thenation.com — 1+ hour, 40+ min ago
AOC Would Have Cast the Winning Vote for Drug Price Reform
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aoc-kathleen-rice-drugs/
New York Working Families Party. ... Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas's Abortion Ban Rice joined two other centrist Democrats ... Rice, a member of the Wall Street-aligned New Democratic Coalition, has raised more than $8.4 million ... And AOC had the support of House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler, the senior member of New York's ... , Scott Peters of California and Kurt Schrader of Oregon, in voting against advancing the plan to authorize ... ...
washingtonpost.com — 3+ hour, 24+ min ago
Tech's allies say antitrust reform would help China. Critics say it's a cheap ploy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/17/tech-allies-say-antitrust-reform-would-help-china-critics-say-it-cheap-ploy/
, the _Wall Street Journal_'s Justin Scheck, Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz report. ... Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), all security-minded ... The tech trade group Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) -- which counts Amazon, Facebook ... Tech's allies say antitrust reform would help China. Critics say it's a cheap ploy. ... services to the Chinese Communist Party while boycotting our own Department of Defense," said Caroline ... ...
talkingpointsmemo.com — 1+ hour, 43+ min ago
Clarence Thomas Insists That He Isn't A Partisan Hack Either
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/clarence-thomas-insists-that-he-isnt-a-partisan-hack-either
Thomas" remarks came several days after Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted that SCOTUS ... Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the deeply conservative justice who has reliably voted in favor ... of Notre Dame. ... She previously worked for Vocativ, USA Today and NY1 News. ... Cristina Cabrera (@crismcabrera) is a newswriter at TPM based in New York. ... ...
bust.com — 4+ hour, 58+ min ago
Michaela Coel's first book,
https://bust.com/books/198441-michaela-coel-s-first-book-misfits-a-personal-manifesto-is-an-poignant-testimony-her-experience-of-racism-and-sexism.html
she was invited to give at the Edinburgh TV Festival. ... Photo by Jeaneen Lund Valentine Fabre is a Fashion Journalism student currently based in London. ... In the speech, Coel explains how, as a student at a Catholic Elementary School for girls, she learned ... Tags: Michaela Coel , Misfits , memoir , 'I may destroy you , ' Racism , Sexual Assault , Book Review ... "At the time [I was invited], I'd never heard of the MacTaggart Lecture. ... ...
bust.com — 4+ hour, 31+ min ago
Say Her Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on History...
https://bust.com/feminism/198435-my-name-is-pauli-murray-interview.html
My Name is Pauli Murray is quite possibly one of the most eye-opening documentary about race and gender identity to come out in recent times. The 91minute long documentary chronicles the life and work of African-American writer civil-rights activist Pauli Murray. Born in 1910, the Baltimore Maryland native struggled with her sexuality and gender identity their whole life. A graduate of Howard University School of Law, Murray was admitted to the bar in California in 1945, later working as the deputy attorney general of California. In addition to her career in law, the writer and women's rights activist was called to god ... ...
politicalwire.com — 4+ hour, 10+ min ago
The Contrarian
https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/17/the-contrarian/
Out next week: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin ... , Max (Author)English (Publication Language)09/21/2021 (Publication Date) - Penguin Press (Publisher) ... The Contrarian: Peter ... An excerpt in Bloomberg Businessweek suggests “the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed ... Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power Amazon Kindle EditionChafkin ... ...
oracle.newpaltz.edu — 40+ min ago
The Texas Abortion Ban: A Sinister Attack on Human Rights - The New Paltz Oracle
https://oracle.newpaltz.edu/texas-abortion-ban/
in Texas: sign the American Civil Liberties Union's petition, donate to pro-choice organizations, even ... A study from the American Public Health Association found, when people are turned away from abortions ... But the existence of an abortion ban anywhere in the United States has the potential to infringe on human ... stop by the Green Bar in New Paltz and buy a pink drink (100% of proceeds benefit pro-choice organizations ... There was a lull in the federal courts until Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice ... ...
msnbc.com — 5+ hour, 15+ min ago
Why it's news when candidates agree to honor election results
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-it-s-news-when-candidates-agree-honor-election-results-n1279450
Glenn Youngkin makes his closing remarks during a GOP gubernatorial candidate forum in Lynchburg, Va. ... Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political ... for powerful offices were prepared to honor election results. ... It was simply assumed that in the United States, basic norms of our democracy dictated that candidates ... Terry McAuliffe - the Republican conceded that there has not been "significant fraud in Virginia elections ... ...
autostraddle.com — 15+ min ago
Wait A Bisexual Second, Are Lili Reinhart and Wallis Day Gay Smooching on Each Other?
https://www.autostraddle.com/lili-reinhart-and-wallis-day/
trashwina On Wait A Bisexual Second, Are Lili Reinhart and Wallis Day Gay Smooching on Each Other "um ... She's a member of the Television Critics Association, the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association ... Hector Humphrey On Queer Girl City Guide: Chicago, Illinois "Queer Girl City Guide nice" cleo ... Hogan_ is an Autostraddle senior writer who lives in New York City with her partner, Stacy, and their ... You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. ... ...
rawstory.com — 22+ min ago
Legal experts slam Clarence Thomas for ""speaking out against something he is actively doing'
https://www.rawstory.com/legal-experts-and-critics-slam-justice-clarence-thomas-for-speaking-out-against-something-he-is-actively-doing/
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI ... Court is Reshaping America," also criticizes Thomas's apparent hypocrisy: The World Health Organization ... The most advanced effort so far by China's Xiamen University, the University of Hong Kong and Beijing ... said, CNN's Supreme Court reporter Ariane de Vogue reports, ironically observing that Justice Thomas ... Molly Jong-Fast says, "speaking out against something he is actively doing." ... ...