Новости за 12.04.2023

The Biden administration proposed expanding the main U.S. health privacy law Wednesday to add more protections for people who seek or provide an abortion.

On Wednesday, Florida Republican Representative Randy Fine vehemently defended a bill banning anyone under the age of 18 from being able to attend a drag show.

It’s been less than a week since Tennessee Republicans expelled Democratic Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson from the House. The Nashville Metro Council reappointed Jones on Monday, having the Democrat miss not even a moment of House business. And now, two days later, the Shelby County Commission has voted to send Pearson back along with him.

The inflation crisis is over, and you can thank the poorest among us for delivering what (so far at least) is a soft landing. That isn’t the mainstream view yet, but eventually I think it will be.

Twitter faces a possible $33 billion in fines, more than the entire company is reportedly worth, in Germany for failing to remove hate speech. Meanwhile, owner Elon Musk continues to insist hate speech isn’t increasing on the platform.

Elon Musk insisted that hate speech and misinformation have decreased on Twitter since he took over in a bizarre and rambling interview with the BBC.

When Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone late last Friday, not only was he attempting to wrest away control of our reproductive lives through a wild abuse of the law, but he was also attempting a resurrection of a notorious anti-abortion crusader who has been dead for more than a century, Anthony Comstock. Kacsmaryk is a Trump appointee serving on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Читать дальше...

The last time Eduardo saw his best friend, Kesley Vial, a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Brazil, Vial was unconscious. He had been found hanging from a shelf in his cell at the Torrance County Detention Facility, a sheet tied around his neck. Seven days later, at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Vial died.

A child tax credit proposal by the Republican governor of Montana has stalled in the state legislature, due in part to opposition from Democrats. Although Governor Greg Gianforte has said that he will keep pushing for the $1,200-per-child credit—a centerpiece of his budget proposal—the initial legislation failed to garner sufficient support to be approved as a stand-alone bill. Montana is one of several states to consider such a measure, after the pandemic-era expansion of the federal child tax credit expired at the end of 2021. Читать дальше...

Should scholars who research climate change be funded by the companies driving it? How someone answers that question depends on their thoughts on those firms’ role in the world and questions of scholarly ethics. Currently, though, these scholars are funded by the industry—heavily.

Kelly Reichardt is a master of American frustration. In her first feature, River of Grass, two incompetent would-be criminals lack the funds and motivation to properly go on the run. In Wendy and Lucy, a poverty-stricken woman becomes stranded in Oregon after her car breaks down and loses her beloved dog. Reichardt’s 2019 film First Cow, set in the Oregon Territory circa the 1820s, follows two poor men who steal milk from a wealthy English trader, an attempt to exploit their exploiters that ends tragically. Читать дальше...

In ways large and small, the changing climate affects how we live and, for a growing number of people, where we live. Many have already relocated because conditions have become too dangerous back home, whether due to sea level rise, wildfires, or drought. Others are moving preemptively, aiming to settle in a region with less perceived climate risk. On episode 65 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk to journalists Debra Kamin and Jake Bittle about the effect that... Читать дальше...

Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday it will be renamed for a Republican billionaire megadonor who is one of Ron DeSantis’s biggest financial backers.

In March, a first-grade concert in Wisconsin was barred from singing “Rainbowland” by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton. Now, the school district has placed a teacher who complained about the ban on administrative leave. The district has not clarified when the teacher will be allowed to return or what repercussions she may face next.