A hidden abortion crew prepares to confront a post-Roe America
Driven underground during the pandemic, online abortion providers say they’ll keep supplying pills and services even if the Supreme Court approves state bans.
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The Charges Against the Trump Organization Are a Master Class in Tax Evasion
The company allegedly went to incredible lengths to avoid paying taxes on a top employee’s compensation.
The Jobs Report Just Gave Us One More Reason to Feel Good About the Economy
June was the biggest month for hiring since August 2020.
Fauci frets ‘avoidable’ Covid-19 deaths among unvaccinated people
“It’s really sad and tragic,” he said.
Virus lab leak theory dogs Democrats eager to keep focus on Trump’s Covid failings
Democrats worry that murky conclusions that don’t identify the origin of the virus could play into the Republicans’ hands.
‘Wasting my breath’: Southern faith leaders wary of promoting vaccines
Exhausted by backlash over pandemic restrictions, some faith leaders see little upside in urging skeptical congregants to get vaccinated.
CDC director: Delta variant is growing threat to unvaccinated people
Nearly 25 percent of recent infections have been linked to Delta, up from 6 percent in early June.
Help! I Can’t Stop Having Deep Conversations With My 19-Year-Old Student.
I’m concerned it will become something else if the boundaries blur.
Dear Care and Feeding: I Long for Closeness With My Grown Daughter
Parenting advice on adult children, COVID vaccines, and abusive relatives.
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Lethal Force Against Pipeline Protests? Documents Reveal Shocking South Dakota Plans for National Guard
Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has announced she is deploying 50 members of the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border at the request of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. In an extraordinary twist, the deployment is being paid for by billionaire Republican megadonor Willis Johnson, who lives in Tennessee.
“Defending the Sacred”: Indigenous Water Protectors Continue Resistance to Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota
Resistance to construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline continues in northern Minnesota, where more than a dozen water protectors this week locked themselves to construction vehicles at two worksites, and to the pipeline itself. Just last month, 179 people were arrested when thousands shut down an Enbridge pumping station for two days as part of the Treaty People Gathering.
Terrified White Supremacists Run Away After Philadelphia March Goes Awry
A Patriot Front march in Philly didn’t go the way the group hoped when they had to flee angry counter-protesters.
Republican Strategist Rails Against Her Own Party: ‘It’s Neofascism!’
Susan Del Percio said the “wackiest wackies” will win GOP primaries… but will ultimately cost the party seats in Congress.
It’s time to dish. What foods do you hate?
Sure, “hate” is a strong word. But as applied to food, it can be entirely appropriate. Food, after all, is an essential part of life and it can inspire serious physical reactions—for good or bad. You don’t have to be a picky eater to have one food you really, really can’t eat (for reasons other than health).
It’s a holiday weekend, so let’s chat.
A lighthouse tour with a point: Lime Kiln Point, remote but deeply connected
I happen to live in a place—San Juan Island in the far Pacific Northwest—that gets tons of tourists, especially on big holiday weekends like the Fourth of July. And one of the places that is most visited on the island by those tourists is in the photo above: Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse, on the island’s western side.
It’s one of my of my favorite places on the planet.
Former Fox Exec Calls Network ‘Poison For America’ In Blistering Rebuke
Rupert Murdoch “owes himself a better legacy than a news channel that no reasonable person would believe,” Preston Padden wrote.
I loved Bill Cosby as a child. Now, I only see him as what he is: A rapist
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that due to a legal technicality, Bill Cosby will be released from prison today. I could speak about the way the technicalities work and the fact that basically the wealthy get one kind of justice and the poor do not, though not as eloquently as others. There have been plenty of poor people who were convicted that did not have the access to premier legal counsel that would look for technical mistakes in the same way.
UFO report doesn’t point to aliens, but shows why we need Men in Black
On June 25, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced that long-anticipated report on “Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon.” The ODNI prepared the report with the assistance of a serious alphabet soup of other agencies, including the DIA, FBI, NSA, and every branch of the armed forces.
Families divided by border embrace for three minutes at the Rio Grande during annual event
Hundreds of families who live on opposite sides of the southern border got to embrace last month—but for just a few precious moments. Roughly 200 families reunited at the Rio Grande as part of the annual Hugs Not Walls day, when officials briefly allow families “from both sides of the river with no legal means to reunite to reconnect for a brief embrace in the middle of the Rio Grande,” El Paso Matters reported.
Tropical Storm Elsa Prompts Evacuations In Cuba, Florida Declares State Of Emergency
180,000 people were forced to evacuate in Cuba as officials warned of heavy rains and potential flooding.
Donald Trump Jr. Gets The Bird Over July 4 Meme Of His Dad
His image of the former president flying over Mount Rushmore didn’t go over so big on Twitter.
“The Second”: Carol Anderson on the Racist History Behind the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
As gun violence soars in the United States, we look at the Second Amendment and its racist roots with Carol Anderson, author of the new book, “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.” In the book, Anderson details how the Second Amendment was written to empower local militia groups to put down slave revolts and protect plantation owners.
“The Hill We Climb, If Only We Dare It”: Watch Amanda Gorman, Youngest Inaugural Poet in U.S. History
Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history when she spoke at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. She was 22 years old when she read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem she finished right after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. We continue our July Fourth special broadcast with Gorman’s remarkable address.
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.