Yet another story about the inferiority of American wellbeing compared to that of other developed democracies. Europe has passed its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to protect the privacy of its citizens. But the corrupt American Congress is incapable of passing such protection for us, and this is the result.
Planned Parenthood signage is seen in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan on April 16, 2021, in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty
According to a letter sent to government agencies on Tuesday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), a U.S. company tracked people’s visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations in 48 states and sold that data to anti-abortion group the Veritas Society, which used the location data to orchestrate one of the largest anti-abortion ad campaigns in U.S. history.
“My office began to investigate Near in May 2023, after an investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that an anti-abortion organization used location data from Near to target anti abortion messaging and ads to people who had visited reproductive health clinics,” Wyden says in the letter. “The ad campaign reportedly ran from November 2019 through the summer of 2022, after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, permitting states to criminalize abortion.”
In a meeting with Jay Angelo, Near’s Chief Privacy Officer, Angelo confirmed that as of summer 2022, the company had not […]
Thanks to criminal Trump, and the rise of the violent White christofascist movement that has become the Republican Party, this is the kind of nation the United States has degenerated into. Never before in over two centuries have Congressmembers, judges, prosecutors, election workers, and librarians had to fear for their lives. Now each Congressmember who chooses to can get $10,000 to upgrade their personal and family security, as this article explains. I think we should all be ashamed that this is the kind of country we have allowed ourselves to become, and it is only going to get worse if we do not vote Democrat at all levels.
Capitol Police are seen on the East Front Plaza of the Capitol. Credit: Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call
As some members of Congress are getting threats on their lives, others are not taking advantage of extra money from a House program meant to improve security at their residences.
Members for the past 18 months have been entitled to $10,000 to implement or bolster existing security at their homes under a program administered by the House sergeant-at-arms that was started under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The voluntary service can be used to install motion sensors, cameras, locks and other measures to fortify the homes of lawmakers, and to provide up to $150 per month for monitoring and maintenance costs.
While officials say more than half of lawmakers have participated in the program, some House members say they have no interest in adding those features, haven’t gotten around to it yet, or have found parts of the program’s requirements too burdensome.
Among those is Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., who said his daughter encouraged more security because a group of people had showed […]
Kelcie Moseley-Morris, - AlterNet / States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today
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Although vote result after vote result has shown that the majority of Americans do not want pregnancy termination bills to become law, the MAGAt community and the party it controls keep trying. Meanwhile, healthcare for women in the United States, especially in the states Republicans control deteriorates year by year, as the case data confirms. Here is what if currently going on with this trend.
A woman holding a sign that says not your baby, not your choice Credit: Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash
All but seven state legislatures are now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative roundup. Depending on the partisan makeup of a state’s legislature and other state government officials, some bills have a higher chance of passing and becoming law than others.
Abortion is legal in Iowa after a court blocked a six-week abortion ban from going into effect in July 2023. A bill allowing material produced by an anti-abortion group to be used in Iowa’s public school curriculum has not advanced since late January, but another abortion-related bill has cropped up since then.
I thought I was aware of all the negative effects arising from the bias of criminal Trump’s Supreme Court but I did not realize just how wide the bias of that christofascist MAGAt cabal affected the wellbeing of America. I was so appalled when I read this report that I checked three other sources. It is an accurate account.
One factory within many along “Cancer Alley” between New Orleans and Baton Rouge which puts the mostly African American residents at nearly 50 times the risk of developing cancer than the national average, on Aug. 12, 2021. Credit: Emily Kask / AFP / Getty
ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA — For a little while, it seemed like Cancer Alley would finally get justice. The infamous 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is one of the nation’s most polluted corners; residents here have spent decades fighting for clean air and water. That fight escalated in 2022, when local environmental justice groups filed complaints with the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality had engaged in racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. In a watershed moment, the EPA opened a civil rights investigation into Louisiana’s permitting practices.
But just when the EPA appeared poised to force the LDEQ to make meaningful changes, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry — now the state’s governor — sued. Landry’s suit challenges a key piece of the agency’s […]
The Republican Party is putting forward as their probable candidate a man who was the worst President in 240 years, has been found guilty of multiple crimes, owes hundreds of millions of dollars to multiple recipients as a result of court judgments against him, and still has multiple court cases to go, including criminal ones. And now he has begun his latest most vulgar grift yet, golden sneakers for $399. Donald Trump is a cartoon character. The fact that millions of Americans still think him their choice for President and his sneakers are selling quickly, in my view, is the most alarming thing about the Trump comic book.
Trump sneakers with Donald Trump Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Former President Donald Trump received a decidedly mixed response when he debuted shiny gold Trump-branded sneakers at Sneaker Con in Pennsylvania. The launch of the $399 shoes comes after a week in which a judge ordered him to pay $355 million for fraud, but despite that nine-figure setback, he had some good news Saturday: Trump’s sneakers quickly sold out.
“I’ve wanted to do this for a long time,” Trump said as he talked about the gold shoes. “I have some incredible people that work with me on things, and they came up with this. And this is something I’ve been talking about for 12 years, 13 years, and I think it’s going to be a big success.”
The shoes are gold with an American flag design around the ankle, with red soles and a Trump T emblazoned in gold on the sides, with another T on the shoes’ tongue.
The Biden campaign used the opportunity to take a shot at Trump, with communications director Michael Tyler mocking the obvious Nike-inspired […]
