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Mifepristone The big story this week was, of course, was the oral arguments in the Supreme Court in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which challenges the FDA’s approval in 2000 of the abortion drug mifepristone, as...
by ramara
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 05:09 PM PDT
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America First Loser says what? SAND AND DEATH (2019) Trump Says ISIS Is Defeated. Reality Says Otherwise. Just two weeks after President Donald Trump triumphantly declared the “100 percent” defeat of ISIS’s caliphate, his national security advisor,...
by annieli
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 09:47 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 09:39 PM PDT
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2022’s Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court cast a long shadow�over 2023. Over and over, we saw that “exceptions” to anti-abortion laws weren’t real, even ones that were supposed to protect a ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:08 PM PST
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President Lyndon B. Johnson once said: “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can't Swim.’” That’s how it’s been with President Joe Biden and his detractors on Fox News....
by Charles Jay
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 01:32 PM PST
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Amnesty International Iranian women and girls face further violations of their rights under compulsory veiling bill Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, remains in a coma [following 1 October 2023 reports at a Tehran metro of] a confrontation...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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It seemed like Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had recently been making a play for respectability. Whether it was or wasn't going well might depend on who you asked, but she appears to have ...
by Hunter
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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This piece will be running next weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06). ********************************* For the most part, religions can be seen as efforts by human beings to achieve meaning and value in their...
by AndySchmookler
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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Women in the Labor Movement My first job when I was 16 was a summer job at Alexander’s Department Store in the Bronx. The minimum wage at the time was $1.25/hr. but it only applied to full time workers. When I asked for more hours, they started to...
by ramara
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on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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“In some cases, the materials at stake will be viewed as so essential to national survival or economic well-being that compromise is unthinkable. Michael T. Klare author of The Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict The water-stressed...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 07:48 AM PDT
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Russia’s two fiercest critics of their country’s war effort are literally two of its worst people.� The first is Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary group that is ...
by kos
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on Sat May 27, 2023 at 11:05 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 10:09 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �JeremyBloom.
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 08:54 PM PST
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Our “special day” even though we live it 27/7/365. When the government can take away one of our rights, then they can take away all of our rights. A reminder Women’s rights are human rights! We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right...
by LaFeminista
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 09:48 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 09:30 PM PST
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Sabawoon Samim, at Afghanistan Analysts Network, has an interview with five former Taliban fighters, now living in Kabul. The interview seems to be striking a chord with readers, for the Talibs expressing their dissatisfaction with grind of the 9 to 5...
by Garrett
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on Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 12:18 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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