GOP-controlled Arizona House votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban. Measure now goes to Senate The Arizona House on Wednesday narrowly voted to repeal a near-total abortion ban dating from 1864, capping three weeks of efforts that have galvanized national attention. The 32-28 vote came after ... 04/24/2024 - 4:45 pm | View Link
Missouri’s GOP lawmakers vote to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature has passed a bill to ban Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood. 04/24/2024 - 7:56 am | View Link
Biden signs a $95 billion war aid measure that includes provision to sell or ban TikTok President Biden has signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and has a provision that would force TikTok to be sold or be banned in the U.S ... 04/24/2024 - 4:45 am | View Link
Democrats’ bill puts controls on health insurance. Some metro-east Republicans support it Area Democrats who supported the bill include Reps. Jay Hoffman of Swansea in the 113th District and Katie Stuart of Edwardsville in the 112th District. 04/22/2024 - 8:52 am | View Link
TN school voucher bill dead for the year: 'I am extremely disappointed,' governor says Money for the program is in the state budget but Lee said he is "extremely disappointed for the families who will have to wait yet another year." ... 04/22/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Washington Post: “Two weeks in, the first criminal trial of a former president has been personally taxing for Trump and disruptive to his campaign.”
“Despite efforts to schedule dinners where donors, friends and world leaders join him, Trump’s moods are worse on trial days, according to several people close to him.
While Donald Trump plots to be a dictator on Day One, Balaji Srinivasan and his wealthy tech bros are plotting a different version of authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing, one that does not require a presidential campaign.
Gil Duran wrote about this oligarch for The New Republic:
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan.
We've already established here that Trump lawyer Alina Habba is trash. And Habba has established that she's ridiculously stupid, too. Habba was asked in a relatively recent interview whether she would rather be pretty or smart. She said, "Oh easy, pretty … I can fake being smart." That's not true at all.
Pro-life activist Randall Terry was nominated as the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate, Ballot Access News reports.
He is likely to be on the ballot in battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.