Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica

Clarence Thomas Being Shamelessly Corrupt

In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a…

Opinion | Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me

Conservatives are forcing autistic people who are also transgender to choose between their identities.

Behind Georgia’s new attack on transgender minors is a dismissal of autistic people’s ability to think for themselves. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill last week that prohibits multiple types of gender-affirming care — including sexual reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement therapies — for those younger than 18. On the surface, Georgia’s bill seems like…

She was one of Alabama’s last abortion doctors. Then they came for everything she had

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Dr Leah Torres doesn’t tell people what she does when she meets them, which makes it hard to make friends. She removes her name from every piece of trash before she puts it out for recycling, in case people walking past see her name and find out where she lives. If a package addressed to…

In Israel, TV’s dystopian ‘Handmaids’ is protest fixture

Israel Handmaid's Tale protests

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It’s become an ominous fixture of the mass anti-government protests roiling Israel: a coil of women in crimson robes and white caps, walking heads bowed and hands clasped. They are dressed as characters from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and the eponymous TV series.The women, growing in numbers…

WATCH: Women and girls are still protesting in Iran. Here’s why – YouTube

Women and girls are still protesting in Iran
WATCH: Women and girls are still protesting in Iran. Here’s why from YouTube

Seven months after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed at the hands of Iran’s so-called morality police in September, protests across the country calling for the rights of women and girls continue.Amini’s death after she was arrested for allegedly violating the country’s conservative dress code for women sparked sustained protests led by women and young people.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBHSX4aFC78&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour[/embed] The Iranian government has detained over 20,000 protesters and killed more than 500, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been tracking the movement. Since November, a string of suspected poisonings has taken place at more than 50 girls’ schools across the country.While it isn’t yet known who is behind…

Stochastic Terrorism, Egregore, The Will to Power, and Hate Speech – YouTube

Nicole T. Lasher
Stochastic T3rr0rism, Egregore, The Will to Power, and H@te Speech from YouTube

Why I don’t believe that hate speech is truly done due to actual belief. These are people trying to gain money, clout, and either social or spiritual power through blood sacrifice.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFrROiQn2lU&ab_channel=K.Sis.NicoleLasher%28Ibtisam70%29[/embed] Why I don’t believe that hate speech is truly done due to actual belief. These are people trying to gain money, clout, and either social or spiritual power through blood sacrifice.

Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country – Mother Jones

Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country by Damian Carrington (Mother Jones)

On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony for doctors to give transgender children under 16 gender-affirming medical care. “I have no doubt this […]

On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony for doctors to give transgender children under 16 gender-affirming medical care. “I have no doubt…

Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban

abortion bans in Texas
Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban (Yahoo News)

Five women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or their fetuses sued the state of Texas on Monday, apparently the first…

Five women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or their fetuses sued the state of Texas on Monday, apparently the first time that pregnant women themselves have taken legal action against the bans that have shut down access to abortion across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned…

What Florida Stands to Lose From its War on Books and Black History – Legal Defense Fund

What Florida Stands to Lose from Its War on Books and Black History
What Florida Stands to Lose From its War on Books and Black History by Mariel FernandezMariel Fernandez (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)

What Florida Stands to Lose from Its War on Books and Black History By Ishena Robinson Deputy Editorial Director Public education has been taken hostage in Florida. And the state legislature and governor’s feverish campaign to strictly limit what facts and information can be accessed in public learning institutions is the driving force behind this […]

Public education has been taken hostage in Florida. And the state legislature and governor’s feverish campaign to strictly limit what facts and information can be accessed in public learning institutions is the driving force behind this egregious incursion.The impact of this campaign, put into motion through a series of targeted and often discriminatory laws, is…

El Salvador’s extreme anti-abortion laws | DW Documentary

El Salvador’s extreme anti-abortion laws | DW Documentary
El Salvador’s extreme anti-abortion laws | DW Documentary from YouTube

Up to 50 years in jail for murder, because a woman suffers a miscarriage? That’s the reality in El Salvador. In the stringently Catholic nation, abortion is …

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GLJ5SlwwQ&ab_channel=DWDocumentary[/embed] Up to 50 years in jail for murder, because a woman suffers a miscarriage? That’s the reality in El Salvador. In the stringently Catholic nation, abortion is prohibited across the board, even if the life of the mother is in danger. But a resistance movement is now gaining traction there. El Salvador has some…

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