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- The Government Subsidizes Electric Vehicles. Why Not E-Bikes?
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anti-Abortion Republicans Are Pushing State Legislation to Undermine Election Results
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 02:36 PMThe Republican Party has a problem: Individual freedom for women to choose how they handle their reproductive health is wildly popular with voters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “Cancer Alley” Residents’ Zoning Lawsuit Cites “Racial Cleansing”
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest Casualties of Idaho’s Abortion Ban: Babies
Saturday - 03/25/2023 - 07:09 PMAn Idaho hospital is ending its labor and delivery services in the wake of a Texas-style, near-total abortion ban signed into state law last year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Cops Who Raided Afroman’s House Are Suing After Being Featured In His Music Videos
Friday - 03/24/2023 - 12:24 PMThe law enforcement officials who raided the Ohio home of Afroman during a raid last year are suing the rapper after he used footage from the police search in music videos and on social media.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- He Took Part In a Right-Wing Florida Hospital Protest. Now, He Is Losing His Board Certification for Spreading Covid Disinformat
Friday - 03/24/2023 - 10:29 AMLast week, I wrote about the far-right groups accusing Sarasota Memorial, a public safety-net hospital in Florida, of mistreating Covid patients.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rap On Trial Is Now Mainstream
Thursday - 03/23/2023 - 06:00 AMFor nearly a year, the rapper Young Thug has been behind bars in Fulton County, Georgia. The 31-year-old, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, is facing charges that could send him to prison for twenty years.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- We Need More People Like George Santos in Congress
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 06:00 AMGeorge Santos, the first-term Republican representative from New York, may go down as the most famous fabulist in the history of Congress. In the run-up to his election last year from a district that includes parts of Long Island and Queens, he claimed to be a successful businessman, a college volleyball star, and the Jewish son of a 9/11 victim—all of which turned out to be false.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Newly Released Footage Shows At Least 10 People Restraining Irvo Otieno
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 02:11 PMSurveillance footage from the Virginia psychiatric hospital where 28-year-old Irvo Otieno died on March 6 shows a group of sheriff deputies and medical staff piling on top of a handcuffed Otieno in the final moments before his death.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Two New Films Tackle Christianity and Sex
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 06:00 AMDespite the paintings of shirtless saints and Jesus statues with abs, sex and Christianity are not known to mix. When they do, it’s either because someone is breaking a rule or it’s within the strict confines of marriage.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Someone Pull Me Away From Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Trial Drama
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 11:39 AMSome three months after New York published its exhaustive guide on the meritocracy-bending phenomenon, nepo babies roared back into the discourse last week with the unexpected arrival of Romy Mars.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Crucial Supreme Court Race in Wisconsin Shatters Spending Record
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 03:58 PMThe race to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court—and determine ideological control of the highest court in one of the country’s most important swing states—has more than doubled the national record for judicial election spending.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 62 Way Too Young to Retire, Says Only Rich Country With Falling Life Expectancy
Saturday - 03/25/2023 - 05:26 PMTo an American viewer, the current protests over raising France’s retirement age might look a little quaint: the country that once beheaded members of its aristocracy still gets in a tizzy when its president wears an expensive watch.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Is Holding His First Rally in Waco. That Shouldn’t Surprise You.
Saturday - 03/25/2023 - 06:00 AMOn Saturday, the first rally of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign will take place in Waco, Texas. The significance will not be lost on many of his supporters: The event coincides with the 30th anniversary of the FBI’s disastrous 51-day siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian complex.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Supreme Court Hears Navajo Nation Demands in Colorado River Case
Friday - 03/24/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cancelling Your Subscriptions May Finally Get a Lot Easier
Thursday - 03/23/2023 - 12:55 PMWe’ve all been there. You sign up for a gym membership or online delivery service. You eventually lose interest or start tightening your budget, so you try to cancel. Yet, despite it only taking two clicks to sign up, the company requires you to call a hotline in order to escape.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why Your “Recycled” Grocery Bag Might Not Be
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police Killed His Friend and Blamed Him. He Got 65 Years in Prison. He Was 15.
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 08:59 PMLaKeith Smith was 15 years old when he and four other Black teens broke into an empty house in Millbrook, Alabama, to steal an Xbox and other gaming equipment in 2015.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Health Officials Delayed Report Linking Fluoride to Brain Harm
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 06:00 AMThis piece was published originally by Capital & Main.
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Last May, the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a federal research agency, was set to release its eagerly awaited report into the cognitive and neurodevelopmental impacts on humans from fluoride exposure. - Ron DeSantis Really Wants to Remind You That Trump Allegedly Paid Off a Porn Star
Monday - 03/20/2023 - 01:09 PMAmid pressure to denounce a New York prosecutor who might soon indict Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis has finally decided to weigh in on the hush-money case swirling around the former president.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “I Am the School-to-Prison Pipeline”: How Terrance Roberts Plans to Fight Violence in Denver
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 11:25 AMLast Wednesday, less than two weeks before the city’s mayoral election, Denver’s East High School experienced its third shooting of the school year.
Almost immediately, Terrance Roberts was getting dozens of texts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DeSantis Seeks to Expand “Don’t Say Gay” Rules for All K-12 Students
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 05:15 PMA year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sharply controversial bill restricting discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools, claiming it would fight “indoctrination.” The legislation, known as the “Parental Rights in Education Bill” was dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Extreme Weather Rips Through Mississippi, Killing Dozens
Saturday - 03/25/2023 - 04:11 PMA powerful tornado ripped through rural Mississippi last night, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens more.
The tornado hit Rolling Fork—a town with a population of less than 2,000, and the supposed birthplace of Muddy Waters—particularly hard when it rolled through at about 8 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Utah, Protesting a Pipeline Might Get You Five Years in Prison
Saturday - 03/25/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Congress Might Want a TikTok Ban, But Their Questions Suggest Going Further
Friday - 03/24/2023 - 03:14 PMWhat if the United States government banned every single social media app? Not just TikTok. All of them. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter–sayonara. It may sound ludicrous, but if you apply the logic behind the kinds of questions posed at Thursday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the data security risks and alleged harm to children posed by TikTok, that’s what the members inadvertently proposed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Chickens Aren’t Getting Their Flu Shots
Thursday - 03/23/2023 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Reportedly Really Wants to Be Handcuffed
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 11:57 AMIn preparation for the likely event that he may soon become the first-ever former president to get indicted, Donald Trump apparently wants to go big. I’m talking handcuffs, a perp walk, the typical hallmarks of a theatrical court appearance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 12:52 PMHours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a two-alarm fire broke out there.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Trump Protests So Far: Mostly Press and Also Someone In a Diaper
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 07:24 PMWhen I arrived at Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon, a man was heckling one of the only Trump supporters who’d shown up to protest a potential indictment of the former president—who had posted on his platform Truth Social to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK” after warning he would be arrested in connection with an investigation of hush money he paid to a porn star.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Scientists Deliver “Final Warning” on Climate: Act Now or It’s Too Late
Monday - 03/20/2023 - 01:44 PMhis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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