Greg Abbott's edicts in Texas are causing migrants to get cut up by razor wire, children to drown, workers to die of heat stroke and women to endure failing pregnancies.
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They made Barbie woke? FUCK! How am I supposed to go about my day knowing my favorite doll isn’t in the Freedom Caucus? I need mom to get me a milk.
Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Education want us to believe slavery was actually a free job training program.
Some GOP-led legislatures are trying to criminalize patients who leave their home states for either abortions or gender-affirming healthcare.
The nonprofit Committee for Education Funding noted that the Republican proposal would impact "virtually all" education programs, hitting teacher funding, student aid, and more.
Casey DeSantis is every bit as involved in her husband’s rise as Ron is himself. A former staffer stated, "She’s more paranoid than he is. He’s a vindictive motherf*cker. She's twice that.”
Lawyers with business in front of the Supreme Court helping finance Clarence Thomas' Christmas parties? This court loses more and more of its legitimacy every day.
The world that President Eisenhower warned us about has materialized. The arms industry has too many members of Congress in its pockets.
Republican Members of Congress show what they fear the most: voters. Their innocuous-sounding ACE Act would disenfranchise millions from voting with restrictive anti-voter policies.
What can be said about a blathering buffoon of a "candidate" who lectures an adoring crowd—that hangs on his every butchered word—while they somehow think of the comedy "Idiocracy" as a documentary?
Allowing Trump to run in 2024 not only violates Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, it also sets a dangerous precedent for permitting violent attacks on our democracy.
Yusef Salaam has gone from being falsely accused and convicted of rape and murder—with Trump calling for his execution—to exonerated and winning his primary for New York City Council.
Far-right elites met in Washington to pine for a past of the simpler days of white supremacy and not being bothered at all by the lack of rights for anyone else.
Texas has doubled the amount of solar energy it's generated since early 2022. And that is helping keep the lights and AC on amid a long record heat wave.
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which aims to make ballot initiatives harder to pass, is being bankrolled by Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein.
Far-right Republicans in the House of Representatives engineered the censure of Dem. Adam Schiff as revenge for his management of two impeachments of Trump and his work on the Jan 6 Committee.