Dark Money “Women’s Groups” Are Using Anti-Trans Scaremongering to Oppose ERA
March 22 marks 50-years since Congress voted for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be sent to the states for ratification. With bipartisan support, 35 of the 38 required state ratifications for amending the Constitution and bipartisan support, the ERA seemed to be a done deal in 1977. The anti-feminist crusader Phyllis Schlafly mobilized right […]
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Disabled and Older People Are Suffering the Most in Mariupol Siege
Image Credit: Sergii Makarov Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, has accused Russian forces of continuing to besiege Ukrainian cities. He claimed that they have reduced Mariupol’s southern part to ashes. As heavy shelling has forced most civilians to hide in basements, all foreign journalists fled the city. We speak to Belkis Wille, who just left […]
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Bernie Sanders Calls for the Cancellation of All Medical Debt
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called for medical debt to be abolished on Monday in response to news that the country’s three largest credit agencies will be removing paid-off medical debt from credit reports. Experian and Equifax. TransUnion announced last week that credit reports will no longer include medical debt that went to collections after it’s […]
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2022 must be the year to end the NHS postcode lottery
2022 is a pivotal year in the history of the NHS. We will see a £10 billion cash injection from the elective care recovery plan and historic reorganisation under the Health and Care Bill. This will not work for all patients in the country unless there is a serious plan to address this postcode lottery. […]
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Little boy gets emotional after holding his newborn baby sister for the first time
Some older siblings and brothers can be jealous when a baby is added to the family. And while those childish reactions can be pretty adorable, this video posted by mom Ali Retelle of her son and his newborn daughter’s first meeting is something else. In this touching clip, you can see the little boy holding […]
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America’s Caught Between Russia, China Externally and the Left Internally
America is caught between two threats: an external and internal one. The external is an economically aggressive, America-hating China, and a nuclear-equipped and America-hating Russia. The internal is a nonnuclear, America hateful left. (As I always note, “left” is not the same as “liberal”; in fact, leftism poses a mortal threat to liberalism. The greatest […]
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Wealthy Countries Must End Oil and Gas Production by 2034, Report Says
Dire new research published Tuesday estimates that rich countries must end oil and gas production entirely by 2034 to give the world a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C by the close of the century — the Paris accord’s most ambitious climate target. The assembled by experts from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change […]
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Ukraine’s Children Are Vulnerable to Shady Adoption Schemes
Last week, something startling and yet familiar happened. storyEmerged on the margins of the Ukraine War: Matt Shea (an ex-Washington state representative), was seen in a hotel room in a small Polish town with 63 Ukrainian kids, whom he apparently wanted to bring to the U.S. to be adopted. For those who have followed both […]
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Amid Russia’s War, Some US Hawks Are Calling for Trillion-Dollar Military Budget
There is a growing number of pundits, policymakers, and other opinion leaders. suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, it is a sign of a new Cold War. trillionsIn the years to follow, additional dollars will be available for the Pentagon along with a more aggressive […]
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GOP Attacks Threaten Gender-Affirming Care for a Third of Trans Youth in the US
The Trevor Project offers support and information for LGBTQ youth 24 hours a day. Click here to connect with counseling. If you think that someone you know might be considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255; En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889. More than one-third of the estimated […]
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