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Religious Freedom Tables Turned As Synagogue Sues Over Florida’s Abortion Ban
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
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Twitter Sues Texas AG, Says He Retaliated Against Company for Banning Trump from Its Platform
Twitter has sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, saying he retaliated against the company by opening an investigation into the company’s content moderation practices after it banned former President Donald Trump from its platform in the days following the Capitol riot. “Twitter seeks to stop AG Paxton from unlawfully abusing his authority as the highest…
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Opinion: Gassing Moms And Vets Does Not Win Elections
With his support in free fall, Donald Trump decided the best way to win over “suburban house wives†was to scare them with images of his gestapo gassing the wall of moms, assaulting vets and disappearing peaceful protestors. Seriously, who knows if Trump did it to get film for a video ad, send federal agents…
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It’s a Win for Devin Nunes’s Cow: Rep. Nunes’s Twitter Lawsuit Gets Tossed Out
Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) saw a lawsuit he brought against Twitter demanding that the social media titan reveal the identities of individuals who created parody accounts about him get tossed out by a federal judge. The parody accounts included “Devin Nunes’ Cow” and “Devin Nunes’ Mom.” Nunes “seeks to have to court treat Twitter as…
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Trump: “Our Great National Guard Troops… Could Hardly Believe How Easy It Was” to Gas Peaceful Protesters
President Donald Trump, who has weathered criticism for deciding to use tear gas to clear peaceful protesters for a photo-op in front of St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., doubled down on the decision, writing on Twitter that the National Guard “could hardly believe how easy it was” to follow his order. Our great National…
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Opinion: Trump acolyte DeVos steers more COVID-19 stimulus money to religion
Republicans found another means of enriching religion with taxpayer dollars meant to aid Americans suffering the horrid effects of Trump’s plague and economic devastation. When filthy rich, and highly-unqualified, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began her quest to shift all taxpayer dollars intended for public education to private, for-profit religious schools, evangelicals and Republicans were ecstatic….
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Opinion: Church services during a global pandemic are not essential – they’re deadly
The deadly cost of religious liberty in America is finally being manifest, and it is a cost many evangelicals believe the public must pay. No small number of evangelical clergy are now claiming their religious freedom is essential and supersedes states’ “stay-at-home†orders meant to halt coronavirus transmission.  Predictably, several Republican governors agree and claim…
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Opinion: Trump Is Why Whistleblowers Need Protection
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Donald Trump showed us why whistleblowers need protection. He all but ordered a hit on the whistleblower who exposed his shakedown of the Ukraine and more when it became all too clear that his presidency is cooked. His defenders will continue to insist that Trump ust does things differently. But here’s the reality: every president’s…
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Opinion: We Can Be Better Than Sending Sick People to Certain Death
We can do better than sending sick people to certain death, forcing them to literally beg Emperor Trump for their lives. We can do better than taking issued student visas away because the student’s friends may have said something we don’t like. I realize there are so many other catastrophic things, like the hurricane that…
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Opinion: Trump’s War With Ilhan Omar Is Also A War With Our First Amendment Rights
Last Friday, the president of the United States waged war on the First Amendment unlike anything I’ve witnessed. It gets more twisted because Trump’s weapon of choice was an abuse of the First Amendment. It’s the sort of thing we saw happen in the Balkans during the 1990’s and read about happening in the Soviet…
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GOP Rep. Don Young Shoves a Female Reporter And It Isn’t His First Time Putting His Hands On Women
Politico reporter Melanie Zanona reported Thursday that Republican Representative Don Young of Alaska physically shoved her and told her to get out of his way, “Damnit” as she was interviewing a differing lawmaker outside the House chamber.
