A collection of 52 posts
Nick Heer: Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has continued to send out emails promising subscribers the “GOLDEN TRUMP” award if they donate money within the hour. They really sent that email. And they also sent one with the subject line “READ
Beth Mole: That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is-you guessed it-total garbage Experts roundly dubbed the analysis "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," and "comically bad." Some called the analysis method "terrible," and one epidemiologist called it "the absolute most batshit study design
Jason DeParle: Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9 percent from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44 percent, and the number of children they removed from
Li Zhoh: Republicans have a nonsensical argument against the same-sex marriage bill Many Senate Republicans, rather than confront the substance of new legislation that would provide federal protections for same-sex marriage, are instead arguing that a vote on the bill is unnecessary. By their reasoning, lawmakers don’t need to
From the press release announcing the proposed act: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) today announced the introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the
A new poll out this week shows 64% of those who plan on voting in the Democratic primary in 2024 would prefer someone other than Joe Biden to be on the ticket. I find these polls utterly fascinating. Here's some data on a theoretical Biden/Trump rematch in
McConnell: Blocking Obama's SCOTUS pick led to overturning Roe v. Wade Antonin Scalia passed away February 13, 2016. Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away September 18, 2020. Mitch deemed one of these vacancies was too close to an election and the people should get to vote for who got
There were too many links, so I've collected a few in one place. Olivia Snow: Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker? Neither the intent nor effect of FOSTA or Dobbs is to eradicate sex work or abortions, which have existed for millennia and will
Ian Millhiser: The case against the Supreme Court of the United States The Dobbs decision is the culmination of a decades-long effort by Republicans to capture the Supreme Court and use it, not just to undercut abortion rights but also to implement an unpopular agenda they cannot implement through the
From Axios: "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the 6-3 ruling. I look forward to all the conservative states who
Florida legislature passes ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill to restrict LGBTQ topics in elementary schools - The Washington Post Florida state senators on Tuesday approved legislation that regulates school lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity, defying demands from some of their youngest constituents and pushing the state deeper into
Casey Newton in today’s Platformer issue: The United States played a critical role in damaging Putin’s credibility before the war even began. US intelligence agencies understood that an invasion was coming, the Biden administration shared that information publicly, and in doing so removed both Putin’s ability to
Davey Alba: ‘I’ll Stand on the Side of Russia’: Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online The online conversations reflect how pro-Russia sentiment has increasingly penetrated Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, right-wing podcasts, messaging apps like Telegram and some conservative media. As Russia attacked Ukraine this week, those views spread, infusing the online discourse
Elaine Godfrey writing for The Atlantic: In Arizona this weekend, 51-year-old Tammy Shutts put it this way to me: “100 percent, 1,000 percent, 1 million percent Biden didn’t win” her state, she said, gesturing to the hordes of people around her. “I’ve been in Arizona for almost
First up is a report from the Software Freedom Conservatory on Trump's new TRUTH Social app's licensing: Today, we saw the Trump Media and Technology Group ignoring those important rules — which were designed for the social good. Once caught in the act, Trump's Group