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https://truthout.org/articles/new-proposal-would-tax-the-rich-to-house-low-income-people-in-los-angeles/

What’s going to fix this distinctly unequal state of atmospheric affairs? How about a step toward a more equal state of economic affairs — and L.A. voters might just be about to take that step. On the citywide ballot this November: a lan…[Read more]

https://www.levernews.com/otherposts/you-love-to-see-it-anti-establishment-candidates-score-at-the-ballot-box-2/

It was a banner week for anti-establishment candidates. In Colorado, Elisabeth Epps, a Denver Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-backed criminal justice organizer and a friend of The Lever, overcame establishment opposition and…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/big-cats-big-cities-how-los-angeles-and-mumbai-live-cheek-by-jowl-with-feline-locals.html

Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion and traffic congestion. But another similarity lurks in the shadows, most often seen at night walking silently on four paws.

These metropolises…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/01/federal-abortion-ban-desired-gop-would-increase-maternal-deaths-24-study

Released just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion—triggering total bans in a number of GOP-led states—the analysis uses newly available data from 2020 to show that the “increased exp…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkpa7/students-fear-going-to-college-in-red-states-after-roe

But that was before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, ending the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion nationwide. The same day, a federal court judge lifted an injunction that had blocked a 2019 Ohio law that bans abortions…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/deleting-your-period-tracker-wont-protect-you.html

While period trackers seem like an obvious source of information about reproductive health decisions, experts say other digital information is more likely to put women at risk. Cynthia Conti-Cook, a civil rights lawyer and technology fellow at the Ford Foundation,…[Read more]

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/which-county-characteristics-predict-medical-debt

Summary: Recently we reported on a national survey of medical debt. A new report uses credit bureau data to describe which local factors predict high levels of medical debt in collections. They are: being in the South, % of population with 4 or more…[Read more]

https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/clarence-thomas-skewered-aborted-children/

None of the COVID-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. Cells obtained from elective abortions decades ago were used in testing during the Covid vaccine development process, a practice that is common in vaccine testing — including for t…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/north-korean-hackers-thought-to-be-behind-100m-cryptocurrency-heist

There are strong indications that North Korea’s Lazarus Group may be responsible for this theft, based on the nature of the hack and the subsequent laundering of the stolen funds, another firm, Elliptic, said in a report on T…[Read more]

https://www.levernews.com/are-corporations-using-inflation-to-invite-collusion/

But the president has another option. His purportedly tough regulators — including Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairperson Lina Khan — could use their authority to investigate potential illegal price increases or limits on production.

When executives publicly pro…[Read more]

Pilots Are Airlifting Patients Out of Red States to Get Abortions

A soft-spoken Midwesterner, Mike (whom Rolling Stone has agreed to only identify by his first name to protect his identity) has been an amateur pilot for more than a decade. It’s an expensive pastime; pilots like himself, he says “…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/sen-bernie-sanders-calls-on-dot-to-start-fining-airlines-for-disrupted-flights.html

“All over this country, airline passengers are growing increasingly frustrated by the massive increase in flight delays, cancellations, and outrageously high prices they are forced to pay for tickets, checked bags and other fees,” Sanders…[Read more]

American Gun Culture & Frontier Mythology

My analysis finds that gun culture in the U.S. derives largely from its frontier past and the mythology of the “Wild West,” which romanticizes guns, outlaws, rugged individualism and the inevitability of gun violence. This culture ignores the fact that gun control was…[Read more]

https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-overturn-of-roe-shows-how-extreme-an-outlier-the-us-has-become/

n NPR/Ipsos poll released in January revealed that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” What the poll does not disclose, of course, is the anomalous situation of the United Sta…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/30/fighting-soul-road-bernie-sanders

While noting that “Hillary had attacked Bernie’s policies in 2016 as a naive wish-list,” he perhaps goes easier on the former Secretary of State than someone directly involved in the 2016 campaign might have. He doesn’t, for instance, get into her 2017 campaign…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/us-marshal-used-controversial-cell-phone-location-service-to-illegally-access-data-doj-says.html

“I recently learned that Securus Technologies, a major provider of correctional-facility telephone services purchased real time location information from major wireless carriers and provided that information via a s…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/my-miscarriage-looked-like-an-abortion-today-i-would-be-a-suspect.html

I remember the next half-hour in a nightmarish series of clips. The nurse hustling me into the room and closing the door as I screamed and strangers gawked. My husband helping her yank my blood-soaked jeans off my legs as they lay me back on the exam…[Read more]

https://truthout.org/articles/treatments-for-ectopic-pregnancies-in-missouri-are-delayed-due-to-trigger-law/

But the Missouri law doesn’t specifically define when a pregnancy is deemed dangerous, one of the many ambiguities in the law that may make it difficult for health care providers to determine if an abortion can legally take p…[Read more]