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https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157480905/spain-menstrual-leave-teen-abortion-trans-laws
QuoteThe abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
Tweety said:
And yet I've read that some people in the "red" provinces are fine with becoming a 51st state. These, of course, are the poorest provinces. I don't know what their logic is but they obviously believe that having statehood would enhance their lives somehow. Probably because they could premanently move to Florida?
Did you all see the video of Trump's people taking the woman of the street?
QuoteFederal authorities detained a Tufts University graduate student Tuesday while she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends, her lawyer said, and the moment was caught on video.
Department of Homeland Security agents apprehended Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who was maintaining a valid F-1 student visa as a doctoral student, near her home, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, said in a statement.
"It was only late Wednesday evening that I learned that she was sent to Louisiana, despite a federal court order that she not be removed from the state," Khanbabai said in an email early Thursday.
She has a valid visa. They removed her from the state.
We live in a fascist regime.
"Ex-Biden White House staffer Michael LaRosa alleged that former President Joe Biden's staffers made "really unethical" demands of the press in an effort to "bully" reporters into covering the president in a favorable manner.
LaRosa, who served as former first lady Jill Biden's press secretary, detailed this alleged bullying campaign to "The Young Turks" host Cenk Uygur on Tuesday.
"They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn't have told you at the time," LaRosa claimed."
Beerman said:"Ex-Biden White House staffer Michael LaRosa alleged that former President Joe Biden's staffers made "really unethical" demands of the press in an effort to "bully" reporters into covering the president in a favorable manner.
LaRosa, who served as former first lady Jill Biden's press secretary, detailed this alleged bullying campaign to "The Young Turks" host Cenk Uygur on Tuesday.
"They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn't have told you at the time," LaRosa claimed."
You didn't share your opinion about this opinion. Do you think it's bullying journalists to call them names or tell them to go back to their own country in a televised rant?
Hearing directly from and putting faces to the DOGE team.
To some, these are the guys working for the sole purpose of giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
I'm sure you know I intensely dislike MTG. I find her soul dark and ugly.
I guess she doesn't understand the concept of international journalism and journalists in other countries are reporting on what is happening here. She's a witch with a b and not a w
She's mastered the art of deflection to perfection
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/nearly-5-million-in-washington-emergency-food-assi/
QuoteThe Trump Administration on Tuesday canceled nearly $5 million in emergency food assistance for the state of Washington.
For the next few months, foods like chicken and turkey breasts, canned chicken, dried plums, dried cranberries and milk will no longer be provided by the federal emergency food program for food banks in Washington, according to Daniel Schafer, the communications administrator for the Washington Department of Agriculture.
Employees at the state's agriculture department logged into a federal system to track orders for food assistance programs on Tuesday and noticed the status of a previous order for food delivery from April to June changed from "under review" to "canceled.” Those orders total $4.7 million as part of the Emergency Food Assistance Program, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In Spokane County, that equates to a cancellation of around $405,000 in federal food dollars, or 8.6% of the total reduction.
The cuts roll out in tandem with the Trump Administration's efforts to slash more than $1 billion in programs that helped food banks, schools and low-income families afford standard meals – the cost of food, however, continues to rise, and more families are seeking assistance from local food banks, says Eric Williams, the spokesperson for Second Harvest.
It looks like the billionaires running the country think that food programs for the poor are a huge source of waste and fraud.
Arkansas, headed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country. Maybe she will call her old boss and explain how Musk is hurting Trump's voting base. Those folks are really going to hurt with no food banks if Musk decides to test how many people notice if SS checks don't get deposited next month.
toomuchbaloney said:https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/nearly-5-million-in-washington-emergency-food-assi/
It looks like the billionaires running the country think that food programs for the poor are a huge source of waste and fraud.
Arkansas, headed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country. Maybe she will call her old boss and explain how Musk is hurting Trump's voting base. Those folks are really going to hurt with no food banks if Musk decides to test how many people notice if SS checks don't get deposited next month.
Hopefully other programs and the community can step up. After the hurricanes here our food banks ran into some trouble but seem to had adequate supplies now. People were lined up in their cars for hours around Thanksgiving.
However, this highlights why 30,000 people are showing up to Sanders and AOC rallies. It's not a good look to take aid from the needy while having a team of billionaires and multi-millionaires advising you.
Tweety said:Hopefully other programs and the community can step up. After the hurricanes here our food banks ran into some trouble but seem to had adequate supplies now. People were lined up in their cars for hours around Thanksgiving.
However, this highlights why 30,000 people are showing up to Sanders and AOC rallies. It's not a good look to take aid from the needy while having a team of billionaires and multi-millionaires advising you.
It seems like the fascists are close to abandoning any larger efforts to conceal their indifference to the needs of poor Americans from the conservative voting base. Elon thinks he is the federal government now. In his Fox interview he referenced the government going after Tesla vandals... he used the term we, "we're coming after you."
toomuchbaloney said:It seems like the fascists are close to abandoning any larger efforts to conceal their indifference to the needs of poor Americans from the conservative voting base. Elon thinks he is the federal government now. In his Fox interview he referenced the government going after Tesla vandals... he used the term we, "we're coming after you."
Vandals should be caught and stopped, just like the abortion clinical vandals..oh wait. Anyway, these are people's livelihoods and not all of them are rich.
Musk will be okay.
QuotePresident Trump's newly announced 25% import tariffs on foreign cars will increase vehicle prices by thousands of dollars for cars coming from Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as for the U.S.-assembled autos that use foreign-made parts, according to most auto industry experts.
However, one company likely to fare better than others is Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer led by close Trump administration adviser Elon Musk, industry analysts say.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342456/tariffs-tesla-imports-musk-trump
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