The Morning Dispatch: New Leaders Elected in Philippines, Hong Kong

Plus: A report from pro-Roe protests outside SCOTUS homes.

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Happy Friday! And happy Kendrick Lamar Day to all who are celebrating!

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced Thursday the country plans to apply for NATO membership “without delay,” arguing such a move would strengthen both Finland’s own security and the defense alliance as a whole. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the accession process will be “smooth and swift” once Finland formally applies, and Pentagon spokesman John Kirby praised the decision as “historic.” The Kremlin, meanwhile, threatened to retaliate with “military-technical” measures if Finland follows through on the move.

  • The Interior Department canceled plans this week to auction off oil and gas leases for two regions in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the coast of Alaska, citing legal challenges and “a lack of industry interest” in the drilling rights. Industry groups disputed that characterization, noting the decision likely means the Biden administration will not auction off any leases for offshore drilling until at least 2023.

  • In light of ongoing shortages, President Joe Biden announced Thursday he had instructed his administration to crack down on any “price gouging or unfair market practices” related to baby formula, cut some restrictions on baby formula imports, and allow states to loosen certain Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) requirements.

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    David M

    QOTD: No

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    Citizen60

    No one stopped anti-abortion protestors at the homes of Planned Parenthood employees and providers—often with bullhorns. And it continued For well over a decade, long before “doxing.” At least these are quiet.
    Both accomplish nothing, but it is a right on a public street(unless there are local laws against it).

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      Bada Bing

      I was involved with pro life in 80s. I was aware of folks at clinics and malls etc. Never was aware of any going to homes and I wouldn’t associate with any who would . I’d consider them nuts. It’s wrong.

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        Citizen60

        It happened a lot in the 70's. The protestors would follow employees home, round up their friends, and camp out shouting all day and night. Often with bullhorns. If there was no noise ordinance, nothing police could do nothing--would often nothing even if they could. If the employee parked outside of their garage, they'd come out to find their tires flat. When they left the house, they would come home to broken windows. More common in suburban/rural than urban areas. Good friend in MN, a RN, lived it for over a decade while working for PP.

        The anti-abortion protesters screamed and threw things at women going in and out of the clinics, at the clinic just for an annual pap test--because Planned Parenthood is still the #1 provider of low cost, basic healthcare to women in the US. Anti abortion protesters bombed clinics, sometimes when people were in them (more often at night), and killed 11 providers. Dr. Tiller was shot while being an usher at his church on Sunday morning (so much for sacred).
        But now the pro-choice advocates are supposed to be quiet, polite, and civil?

        2 wrongs don't make a right; but people are either deliberately avoiding the truth, re-writing history (hello Alioto), or are too young to remember the brutality and extent of the physical violence anti abortion advocates happily inflicted on those who did not believe as they do.

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  3. Bdecicco2001

    In terms of protesting at people's homes, SCOTUS quite clearly declared this to be legal, in a case - believe it or not, about anti-abortion protestors protesting at private citizens' houses.

    I would say that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, but I'm sure that this will be rendered illegal quite soon.

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  4. Mary Stine

    Yes! Right here in Kansas City last years a large group of disgruntled renters gathered in front of the swanky Mission Hills home of their slum lord. They only did this after nearly two years of pleas for reasonable maintenance had failed miserably. Stuff like: clogged plumbing, no running water, infestations of roaches, rats and mice, holes in the roof and water pouring through ceiling and into basements, dangerously compromised electrical. Not sure how well the protests succeeded in accomplishing goals, but they did shine a light on a scumbag.

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    Lisa Lohnes

    Protests in front of anyone's private residence around politics is gauche. Neighbors taking up picket fenceposts and rakes against one another over garden discrepancies, appears to very much accepted and I for one, would invite them in for coffee and a doughnut.

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    SandyG

    QOTD: No.

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    Bono Vox

    To wit, this is question for leftists, and why leftists think it is kosher, when keeping kosher is soooo old fashion. As a child of the MTV generation and worshipper of The Clash, even I thought Combat Rocks opener “Know Your Rights” was as awful as it is dumb. To wit, I to find the right to LIFE is the proximate cause of everything in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…and could and would protest in front of a judges houses if I thought they where composing a law to abridge my fundamental rights…the SCOTUS judges of course are doing no such thing as they are berated by barbarians at the gate…declaring that women are not incubators and justices cannot overturn president….such passes for thought in a leftists mind and lack of civility, not to mention misspelling. 🍺to SCOTUS, for upholding the supreme law of the land, and jeers to the President for being a cowardly old man and damn fool that won’t condemn the protesters from the worlds biggest bully pulpit…isn’t it ironic, Trumpism begot Bidenism and protestors protest against life with no respect for privacy. Gotta run on. Hope that answers today’s daily brief question. Oh wait, come on man, speaking of protesters, #REMEMBERASHLIBABBITTT, she died for a complete fing lie, at a so called protest, uttered over and over and over again by a shameless, mendacious, narcissistic, megalomaniac conman, America’s Biggest Sore Loser Donald J Trump.

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    Liz Linton

    David and Sarah:
    When does a noise ordinance apply for protests not on personal property but near personal property?
    Also what about the neighbors? I remember David said during his experience he needed to alert neighbors. Do the neighbors have rights?
    Also, wouldn't a gated community deter some of this?

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  9. Brendan Bossard

    QOTD: I cannot think of any serious reason to protest outside someone's home. That is too personal. Keep it at the place of business.

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  10. AS Upstate

    I just want to say that I am totally pro-paper ketchup bottle. Sounds awesome! So much better than plastic and doesn't dissolve in your mouth like paper straws.

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