Part of the MAGAt reality is deep sexual dysfunction. It is such a strong cultural trend and yet it gets very little discussion. Conservative White supremacist, male dominant christofascists have as a defining characteristic sexual dysfunction. The obsession with drag, transgenderism, the whole LGBTQ world, drives them to frenzy. Note the linkage with occult sexual rituals.
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Last Thursday, the Kansas State Senate voted 26-10 along party lines to pass what it calls a “Women’s Bill of Rights” which seeks “to define a ‘woman‘ as a biological female for legal purposes within the state,” The Washington Examiner reported on Friday, February 24th.
State Senator Renee Erickson (R-30th District), the legislation’s sponsor, told the Examiner that “what this does is simply codify in the law the definition of sex” and that it “simply says that in existing statute or law, where there is a definition of sex, it means biological male and female as determined at birth. That’s very factual, it’s very objective.”
Democrats are united in their opposition. The Examiner noted that Senate Democrats view the measure as “‘targeting trans Kansans’ while saying it is ‘equally offensive to cisgender Kansans.’ Democrats also took issue with the title of the bill as a ‘Women’s Bill of Rights,’ claiming it is ‘part of a national push to put biologically essentialist language in statute so that legislators have basis to ban trans people from […]
The corruption of Leonard Leo described in this report is one of the reasons, perhaps the main reason, we have Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett on the most corrupt Supreme Court in our history. And it was all possible because uniquely amongst American courts or, indeed, the high courts of the other developed democracies, the U.S. Supreme Court has no ethical standards at all.
Federalist Society Executive Vice President Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New York. Credit: Carolyn Kaster /A P Photo
A network of political non-profits formed by judicial activist Leonard Leo moved at least $43 million to a new firm he is leading, raising questions about how his conservative legal movement is funded.
Leo’s own personal wealth appeared to have ballooned as his fundraising prowess accelerated since his efforts to cement the Supreme Court’s conservative majority helped to bring about its decision to overturn abortion rights. Most recently, Leo reaped a $1.6 billion windfall from a single donor in what is likely the biggest single political gift in U.S. history.
Fundraising reports for 2022 have yet to be filed but spending by Leo’s aligned nonprofits on his for-profit business in 2020 and 2021 demonstrates the extent to which his money-raising benefited his own bottom line. And it shows how campaign-style politics — and the generous paydays that go along with it — are now adjacent to the […]
My reaction upon reading this was: What kind of country would do such a thing to poor people, including many children? This is just sheer nastiness. Having healthy well-educated people is a plus for any country.
A sign confirms that a grocery store in Oakland, California accepts electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards used by welfare departments to issue benefits on December 4, 2019. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty
As of Wednesday, around 30 million people across the United States will have their family’s food assistance slashed, despite high prices and expert warnings about a “hunger cliff.”
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were initially increased at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although Republicans in 18 states had already ended the emergency allotments (EAs), households in the other 32 states along with Washington, D.C., Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have continued to receive them.
However, the increased SNAP benefits are set to end Wednesday because of the omnibus spending package from December—federal lawmakers traded the temporary pandemic-era boost for a permanent program to feed children in the summer.
“Poverty is a policy choice in this country.”
“We’re really going to struggle,” Deanna Hardy, a mother of two in Marshfield, Wisconsin, toldABC News. “We’re […]
I don't think Americans really understand how poor United States' social wellbeing is compared with other countries. Here is an example of what I mean. I think the question is: why do we elect to office people who do not have fostering wellbeing as a priority?
Sixty-three percent of countries around the world provide guaranteed paid parental leave for fathers, according to a report out Tuesday morning from the World Policy Analysis Center.
Why it matters: Though support is growing for paternity leave, there’s still a stigma attached to men who take time off to care for their children. Yet, studies find numerous benefits for the economy, for fathers, and for their partners.
“There is widespread recognition that we don’t solve gender equality without dads getting leave,” says Jody Heymann, founding director of the policy center and a UCLA distinguished professor of public health and public affairs.
The big picture: Back in the 1990s, only 46 countries had a paid leave policy for fathers, largely high-income nations, per the policy center’s data. Now the number is nearly three times as high.
Conspicuously absent from the list: The U.S.
Worth noting: The U.S. is also one of just seven countries in the world that does not guarantee paid maternity leave.
The other countries are the small island nations Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, […]
You will, I am sure, remember the articles on child labor I ran a few days ago. Well, I am happy to report that the Biden administration is doing something about this awful trend that fosters wellbeing. Not everything I would like to see done, but something meaningful. Biden is actually getting some serious work done. The media doesn't focus on it. Most people don't even know about it.
Children play in a migrant labor camp in rural North Carolina. Most of the children attend local schools and speak fluent english. The agricultural fields of rural Eastern North Carolina produce bountiful crops for America’s food markets, as well as most of the tobacco grown in America. These crops are harvested by migrant farm workers, mostly from Mexico, some of who have seasonal work visas and some of who are undocumented. Some farm workers settle in the area, while others migrate. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis / Getty
President Joe Biden’s administration revealed on Monday that it is stepping up enforcement of child labor laws amid a surge of industry abuses throughout the United States, including the illegal employment of migrant kids, Reuters exclusively reported late Monday night.
“The Labor Department had seen a nearly 70% increase in child labor violations since 2018, including in hazardous occupations. In the last fiscal year, 835 companies were found to have violated child labor laws,” Reuters learned on a call with federal officials.
