Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor regarding Texas #SB8 law:
“Because the Court’s failure to act rewards tactics designed to avoid judicial review and inflicts significant harm on the applicants and on women seeking abortions in Texas, I dissent.”
Read her opinion below!
BREAKING: SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TEXAS ABORTION BAN TO REMAIN IN EFFECT.
The court rejects emergency request to block the law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy in defiance of Roe v. Wade. The law took effect 24 hours ago. Opinions here:
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I was robbed at a gas station in NJ last night. After my hands stopped trembling..I managed to call the cops and they were quick to respond and calmed me down..... My money is gone.. the police asked me if I knew who did it..I said yes.. it was pump number 9…
A former top Liberty University official is accusing the conservative Christian school of firing him after he refused to participate in an alleged "cover-up" of mishandled sexual assault and harassment reports made by students. https://t.co/0AgNxiV4rO
Case records and interviews with more than 50 former Liberty University students & staffers show how school discouraged, dismissed, and even blamed, students who have tried to come forward with claims of sexual assault.
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ותמלא הארץ חמס.
The amount of corruption & fraud going on in community non-profits is mind-blowing...The amount of frum community members who have contacted me, in the few days since I tweeted this, with tips about various American Jewish organizations is shocking.
On #LaborDay we should celebrate and hope for a near future without masters, billionaires, landlords, exploiters, prisons and police! #HappyLaborDay2021
Under federal law, children who are sex trafficked are victims, not criminals.
Yet every year, dozens are detained and charged with crimes.
In 2019, at least 290 minors were arrested for prostitution-related offenses. https://t.co/fFsnD08t2A
I wonder if @CUNY @JohnJayCollege might take a hint and begin firing all co-conspirators plotting to discredit the victims of its dead, fired, or in-house predators.
Alphonso David Fired as Human Rights Campaign President Over Cuomo Ties https://t.co/cYX1gZYzrP
Many talk about higher minimum wages as if they're a magical free lunch. We wish everyone made more money so let's just tell employers they have to pay more and poof problem solved without any sacrifices from anyone! That sort of thinking drives me crazy. There are always costs.
“There’s quite a big difference when the Black Lives Matter protests come up to the capitol. [On Wednesday], some officers were catering to the rioters.” he said.
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At the end of the night the veteran officer was overwhelmed with emotion, and broke down
"I got called a nigger 15 times today. Trump did this and we got all of these fucking people in our department that voted for him. How the fuck can you support him?"
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A federal jail in New York destroyed medical records as part of a deliberate effort to obscure the number of incarcerated people infected with the coronavirus, and to avoid providing them adequate care. https://t.co/R4PGwufy6t
GOP: “We can’t do $1200 checks. That’s irresponsible. Think of the deficit.”
Also GOP: “As part of a COVID deal we are allocating $1.4 billion to build a xenophobic campaign stunt wall that falls down in the wind even though we promised voters other countries would pay for it.”