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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/9/2321282/-You-ve-got-to-hand-it-to-them-GOP-wants-to-restrict-porn?pm_source=ICYMI&pm_campaign=ICYMI05092025 You've got to hand it to them: GOP wants to restrict porn by Oliver Willis Daily Kos Staff Friday, May 09, 2025 at 9:00:03a EDT 274...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-religion-case-destroy-charter-schools.html I Wrote the Book on Charter Schools. This Supreme Court Case Could Inadvertently Destroy Them. By Richard D. Kahlenberg April 24, 20251:53 PM Albert Shanker launched the charter school...

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4430236-fda-to-phase-out-animal-testing-requirement-adopt-ai-methods FDA to phase out animal testing requirement, adopt AI methods Apr. 10, 2025 4:13 PM ETCharles River Laboratories International, Inc. (CRL) Stock, CERT Stock, RXRX Stock, SLP StockNOTV, BSGM...

https://apnews.com/us-news/mississippi-philip-gunn-tom-hood-donna-ladd-general-news-56c87a605112bdbd7036579845309d92 Mississippi Legislature not a ‘public body’ and not subject to Open Meetings Act, judge rules By NICK JUDIN/Mississippi Free Press Updated 11:20 AM EST, February 21...

https://www.theverge.com/politics/613660/war-on-dei-smoke-screen-civil-rights-racism-eugenics The war on DEI is a smoke screen MAGA’s attacks on ‘wokeness’ and diversity, equity, and inclusion are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself. by Gaby Del Valle Feb 17, 2025...

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-says-high-speed-rail-isnt-needed-because-you-take-an-airplane-it-costs-you-2/ Trump Says High-Speed Rail Isn’t Needed Because ‘You Take an Airplane – It Costs You $2’ Michael Luciano Feb 4th, 2025, 6:18 pm...

https://www.xbiz.com/news/282668/national-conservatism-conference-panelist-confirms-age-verification-laws-are-path-to-total-porn-ban National Conservatism Conference Panelist Confirms Age Verification Laws Are Path to Total Porn Ban WASHINGTON — This year’s National Conservatism Conference...

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/ai-godfather-explains-ai-will-increase-wealth-gap-318842-20250113 Published 15:04 13 Jan 2025 GMT 'Godfather of AI' explains how 'scary' AI will increase the wealth gap and 'make society worse' Experts predict that AI produces 'fertile ground for...

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/08/la-police-budget-palisades-fires/ LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning. “The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist. Schuyler...

https://newrepublic.com/article/189651/gop-supreme-court-citizenship-attack Susan Rinkunas/ January 8, 2025 unpeopling The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of...

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/02/newborns-are-being-left-in-dumpsters-in-texas-but-dont-seem-to-care/ Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don't seem to care Why the GOP is unwilling to prevent infant abandonment By Senior Writer Published January 2, 2025 6:00AM...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/17/hundreds-of-websites-to-shut-down-under-chilling-internet/ Hundreds of websites to shut down under UK’s ‘chilling’ internet laws Community pages face closure as lengthy new rules ‘create disproportionate liability’...

https://capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-illinois-sewage-americas-poorest-town/ The Sewage Crisis Drowning America’s Poorest Town In Cahokia Heights, Illinois, years of sewage backups have left residents grappling with bacterial infections, mold, and neglect. Will a federal order end...

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/12/14/kansas-abortions-rise-58-in-2023-amid-tight-restrictions-in-nearby-states/ Kansas abortions rise 58% in 2023 amid tight restrictions in nearby states Nonresidents represent three-fourths of 19,467 abortions in Kansas By: The Kansas Department of...

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5203084/child-care-pay-equity-tax-dc How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich December 13, 20245:00 AM ET Andrea Hsu Boniece Gillis, an assistant teacher at Educare DC in Washington, D.C., says the wage bump she...

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/16/florida-school-board-pauses-chaplain-plan-after-satanic-temple-support/74810925007/ Florida school board pauses chaplain plans following interest from 'Ministers of Satan' It's especially notable since DeSantis signed the measure at a...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24218547/caltrain-electric-train-us-lags-behind-india-china-eu Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? Two new electric trains in California could be a sign that the notoriously laggard US is finally ready to catch up to the rest of the...

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-police-buffer-law New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance...