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The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of primarily American litigants, activists, tax protesters, financial scheme promoters, and conspiracy theorists, who claim to be answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and to not be subject to any government statutes or proceedings unless they consent to them. The sovereign citizen movement is one of the main contemporary…

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“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer – a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.“   Frederick Douglass Every year on this day I make an assessment, from my own perspective, of how much…

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Protecting election integrity in 2024 “Ideally, our formal institutions of election protection will work unimpeded and uncorrupted, and the administration of U.S. elections will proceed in a nonpartisan manner. But it is not enough to ask Americans to vote and to hope their votes will be counted,” argues Vanessa Williamson. (More)

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BY ALANA SEMUELS  JUNE 7, 2022 6:00 AM EDT Sometimes when I am grocery shopping, even if I am there just for broccoli, I’ll swing by the aisle where they stock feminine products. Because, even though most of the things that disappeared during the pandemic like toilet paper, yeast, and flour have returned to the shelves,…

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Stores that offer a Senior Discount Albertsons (some states) Discount Drug Mart  Fry’s Food (Arizona) Harris Teeter Lowe’s Grocery Piggly Wiggly Safeway, Albertsons & Vons (Southwest) ShopRite Stores That Don’t Offer Senior Discounts Kroger Stop & Shop Aldi’s Food Lion Whole Foods Walmart Costco BJ’s Target Trader Joe’s South Carolina Senior Citizen Discounts at Restaurants,…

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By Lisa Nainggolan June 6, 2022 — A drug recently approved for type 2 diabetes in the United States is also very effective for treating obesity and has shown better weight loss than any previous medication, according to results from a new clinical trial. In the new study — which focused on patients with obesity but without diabetes —…

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Expert conversations to catch up on from The Brookings Brief Inflation hits a 40-year high. New Consumer Price Index data show that inflation rose to a whopping 8.6% in May. On Twitter Spaces, David Wessel, Justin Wolfers, Jason Furman, and Wendy Edelberg discuss the latest numbers and what might come next. Prefer to read? This summary outlines five key points from the speakers. …

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BY SUSAN FREDERICK-GRAY   JUNE 6, 2022 [Are you a UU? Let me know…] The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists (97 percent) support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people. It’s a similar story for reproductive rights—according to the Pew Research Center, 90 percent of Unitarian Universalists (UUs) support keeping abortion legal in all or…

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From The Daily Skimm 6/2/22 40% That’s the percentage of Americans who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group. And that’s around 120 million people. But health research in the U.S. still skews heavily white (think: up to 90%). Not exactly accurate representation. Including people of all backgrounds in research can help scientists better…

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An access map. Introduction by Irin Carmon and Maps by Marcus Peabody The Cut and New York Are Committed to Making This Information AccessibleWe’ve removed our paywall from this and other stories about finding abortion care. Consider becoming a subscriber to support our journalism. The only good news now is that, in most cases, an abortion outside the blessing of the law…

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