Bob Goodlatte, a Republican representative from Virginia, is singlehandedly blocking a bill meant to address the alarmingly high numbers of missing and murdered Native women from passing before the end of the year, and Senator Heidi Heitkamp, the author of the bill, is calling him out.
On Monday, Therese Patricia Okoumou, the activist who scaled the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July in protest of the Trump administration’s family separation policy, was found guilty of several federal crimes stemming from her act of civil disobedience.
During a year that has felt at times like one unending root canal, one of the few pleasures that have made my existence a little more bearable has been vaping. I’ve spent a good part of 2018 enveloped in a gentle haze, like living in my own personal mist-ladened Turner painting.
In 2017, Texas legislators passed a law prohibiting the state from hiring companies and contractors that boycott Israel, in a move meant as a clear rebuke to the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Now, a children’s speech pathologist who lost her job earlier this year after she refused to sign a…
Earlier this week, Oklahoma Republican state senator Paul Scott proposed legislation that would eliminate a program that provides prenatal healthcare services to low-income pregnant Oklahomans. His reason? He’s upset that pregnant undocumented people are able to use the program. Sounds like a nice guy.
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala has died while in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol officials, after being detained last week close to the U.S.-Mexico border. The young girl, who reportedly had not had anything to drink or eat for days before being in CBP custody, died of septic shock, fever, and dehydration.
It’s me, just vaping away on a Thursday.
Jacob Anderson, the former Baylor fraternity president accused of raping a classmate in 2016, has been banned from the university he is currently attending after some of his fellow students called for his removal.
On Wednesday, members of the House and Senate ended their months-long battle over whose bill to combat pervasive sexual harassment in Congress is better, by agreeing to a plan that reshapes how Congress handles harassment claims. As the Washington Post reported, one of the big changes is that members of Congress will…
On Tuesday afternoon, elected officials in New York City gathered in front of City Hall to denounce the violent arrest of 23-year-old Jazmine Headley, which had happened the previous Friday while she and her 1-year-old son were waiting at one of the city’s public assistance offices. Headley’s arrest was captured in a…
On Tuesday night, Christine Blasey Ford made a rare public statement when she presented former gymnast Rachael Denhollander with Sports Illustrated’s Inspiration of the Year award.
Republican women in Congress are getting fed up, okay? In the wake of their Party’s losses in the midterm elections, in which the numbers of Republican women in the House dropped from 23 to 13, some are calling for the party to do some soul searching. “It’s so disappointing I could just scream,” retiring…
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up two lower court rulings that blocked states from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood—affirming the right of Medicaid recipients to use the organization’s healthcare services while sidestepping what would likely have been the first major case involving…
A truly fucked up and disturbing video of New York Police Department officers ripping a one-year-old child from the arms of his mother and then arresting her has sparked outrage and calls for reform.
More is yet to come.
During the 16 months Jessica Sunderland was incarcerated at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Suffolk County, New York, jail officials refused to give her the hormones she had been taking for two years. In response, in August 2013, Sunderland filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Suffolk County, arguing…
Alleged sexual predator and confirmed bad person Julian Assange is apparently also a terrible roommate. The Ecuadorean embassy in London has housed the WikiLeaks founder since 2012 after he showed up claiming asylum as part of an effort to escape extradition to Sweden over pending sexual assault and rape charges which…
Don’t mind us, we’re all hungover after last night’s Deadspin Awards.
On Wednesday, Irish lawmakers passed legislation that takes the country one step closer towards providing free and legal abortions, approving a bill to legalize the procedure. It will now go to the Senate, where it is also projected to pass. At the end of May, voters in the country overwhelmingly voted to repeal…
Elizabeth Warren is still dealing with the fallout of her decision to publicly release the results of a DNA test that purports to show she has a Native American ancestor somewhere back in her family tree.
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