Half a Trillion Reasons for Shame
A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of...
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Why speech could be a target for the anti-abortion movement in 2025.
The anti-abortion movement is looking at ways to control information about how and where to obtain abortions The next front in the US abortion wars may be what people are allowed to say about...
What Killed Daniel Prude? The Cops and New York AG Said a Diagnosis That’s Since Been Debunked.
A newly obtained document sheds light on how the disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis infiltrated the Rochester Police Department before Prude’s death. What killed Daniel Prude? The 41-year-old died in March 2020 after cops pinned...
Call for $2.5 Trillion in Cuts Proves GOP Wants to ‘Steal Our Benefits’
“Nearly 60% of mandatory spending is for Medicare and Social Security,” noted one expert. “If they don’t touch those, they’d have to cut Medicaid to the bone.” With a potential government shutdown just hours...
If Musk Blocking a Key Spending Bill Isn’t Oligarchy, I Don’t Know What Is
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way. If the government shuts down Saturday, Elon Musk will be...
Woman Who Faced Racism When Buying a Home Speaks Out Against Bias
Raven Baxter will be the face of a national campaign to prevent housing discrimination, supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Raven Baxter, who was astonished earlier...
Racism is a public health issue. Here’s why
KFF Health News journalist Cara Anthony has been covering racism and the ways it can affect people’s health for years. The project is about two killings of Black men that happened decades apart in...
‘Deep cuts that hit hard’: Why Trump’s budget will be especially painful in red states
In an article published on December 11, Reuters reporters Andy Sullivan and Ally J. Levine examine possible areas in which Musk and Ramaswamy could recommend “deep cuts.” And those cuts, they stress, could be...
Trump’s Birthright-Citizenship Threat Shows His True Target
The mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was one of Donald Trump’s principal campaign promises in 2024. There has been a lot of debate about whether he will actually attempt to expel all of the...
Trump and Musk’s Billionaire Plot to Destroy Social Security
The solution is obvious and simple, which is why the nation’s richest people hate it so much: Scrap the cap and make the wealthy pay a much fairer share in Social Security taxes. World’s...