DC Joins NYC, Chicago, San Francisco in Promoting Noncitizen Voting
The nation’s capital has joined jurisdictions in no less than 5 states throughout the nation in permitting noncitizens to vote in native elections. The District of Columbia’s regulation takes impact Tuesday amid bipartisan opposition in Congress. As famous in my 2022 ebook “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” Democrats lengthy have sought to vary election legal […]
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Bill Could Disenfranchise Descendants of Enslaved Africans on Island in Georgia
This story was initially printed at Prism. The Georgia Common Meeting quietly handed a bill on March 2 to switch the foundations of the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority with out the enter of the island’s Geechee residents, descendants of enslaved Africans on Sapelo Island. A bunch of Republican representatives launched House Bill 273, and it […]
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Black Student Sues School After Teacher Assaulted Her for Not Reciting Pledge
A 15-year-old in South Carolina is suing her college district for violating her civil rights after a instructor assaulted her within the hallway for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Marissa Barnwell, a Black honor roll pupil at River Bluff Excessive Faculty, was strolling to her classroom on November 29, 2022 — her birthday […]
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Illinois Governor Signs Bill Guaranteeing Workers Paid Leave
Illinois legislation now permits staff to accrue paid depart to make use of “for any cause of the worker’s selecting.” Tens of millions of staff in Illinois are actually assured the appropriate to take paid depart for any cause they select, after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a invoice into legislation on Monday mandating paid day […]
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Naomi Wolf Apologizes for Trusting Jan. 6 Coverage
Journalist and creator Naomi Wolf apologized for believing the legacy media protection of the Jan. 6, 2021, incidents on the U.S. Capitol after Fox Information host Tucker Carlson aired further, beforehand unreleased footage final week. “I have to say that I’m sorry for believing the dominant legacy-media ‘narrative’ fairly utterly from the time it was […]
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The US Government Helped Mitigate Hunger During the Pandemic. Why Stop Now?
My long-dead father used to say, “Each human being deserves to style a bit of cake.” Although on the time his phrases meant little to me, as I grew older I spotted each what they meant, symbolically talking, and the grim actuality they disguised so charmingly. That saying of his arose from a primary actuality […]
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“Another Massive Climate Disappointment”: Biden Slammed for Oil Project Approval
The Willow mission, as proposed by ConocoPhillips, has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by local weather advocates. Local weather justice advocates are condemning President Joe Biden for approving a massive oil drilling proposal in northern Alaska often called Willow, which can now be one of many largest new drilling tasks within the U.S. The $8 […]
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Fearing Backlash, Republicans Backpedal on Social Security and Medicare Cuts
In 2022, Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) known as for Social Safety and Medicare to sundown each 5 years. The senator’s 12-point plan to “rescue America,” as he grandiosely put it, would topic all main advantages applications, together with these upon which tens of tens of millions of seniors rely, to congressional evaluation. The plan additionally […]
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Federal Judge Blasts DHS, Orders Stop to Mass Parole for Illegal Aliens
In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Division of Homeland Safety, U.S. District Courtroom Decide T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a cease to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternate options to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) coverage that has been illegally releasing a whole bunch of […]
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Pence Slams Trump for Jan. 6 in Untelevised Speech But Refuses to Testify to DOJ
Pence is predicted to compete for the GOP nomination towards Trump in 2024. In a speech over the weekend, former Vice President Mike Pence criticized former President Donald Trump for his actions previous the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol constructing. “[Trump’s] reckless phrases endangered my household and everybody on the Capitol that […]
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