A Postcard From Alabama, The ‘back Alley’ State

Via the New Republic, Trump told his biographer he lost the election in 2020 -- they quickly backtracked: New audio from Variety co–editor in chief Ramin Setoodeh’s interview with Donald Trump confirms what the American public has known all along: The former president knows he lost the 2020 election. During one of his six interviews with Trump for his book Apprentice in Wonderland, about Trump’s time on his reality show The Apprentice, Setoodah inquired about Trump’s relationship with former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, who was a contestant on season 7 of the show.

Noting Woods' "replacement theory" garbage on Twitter, the Celtic fullback would respond: "What if I told you that myself and the other two ‘white’ players pictured here are the sons of immigrants as well? This is Canada. Our strength is in our diversity and it is what makes our country so special - not tragic." tweeted Celtic and Canadian Men's National Soccer team player Alistair Johnston after racist Keith Woods bemoaned the fact that Canada has more Black players than twenty years ago.

Even Eric Trump doesn't believe what came out of his stupid mouth. The legacy Felon 45 will leave behind isn't a good one. What's alarming is that his supporters don't care that he's an adjudicated rapist, a misogynist, a homophone, a xenophobe, a tax cheat, a serial liar, an incompetent bungling old man with a penchant for grifting his base and fucking porn stars, a divisive, polarizing figure that danced while Americans were dying during a pandemic, a man who seeks constant adoration, and a man who will do anything for a tax break, including where he buried the mother of his adult children, a monster, and the Republican nominee who is seeking the Black vote despite his long history of racism. He is an appalling figure, and historians will have a field day while trying to make sense of how a raging narcissist could be elected to the highest seat in the land.

The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in Alabama, an entertainment district in Ohio and a grocery in Arkansas. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It was the second straight weekend that saw an outbreak of mass shootings across the U.

On June 24, 2022, the U. S. Supreme Court eliminated federal constitutional protection for abortion with the Dobbs v. Jackson decision and said that it was sending abortion back to state legislatures. But two years later, it is actually the state and local prosecutors who are on the frontlines of the fight for reproductive rights.

My partner and I were about to step into the elevator when a nurse at the fertility clinic came rushing out to stop us. We had just been given the go-ahead and all the prescriptions to begin hormone injections for egg retrieval and freezing and were about to head home to see my mother for Thanksgiving.