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  • Prof Patty
  • September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions

SEP. 8, 2021, AT 6:00 AM By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 16, 2021

A GOP lawmaker says the ‘quality’ of a vote matters. Critics say that’s ‘straight out of Jim Crow.’

By Timothy Bella March 13, 2021 at 12:06 p.m. EST Amid a contentious hearing over proposed restrictions on Arizona’s vote-by-mail system, a Republican state lawmaker argued that voters

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 13, 2020

The 5-Minute Fix

Some Democratic voters are nervous — and a number of Republican voters, alongside the president, are hopeful — that the results of the presidential election aren’t really the results and that

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NY Times

  • California Investigates Why Most of the Eaton Fire Victims Were Black
  • Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change
  • Trump’s Actions Test the Fragile World of Air Travel
  • Flexibility and Rising Costs Are Keeping Mothers at Work
  • Intelligence Dispute Centers on Kushner Reference in Intercepted Communication

NPR

  • Have astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole?
  • A researcher's effort to make edible cotton seeds
  • An ape, a tea party — and the ability to imagine
  • This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms
  • US scientists adapt after the Trump administration's funding blows

The Progressive

  • U.S. Imperialism Was Built In from the Beginning
  • The Imperialist King Must Return His ‘FIFA Peace Prize’
  • The Voice That Answered Hind Rajab
  • Why Democrats Should Be Resisting AI
  • In Limbo Once Again

FactCheck.org

  • Trump Oversells Recent U.S. Economic Growth
  • WHO Didn’t Recommend Lockdowns, Contrary to Health Officials’ Suggestions
  • Manufacturing Construction Spending Declines Under Trump
  • ICE Officers and Bonuses
  • Trump’s Immediate Speculation on Shootings Bucks Presidential Norms

Snopes.com

  • What we know about fatal shooting of Lucy Harrison after 'big argument' with dad about Trump
  • Was Ivanka Trump's passport seized? Look out for sensational videos making claim
  • Epstein ordered sulfuric acid on same day FBI opened probe. Files show mundane reason
  • Have reservations about rumored photo of Obama eating with Epstein
  • Real photo shows Steve Bannon and Epstein taking mirror selfie

Tradeoffs

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  • One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 1
  • Race to the Bottom: Where's the Cavalry?

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