Monday to Investigate Trump's Attempt to Overturn Georgia Election

POLITICS 1 HOUR AGO

Don't expect the process to be simple or quick.

NOAH Y. KIM
Assistant News and Engagement Writer

At the time, the audio was shocking: President Donald Trump had been recorded pressuring Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes.”

On Monday, more than a year later, prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, will begin the process of selecting a special grand jury to gather information about whether that call, and Trump’s other actions in Georgia, violated laws against election interference.

The jury selection process will kick off amid recent reports that a separate grand jury in New York has fizzled after six months without bringing any charges against the former president.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/fani-willis-georgia-election-donald-trump-2020-grand-jury-special/

Just think if I or you were to do what he did.......well we would be in jail.....

She Accused Her Ex-Husband of Abuse. She's Still Stuck With His Student Loan

POLITICS APRIL 29, 2022

Hundreds of Americans are trapped in a disastrous government program.
EMMA RINDLISBACHER

When Michelle and her husband divorced, a judge separated their assets. She got the televisions. He got the gas grill and the freezer. Most of their debts were divided and, in many cases, split equally between the two.

But one debt proved more difficult to separate: their student loans. When they were married, they had combined their existing student debt in what is called a spousal consolidation loan. This obscure financial product, which was first made available in 1993 through an act of Congress and was taken off the market in 2006, allowed married couples to turn their separate educational loans into a single, shared liability.

“​​The pitch was very much, you know, ‘It’ll lower your payments,’” recalls Michelle.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/spousal-consolidation-student-loans/

Paul Ryan is still a complete *******

Paul Ryan Still Fuming Because Trump Didn't Kill The Social Safety Net
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) complained on Wednesday that then-President Donald Trump refused to defund America's social safety net after taking office.

By David — April 29, 2022
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) complained on Wednesday that then-President Donald Trump refused to defund America's social safety net after taking office.

During a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute, Ryan revealed that he had been "frustrated" by Trump's refusal to cut Social Security, Medicare and other programs.

"He and I fought about Medicare and entitlement reform all the time," Ryan recalled. "And it became clear to me that there was no way he wanted to reach that other than making good on a promise on 'repeal and replace' [of the Affordable Care Act]."

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/04/paul-ryan-trump-social-safety-net

Your still a ****** Ryan, and Trump is still a ******* the American public has a 30 trillion albatross around there neck because of that 1.5 trillion tax cut you and your cronies put in place....and now your a lobbyists.....and still a *******....

Disney Fights Back

Relatives: Former US Marine killed while fighting in Ukraine

Relatives say a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, in the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine

By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press
April 29, 2022, 6:49 PM
• 5 min read

WASHINGTON -- A 22-year-old former U.S. Marine was killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, his relatives told news outlets, in the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine.

Willy Joseph Cancel was killed Monday while working for a military contracting company that sent him to Ukraine, his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN. Cancel had recently worked as a corrections officer in Tennessee and previously served in the Marines from 2017 to 2021, joining the Corps the same year he graduated from high school.

Cabrera said her son had signed up to work with the private military contractor shortly before fighting began in Ukraine on Feb. 24. She told CNN he agreed to go to Ukraine.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/relatives-us-marine-killed-fighting-ukraine-84395118

Tear The Fascists Down- Woody Guthrie