Forward

Politics. Wisconsin. Bringing It All Back Home.

[wisconsinforward]

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

Hillary Clinton

[wisconsinforward]

"The work goes on.  The cause endures.  The hope still lives.  And the dream shall never die."

[wisconsinforward]

It's time to reclaim the state that all of us remember as home. Mary Burke, not Scott Walker, is the one who can lead us there.

John Gurda

[wisconsinforward]

Rachel Maddow looks at historical examples of "religiously-inspired" discrimination to help explain the Hobby Lobby case.

[annfriedman]

The Hobby Lobby Pie - The Hairpin

[prochoiceamerica]

According to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case, discriminating against women isn’t discrimination. 

[micdotcom]

Government is not an à la carte system where you can pick and choose based on your beliefs. Taxation is more of an all-you-can-eat salad bar. You don’t get to show up and say, ‘Look, I know it costs $10.99, but I’m only paying $7.50 because I have a moral objection to beets. Everyone has their own version of beets. If you really want to be treated like a person, corporations, then guess what? Paying for things you don’t like is what it feels like to be one.

John Oliver tears apart the logic of Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling (via micdotcom)

[wisconsinforward]

"Would the exemption…extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations (Christian Scientists, among others)? [...] The Court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield."

Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby

[theraconteurasaur]

Corporations are people. Women are not.

six word summary of SCOTUS’ Hobby Lobby decision. (via theraconteurasaurus)

[wisconsinforward]

[wisconsinforward]

Prosecutors allege that Gov. Scott Walker was at the center of an effort to illegally coordinate fundraising among conservative groups to help his campaign and those of Republican senators fend off recall elections during 2011 and '12, according to documents unsealed Thursday.

[burritosandpeppermint]

The kids in Wisconsin are alright.

[rouxfully]

Then the cops came. They brought cake.

[hambonetoblerone]

Love it. Love all of it. 

[beautifulspectrum]

My son can marry the man lucky enough to win his love!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[camewiththeframe]

[tehblackbirdisrunning-deactivat]

[wisconsinforward]

Federal judge overturns Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison Friday overturned Wisconsin's gay marriage ban, striking down an amendment to the state constitution approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2006.

Best new thing in the world today.

[stunningpicture]

Most accurate graduation cap I’ve seen so far