North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has made headlines again for his cringe-worthy comments. After claiming women’s bodies aren’t their own and that God says abortions are wrong, Robinson is now claiming that Christians are “called to be led by men,” not women.
According to WRAL, Robinson made the comments during a Charlotte area church congregation on May 23.
Trump’s former personal attorney called the violence that day a “spontaneous” riot that included antifa involvement.
This article was originally published at Prism
Intellectually and developmentally disabled people have historically been weaponized against abortion rights by conservative politicians, or forced into sterilization by eugenicists. But a recent poll conducted by Data for Progress and shared with The 19th shows that 53% of Americans with disabilities want abortion to remain legal in most circumstances, in line with 55% of non-disabled people who want the same thing.
Lauren Boebert made her remarks toward President Joe Biden at the Family Camp Meeting event at Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Illustrations by Miki LoweThe poet A. E. Stallings lives in Athens, where the past is always bumping up against the present and ancient ruins stand amid trendy cafés. The old and new mingle in her work too. A classics scholar, Stallings tends to draw on Greek mythology and traditional poetic forms—but she uses them to explore thoroughly contemporary themes.
Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET on June 12, 2022.Eating alone began as a matter of circumstance.In the spring of 2020, as my world shrunk to the square footage of my apartment, food became a mode of injecting pleasure and delight into an otherwise bleak and lonely period of my life. I frequently ordered pizza from my favorite local spot in Washington, D.C.; I sampled different brands of instant ramen; I baked loaves of banana bread. In some ways, this routine was familiar.
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden is right to go to Saudi Arabia.Biden’s planned visit to the kingdom represents a determination to both rationalize the amount of attention we pay to the region and formulate a foreign policy that works on behalf of the American middle class. But it is not going to make anyone happy in the near term, and it is going to cost him precious political capital with his own party.
While monkeypox can be spread at close range through saliva droplets or respiratory secretions, the agency said it cannot travel through aerosols, like SARS-CoV-2.
The order is larger than earlier ones to the U.S. and represents a significant escalation in the fight against a growing monkeypox outbreak.
Michigan is one of more than 20 states with a law on the books that would outlaw nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
At the same time, more than six in 10 respondents believe that more congressional spending on Covid aid will contribute to inflation.
Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public hearings—hearings that will show, in the words of vice chair Liz Cheney, that “Donald Trump oversaw a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power.”Or, as committee chair Bennie Thompson put it, “Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy.
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
The second witness who testified live in the first primetime hearing of the House select January 6 committee was Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as she tried to hold the line outside the Capitol with fellow officers. She was with officer Brian Sicknick, who she said appeared to have been sprayed in the face and was extremely pale. Sicknick died the next day. Sicknick’s fiancee sat behind Edwards as she testified.
The white supremacist Proud Boys group and the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia played an instrumental role in planning for a violent insurrection on the Capitol, according to the January 6 House committee, which aired new testimony from witnesses and the groups’ leaders in its first public hearing Thursday night. British filmmaker Nick Quested was embedded with the Proud Boys and shared his footage with the committee.
The January 6 committee released new footage Thursday night showing a detailed timeline of the day of the insurrection.
Donald Trump “engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him,” Congressmember Liz Cheney, vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, said during Thursday’s primetime hearing. “This was not true.
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing Thursday night, televised in primetime by all major networks except Fox News. We spend the hour featuring excerpts from the hearing, starting with Committee Chair Bennie Thompson’s opening statement, in which he argued January 6 was the “culmination of an attempted coup” by Donald Trump, comparing the insurrection to the ransacking of Washington, D.C.
This would not be the first time Trump mixed his office with his private businesses.
The white supremacists, who were dressed in nearly identical uniforms and masks, “did not come here to engage in peaceful events,” said the local sheriff.
This story was originally published at Prism.
As the country waits for the Supreme Court’s final decision on Roe v. Wade, the plight of accessing abortion care for undocumented people and noncitizens will only become more challenging.
“If you’re having a coup and summoned everybody, and aim to be anointed as the head of a new illegitimate government, you have to be there,” says historian.
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently authored an interesting column in which he candidly acknowledged his surprise at the vehemence of Europe’s reaction to Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine.
The newspaper controlled by long-time Trump backer Rupert Murdoch calls Jan. 6 “national shame” and rips the “King Lear of Mar-a-Lago” for his inability to move forward.
Remember the tankies? Quick recap: Tankies believe that all the world’s evils are the product of imperialism and the only country capable of imperialism is the United States. They count among their number such luminaries as Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky.
Welcome back to Connect! Unite! Act! There have been a ton of stories written about Republicans defending the AR-15. One of the most frequent stories has centered around gun lovers’ defense of the assault-style weapon by pointing out it is frequently used against feral hogs, raccoons, prairie dogs, and whatever else comes to mind. I know you’ve seen the video.
“An AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens.
Republican Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina was one of the architects of the enormous tax breaks for the rich that the Republican Party passed during the Trump administration. While it was wildly unpopular and led almost entirely to further extremes in wealth inequality in our country, it may be considered the only piece of Republican legislation to actually be passed during all of the years the GOP enjoyed majority control under Trump.
The House committee has spoken to more than 1,000 people to get a picture of Trump’s actions on the day of the 2021 Capitol attack.