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Senator Tammy Baldwin aims to stop a nationwide abortion ban by fighting Republican’s filibuster

Senator Tammy Baldwin aims to stop a nationwide abortion ban by fighting Republican’s filibuster

Posted by | May 31, 2024

Senator Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign. She is willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. The Wisconsin Democrat said taking that step is necessary to ensure that women in every state – not the government – can decide for themselves whether to have an abortion. As part of her campaign, she warns that Republicans might also target the filibuster to impose a national...

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Premature Mortality: Scientific study finds women in Red States are twice as likely to die before age 31

Premature Mortality: Scientific study finds women in Red States are twice as likely to die before age 31

Posted by | May 31, 2024

It sure looks like Republicans want women to die. Particularly if they are teenagers and have the temerity to be sexually active. This is highlighted by what has to qualify as the most shocking scientific study of the year, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network and titled Teen Pregnancy and Risk of Premature Mortality. The result of the study of over 2.2 million women who experienced teen and pre-teen pregnancies (the youngest in the study gave birth at 9 years of age, although most were older teens) is best summarized by the subhead in the...

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Disenfranchisement rules: Why Trump would be able to vote for himself if he is not in prison on Election Day

Disenfranchisement rules: Why Trump would be able to vote for himself if he is not in prison on Election Day

Posted by | May 30, 2024

Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That is because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump’s case, New York law only removes the right to vote for people convicted of felonies when they are incarcerated. Once they are out of prison, their rights are automatically restored, even if they are on parole, per a 2021...

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Guilty on 34 counts: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

Guilty on 34 counts: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

Posted by | May 30, 2024

Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes on May 30 as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. Jurors deliberated for 9.5 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read, while cheering from the street below — where supporters and detractors of the former president were gathered — could be heard in...

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Actor Robert De Niro joins first responders at Trump’s criminal trial to focus attention on his January 6 role

Actor Robert De Niro joins first responders at Trump’s criminal trial to focus attention on his January 6 role

Posted by | May 29, 2024

President Joe Biden’s campaign showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial on May 28 with actor Robert De Niro and a pair of former police officers in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the ex-president’s role in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. It was a sharp about-face for President Biden’s team, which had largely ignored the trial since it began six weeks ago and is now looking to capitalize on its drama-filled closing moments, sending the “Goodfellas” actor and the first responders who were at the Capitol on...

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MAGA’s Unified Reich: Trump echoes fascist rhetoric in NRA speech with aims of a three-term presidency

MAGA’s Unified Reich: Trump echoes fascist rhetoric in NRA speech with aims of a three-term presidency

Posted by | May 26, 2024

There is a curious dynamic at work in politics these days. Trump does not appear to be trying to court voters to his standard. If he were, he would be reaching out to Nikki Haley voters and trying to moderate his stances. Instead, he is rejecting her voters and doubling down on extreme positions. Rather than trying to appeal to swing voters, he seems to be trying to whip up his right-wing base to engage in violence on his behalf. In Minnesota on May 17, Trump echoed fascists when he told supporters, “No matter how hateful and corrupt the...

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