What A Day

Boosting Makes Me Feel Good

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The FDA authorized the first new versions of the Covid-19 vaccines since they were introduced in late 2020, and the updated formulations target the ne...

Mississippi’s Crisis Over Troubled Water

31 Aug 2022

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The city of Jackson, Mississippi is under a state of emergency because of ongoing problems with its troubled water system, leaving residents without s...

Understanding Trump's Request For A "Special Master"

30 Aug 2022

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A federal judge has indicated that she may appoint a “special master” to review the documents that the FBI seized from Mar-A-Lago earlier this mon...

Kaiser Mental Health Care Workers Strike For Change

29 Aug 2022

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The Justice Department released the affidavit that led to the FBI search on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Although the documen...

Day Of The Affidavit

26 Aug 2022

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A redacted version of the affidavit that justified the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is expected to be released to the public t...

Student Debt, You’re Cancelled

25 Aug 2022

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President Biden announced on Wednesday a plan that would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans, and $20,000 for Pell grant rec...

Ukraine Celebrates A Somber Independence Day

24 Aug 2022

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Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day, marking 31 years since it broke from the Soviet Union. It also comes six months since Russia launched its full-...

Protecting Your Data In A Post-Roe World

23 Aug 2022

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A teenager and her mother are facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Nebraska's abortion ban, and police used their Facebook direct messages ...

Now That's What I Call Climate Chaos

22 Aug 2022

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Extreme weather is taking a toll around the globe, with intense storms battering parts of Europe, and historic drought revealing long-submerged relics...

Tip Of The Weisselberg

19 Aug 2022

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A federal judge in Florida announced Thursday he is "inclined" to release parts of the affidavit that led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this...

Better COVID Messaging? We'll CDC About That

18 Aug 2022

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CDC director Rochelle Walensky announced Wednesday the agency is making big structural and cultural changes, following widespread criticism over its r...

A Gay Doctor Talks Monkeypox

17 Aug 2022

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The CDC recently reported that new monkeypox cases in New York City appear to be slowing down, though new cases are slowly rising nationwide. Dr. Carl...

Georgia Grand Jury On My Mind

16 Aug 2022

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More allies of former President Donald Trump will have to appear before a special grand jury in Georgia in the coming weeks, as part of the criminal i...

Caught In The Espionage Act

15 Aug 2022

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The Justice Department is investigating former President Donald Trump for potentially violating three federal laws related to handling government docu...

Trump Gets Merrick-Rolled

12 Aug 2022

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Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unexpected announcement yesterday to address the FBI search for confidential documents at Donald Trump’s ho...

The 45th Pleads The 5th

11 Aug 2022

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Former President Donald Trump pleaded the Fifth Amendment during depositions for the civil case against him by New York state. The strategy could be a...

Winter White House Down

10 Aug 2022

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The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida property Mar-A-Lago on Monday. A New York Times source says agents were searching for classified documents the...

Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Sentenced In Federal Court

09 Aug 2022

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Three men were sentenced in federal court for their role in the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The man who shot Arbery, Travis McMichael, and ...

Highs And Lows of the Climate Bill

08 Aug 2022

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Hot Take’s Mary Annaïse Heglar joins us to talk about the Senate passing the Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday. It now heads to the House this week...

Monkeypox Is Now A Federal Health Emergency

05 Aug 2022

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The U.S. declared a federal public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak on Thursday after the states of New York, California and Illinois did ...

Keeping Up With The Alex Joneses

04 Aug 2022

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Far-right talk show host Alex Jones took the stand on Wednesday in one of his many defamation cases. Jones has spent the last decade lying repeatedly ...

Yes We Kansas

03 Aug 2022

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Abortion access in Kansas will be preserved because yesterday the state overwhelmingly voted against a referendum designed to open the door to abortio...

Kansas Votes Today To Protect Abortion Access

02 Aug 2022

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Kansas votes today on whether the state’s constitution should still explicitly protect the right to an abortion. Ashley All, a spokesperson for Kans...

Biden's Rebound Relationship With COVID

01 Aug 2022

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Indiana state lawmakers on Saturday moved one step closer to banning nearly all abortions. The vote puts the state on track to be one of the first in ...

One Small Step For Manchin, One Giant Leap For Mankind

29 Jul 2022

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Senate Democrats reached a deal on a historic climate spending package – thanks to a surprise reversal from West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who p...

Biden’s Plan To Get Brittney Griner Home

28 Jul 2022

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The U.S. announced Wednesday that it has officially proposed a deal to Russia for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner as well as former Marine Pa...

Brittney Griner’s Defense

27 Jul 2022

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WNBA star Brittney Griner is set to testify in Russian court today for the first time since being detained back in February at a Moscow airport. Her d...

Indigenous Reactions To The Pope's Apology

26 Jul 2022

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Pope Francis apologized on Monday to a crowd of survivors, advocates and others in Alberta, Canada, for the Catholic Church’s historic role in the m...

Tour De Francis

25 Jul 2022

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About 71 million Americans live in places that were dangerously hot on Sunday. Temperatures from Texas to Arkansas, from Washington DC to Massachusett...

Hot Insurrection Hearings Summer

22 Jul 2022

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President Biden tested positive for COVID. He’s fine, but remember — everyone 6 months and over is eligible for vaccination, so get yours today.Th...

Pox News

21 Jul 2022

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A bipartisan group of senators announced a new bill on Wednesday that aims to protect election integrity. The legislation would make it clear that for...

The Haunted Manchin

20 Jul 2022

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The House passed the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday with bipartisan support. The law would mandate that all states recognize same-sex marriage an...

Location Sharing With Homeland Security

19 Jul 2022

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Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter than the Sahara Desert, and in the U.S. 35 millio...

Nearly 400 Cops Failed At Uvalde

18 Jul 2022

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None of the 400 law enforcement officials on location at the Uvalde mass school shooting in May did anything for over an hour to stop the gunman who e...

The Very Uphill Battle To Protect Abortion In Congress

15 Jul 2022

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The House will vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act today in an effort to codify abortion rights — but without a Democratic majority in the S...

Lost In Inflation

14 Jul 2022

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Consumer prices are up 9.1% over this time last year, according to new inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest inflat...

COVID Burnout Notice

13 Jul 2022

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As the U.S. sees another rise in COVID cases, White House officials are working to give all adults access to a second vaccine booster shot. Dr. Abdul ...

Jan 6th Back, Alright!

12 Jul 2022

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The House Select Committee investigating January 6th is back in action with another hearing today. Dan Pfieffer, co-host of Crooked’s “Pod Save Am...

Shinzo Abe's Assassination And What It Means For Japan

11 Jul 2022

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President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to try to protect access to abortion, but it’s not the solution many reproductive rights advocat...

The Great British Boot Out

08 Jul 2022

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Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he’ll be stepping down after three years in office. This comes after many members of the go...

The Victims Of The July 4th Highland Park Shooting

07 Jul 2022

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During an Independence Day parade this Monday, a 21-year-old man in Highland Park, Illinois shot and killed at least seven people and injured many mor...

The Courts v. Climate (From our friends at Hot Take)

01 Jul 2022

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The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday that limits the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change. Our friends at ...

SCOTUS Ends A Low Term On A Low Note

30 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Wednesday — one of which dramatically increased the power that states have over Native American tribes and ...

Ketchup On The Latest January 6th News

29 Jun 2022

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The latest House January 6th hearing was perhaps the most explosive to date with testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, the top aide to former White House...

Drag Queen History Hour

28 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Monday. There have also been several legal challenges to the trigger laws set to go into effect in states lik...

The Fight For Abortion Rights Isn't Over

27 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, and throughout the weekend people took to the streets. We hear from you, our listeners, ...

SCOTUS Shoots Down A NY Gun Control Law

24 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court announced more rulings on Thursday — one of which dealt a huge blow to gun control advocates. The court struck down a New York Sta...

Ready, Aim, Bipartisan Gun Control Deal

23 Jun 2022

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The Senate unveiled a highly-anticipated, bipartisan gun control bill on Tuesday. The chamber voted 64-34 in a procedural vote to allow for its quick ...

The "Abject Failure" Of Law Enforcement At Uvalde

22 Jun 2022

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The January 6th House committee held its fourth hearing on Tuesday, and we learned more about the effort to overturn the election by former President ...

Some VP That I Used To Know

17 Jun 2022

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We're about halfway through the January 6th committee hearings scheduled for this month. Yesterday, the committee focused on former President Trump’...

Goodbye, Yellowstone Road

16 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court released opinions on Wednesday in six different cases across a range of issues including veterans’ benefits, Medicare reimbursemen...

The Bear Market Necessities

15 Jun 2022

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Inflation is at a four-decade high, and on Monday, stocks fell to their lowest levels since March 2021. We break down what’s happening in the econom...

The Bitter Reality Of Tennessee's Mandatory Minimums

14 Jun 2022

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The second public January 6th hearing was yesterday. The House committee focused on the lie that the election was stolen and how that fueled the attac...

Gun Control Deals N' Roses

13 Jun 2022

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Protesters in hundreds of cities around the country rallied against gun violence, last weekend. And on Sunday, a bipartisan group of Senators announce...

Live From DC It's January 6th!

10 Jun 2022

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Last night was the first of several public hearings by the January 6th House committee, with the purpose to get the insurrection and the bigger effort...

Don't Touch That Dial, The Coup Hearing Is On

09 Jun 2022

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The January 6th House committee finally begins its hearings tonight. The committee intends to lay out what happened on the day of the insurrection, th...

Achy Breaky World Economy

08 Jun 2022

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Congressmembers yesterday and today are hearing from the family members of the victims of recent mass shootings across the country. They’re there to...

Can Austin City Limit Abortion Criminalization?

07 Jun 2022

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As abortion access continues to decline on the local level, lawmakers and advocates across the country are devising new ways to protect abortion acces...

Another Weekend Of Gun Violence In America

06 Jun 2022

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There were at least five mass shootings this weekend in a matter of 27 hours, according to the Gun Violence Archive. This slate of recent mass shootin...

Don't Rainbow-Wash On My Parade

03 Jun 2022

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June is Pride Month, the unfortunate time when many corporations claim they support LGBTQ+ people, but also support politicians who actively work agai...

The Depp-Heard Verdict And Its Social Impact

02 Jun 2022

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A jury found that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other. But the jury awarded significantly...

The Life And Legacy Of George Floyd

01 Jun 2022

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The first of several funeral services started for the victims killed by a gunman at a school in Uvalde, Texas. And over the weekend, the Justice Depar...

The Police Response To The Uvalde Shooting

27 May 2022

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Parents and other community members in Uvalde, Texas, are criticizing local police for its handling of the Robb Elementary School shooting where 21 pe...

Texas Mourns The Children Killed At Robb Elementary School

26 May 2022

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Officials have not confirmed all the identities of the 21 victims – nearly all children – of the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas...

Another Deadly Shooting At An American Elementary School

25 May 2022

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A gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. Officials say they expect the death toll...

Don't Believe Every COVID Count You Read

24 May 2022

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COVID cases are rising again in the U.S. In just the past month alone, the average number of confirmed cases has doubled according to the CDC. But wit...

Title 42 Won't Be 86'd

23 May 2022

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A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration could not end a pandemic-related border restriction program known as Title 42. It was set to expir...

Panic! At The New York Redistrict

20 May 2022

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Oklahoma’s legislature passed the country’s strictest abortion bill. The ban goes further than Texas’ abortion law, and if signed by Republican ...

Primary Go Round

19 May 2022

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Following Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary elections, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. And State Sena...

An Abortion Access Win For Michigan

18 May 2022

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President Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, yesterday to speak with the families of victims of the white supremacist mass shooting, as well as othe...

Racism Fueled Buffalo's Mass Shooting

17 May 2022

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Federal officials are investigating Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo, New York, as both a hate crime and “racially-motivated violent extremism.” T...

Rallying for Reproductive Rights

16 May 2022

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A white gunman killed 10 people and injured three others on Saturday at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Loc...

We Need To Talk About Kevin McCarthy

13 May 2022

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The January 6th commission issued subpoenas to five Republican Congressmembers including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in order to gain informa...

A Failed Attempt To Codify Roe with Sen Kirsten Gillibrand

12 May 2022

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The Senate failed to pass a bill on Wednesday that would effectively codify the right to an abortion. The bill, called, “The Women’s Health Protec...

How Data Tracking Could Be Used To Prosecute Abortion

11 May 2022

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As the Supreme Court considers overturning or scaling back Roe, online privacy and pro-choice advocates are concerned about how police might use data ...

Voters Could Protect Abortion Rights In Michigan

10 May 2022

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Michigan has a 1931 law on the books that criminalizes abortion. That law has not been enforced since 1973 when Roe v Wade was decided, but it hasn’...

How Pro-Life Becomes Pro-Incarceration

09 May 2022

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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would become illegal in at least 26 states. That means two main things for people who hope to terminate a pregn...

Providing Abortions In Uncertain Times

06 May 2022

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Abortion providers and advocates in several states have been scrambling to figure out how to process the fall out of the Supreme Court leak, what to t...

Reactions To What Could Be The End Of Roe

05 May 2022

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Abortion providers across the country are rushing to figure out their next steps in light of this week’s news about abortion and the Supreme Court. ...

Imagining A World Without Roe

04 May 2022

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said that the leaked draft majority opinion on overturning abortion rights is authentic and that “it does n...

SCOTUS Seems Poised to Overturn Roe V. Wade

03 May 2022

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Politico has obtained what is says are leaked documents showing the Supreme Court is poised to strike down the constitutional right to abortion. In a ...

Off-Peak Pandemic

02 May 2022

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The current COVID wave in the U.S. is relatively mild considering what we’ve seen in the past. For instance, recent data from Johns Hopkins Universi...

FDA Says Last Call For Menthol

29 Apr 2022

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Moderna said on Thursday that they were asking the FDA for emergency use authorization for their vaccine for children under 6. If granted, they would ...

Reckoning With Racist Policing in Minneapolis

28 Apr 2022

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The Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that Minneapolis and the city’s police department engaged in a pattern or practice of race discrimina...

Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery

27 Apr 2022

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Harvard University pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. In an email on Tuesday, the school’s president said that the university bore...

Musk Rules Everything Around Me

26 Apr 2022

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Elon Musk reached a deal with Twitter on Monday to take over the company for roughly $44 billion. Mike Isaac, a tech reporter for the New York Times, ...

Delete Your Shared Netflix Account

25 Apr 2022

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The Supreme Court is in session this week and will hear two cases that could have a big impact. The first will be heard today and could affect our Fir...

The Tragic Kingdom Of Ron DeSantis

22 Apr 2022

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The GOP-led Florida state legislature gave the final stamps of approval to a pair of proposals on Thursday. The first redraws Florida’s Congressiona...

Run For Something (You Better Clerk)

21 Apr 2022

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Russia gave Ukrainian forces in Mariupol an ultimatum earlier this week: surrender or die. Russian-backed separatists said only five people surrendere...

Puff Puff Pass Laws Decriminalizing Weed

20 Apr 2022

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Hours after a federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC’s mask mandate for public transportation, airlines like Delta and United made masks option...

Maskers, Prepare For Takeoff

19 Apr 2022

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A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, voided the nationwide travel mask mandate on Monday. Last week, the CDC extended that mask mandate for commercial f...

South Carolina Sets An Execution By Firing Squad

18 Apr 2022

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The city of Mariupol has been one of the worst sites of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Ukrainian forces have held their ground, reports are now...

Defending Trans Youth in Alabama

15 Apr 2022

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Alabama became the first state to criminalize the act of providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth, last week. The bill makes it a felony...

The War On Roe in Oklahoma

14 Apr 2022

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New York Police arrested a suspect in relation to Tuesday’s mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway. Frank James was apprehended in Manhattan and is accu...

A Mass Shooting On An NYC Subway Train

13 Apr 2022

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A mass shooting took place on a New York City subway train, Tuesday morning. According to New York’s Fire Department, 10 people were shot and, mirac...

Give Up The Ghost Guns

12 Apr 2022

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President Biden announced a new rule that would prohibit the unregulated online sale of “ghost guns,” or firearms that you can self-assemble from ...

How A Miscarriage In Texas Led To A Murder Charge

11 Apr 2022

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Texas authorities arrested 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera, last week, on murder charges for what the local sheriff’s office described as a “self-indu...

Hot Takes On The New IPCC Report

08 Apr 2022

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice on Thursday, and the first former public defender ...

Vaccine Makeover: Fall Edition with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

07 Apr 2022

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The Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke earlier this year will not face any criminal charges. Locke was a 22-year-old Black man ...

Not Ready, Not Set, Redistricting

06 Apr 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an emotional address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday after his visit to Bucha. In his sp...