Guerrilla Girls 1991
i dislike the implications that "disabled people who aren't working" and "disabled people who cannot afford to be unemployed" are discrete categories. bc i guarantee they do overlap. some disabled people will not be able to afford to be unemployed but they cannot, even at a push, even with accommodations, remain in employment. and it's important to remember them
like it genuinely sucks that people are in a position where they are forced to sacrifice their health for survival. but the people who can't work aren't "lucky" they can afford to do that, because there were thousands of disabled people who were unable to work who weren't that "lucky" when austerity policies led to their deaths. unless you're saying they're "lucky" to survive which honestly is quite insensitive. direct that frustration elsewhere
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Note: the “Blood of the Young” thing is not a joke. Republican-candidate-financer Peter Thiel has pushed for that one.
Donald Trump's "naked sexism," including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name "Anonymous."
Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, describes several incidents that made women in the Trump administration uncomfortable in his upcoming book Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, an extract of which was obtained exclusively by Newsweek.
These incidents included, the book says, claims by aides that Trump made lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka's appearance and talked about "what it might be like to have sex with her." This prompted a rebuke from his chief of staff, the book says.
As Texans suffer in the heat, state Republicans play politics
Texas State Rep. James Talarico and David Wallace-Wells, opinion writer for The New York Times, talk with Alex Wagner about the deadly heat wave Texans are dealing with and the obvious policy responses, from air conditioners in jails to incentivizing green energy, that state Republicans are resisting.
President Joe Biden on Thursday blastedĀ the Supreme Court rulingĀ setting new limits on affirmative action as a "severe disappointment," saying, "we cannot let this decision be the last word."
"The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court's decision," Biden said, adding that "the court has once again walked away from decades of precedent."
"The best that can be said of the majorityās perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism."
The Supreme Courtās ideological divisions were on full display Thursday as itĀ handed down its ruling on affirmative action: All six conservative justices declared such programs unconstitutional, while all three liberals voted to preserve them.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts argued that affirmative action violated the 14th Amendmentās equal protection clause.
Prosecutors could bring between 30 to 45 additional criminal charges against the former president in the coming weeks, The Independent has learned
The Department of Justice is prepared to seek indictments against multiple figures in former president Donald Trumpās orbit and may yet bring additional charges against the ex-president in the coming weeks, The Independent has learned.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the department has made preparations to bring what is known as a āsuperseding indictmentā ā a second set of charges against an already-indicted defendant that could include more serious crimes ā against the ex-president in the Southern District of Florida.
Taylor Taranto was identified by "Sedition Hunters" in August 2021 and has been living in a van near the D.C. jail. He was arrested Thursday, more than two years after the Capitol attack.
WASHINGTON ā A conspiracy-minded Donald Trump supporter who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was arrested Thursday near the home of former President Barack Obama, a law enforcement official told NBC News.
Taylor Taranto, 37, who wasĀ identifiedĀ by online sleuths in August 2021 and is facing a lawsuit from the widow of a Metropolitan Police Department officer who died by suicide, recently showed up at the sentencing ofĀ David Walls-Kaufman, his co-defendant in the lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses both men of being involved in an assault on MPD Officer Jeffrey Smith on Jan. 6, which they have both denied.
While Walls-Kaufman was arrested last year and has already been sentenced, Taylor had not been charged.
In recent weeks, Taranto has been living in a van near the D.C. jailhouse, according to his social media, and has repeatedly wondered in online posts why he had not yet been arrested over Jan. 6. Taranto also posted a video of himself on YouTube inside the Capitol during the riot.
White nationalist Nick Fuentes mocks conservatives who think they can convince anybody by arguing that America is not racist: "Uh, yeah it is. And if it isn't, it kinda should be."
Former UKIP leaderĀ Nigel FarageĀ may leave the United Kingdom after claiming his bank accounts were closed over his role in Brexit.
In a six-minute video posted on his Twitter account, Farage claimed he was the victim of āserious political persecutionā after his banking group of 43Ā years told him two months ago they were close his accounts.
Farage did not name the organization but said he spoke with the bankās chairman who claimed it was āa commercial decision.ā He then told his followers that seven other banks have rejected his application for a personal and business account.
āI wonāt really be able to exist or function in a modern 21st century Britain,ā Farage said. āāIām beginning to think that perhaps life in the United Kingdom is now becoming completely unliveable because of the levels of prejudice against me.ā
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can't explicitly consider applicants' race in admissions, a landmark ruling that will radically transform how colleges are able to attract a diverse student body.
Why it matters: The ruling will force colleges to reimagine long-standing hallmarks of the admissions process and likely jeopardize the representation of Black and Latino students on campuses nationwide.
The ruling is the second in about a year that has upended decades of precedent.
Driving the news: The conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against the admissions processes at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, both of which give a little extra weight to applicants from certain underrepresented groups.
WASHINGTON ā The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with an evangelical Christian who was denied requests to take Sundays off to observe his Sabbath in aĀ narrower ruling than some religious freedomĀ advocates sought. It was one of two major decisions --Ā the other ruling was about affirmative actionĀ -- announced by the Supreme Court as a historic term moves to its end.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for a unanimous court.
At the center of the case isĀ Gerald Groff, a former U.S. Postal Service employee who wanted to take Sundays off for church and rest. That presented a scheduling conflictĀ ā and a burden on his colleagues, the government arguedĀ āĀ afterĀ the Postal Service started delivering Amazon packagesĀ on Sundays.