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July 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy.
#ScienceMatters
May 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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NO KINGS! - FORT WORTH · Stand Up America
NO KINGS. NO CROWNS. NO DAMN THRONES. FORT WORTH HAS HAD ENOUGH! This country doesn’t belong to Trump or his billionaire buddies—it belongs to the people. Fort Worth and Tarrant County...it's time to...
www.mobilize.us
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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RFK Jr and Statistics:
May 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A single Supreme Court decision could set a precedent for religious institutions receiving direct taxpayer support in harmful ways never seen in American education.

Here's what you need to know.

#scotus #SupremeCourt
A Crucial Test for Church-State Separation: St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond
In April 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the consolidated cases of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond and Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond which could...
www.interfaithalliance.org
April 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“That our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry,…”
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777)

Precursor to the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause.
January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM