Crooked Media - What A Day: Protest protest too much

 -Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), the man with dinner plans

Public support for the Supreme Court has collapsed, and Republicans are hiding their extreme abortion views behind fake opposition to peaceful protests. Naturally Democrats have seized this golden opportunity to go on the offensive by siding with Republicans in defense of the Integrity Of The Judiciary.

• Beneath the surface of tactical maneuvers, the specter of abortion becoming a crime in half the country has divided the right and united the left. When they aren’t ducking the press outright, Republicans are all over the map about whether to support a nationwide ban on abortion or leave bad-enough alone after the Supreme Court issues its opinion.  
   
• But the loudest voices in the GOP keep making clear the party will support escalating beyond state-specific abortion restrictions. Republicans in the states are already looking beyond banning abortion to potentially challenging the right to contraception. Texas law already limits access to medications for women who miscarry, because they are also abortion inducing. In Washington, Republicans' certainty that they’ve got the upper-hand in the coming midterms has drawn abortion banners out of the woodwork. 
   
• That’s left Republicans concerned about post-Roe politics trying to unite the party around bad-faith attacks on peaceful protesters who’ve gathered outside the homes of key GOP senators and Supreme Court Justices. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) even summoned the police to complain about a message written in chalk on the sidewalk outside her home: “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA [Women’s Health Protection Act] —> vote yes, clean up your mess.” Very concerning.

Ridiculous as that is, Republicans have had some success working media refs. 

• The Washington Post editorial board, for instance, raced to condemn the protesters, and stipulated to the existence of an “independent judiciary” that is “controlled, evidence-based and rational,” while making no mention of years-long, successful GOP theft of the courts for the express purpose of criminalizing abortion.
   
• The credulous press coverage of the GOP’s fake peaceful-protest outrage might be downstream of Democrats who raced to validate the false panic. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki alluded to "violence, threats, or vandalism," even though none of those things happened, and affirmed that "judges perform an incredibly important function in our society. Senate Democrats streamlined legislation beefing up security for justices through the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer struck a more sensible note on Tuesday, noting "If protests are peaceful, yes. My house, there's protests three, four times a week outside my house."

Evidence of collapsing Russian morale, both in the field of battle and among its political leaders, keeps piling up. The latest: U.S. intelligence officials say Russian troops fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine have begun either disobeying or slow-walking orders. At the same time, in Russia, four regional governors, politically subservient to the Kremlin, announced their resignations simultaneously, three of which took effect immediately. We can only speculate as to why, but whether they resigned in response to the invasion, or because Moscow forced them out in response to deteriorating economic and political conditions stemming from the invasion, it’s the invasion stupid. Nevertheless, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testified Tuesday that the U.S. assesses Putin is prepared for a “prolonged conflict” in Ukraine, both within the Donbas region, and elsewhere.

• Senate Republicans, who were holding up Ukraine-aid legislation until Democrats stripped COVID-19 funding from it, are now holding up Ukraine aid over government benefits for Ukrainian refugees, almost like there’s some lesson here. 
   
• The far-right, Trump-loyal cable channel OANN had to run a pre-recorded, 30 second segment admitting there “was no widespread voter fraud” by Georgia election workers during the 2020 election, as part of a defamation settlement with those workers. 
   
• John McCain’s top 2008 adviser Steve Schmidt admits that everyone in the presidential campaign, from McCain and him on down, lied when they attacked the New York Times for running a story about McCain’s lengthy, alleged affair with a lobbyist whom he then did legislative favors for—a story Schmidt now admits was accurate. 
   
• One MAGA wackjob may be overtaking the other MAGA wackjobs, including Dr. Oz, in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary. Congratulations to all involved. 
   
• All that right-wing opposition research feeding those mortifying stories about Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) seemingly comes from a former North Carolina ally and donor to him, and includes yet-unpublished material so explicit that publishing it would violate North Carolina law. 
   
• Elon Musk has confirmed he’d reactivate Donald Trump’s Twitter account in case What A Day readers needed that spelled out. 
   
• PRO-TIP: If you’re going to atone publicly for plagiarism, don’t include plagiarized material in the apology, particularly material from Plagiarism Today. 
   
• The House intelligence counterterrorism, counterintelligence and counterproliferation subcommittee will hold a hearing next week on UFOs.
   
• Brazilian soccer star Marcelo reportedly got demoted by his former French soccer club for promiscuous farting.
   
• James Cromwell superglued his hand to a Starbucks countertop to protest the chain’s policy of upcharging for vegan milk alternatives. 

Absent federal action, somewhere between five- and 14-million people will likely lose their Medicaid coverage when the government stops deeming COVID-19 a public-health emergency, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. At the outset of the pandemic, Congress established a continuous-enrollment requirement, which prohibited states from removing people from their Medicaid rolls, and financed the increased costs to those states by increasing federal matching funds for Medicaid by a significantly larger amount than states incurred due to their larger enrollments. As of now, the government plans to end the public-health emergency in mid July, after which both the continuous-enrollment requirement and the enhanced matching funds would quickly disappear. At that point millions of people who no longer meet Medicaid enrollment criteria would lose their coverage. Many of them would presumably now qualify for other forms of insurance (either through new employers, or the Affordable Care Act) but analysts were unable to estimate how many would be able to find new coverage, and and how many would remain uninsured.

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Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), who opposes abortion, will support the Women’s Health Protection Act, “in light of the leaked Supreme Court decision draft overturning Roe v. Wade, and subsequent reports that Republicans in the House and Senate will introduce legislation to enact a nationwide six-week ban.”

President Biden is considering lifting the Trump tariffs contributing to inflation.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) laid bare the GOP’s extreme abortion-criminalization agenda on the Senate floor. 

Justice Samuel Alito’s neighbors gave reporters covering protests outside his house wine and cheese.