Oklahoma GOP Candidate With Violent Past Has Said Gays Are “Worthy of Death”
Oklahoma’s presidential candidate is refusing answer questions from reporters after making comments years ago that suggested gay people should be executed. Scott Esk and Gloria Banister will be competing for a seat at the state House of Representatives in a primary race. 2013 responding to a Facebook post about Pope Francis’s views on homosexuality, Esk […]
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COVID Is Still Rampant, But Big Pharma Will Soon Charge for Shots and Treatments
Back when this whole COVID thing started with the first wave of closures and lockdowns, I offered a prediction of sorts: “How long will it be before some rich person goes on TV and starts quacking about ‘getting the country going again’ because they’re losing money? Flash-forward to this past Sunday morning, and wouldn’t you […]
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Israeli Raid on Seven Human Rights Groups Is Attack on Palestinian Civil Society
On August 18, Israel carried out armed raids on the occupied West Bank, robbing seven of the most prominent Palestinian human rights organizations and closing their offices. Three days later, three days later, the directors of two of those groupsThey were summoned by the Israeli Occupying Forces to be interrogated. The raids began more then […]
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Return to Iran Deal Not “Imminent” Biden Officials Reportedly Tell Israel
Officials from the Biden administration have reportedly been attempting to assure their Israeli counterparts that a U.S. return to the Iran nuclear accord is not “imminent,” despite apparent signs of progress toward a final agreement in recent days. Axios’s Barak Ravid reported over the weekend the Biden administration has told Israel that it “hasn’t agreed […]
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Trump’s Political Blunders Could Be a Gift to Democrats in November
There are dozens of outstanding questions about Donald Trump’s bizarre decision to abscond with boxes of unauthorized and classified documents when he left the White House and we don’t have any idea why he refused to return many of them when the National Archives and the FBI asked for them back. We do know that […]
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Ithaca Starbucks Stores Are Union-Busting, But Workers Are Undeterred
Starbucks on the Commons, a large pedestrian shopping center in Ithaca, New York should have been open for business on a hot Saturday morning. They serve ice-cold, frothy drinks. Yet the storefront was dark: A note posted in the window stated only, “Our Store is Temporarily Closed,” with no further explanation. Ithaca Solidarity Day was […]
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Ron Johnson Suggests GOP Could Impose Nationwide Abortion Ban in the Future
Sen. Ron Johnson (R.-Wisconsin), stated that Republicans might consider a nationwide ban of abortion if they are elected to control Congress in the next midterm elections. Johnson spoke to reporters at an interview with The Washington County Daily News that he “completely agree[s]” with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. WadeEnsure that abortion […]
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DeSantis’s Election Police Arrest 20 People Ahead of Florida’s Primary Election
Ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security made its first arrests of people it alleged engaged in voter fraud in the 2020 election. Nearly all of those arrested were former inmates who mistakenly believed they were eligible to vote. People of all political affiliations […]
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Utah Judge Rules Trans Girls Can Play School Sports, Blocking Discriminatory Law
Transgender Utah girls wishAfter a temporary stoppage by a judge Friday of a state law that prohibits trans student-athletes to join teams that are compatible with their gender identity, students may be able to compete in high schools sports this fall. Plaintiffs in the case — which involves three trans girls who want to play […]
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Abortion Shakes Up Attorneys General Races, Exposes Limits to Their Powers
As the country grapples with states’ newfound power to regulate abortion in the aftermath of this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, state attorney general candidates are staking claims on what they’ll do to fight or defend access to abortion — and that’s attracting cash and votes. “By pretty much every indicator there is in a […]
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