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Inside Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers

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In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.   […]

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Purslane Sex and the City

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This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Steps from a public bathroom, across a narrow street from a home goods store in Tokyo, Japan, a tangle of delicate reddish stems fringed with rubbery emerald leaves pokes from a crack in the pavement. Smaller than a discarded Big […]

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Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From the Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants

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On April 3, a Justice Department contracting officer sent the Acacia Center for Justice a “notice of termination for convenience.” The email instructed the nonprofit to discontinue several federally funded programs described as “no longer needed.” Among them was the little-known National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP), which appoints government-paid counsel to detained immigrants deemed unfit […]

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Trump’s Killing of Energy Star Program Will Cost Families a Bundle

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Energy Star program is among the most successful government initiatives in modern history. Its signature blue label is now nearly as recognizable as the Nike swoosh or a Coca-Cola can, and appliances bearing it save American consumers some $40 […]

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

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In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US Attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to combat crime in the district. Martin politely fielded questions from attendees, even answering one from a man who, citing Martin’s widely condemned description of his office as […]

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Is the New Pope MAGA or Woke? Depends Who You Ask.

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The Conclave has spoken, and President Donald Trump will not be the next pope. Instead, that designation will go to Robert Francis Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican announced on Thursday. Leo, who is 69 years old and was born in Chicago, will be the first American pope following the […]

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Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Wants to “Raise the Vibration of Humanity”

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On Wednesday, following controversy about inconsistencies in her résumé, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to become Surgeon General, and gave the nod to alternative medicine practitioner and author Dr. Casey Means. “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Dr. […]

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The Brain Rot Cabinet

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Last week, baffling many and delighting a few, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared during a Trump administration cabinet meeting that he’s engaged in a hunt for what he said were 300,000 missing children trafficked by the Biden administration. “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” […]

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The Supreme Court Is Really “Just Vibes”

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In Donald Trump’s second term, a familiar pattern is emerging: the president does something illegal, someone sues to stop him, and eventually the Supreme Court decides the case. From which agencies Trump can effectively shutter, to which agency heads he can depose, to whether or not he can disappear people into a Salvadoran gulag or […]

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DC’s Sole Congressional Rep Is Too Old to Drive. Can She Defend the City From a Hostile GOP?

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Since she was first elected in 1990 as Washington, DC’s, nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) has fiercely defended the civil service in Congress. Nearly a quarter of her constituents work for the federal government. So after the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, as Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service targeted agency after agency with […]

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FEMA Will No Longer Go Door-to-Door to Assist Disaster Victims

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This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on the ground this season, including ending federal door-to-door canvassing of survivors in disaster areas, WIRED has learned. A memo reviewed by WIRED, dated May 2 […]

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A Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well as gender-affirming care, climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other areas, according to a new draft guidance memo reviewed by Mother Jones. The internal memo, which has not been […]

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