Immigration officials created network that can spy on majority of Americans, report says
A new report shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are spying on the majority of Americans, in many cases circumventing privacy laws including those in California.
Read in Los Angeles Times: https://apple.news/AUcmPWTfASxqVyi2KXhLGxg
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Some of the Most Viral “Pro-Choice” Instagram Content is Coming From Mormon Bloggers
Mormon influencers are some of the most followed, analyzed, and discussed creators in the social media space. Some have been speaking out all week about the Supreme Court news, and many are standing up for a pregnant person’s right to choose.
Read in BuzzFeed News: https://apple.news/A03rDDJ5hQOGe8YiFtwdyhw
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Debt collectors can empty Texans’ bank accounts — even when they don’t know
Each year, tens of thousands of Texans are subject to a bank seizure as a result of a default judgment that was declared against them because they didn’t show up in court to fight a lawsuit over a debt.
Read in Houston Chronicle: https://apple.news/AdbFSY3n5QX2ZstrqlgGG3g
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Scottie
I added more to it after I hit publish.
No-exception laws, once too harsh even for anti-abortion Republicans, gain traction across U.S.
Extreme anti-abortion groups are now emboldened to fight for laws that ban ending pregnancies conceived in rape or incest
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Maybe second posting but it is a needed reminder of the way the right acts and that they will never stop
Texas school board candidates adopt ‘Southlake playbook,’ targeting race and sexuality
The rapid politicization of school board races across Texas has led to an infusion of money and personal attacks in elections that are ostensibly nonpartisan.
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It’s impossible to wall off reversing Roe from landmark marriage and contraception rulings
Justice Samuel Alito, in his draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, tries to make clear it should not necessarily impact other decisions such as the right to marry a person of a different race or same sex and the right to contraception, which rely on some of the same threads of legal reasoning as the abortion rights landmark.
Read in CNN Politics: https://apple.news/AQmL-KvNeRmazLb_i4O1ppw
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Many Abortion Images Are Misleading Or Manipulative. These Photos Show The Reality.
“Most people don’t know what a fetus looks like. Abortion takes place behind closed doors — for medical privacy and for safety — but I also believe something is gained by creating visuals for this process.”
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After Roe: 9 legal experts on what rights the Supreme Court might target next
“In overturning Roe by resorting to a time when women were allowed no status in America’s public sphere, the draft puts that very status in jeopardy.”
Read in Vox: https://apple.news/A93La631eQ4eQxotoEhATXg
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A federal judge accepts Derek Chauvin’s plea deal and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/us/derek-chauvin-sentence-federal-civil-rights-trial/index.html
