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Nancy Mace Is Already Harassing Her New Coworker With Transphobia
Nancy Mace’s latest stunt? Trying to bar Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) from the women’s bathroom in the House of Representatives.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has proven time and time again that she will do nearly…
Read MoreMore Israelis Are Refusing Deployment to Gaza. Will It Help End the Genocide?
On November 27, Soul Behar Tsalik, an 18-year-old from Tel Aviv, is expected to show up at an induction center for the Israeli military, but he isn’t going to enlist. Instead — like a dozen other Israeli teens in the last year — he has decided to face military prison rather than comply with conscription.…
Read MoreIf Elon Musk Really Wants to Cut Government Waste, He Can Start Here
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Read MoreDiné Activist Warns Against New Uranium Mining Amid Renewed Nuclear Energy Push
The search for an energy alternative to fossil fuels has renewed interest in nuclear power production across the globe. Despite nuclear boosters’ promotion of the energy source, Tim Judson of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service calls nuclear power an “elaborate greenwashing scheme.” Nuclear is “not carbon-free,” says Diné organizer Leona Morgan, who highlights the…
Read MoreUnitedHealth Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Patients’ Treatment at Risk
For years, it was a mystery: Seemingly out of the blue, therapists would feel like they’d tripped some invisible wire and become a target of UnitedHealth Group. A company representative with the Orwellian title “care advocate” would call and grill them about why they’d seen a patient twice a week or weekly for six months.…
Read MoreTrump and Allies Plot Cuts to Medicaid, Food Stamps to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Polling shows that most Americans would oppose cuts to either program.
Read MoreAbolition Work Shows Us There’s Joy to Be Found Even as the World Is on Fire
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and vulnerability of abolition praxis. As a co-parent of Black sons, I was deeply moved by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson’s new anthology, which invited me…
Read MoreHurricane Helene Wrecked Facility That Produces 60 Percent of US’s IV Fluids
Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether. Hurricane Helene, which hit North Carolina in September, wrecked a Baxter International facility that produces 60% of the IV fluids used…
Read MoreThe Goal to Keep World’s Temperature Rise Below 1.5 Celsius Is “Deader Than a Doornail”
Global leaders gather at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to discuss climate and efforts to curb emissions. Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/ZUMA Press Wire This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius is now “deader than a doornail”, with…
Read MoreBiden Admin Sanctions Israeli West Bank Settlers — But Not Leaders Arming Them
Democrats previously urged Biden to sanction top Israeli officials for their backing of violence in the West Bank.
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