8 women join suit against Texas over abortion bans, claim their lives were put in danger
https://abcnews.go.com/US/8-women-join-suit-texas-abortion-bans-claim/story?id=99480988
#ABCNews #TexasAbortionBans #WomensRights #ReproductiveJustice #HealthcareAccess #LegalAction #Politics #News
A quiet shot across the bow of school districts that egregiously and without due process remove #books and thereby create a hostile environment for #students of marginalized backgrounds: federal Education Department ruling in Georgia case. Book removals also may have violated student civil rights. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreedomToRead #censorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/22/book-bans-georgia-hostile-environment/
Good. "Minnesota humanists take out billboards to spread the secular word: The group aims to fight what they see as a push to impose Christian beliefs in government" (no paywall): https://strib.gift/4si0fxh2m
“8 more women are joining a lawsuit against the state of #Texas, saying the state's abortion bans put their health or lives at risk while facing pregnancy-related medical emergencies.
The new plaintiffs have added their names to a lawsuit originally filed in March by 5 women & 2 drs who say pregnant patients being denied #abortion under TX law despite facing serious med complications.” #legal #WomensReproductiveRights https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177425651/texas-women-sue-abortion
Invasive giant spider in US is actually 'shyest ever documented,' study finds
Joro spiders have spread all over Georgia and its neighboring states, but they don't owe their success to a combative nature — quite the opposite, in fact.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/invasive-giant-spider-in-us-is-actually-shyest-ever-documented-study-finds #spider #invasive #joro #shy
Odd timing from someone who says we need to decrease the deficit if we pay our bills.
The law that was passed that adds IRS agents reduces the deficit by $114bn.
Yet @tedcruz wants to undo the law and add $114bn to our deficit.
Hypocrite.
https://bird.makeup/users/tedcruz/statuses/1660425991486058497
@RollingStone we're gonna need a new green book, aren't we. And a rainbow book...
Test Scores Reflect Media, Political Agendas, Not Student or Educational Achievement - A fair reading of data says no crisis and not miracle just a lot of people with no expertise trying to sell bad phonics only pedagogy. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/05/21/test-scores-reflect-media-political-agendas-not-student-or-educational-achievement/ via @plthomasEdD #privatization
OK, maybe #Trump can get away with shooting someone on 5th Ave., but what about a $2 million pardon bribery scheme?
Why was a scandal ignored for 28 months? And as Trump runs on a promise of 1/6 #pardons, can we curb this dictatorial power?
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/rudy-giuliani-selling-trump-pardons-20230521.html#loaded
Fani Willis, the DA leading a major investigation into Trump, announced remote work days for most of her staff during the first 3 weeks of August
Judges in Atlanta are asked not to schedule trials for that time
The governor, state reps, state senators, the AG, the sec. of state, head of the GA GOP will be implicated
This will be a giant RICO case
and the new law to remove prosecutors won’t be able to stop Fani in time.
We’re watching history unfold.
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@AlliFlowers The new low, just how low can the GOP go? As low as they need to…🤬
New York homeless men say they were offered money to pose as military veterans and falsely claim they were pushed out of a hotel to make room for migrants
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/us/military-veteran-migrants-hotel-new-york-false-claims/index.html
#CNN #NewYorkHomelessMen #MilitaryVeterans #FalseClaims #HotelDisplacement #MigrantAccommodation #Politics #News
I"ve been working on creating a trans travel guide, initially focused on the USA. Today was a tough day, doing both UT and TX, but I ended today's work with VT, which is a pretty awesome state (linked below) which is trying to use government power to protect our rights.
Like it's illegal for the Proud Boys or whoever else to block us from entering a doctor's office for trans-related care.
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