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The case for erasing someone's abortion debt this holiday season
Local abortion funds are running dry, and we need them more than ever right now.
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Laura Bassett
Vigilante-style killings are fine now (*if the victim is Black and homeless)
A 26-year-old was acquitted on Monday for choking an unarmed, unhoused man to death on the subway as another was arrested for shooting a health…
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Laura Bassett
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New York gets anesthesia coverage back after a CEO's murder
I'm not saying the Timothée Chalamet lookalike who shot a health insurance CEO helped make this happen, but I'm not not saying that.
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Laura Bassett
South Koreans just quashed a fascist coup in 6 hours
We could learn a thing or two about how to resist fascism from the people who did it efficiently in the middle of the night.
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Laura Bassett

November 2024

You'll miss the free press when it's gone
Republicans are suppressing stories on abortion-related deaths and attacking news outlets to try and control the flow of information. We really…
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Laura Bassett
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Gaetz drops out of the running for AG
The ex-congressman pulled himself out of consideration for attorney general an hour before CNN reported a second "sexual encounter" he had with a…
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Laura Bassett
Sexual assault allegations pile up against Trump's cabinet
Will Senate Republicans bend the knee and confirm them all anyway? Probably.
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Laura Bassett
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Trump cabinet, part II (it got much worse)
"Are you shittin' me?" Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) told reporters today upon learning that his sex pest colleague, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is Trump's…
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Laura Bassett
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Trump's cabinet so far is a big middle finger to his voters
If anyone was expecting anti-establishment picks to "drain the swamp" and "shake up Washington," they got exactly the opposite. Trump's choices only…
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Laura Bassett
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'Pro-choice' Trump voters were this election's curveball
Exit polls suggest voters overwhelmingly supported abortion rights, and Trump won in a landslide anyway. It's time for Democrats to take a long hard…
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Trump has pissed off the matriarchs
Women over 65 are threatening to deliver Iowa to Kamala Harris, and it's definitely because of abortion.
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Laura Bassett

October 2024

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