Salon6 hours agoLauren Boebert complains that she is "tired of this separation of church and state junk"verified_publisherSalon - Abigail Goldberg-ZelizerFar-right politician Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., won her primary by nearly 30 points on Tuesday night after calling for an end to the separation of Church and State. Boebert, who has been a steadfast supporter of right wing conspiracy group QAnon, gave a speech at the Cornerstone Christian Center …
Salon8 hours agoSCOTUS upholds Louisiana GOP map despite two courts finding that it violates the Voting Rights Actverified_publisherSalon - Brett WilkinsCivil rights advocates on Tuesday decried the U.S. Supreme Court's reinstatement of Louisiana's Republican-drawn congressional map, which a federal judge said will cause "irreparable harm" to Black voters in the 2022 midterm elections and likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The nation's highest …
Salon8 hours agoNumber of voters who would vote Democrat soars after SCOTUS abortion rulingverified_publisherSalon - Jon SkolnikAt least three generic congressional polls show that Democrats hold a significant lead over Republicans following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the watershed case that established America's constitutional right to abortion. According to a Yahoo/News Gov poll released just …
Salon9 hours agoThe other cancel culture: How a public university is bowing to a conservative crusadeverified_publisherSalon - Daniel Golden, Kirsten BergProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In August 2020, Boise State University chose a doctoral student in public policy, Melanie Fillmore, to deliver what is called a "land acknowledgment" …
Salon10 hours agoLegal expert uses Ohio State wrestling scandal to school Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 “hearsay evidence"verified_publisherSalon - Meaghan EllisAn attorney quickly fired back on Twitter when an account linked to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, openly criticized the House Select Committee hearings by describing the groundbreaking Tuesday testimony as "all hearsay." According to HuffPost, the attorney responded to a verified Twitter account for the …
Salon10 hours agoOur summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken womenverified_publisherSalon - Amanda MarcotteShortly after Cassidy Hutchinson finished her searing testimony that correctly painted Donald Trump as a violent but cowardly bully, desperate right-wingers tried to make "Amber Heard 2.0" a thing on Twitter. The choice was a telling one, though not in the way the MAGA heads think. The abuse aimed …
