Steve Benen: The regional sweep is now effectively complete: From Texas to Missouri, North Carolina to Florida, Republicans in literally every southeastern state have now imposed abortion bans. read more
The idea that profits drove our current bout of inflation surfaced in the last few years among progressive economists and lawmakers but was waved away by more mainstream types as a "conspiracy theory." read more
Elizabeth Spiers: In theory, America loves strivers - people who start with very little and through hard work and determination will themselves into success. In practice, we live in a country where people who have overcome tremendous challenges to get here are met with hostility, where people who work multiple minimum-wage jobs are shamed if they also need government assistance and where poor people are told to learn how to code as if the idea of training for white-collar jobs had simply never occurred to them. Americans think we love plucky people who pull themselves up by the bootstraps. What we really love are money and power, period. read more
"I never imagined in 100 years I would be thrust into the position of being the first first responder on the site to take care of people," Steven Spainhouer told CBS News. "The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes, so I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face." read more
Roxane Gray: Increasingly, it is not safe to be in public, to be human, to be fallible. Every single day there are news stories that are individually devastating and collectively an unequivocal condemnation of what we are becoming: a people without empathy, without any respect for the sanctity of life unless it's our own. read more
Read the originating charter document next time before you shoot off your mouth without having any idea what you're talking about: www.documentcloud.org
The chief function of the district charter was to remove any financial obligation for infrastructure that Disney would need for its resorts from the taxpayers of Orange and Osceola counties - which didn't have the tax base to fund all that Disney's development would need to realize what it's become today. There wouldn't be any other growth or attractions had not Disney built its park first. The charter allowed Disney to OVERTAX itself within the district.
Any imbecile can look at the history of Disney and discern that they're goal was not to escape taxes, but to use taxes generated by its own business to fund and support its own services within the district without any levy on the citizens of both counties its property lies in.
The prosecutor says 'through a glass door' but the front door is not broken, there must be a glass door around back.
You are blind. The glass is gone from the door. img.huffingtonpost.com
This also happened yesterday to a white girl.
Think it will get the press of the black kid?
It's on the front page (www.nytimes.com) of the NYT right next to the story on Yarl.
Children are being groomed to normalize and accept Gun Violence.
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This cannot be emphasized enough.
If anyone knows about this, it's me and I'm tired of having to deal with the aftermath of unrestricted gun violence.
You should be too. Everyone should be.