Formerly Incarcerated Women in Tennessee Win Reforms Ending Shackled Births
Advocates for reproductive rights in Tennessee won an important concession — an end to pregnancy in cuffs and chains.Free Hearts Within 30 days, Tennessee will make abortion a Class C felony. This is because Tennessee is one the 13 states that has a trigger law. ban abortionAs soon as you have received the protections under […]
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Biden’s Nominee for Peace Board Is a Prominent Supporter of Human Rights Abuses
President Joe Biden shocked the human rights community by nominatingEdward Gabriel, a longtime friend lobbyist for the Moroccan government, to the board United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Supporters of the congressionally funded institute for conflict resolution and prevention, diplomacy mediation, human rights, and democracy raised alarms by the outspoken supporter a repressive monarchy in […]
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Infrastructural Crisis in Schools Is Harming Student Health and Learning
Only a few years ago, it was considered a fluke for temperatures in New England, the mid-Atlantic states and the Pacific northwest to reach 85 degrees Fahrenheit (85 °F) before the official start of summer. As the 2021-2022 academic school year came to an end, thousands of students and teachers struggled to remain comfortable in […]
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Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale. Here’s How.
Last June, drawing on the largest trove of confidential American tax data that’s ever been obtained, ProPublicaLaunched a series of storiesDocumenting the key ways that the ultra-wealthy are able to avoid taxes. Strategies that are almost impossible for most taxpayers. To mark the first anniversary of the launch, we decided to assemble a quick summary […]
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Senators Warren and Smith Call on Biden and Congress to Protect Abortion Access
“We need action, and we need it now.” So wrote Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D.Mass.) Tina Smith (D.Minn.), in a New York Times opinion piece published Saturday, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court’s reactionary majority struck down Roe v. WadeImprisoning reproductive freedom other civil rightsMillions of people all over the country. “The Supreme Court doesn’t […]
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Partisan ‘Fact-Checkers’ Despise Biden Satire
On June 18, Joe Biden was captured riding a bike in Rehoboth Beach on vacation. When he stopped, he caught his foot in a pedal and fell to the ground. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was on tape. Conservatives quickly raised the issue of Donald Trump’s awkward walk down a ramp at West Point’s […]
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Biden Administration Announces Plan That Would Undo DeVos’s Gutting of Title IX
The 50th anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools, President Joe Biden’s administration proposed sweeping new guidelinesThe statute will strengthen protections for students who have been victims of sexual assault and provide formal protections to LGBTQ+ students. Miguel Cardona, Education Secretary announced Thursday that the proposed changes […]
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Oslo Cancels Pride Parade After Mass Shooting at Gay Club
A 42-year old gunman was arrested arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and terrorist acts on Saturday after he killed two people and injured 21 during an overnight shooting rampage in and around an Oslo gay bar — just hours before the city was supposed to hold its annual Pride parade. “There is reason […]
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The Supreme Court Is Now Forcing Taxpayers to Pay for Anti-Gay Religious Schools
Yesterday’s shameful Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. WadeIt was telegraphed several months ago. But, during the angst-laden wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe, the court, so radically reshaped during the Donald Trump years, made hay trashing other vital precedents in its stampede to remake the country’s legal priorities in an extreme-right direction. […]
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Bigoted Attacks Are Injecting Fear Into Pride Month, But We Won’t Back Down
The tide of anti-queer and transphobia has risen to new heights in this year’s election. More than 300 anti-trans or anti-LGBTQ laws have been introduced in 2022 alone — often by the same Republican lawmakers introducing anti-Black and anti-abortion bills. Over 25Several of them targeted trans teenagers and children, and have since been repealed. Republican […]
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