Asked by Cortellessa whether there would be political violence should Trump fail to win, he replied: "If we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election."…
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he’s re-elected unless he gets immunity
Trump also declined to promise a peaceful transfer of power should he lose again in November.
Archdiocese is target of child sex trafficking investigation, officials say
The warrant released on Tuesday recounted how investigators had gathered statements from "multiple victims … transported … outside of Louisiana where they were sexually abused".
"Additionally, it was reported that in some instances, 'gifts' were given to abuse victims by the accused [molesters] with instructions to pass on or give the gift to certain priests at the next school or church," the warrant contended. "It was said that the 'gift' was a form of signaling to another priest that the person was a target for sexual abuse."…
Local TV Anchor Catches Trump Off Guard With A Simple Question | HuffPost Latest News
Crime is down in Venezuela, it noted, but not by the massive percentage that Trump claims. As official figures are hard to come by, it could be by around 20% to 30%. The website also cited local sources saying it's down because of varying factors ― including the economy and the consolidation of organized crime ― and not, as Trump tells it, the emptying of its prisons into America...
Meet the People Who Got Roe v. Wade Overturned
An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It can be done two different ways: Medication abortion, which uses medicines to end the pregnancy. It is sometimes called a "medical abortion" or "abortion with pills." Procedural abortion, a procedure to remove the pregnancy from the uterus. It is sometimes called a "surgical abortion."
The massive constitutional implications of the Idaho abortion case | The Hill
If the Supreme Court disagrees and enhances states' ability to flout the will of Congress, this case could wind up rocking the nation for years to come...
Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says | Reuters
The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine…
TAKE ACTION: Support the congressional resolution for a Day of Reason
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Please take a moment today to urge your member of Congress to support a proposed “National Day of Reason” resolution. Help fight against the false narrative that what the United States needs is a “day of prayer”!
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
When Religion Hurts You: with Dr. Laura E. Anderson (The Thinking Atheist)
Dr. Anderson is a psychotherapist and religious trauma coach. She's also an exvangelical and author of the book When Religion Hurts You.
The Center for Trauma Resolution: https://www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com/
Dr. Laura E. Anderson's website: https://drlauraeanderson.com/
The Center for Trauma Resolution: https://www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com/
Dr. Laura E. Anderson's website: https://drlauraeanderson.com/
Interview:
Opinion | How Michigan Ended Minority Rule - The New York Times
Ms. Fahey founded a group, Voters Not Politicians, to put an initiative on the ballot calling for an independent citizens commission, instead of the State Legislature, to draw new political districts. Within 110 days 428,000 signatures had been collected with the help of more than 4,000 volunteers, many recruited through social media, and no paid staff members; a rare feat in Michigan history...
Brown University Students and Officials Make Deal to Dismantle Encampment - The New York Times
Brown students took down their tents on campus after the university in Rhode Island agreed to discuss their demands for divestment from support for the Israeli military...
MUST-SEE: Jamie Raskin explains what the Constitution says about Trump’s claims of immunity
Jamie Raskin takes on the rightwing fallacy that as Commander-in-Chief, the President has both the power to do whatever he wants and absolute immunity from any legal consequences for criminal actions.
Trump Wants to Prosecute Biden. He Also Thinks Presidents Deserve Immunity. - The New York Times
Paradoxically, should the Supreme Court decide that presidents do enjoy some degree of immunity for their official actions while in office, the ruling would deprive Mr. Trump of one of the major themes that he and his allies have promoted throughout the current campaign: that Mr. Biden needs to be held to account by the criminal justice system, despite the lack of compelling evidence that he has violated any laws...
Key Witness ENDS Trump With BRUTAL Testimony
In his trial testimony, the lawyer for BOTH STORMY DANIELS and KAREN McDOUGAL PROVED SO MANY ELEMENTS OF THE PROSECTION’s case against Trump, the PROSECUTION COULD CONSIDER SITTING DOWN AND RESTING! Michael Popok analyzes the new testimony that proves that Trump (code name “David Dennison”) was behind the whole conspiracy to pay off his clients TO HELP HIM WIN ELECTION, and that Michael Cohen was just doing his bidding. The jury ate it up, and barely acknowledged that Trump was still on the room, a deadly sign for the defense despite Trump’s lawyer’s nervous laughter during the testimony.
WATCH: Trump's most TERRIFYING Interview YET...
Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch breaks down Donald Trump's new TIME Magazine interview in which he lays out the blueprint for ending our democracy as we now it.
Biden aims to boost production of sustainable aviation fuel - The Washington Post
The Biden administration Tuesday sought to spur the growth of sustainable jet fuel, seen as crucial to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with a system of tax credits for producers...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/04/30/biden-sustainable-aviation-fuel-production/
DEA plans to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, officials say - The Washington Post
The measure, if enacted, would not legalize marijuana at the federal level but still represents a milestone that could prove to be a political win for President Biden, who is campaigning for reelection and has sought to ameliorate racial and criminal justice inequities wrought by the nation's long war on drugs...
Opinion | A bracing warning from the FBI director: The ‘long war’ hasn’t ended - The Washington Post
Wray told Congress this month that he worried that lone-wolf extremists or small groups could draw "twisted inspiration" from events in the Middle East. He added that "the potential for a coordinated attack" like the ISIS-K terror rampage at a Moscow auditorium in March was "increasingly concerning." What keeps him awake, he observed in a speech this month at Vanderbilt University, are what then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called "unknown unknowns."…
How streaming, mergers and other major changes are upending Hollywood (Tonya Mosley)
Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the changes.
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Taking on Corporate Power (Sheldon Whitehouse; Making the Case podcast)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a great example of government that works. So it’s no wonder corporate powers are rooting for its downfall.
In this episode of Making the Case, Senator Elizabeth Warren joins Senator Whitehouse and Representative Johnson to discuss her role in creating the CFPB and the threat it now faces at the Supreme Court. This case, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, is a perfect example of how phony front groups and their dark money funders are attempting to use a captured Court to attack people’s ability through their government to protect themselves.
Interview:
In this episode of Making the Case, Senator Elizabeth Warren joins Senator Whitehouse and Representative Johnson to discuss her role in creating the CFPB and the threat it now faces at the Supreme Court. This case, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, is a perfect example of how phony front groups and their dark money funders are attempting to use a captured Court to attack people’s ability through their government to protect themselves.
Interview:
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Opinion | Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics - The New York Times
"I wish people would stop calling Donald Trump a populist. He has, after all, never demonstrated any inclination to help working Americans, and his economic policies really didn't help — his 2017 tax cut, in particular, was a giveaway to the wealthy. But his behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic showed that he's as addicted to magical thinking and denial of reality as any petty strongman or dictator, which makes it all too likely that he might preside over the type of problems that result when policies are based on quack economics...
Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again - The New York Times
The Biden administration has used the Inflation Reduction Act and other policies to try to revive the U.S. solar manufacturing industry. That has spurred more manufacturing of solar panels and other renewable energy products...
🚨 Republicans make DANGEROUS legal change in court
Marc Elias discusses the GOP's dangerous attorney swap and what it will mean.
Trump and allies say Biden pays rent for ‘illegals’ in Michigan. Not true. - The Washington Post
A White House spokesman also disputed Trump's claims in a statement. "The assertion that the U.S. government pays rent for asylum seekers is false," the statement said. "There is no federal government program that supports rent assistance for asylum seekers. If Republican elected officials truly cared about fixing the broken immigration system and securing our border, they would support the bipartisan border security agreement instead of blocking it for partisan politics."…
Fox News COLLAPSES Into Chaos With Staggering FBI Cover Story
Fox News completely collapses into chaos while trying to explain massive Biden administration win with outrageous and baseless accusations that there is an FBI cover up over crime data. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report.
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law | Florida | The Guardian
"…Ron DeSantis loves a lawsuit. Florida is the only state in the country that is so upset that children are going to get healthcare that he's suing in federal court."
Trump Immediately FREAKS OUT After Comedian ROASTS Him
Donald Trump freaked out after President Joe Biden and comedian Colin Jost joined forces to roast Trump and his MAGA base at the White House Correspondents' dinner.
Clean up your house and get rid of Putin's propaganda, EU chief tells far right | Reuters
"If you look at the electoral program (of the far right), you will see that it echoes the lies and the propaganda of the Kremlin. So clean up your house before you criticize us," von der Leyen said...
Beating cancer used to be bipartisan. What happened? - POLITICO
Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama's presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it "the most significant legislation passed by this Congress."
But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn't reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden's request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot's most direct funding stream...
Novelist John Green says OCD is like an 'invasive weed' inside his mind (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)
Green's YA novel, Turtles All The Way Down, has been recently adapted to film. Green described living with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), and how "one little thought" could take over his mind, in this 2017 interview.
Interview:
An Odd Way to Do History (Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; Making the Case podcast)
Welcome to the new ‘wild, wild west’ of Supreme Court false fact-finding! (WANTED: A Supreme Court that doesn’t abuse the fact-finding process to reach the results it wants.)
In this episode of Making the Case, Senator Whitehouse is joined by Professor Allison Orr Larsen, an expert on judicial fact-finding at the William and Mary Law School. Some of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions, like Citizens United and Shelby County, got to their results by making stuff up. Following Senator Whitehouse’s recent article in the Ohio State Law Review, this episode unpacks how the Supreme Court‘s false fact-finding expeditions broke traditional rules to render decisions agreeable to the Court’s right-wing, special-interest benefactors.
Interview:
In this episode of Making the Case, Senator Whitehouse is joined by Professor Allison Orr Larsen, an expert on judicial fact-finding at the William and Mary Law School. Some of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions, like Citizens United and Shelby County, got to their results by making stuff up. Following Senator Whitehouse’s recent article in the Ohio State Law Review, this episode unpacks how the Supreme Court‘s false fact-finding expeditions broke traditional rules to render decisions agreeable to the Court’s right-wing, special-interest benefactors.
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Monday, April 29, 2024
Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest
A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty…
Netanyahu uses pro-Palestinian student protests to stoke fury that could hurt Biden
Sen. Bernie Sanders aptly noted on X that it's "not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 — 70% of whom are women and children."
"You will not distract us from this immoral war," Sanders wrote...
Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
Heather and I take a deep dive into why so many Americans are supporting a neofascist for president. Trump is the consequence rather than the cause of several major problems that have worsened over four decades — problems that have undermined the American middle class, and caused a substantial number of people to become angry, anxious, and cynical.
Please pull up a chair and grab a cub of coffee.
Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files
The threat applies to Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge browsers but not Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox…
How bird flu virus fragments get into milk sold in stores, and what the spread of H5N1 in cows means for the dairy industry and milk drinkers
The viral fragments were detected using quantitative polymerase chain reaction testing, which is known for its exceptional sensitivity in detecting even trace amounts of viral genetic material. These fragments are only evidence that the virus was present in the milk. They aren't evidence that the virus is biologically active...
🚨 Obama aide drops BAD NEWS on Marjorie Taylor Greene
INTERVIEW: Brian interviews Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor about the passage of foreign aid, how it’s impacted Marjorie Taylor Greene’s standing, and the implications of TikTok’s possible ban in the US.
Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work | Abortion | The Guardian
Of the 22 studies cited by the meta-analysis, 11 were by the lone author of the paper itself. The meta-analysis "failed to meet any published methodological criteria for systematic reviews" and failed to follow recommendations to avoid statistical dependencies, according to a criticism published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Large scientific bodies have found no evidence to suggest abortion causes increases in mental health problems. The best predictor of a woman's mental health after an abortion is her health before. What's more, there is substantial evidence that women who are denied a wanted abortion suffer both mental and financial harms...
The case was appealed all the way to the supreme court, where it was heard in March in oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v FDA. Just weeks before the justices were set to hear the case, and as nearly the entire scientific community screamed about the "junk science" at its heart, the heavily cited studies were retracted by Sage Publications. Even so, the article's claims remained in briefs before the court, and were cited as evidence by one of the most conservative justices, Samuel Alito…
Security Bite: Did Apple just declare war on Adload malware? - 9to5Mac
More than anything, this is a huge win for everyday Mac users who operate without any third-party malware detection and removal software.
By default, XProtect updates itself automatically. Updating to the latest version of macOS Sonoma is not needed, but it is still highly recommended!…
Biden's White House Correspondent's Dinner Zingers
President Biden can joke about himself. Trump didn't even attend these because he's so thin-skinned. Says a lot.
Weekly Roundup: The Week 2024 Became 1968 (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
This week was the end of the first act. The point in the story when all the players, themes, issues, histories, and institutions that will determine the rest of the season come into focus. It’s not the end. It’s not even close. But it’s the time when we see who and what will guide the journey.
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the weight of the Trump hush money trial on Trump’s ability to campaign – and project an image of bravado and control. They then go into the abortion case at SCOTUS, focusing on the grotesque nature of the discussion on women’s health and bodies, and how this will weigh on voters in November. Brad hones in on the Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package, commenting on how Biden touted it as a bipartisan win, but observing that the student uprisings at Columbia, Yale, USC, and all over the country portend a hard road ahead for Democrats with Gen Z. He finished by analyzing what the TikTok ban means and why it might be a Trojan Horse in the aid package.
Interview:
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the weight of the Trump hush money trial on Trump’s ability to campaign – and project an image of bravado and control. They then go into the abortion case at SCOTUS, focusing on the grotesque nature of the discussion on women’s health and bodies, and how this will weigh on voters in November. Brad hones in on the Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package, commenting on how Biden touted it as a bipartisan win, but observing that the student uprisings at Columbia, Yale, USC, and all over the country portend a hard road ahead for Democrats with Gen Z. He finished by analyzing what the TikTok ban means and why it might be a Trojan Horse in the aid package.
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Ari Berman on His New Book, Minority Rule (Al Franken podcast)
The GOP is undermining democracy all over the country.
The will of the people is being subverted for a loud and active minority.
In his new book, guest Ari Berman explains how and where this is happening in America. And, more importantly, what we can do to fight back.
Interview:
Corporal Punishment and Christianity (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #528)
— What I’ll remember about Daniel Dennett. (0:28)
— Catholic priest resigns after backlash involving his criticism of a gay author. (8:43)
— Christian lawmaker says teachers should be allowed to hit special needs students. (24:38)
— A Christian ministry urged the Supreme Court to criminalize homelessness. (46:03)
— Māori atheists say Christian colonization helped push them away from the faith. (1:01:59)
Interview:
— Catholic priest resigns after backlash involving his criticism of a gay author. (8:43)
— Christian lawmaker says teachers should be allowed to hit special needs students. (24:38)
— A Christian ministry urged the Supreme Court to criminalize homelessness. (46:03)
— Māori atheists say Christian colonization helped push them away from the faith. (1:01:59)
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This is Not the Vehicle (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #74)
The Supreme Court has heard arguments in Trump’s claim of absolute immunity. We’re going over the highlights and lowlights from the hearing.
Including Justice Alito’s misreading of the DC Circuit’s ruling.
Plus, a listener question, and more!
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When Religion Hurts You: with Dr. Laura E. Anderson (The Thinking Atheist)
Dr. Anderson is a psychotherapist and religious trauma coach. She's also an exvangelical and author of the book When Religion Hurts You.
The Center for Trauma Resolution: https://www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com/
Dr. Laura E. Anderson's website: https://drlauraeanderson.com/
The Center for Trauma Resolution: https://www.traumaresolutionandrecovery.com/
Dr. Laura E. Anderson's website: https://drlauraeanderson.com/
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Telling Jefferson Lies: Losing Our Religion (Warren Throckmorton)
In this segment, I argue that Christian nationalism is bad for religion in general and bad for Christianity in the specific case. This segment sets up the finale which argues that separation of church and state is a benefit to the United States and should be strengthened.
If you like experts and multiple voices, this is the segment for you. Here is the lineup:
If you like experts and multiple voices, this is the segment for you. Here is the lineup:
- Randall Balmer, John Phillips Chair in Religion, Dartmouth College
- Paul Kemeny, Dean of Arts and Letters, Grove City College
- Bob Smietana, Journalist, Religion News Service
- Caleb Campbell, Pastor, Desert Springs Bible Church, Phoenix, AZ
- George Marsden, Professor of history, emeritus, Notre Dame University
- Mark Noll, Professor of history, emeritus, Notre Dame University
- Katherine Stewart, Author, journalist
- John Fea, Professor of history, Messiah University
- Greg Thornbury, Author “Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?"
- Charles Haynes, senior fellow for religious liberty at the Freedom Forum
- Jonathan Larsen, journalist
- Greg Forster, theologian, Trinity International University
Interview:
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Is Religion a Force for Good? (John Donvan; Open to Debate)
Religion has long shaped human civilization, from creating legal systems based on religious laws to inspiring countless works of art and foundational aspects of culture. Yet its influence can stem beyond this into other topics, such as politics, education, and global relations. Many have long wondered what religion’s net impact on society is and whether it’s good for us. Those who say it’s a force for good argue that religion offers a sense of identity and belonging, promotes altruism and charitable acts, and provides a moral compass that encourages personal growth and commitment to justice. Those who argue it is not a force for good say that religious beliefs are a source of historical and military conflict as well as discrimination. They also say that it can be used to justify the erosion of individual freedoms and can hinder social progress by upholding ideas that clash with modern values.
With this context, we debate the question: Is Religion a Force for Good?
Arguing Yes: Shadi Hamid, Columnist and Editorial Board Member of The Washington Post; Assistant Research Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary
Arguing No: Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-Founder and Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
Interview:
With this context, we debate the question: Is Religion a Force for Good?
Arguing Yes: Shadi Hamid, Columnist and Editorial Board Member of The Washington Post; Assistant Research Professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary
Arguing No: Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-Founder and Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
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How Do We Organize an Interfaith and Secular Coalition in 2024? (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Sometimes we have to pivot from analysis to organizing. From study to action. In order to do that, Brad speaks with the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, President of Interfaith Alliance. They discuss ways to organize and mobilize for the 2024 elections in order to build a coalition of non-religious and religious Americans who share a commitment to democracy, inclusiveness, and equality.
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It’s In the Code Ep. 96: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult – Part II (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast #96)
In Dan’s second conversation with Michelle Dowd, author of Forager: Fieldnotes for Surviving a Family Cult, they discuss the ways patriarchy and authoritarianism often mix in high-demand religions, how trauma from these experiences lives in the body, and the lifelong practices of healing from the mistrust of self that they teach.
Interview:
Telling Jefferson Lies: America is Not a Christian Nation - Bonus Episode with Randall Balmer (Warren Throckmorton)
In this short bonus episode, Dartmouth College professor Randall Balmer provides an introduction to reasons why he doesn't see the U.S. as a Christian nation.
Dr. Balmer is the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College. He has spoken at numerous colleges and universities, including where I met him, Grove City College.
Balmer has published more than a dozen books, including Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, and Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into an award-winning, three-part documentary for PBS.
Two more regular segments are planned with the series concluding by the end of April. I hope to post some additional bonus episodes after the final regular segment.
Interview:
Dr. Balmer is the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College. He has spoken at numerous colleges and universities, including where I met him, Grove City College.
Balmer has published more than a dozen books, including Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, and Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into an award-winning, three-part documentary for PBS.
Two more regular segments are planned with the series concluding by the end of April. I hope to post some additional bonus episodes after the final regular segment.
Interview:
How much danger does Christian nationalism pose?
Though Christian nationalists are quick to invoke the founding fathers, whom they claim were directed by a Christian God, the conspiracy has its modern origins in the 1970s, when the Republican political organizer Paul Weyrich began uniting evangelical parishioners and televangelist preachers like Jerry Falwell with Republican party politics opposing desegregation, via a political action group called the Moral Majority.
It's not that evangelical Christians weren't political – as the film, narrated by Peter Coyote, points out, the idea of America as a white Christian nation undergirded the Ku Klux Klan, which at its peak in 1924 claimed 8 million members, the vast majority of whom were white evangelicals, including 40,000 ministers.
Accordingly, the crucial tie between white evangelicals and the Republican party came not from the 1972 ruling in Roe v Wade, as is often misattributed, but from opposition to a different ruling preventing racially segregated institutions – including schools and churches – from claiming charitable, tax-exempt status…
Bernie Sanders Responds To Netanyahu Antisemitism Claims | HuffPost Latest News
"It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions," the progressive senator told the Israeli prime minister...
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Delta plane's emergency slide falls off during flight - ABC News
The 33-year-old plane was taken out of service and the passengers were placed on another flight to Los Angeles, according to the FAA...
Mike Johnson's threat of the National Guard against Columbia student protests is chilling
These Republicans' calls for troops to be sent in to repress peaceful student protests are incredibly chilling. They also reflect the GOP's generally extreme attitudes on the Israel-Hamas war and intolerance of rhetoric remotely critical of Israel. For Johnson, trying to seize control of a wedge issue for Democrats using aggressive law-and-order rhetoric also provides a convenient opportunity for political stagecraft as he faces internal dissent in the House...
Trump’s potential plan for Fed raises alarms | The Hill
"If it becomes clear that there's going to be a Fed chair that answers to the president, I would expect a dramatic reaction in the markets and the White House would have to deal with that," said Ian Katz, director at research consultancy Capital Alpha Partners...
US states sue over agency rule on protections for workers who get abortions | Reuters
They said that being forced to accommodate state workers' abortions would conflict with state laws barring the use of public funds to provide abortions...
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An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It can be done two different ways: Medication abortion, which uses medicines to end the pregnancy. It is sometimes called a "medical abortion" or "abortion with pills." Procedural abortion, a procedure to remove the pregnancy from the uterus. It is sometimes called a "surgical abortion."
Coal-fired plants will have to capture emissions or shut down, says strict new EPA rule | PBS NewsHour
"One of the biggest environmental challenges facing our nation is man-made pollution that damages our air, our water and our land," Regan said in a speech at Howard University. "Not only is this pollution a major threat to public health — it's pushing our planet to the brink."…
Friday, April 26, 2024
US supreme court to decide on ex-president’s claim of immunity
Regardless of its ruling in the Trump case, Waldman said, the supreme court had now "given Donald Trump what he craved most: time.
"Smith first asked for the justices to get involved last December. Instead, they stayed their hand, and the DC circuit court of appeals unanimously ruled against Trump" in early February.
"Rather than affirming that ruling, or unfreezing the trial, the court [said in late February it would] hear the case on the very last day set for oral arguments this term, 25 April. All the while they purr that they are acting in an 'expedited' manner...
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis…
Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty
In January Hanna-Attisha launched RX Kids, a program that gives new moms one year of guaranteed, no-questions-asked income. Through a combination of state and philanthropic funding, all pregnant and new moms – regardless of income – in Flint are eligible for a one-time payment of $1,500 during their pregnancy and $500 a month for the first year of their baby's lives.
"It's about not being OK with poisoned water and it's about not being OK with babies growing up in poverty," Hanna-Attisha said...
Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials, which has always been shrouded in secrecy. Its own bill for landmark trials of a four-drug combination treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis came to €34m (£29m).
Current estimates for research and development of new medicines range from €40m to €3.9bn. The extortionate cost of trials is used to justify high prices of new medicines, but companies do not publish either the topline or a breakdown of their spending…
Trump CAUGHT in NEW Possible Hush Money Scheme
Did Trump use a company controlled by his campaign treasurer to funnel money and jobs to his former White House staff in return for them not testifying against him including before the Jan6 Committee? Michael Popok breaks down “Red Curve Solutions” controlled by Trump treasurer, Brad Crate taking in millions of Trump PAC dollars and then offering jobs to people like Mark Meadows’ former assistant Cassidy Hutchinson if she didn’t testify against Trump.
The Supreme Court is likely to place Donald Trump above the law in its immunity case - Vox
It's unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they'll just delay his trial so long that it doesn't matter...
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