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It looks like Chuck Schumer learned how to do politics like a Republican
A secret deal with Joe Manchin, passage of the semiconductor bill *and* the reconciliation bill, and a forced self-own for the GOP … not bad.
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It is not hyperbole to say the current U.S. Supreme Court constitutes a democratic crisis
It’s time to panic.
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After the death of Roe v. Wade, Democrats need to do more than fundraise and say ‘see you in November’
Promises to do something eventually aren’t enough.
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Today’s SCOTUS rulings show that the majority doesn’t care about torching its legitimacy, only about pushing its radical agenda
Republican presidents have won the popular vote once since 1988, yet they’ve appointed six of the Court’s nine justices.
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The Second Amendment is legal gibberish, and you can interpret it to mean almost anything you want
We could, like every other developed nation on Earth, make these atrocities vanishingly rare. Instead, we choose fidelity to an amendment that was written to mean nothing.
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States with highest numbers of abortion-restricting laws also have the highest levels of maternal mortality
The links between increased abortion restrictions, reduced public health spending and higher rates of maternal mortality are established beyond question.
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Florida Legislature’s abrupt elimination of Disney district, a mob shakedown by statute, sends an Orwellian message
‘Keep your mouth shut and the checks coming, or else’
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In Florida, the drive to push women back into forced births and LGBT folks back into the closet is just getting going
Rights aren’t always permanent
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson defended some bad people. Republicans think that should keep her off the Supreme Court
In defense of public defenders
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Putin’s investment in Donald Trump was designed to soften the ground for an expansion of Russian power into Ukraine
Blood and oil: The remix