Heather Timmons, - Quartz
Stephan: Think about it, the entire Republican health care bill, created by 13 middle aged White men in locked rooms. barely references women. This article spells it out. It is appalling.
Women are mostly left out of the new Senate health care bill.
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Women have babies. If they didn’t, first the economy would collapse, and then the species would die out.
But because they do, from their late teens to their early forties, women have higher health-care costs than men of the same age. Carrying and birthing a child is a sometimes difficult, dangerous, complicated business, and one that, in America, can be incredibly expensive.
Despite the incontrovertible fact that men are biologically just as responsible as women for a pregnancy happening, before the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, women in the US paid more for health care and insurance because they are the ones who can get pregnant. Specifically, American women of child-bearing age paid somewhere between 52% and 69% more in out-of-pocket healthcare costs then men.
The Trump administration’s health-care reform bill now in the Senate, and the version that passed the House this May, will force some women to pay more again. Specifically, it strips out hundreds of […]
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Tara Isabella Burton, - VOX
Stephan: The race problem in the U.S. is overwhelmingly a White Supremacy problem, that is strongly correlated with conservative religion and politics. Part of the problem is this community is capable of very little self-assessment, because much of their responses arise from fear and a sense of humiliation, a feeling they have been left out. Here is some data.
White evangelicals
How do Americans perceive the discrimination faced by its own minority groups? It depends on whom you ask.
The idea that certain groups misjudge the amount of discrimination that other groups struggle with is probably not such a shock. But more surprising may well be what’s one of the clearest indicators of perspective on bias in America: faith.
One of the most notable markers of difference in how people perceive prejudice in America turns out to be faith identity. The American Values Atlas by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute reveals marked discrepancies in how members of different faith traditions perceive prejudice against African Americans, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community. The biggest divide? As Dr. Robert Jones, PRRI’s CEO and author of The End of White Christian America, told Vox, it’s between “white Christian groups — and everybody else.”
The AVA is based on 40,000 telephone interviews conducted across all 50 states. On average, the study found that 63 percent of Americans acknowledged “a lot” […]
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Celisa Calacal, - Alternet
Stephan: The states that made up the Confederacy plus Nebraska, increasingly resemble plantation economies. There are cities, of course, that are different. Austin in Texas. Chattanooga, in Tennessee They float like Blue islands above a sea of red.
This trend also shows again that White Supremacy (which is what racism is really about) has become ever more blatant. Here is the latest on the New American Slavery Trend.
Louisiana Capitol Credit: Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he noticed something odd. A black man in a dark-blue jumpsuit was printing papers while a correctional guard—with a badge and gun—stood watching over him. The pair stood out against the white, middle-aged legislators populating the building.
Sinyangwe said he did not know exactly what he was looking at, until he saw another black man in the same dark-blue outfit serving food at the capitol building’s cafeteria. This time, Sinyangwe noticed that the man had a patch on his chest labeling him a prisoner of the Louisiana State Department of Corrections, complete with an identification number.
Sinyangwe realized that the server, the man printing papers and the other people working in the lunch line were all prisoners.
Inmates working at the capitol building in Baton Rouge is a common sight. Prisoners work in the Louisiana governor’s mansion and inmates clean up after Louisiana State University football games […]
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Laurel Raymond, - Think Progress
Stephan: As violent White Supremacist groups are becoming more and more prevelant, the Trump administration once again the group that is studying and clinically working with these men. Here is the data.
In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 photo, former skinhead Bryon Widner folds his arms while resting at his home. Politico reported that the DHS has halted funding for Life After Hate, an anti-white extremism program that helps deradicalize far-right extremists, on Friday. Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong
The Trump administration has dropped federal support of an organization dedicated to countering white nationalist and neo-Nazi extremism, a Politico report revealed on Friday.
The organization, Life After Hate, was founded in 2009 and is run by a small staff of men and women who were once part of racist activist and extremist movements, and who now work to de-radicalize others involved in violent extremist groups.
In its final days, the Obama administration awarded the group a $400,000 grant as part of its Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) program. Life After Hate was the only group dedicated to fighting white nationalist extremism to receive […]
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Sean Reilly, - Science/E&E News
Stephan: We are watching our nation castrate its science community because their research does not suit the beliefs of the Christofascists and the economic interests of the carbon energy industry they serve as peasants. In the process abdicating our world leadership. Historians are going to be writing about this for generations, unless we really do enter a new dark ages and everything is lost. And citizen complacency is allowing it to happen.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to clean house at a key advisory committee, signaling plans to drop several dozen current members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), according to an email yesterday from a senior agency official.
All board members whose three-year appointments expire in August will not get renewals, Robert Kavlock, acting head of EPA’s Office of Research and Development, said in the email, which was obtained by E&E News.
Because of the need to reconstitute the board, EPA is also canceling all subcommittee meetings planned for late summer and fall, Kavlock said.
“We are hopeful that an updated BOSC Executive Committee and the five subcommittees can resume their work in 2018 and continue providing ORD with thoughtful recommendations and comments,” he wrote in urging departing members to reapply.
The board, whose members are chosen by Pruitt, advises EPA on technical and management issues related to its research programs. First-term board members typically receive a second three-year reappointment. Last month, however, Pruitt […]
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