Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Missouri state House passes Trump-backed congressional map - The Washington Post
The push for a new map in Missouri is part of an unprecedented national battle spurred by Trump to carve up congressional districts five years after the last census. Ordinarily, states draw their districts just once a decade to ensure they have equal populations as determined by the most recent census. How lawmakers draw their lines can give one political party tremendous advantages over the other, and the latest approach to redistricting raises the prospect that partisans could fine-tune their districts after every election to maximize their power in their states...
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Missouri governor calls special session to redraw maps to aid Republicans | Missouri | The Guardian
State follows Texas's lead in Trump's push to gain more House seats for Republicans in 2026 midterms…
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave
"If you're not paid for missed days, it literally means food off your table, bills unpaid, rent unpaid, then that can lead towards homelessness. Some of the people I know in the movement are currently homeless but still are fighting back against this," said Thompson. "I was very disappointed and disgusted that hard-working taxpayers this would have helped matters so little to them."Thompson helped gather signatures for the paid-sick-leave and minimum-wage-increase ballot initiative because of his experiences of working through illnesses and losing income when he had to take off to care for his ailing mother...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Missouri state AG investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump | The Verge
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta with a deceptive business practices claim because their AI chatbots allegedly listed Donald Trump last on a request to "rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism."…
How Republican officials in one state are trying to veto the will of voters (again)
"When Missouri voters were asked last year whether they wanted to increase the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick leave, 58 percent of them said yes. Not long after that vote, the Republicans who control the state government mobilized to unwind those changes. On Thursday, Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, signed into law a bill that limited the voter-approved minimum wage increase and scrapped the paid sick leave requirement altogether..."
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Missouri Supreme Court Halts Abortion Access, Defying Will Of The Voters | HuffPost Latest News
"This latest attack by the Missouri Supreme Court is unconstitutional, unconscionable, and downright dirty politics," Mini Timmaraju, the president of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in reacting to the ruling. "It is devastating for people across the country to know that even if they organize, vote, and pass measures to protect their reproductive care, extreme GOP actors will still try to take away our constitutional rights."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missouri-abortion-access-halted_n_68373f8be4b004530c698e00
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Missouri Republicans Vote To Repeal Sick Leave Referendum | HuffPost Latest News
Unlike other wealthy countries, the U.S. does not require employers to provide sick leave. So an estimated 20% of workers go without it, meaning they lose a day's pay when they have to care for themselves or a loved one who's ill. Those with no access to paid sick days are much more likely to work in low-wage jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions
Dubbed 'eHarmony for babies', bill would create connected databases for pregnant women and those looking to adopt…
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Missouri proposes registry for pregnant mothers
The bill summary states that, if passed, Missouri would create a registry of every expecting mother in the state "who is at risk for seeking an abortion" starting July 1, 2026.
The list would be created through the Maternal and Child Services division of the Department of Social Services, but the measure did not specify how the "at risk" would be identified.
This registry would also incorporate hopeful adoptive parents who have completed certain screenings, including background checks, home studies and other investigations, according to the legislation...
Monday, February 17, 2025
Judge strikes down license requirement for abortion providers
The Jackson county circuit court judge Jerri Zhang agreed to halt a number of those laws in December. But Zhang left in place a requirement that abortion clinics be licensed by the Missouri department of health and senior services – a policy that Planned Parenthood said in court papers was "medically unnecessary"...
Monday, December 23, 2024
Missouri's abortion ban partially blocked by judge
In his Friday preliminary injunction, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang wrote that the state's abortion ban is "directly at odds" with Amendment 3, which voters approved last month, and the statute is "therefore presumptively invalid."…
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Missouri Republican says he is investigating Google for ‘censoring conservative speech’
"I am launching an investigation into Google for censoring conservative speech during the most consequential election in our nation's history," Andrew Bailey said in a post on X, without citing any example or evidence for his censorship claim.
Bailey added in a statement to Fox: "We have reason to believe that Google is manipulating their search results to de-emphasise information about the Trump campaign prior to election day. I will not allow Google to interfere in the most consequential election in our nation's history."
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Marcellus Williams executed despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction
"We must all question any system that would allow this to occur. The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme manifestation of Missouri's obsession with 'finality' over truth, justice, and humanity, at any cost," Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Williams's attorney, said in a statement just before the execution. "Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri's grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue."…
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Missouri Attorney General Fights to Keep Exonerated Prisoners Behind Bars - The New York Times
In Austin, Texas, Areli Escobar was convicted in the rape and fatal stabbing of a teenager in 2009, based on forensic evidence from a scandal-plagued crime lab that has since been shut down. After a judge recommended a new trial, the Austin district attorney, José Garza, a Democrat, agreed, saying that the state had used "false, misleading and unreliable DNA evidence" to convict Mr. Escobar. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, made up of nine elected judges, all Republicans, declined to overturn the conviction...
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Outrage after Republican candidate tells voters ‘don’t be weak and gay’ | Missouri | The Guardian
Valentina Gomez, a Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state, stoked outrage with a video in which she ran down a street while wearing a protective vest and said: "In America, you can do anything you want, so don't be weak and gay. Stay fucking hard."
Jason Kander, a former Democratic Missouri secretary of state and candidate for US Senate, said with sarcasm: "So refreshing to see a female GOP candidate who never served in the military doing the whole veteran cosplay, stolen valour, bigotry as a substitute for strength routine as well as any man."…
Friday, April 12, 2024
Josh Hawley's Missouri Senate challenger bags strong fundraising quarter
The Missouri race has flown under the radar, but a push by multiple groups to get an abortion measure on the ballot could make the state more competitive...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
“They Don’t Want to Teach Black History” – Mother Jones
"They don't want to teach Black history," she said. "What they want is to change the white history of Black events."
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Law bars divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence
The statute, which can lead to reproductive coercion in a state that has banned abortion, has recently gained nationwide attention…
Friday, March 8, 2024
An Amazing 17-Year-Old Schools Evangelical Nutjob
An amazing 17-year-old in Missouri schools an anti-lgbt, Evangelic nutjob in epic fashion. This Missouri teenager bashes the transphobic Christian woman, criticizes Missouri lawmakers for making life in Missouri difficult for the trans teen to play sports or use the bathroom and calls on local officials to pass an ordinance that declares the city of Columbia an LGBTQIA+ safe haven.
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