Never had a proper viral tweet before so this was a new experience
It all came about when I saw a tweet from @HanksKendyl with a link to the YouTube clip. I thought I would make it easier for people to view on Twitter without having to click on the link by making my own copy and posting it directly to Twitter. Seemed to work
I’m sure it would have gone viral anyway but glad to give a helping hand in spreading some joy in an otherwise bleak year
And this was strange in a totally different way, as in completely unexpected
Brilliant, moving images from Reuters photographers this year, including this one showing people waiting to cremate COVID-19 victims in New Delhi, India, taken by the late Danish Siddiqui, who was later killed in Afghanistan
BREAKING: Supreme Court says it will hear oral arguments Jan 7 over Biden vaccine mandates for large employers & healthcare workers
The court has delayed a decision on whether to allow both policies to go into effect nationwide (one is currently in effect in full and the other blocked in half the states)
Presumably the court will then issue quick decisions on whether the mandates can apply nationwide
Today, the conservative-majority Supreme Court will consider gutting abortion rights: reuters.com/world/us/us-su…
Here’s background on the case before the justices, on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, which clearly falls foul of Roe v Wade’s core finding that women have a right to abortion before viability (generally starting around 24 weeks)
49-year-old Amy Coney Barrett, the youngest member of the Supreme Court, was six days short of her first birthday when Roe v. Wade was decided on January 22, 1973
(and Barrett wasn't born when Roe was first argued in December 1971. The court then reargued the case in October 1972 before issuing the ruling)
Barrett in 2006 signed on to an advertisement in an Indiana newspaper calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned reuters.com/article/us-usa…