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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
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BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
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Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,
Danske vindaktier lukker i rødt efter amerikansk udmelding
Ørsteds og Vestas' aktier er kommet i modvind og dykker ved børsluk oven på nyhed om havvindparker i USA.
www.berlingske.dk
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,
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One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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This is a political writer commenting on Olivia Nuzzi’s book, and quite correctly giving you a shout out!
So nice to see.
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This is a political writer commenting on Olivia Nuzzi’s book, and quite correctly giving you a shout out!
So nice to see.
Two notes on this passage (regarding Trump’s 2016 campaign:
“What followed would be not just the greatest pertormance of his life but the greatest of any entertainer yet this century.”
(1) EXCUSE ME BUT HOW DARE YOU DISCOUNT TATIANA MASLANY IN ORPHAN BLACK?
(…)
“What followed would be not just the greatest pertormance of his life but the greatest of any entertainer yet this century.”
(1) EXCUSE ME BUT HOW DARE YOU DISCOUNT TATIANA MASLANY IN ORPHAN BLACK?
(…)
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@tatianamaslany.bsky.social
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This is a political writer commenting on Olivia Nuzzi’s book, and quite correctly giving you a shout out!
So nice to see.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
This is a political writer commenting on Olivia Nuzzi’s book, and quite correctly giving you a shout out!
So nice to see.
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“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”
More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Blowing the whistle always takes courage.
In Trump's America, it gets you fired.
In Trump's America, it gets you fired.
SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Blowing the whistle always takes courage.
In Trump's America, it gets you fired.
In Trump's America, it gets you fired.
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🚨BREAKING: In the latest attempt to intimidate voters, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) launched a sweeping immigration-focused investigation into the signature-gathering firm behind the referendum that threatens to overturn the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander.
Missouri AG Launches Last-Ditch Immigration Probe into Referendum that Threatens GOP Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🚨BREAKING: In the latest attempt to intimidate voters, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) launched a sweeping immigration-focused investigation into the signature-gathering firm behind the referendum that threatens to overturn the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Jeffries can go too! How are they so out of touch?? We, the American people, demand you do more. The democratic leadership needs to be voted out, we deserve leaders who will fight for us daily not just when it’s convenient for their reelection
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Jeffries can go too! How are they so out of touch?? We, the American people, demand you do more. The democratic leadership needs to be voted out, we deserve leaders who will fight for us daily not just when it’s convenient for their reelection
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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“The current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.”
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
From Texas to Tennessee, even Trump country is marching against Trump
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
www.motherjones.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“The current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.”
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
A new Harvard study shows that 2025 protests are likely the most geographically widespread in US history.
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
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We’ve finally arrived! FBI agents being used to investigate dissent.
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We’ve finally arrived! FBI agents being used to investigate dissent.
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I’m at Foley Square for the Journalism is not a Crime rally.
A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)
A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’m at Foley Square for the Journalism is not a Crime rally.
A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)
A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)
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All eyes on South Carolina, where the anti-abortion movement is using the state as a testing ground for what they want nationally
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
All eyes on South Carolina, where the anti-abortion movement is using the state as a testing ground for what they want nationally
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The biggest item in this story from the perspective of political scientists isn't included in the post: 27 Republicans don't plan to run for re-election vs. only 10 Democrats.
NPR is tracking the record number of Congressional lawmakers who have announced they do not plan to run for reelection to their current seats in 2026.
That number currently stands at 10 senators and 27 House members.
That number currently stands at 10 senators and 27 House members.
A record number of Congressional lawmakers aren't running for reelection in 2026. Here's the list
NPR is tracking the record number of lawmakers in Congress who have already announced they don't plan to run for reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms.
www.npr.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The biggest item in this story from the perspective of political scientists isn't included in the post: 27 Republicans don't plan to run for re-election vs. only 10 Democrats.