AAPI advocates say Massachusetts city council member should resign over racist Halloween costume
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Calls for the resignation of a Massachusetts city council member continue after the discovery of an anti-Asian Halloween costume she once wore. Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) activists in Malden, Massachusetts, are urging Jadeane Sica t
Former student from Missouri awarded $4M in damages after being denied access to boys' bathroom
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As Republicans continue to find fresh energy to push discriminatory anti-trans legislation, following the news can feel pretty frustrating and depressing. With that in mind, it’s important to celebrate every win we can. A recent example comes to us from th
Kim Potter takes the stand to answer for shooting death of Daunte Wright
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Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter took the stand shortly before 11 AM local time on Friday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Potter is facing one count of first-degree manslaughter and one count of seco
The virus is not tired of you: Fast-spreading omicron shows 'at most limited changes in severity'
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Friday is another day of very mixed messages on omicron. Some hopeful results out of South Africa show the number of daily cases taking a slight drop in the Gauteng district where the variant first became dominant. There has also been a decline in patien
Herschel Walker intercepted by reports that he lied about graduating from college
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Is it really surprising to anyone that Georgia Senate candidate and Trump bootlicker Herschel Walker lied about graduating from college? When do Republicans ever play fair and speak the truth? I’m waiting …
But, big props to Atlanta Journa
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: This guy had a catchphrase and everything!
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This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit. tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale thought he was being used. He never said what for.
Conspiracy theories hook people with claims of violence against children—and that harms children
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When social media started blaring stories that online retailer Wayfair was secretly selling abducted children in the summer of 2020, it mostly elicited eyerolls and sarcastic responses. But those claims also generated real and lasting harm.
As the BBC r
Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. blames wife for holiday party invites with vaccine mandates and testing
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is frivolously suing Daily Kos in order to stifle free speech and try and bully people with a lot less resources than RFK Jr. and his anti-vaxx squad into not talking about how anti-vaxxers and neo-Nazis and white supremacist a
Dominion wins another round in court as Fox News fails in attempt to dismiss suit
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Earlier this year, Dominion Voting Systems released the anti-kraken, filing a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and a $1.6 billion suit against Fox News. Dominion later added Newsmax and One Amer
'Critical race theory' gets headlines, but students across the country are fighting racism at school
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White parents in school districts and states around the country have gone screaming to school boards and state governments about how their children were being harmed by the teaching of “critical race theory” in schools. Meanwhile, not only is “crit
Hope for voting rights? Manchin reportedly 'engaged' in filibuster reform discussions
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The last several days have seen several moderate Senate Democrats newly announce their support for filibuster reform in order to pass critical voting rights legislation.
«The Senate has shown it cannot do its basic duty and find 60 Senators to suppor
Virginia Democrats can’t be bothered to protect abortion rights—because of their vacation plans
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As we come to the end of the year, so-called “lame duck” sessions of state legislatures mull about and make plans to vacation. In Virginia, Democrats retain a 21-19 majority in the state Senate until the new year, when Republicans will take over control o
Roger Stone begs for money to help him plead the Fifth
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Conspiracy theorist, Trump ally, and wearer of mostly tacky overpriced clothes Roger Stone appeared for deposition before the Jan. 6 committee on Friday and as he broadcast earlier this month, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to every quest
Republican Party may inexplicably spend more than 1 million dollars on Trump's legal bills
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Republicans are proving to be such a bunch of suckers, and Donald Trump never had it so good.
For decades, Trump personally profited through corrupt and potentially illegal business practices that are now the subject of multiple probes in New York state. Th
FDA ends requirement for abortion pills to be dispensed in person
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Abortion rights are under threat in states across the country and at the Supreme Court, but women seeking the right to make their own medical decisions had an important win on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration ended a requirement that mifepristo
White House slams parliamentarian's 'deeply disappointing' opinion as calls to overrule her grow
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The Senate’s parliamentarian has for the third time issued a nonbinding opinion against the inclusion of protections for millions of undocumented immigrants in President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
For months, legislators have stead
Manchin's latest massive blow to Build Back Better shows him for the bumbling egomaniac he is
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Sen. Joe Manchin came up with a new demand to weaken and delay President Joe Biden’s agenda this week, leaving Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin “stunned” as well as “frustrated and disappointed.” Manchin now insists that the extension of the expande
Georgia GOP lawmakers urged Perdue to avoid divisive primary against Kemp. It didn't go well
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Georgia Republicans are already bracing for what they expect to be one of the state’s most bitter intra-party battles in modern memory. Two of their own—both generally well-liked and regarded—will spend the first half of 2022 shredding each other i
House Select Committee on Jan. 6 issues subpoena to PowerPoint presenter Phil Waldron
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The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has issued a subpoena to retired Army Col. James “Phil” Waldron, directing him to appear before the committee and testify to his role in creating a presentation on how Republicans could subvert the 2020 election,
Georgia GOP lawmakers urged Perdue to sit out 2022. He laughed
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Georgia Republicans are already bracing for what they expect to be one of the state’s most bitter intra-party battles in modern memory. Two of their own—both generally well-liked and regarded—will spend the first half of 2022 shredding each other i
'I'm afraid,' mother says as expanded child tax credit looks likely to lapse
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Since July, the lives of tens of millions of children across the U.S. have gotten better thanks to one simple government program: the expanded child tax credit. The last monthly payment included in the American Rescue Plan went out on Wednesday, though, virtu
Millions of kids may go hungry (again) if Congress lets child tax credit lapse
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Since July, the lives of tens of millions of children across the U.S. have gotten better thanks to one simple government program: the expanded child tax credit. The last monthly payment included in the American Rescue Plan went out on Wednesday, though, virtu
Morning Digest: North Carolina Democrat now has a clear Senate primary as GOP keeps slugging it out
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Ex-president Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is in the hot seat of his own making. First, he agreed to testify before the January 6th House committee, then, he got cold feet after he had already handed over thousands of docu
Abbreviated pundit roundup: The story about the attempted coup is penetrating the media bubbles
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A theory: How Trump’s Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed
The planned coup nearly worked, but leftists stayed home and likely thwarted plans to call in troops to aid insurrectionists.
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News roundup: Manchin is so far gone it's embarrassing; Jimmy Carter is still awesome
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It’s Thursday. Guess who’s standing in the way of way of voting rights and the child tax credit? Yes, the same two duplicitous Democratic senators who have spent 2021 peddling GOP talking points. Republican officials have a plan for ending the p
Alan Lowenthal retiring from blue California House seat after long career in Long Beach politics
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Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a longtime elected official in the Long Beach area, announced Thursday that he would not seek a sixth term in California’s 47th Congressional District. The current incarnation of Lowenthal’s constituency, which includes mos
Three companies indicted for negligence in Orange County oil spill
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A federal grand jury indicted three companies on Wednesday for their role in the October pipeline rupture in Orange County, California that spewed 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean near Huntington Beach. Amplify Energy Corp. and tw
MyPillow guy says he’s spent $25 million trying to prove Trump won the election Trump lost
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Mike Lindell, CEO of the MyPillow thing, is supposedly spending a lot of his own money in pursuit of overturning our democracy—at least according to famed liar Mike Lindell. He told CNBC that he has spent $25 million of his own money since No
Caribbean Matters: Danish history, slavery, resistance, and colonialism in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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While applauding Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s announcement of the establishment of a memorial and archive of slavery in Barbados, which was featured in last week’s Caribbean Matters, it got me thinking about right-wing forces here in the U.S
Ex-police chief put protecting Kim Potter over his own job, but can't say deadly force was justified
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Prosecutors rested their case against former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter on Thursday after six days of testimony ranging from relevant explanations of policy to emotionally gripping testimony of victim Daunte Wright's character and how it felt to watc
Claudette Colvin, civil rights icon who refused to give bus seat to white woman, has record expunged
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Months before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in December 1955, Claudette Colvin, now 82, refused to give up her seat to a white woman nine months earlier. Her name is not as well known, but her act o
Six Bay Area men were arrested and charged in connection to at least 70 attacks on Asian women
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It’s been almost two years since the pandemic began, yet individuals still remain ill-informed. Due to misconceptions and misinformation about the virus, violence against members of the Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community continues to rise nat
'Complete act of betrayal': Leader of Ohio Muslim organization fired for spying for a hate group
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In news that has disheartened the Muslim community across the country, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—the largest U.S. Muslim advocacy organization—has fired the head of its Ohio chapter after allegations that he shared confidential info
Earth Matters: Inslee pushes big state EV credit, bugs eat plastic, grim Arctic Report Card released
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“In the first place there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels […] There are some potentially catastrophic events
At GOP fundraisers, Trump, his properties, maybe even his endorsement are for sale—if price is right
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For Donald Trump, the grift never ends. And fortunately for him, Republicans are a bunch of well-heeled suckers.
Now that Republican lawmakers have gifted the GOP to the twice-impeached, two-time popular vote loser and he is playing kingmaker in primari
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: 'How could this happen?' they ask themselves, without a hint of irony
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This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit, tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale identified as vaccinated, ha ha ha ha—oops.
'It's genocide': Honolulu residents slam Navy for water crisis, support plans to shutter fuel tanks
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Oahu residents have had it with the Navy’s inaction in the face of an ongoing water crisis in Honolulu. Around 3,200 residents remain displaced and living in hotels due to contaminated water from the Red Hill well that serves the Joint Base Pearl Harbo
