“What Happened to Her Isn’t Right”: Democratic Women Grapple with the Fallout of Katie Hill’s Resignation
Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) speaks at a press conference outside of the Capitol on Tuesday, June 25, 2019.Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP “It’s just fucked.” Since Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) announced she was leaving Congress on Sunday night, Democratic lawmakers and their staffers on Capitol Hill are grappling with the complicated circumstances of that…
“There’s Not Enough of Me”: Inside One Counselor’s Heartbreaking Time at a School in Chicago’s South Side
Thousands of striking Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 members and their supporters march around City Hall before Mayor Lori Lightfoot was scheduled to deliver her first budget address during the monthly Chicago City Council meeting on October 23. Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times/AP When Lauren first started as an elementary school counselor in Chicago’s…
Judge Blocks Alabama’s Blanket Abortion Ban
Angela Fremont, who is originally from Alabama, joins a protest against abortion bans on May 21 in New York.Mary Altaffer/AP A federal judge blocked an Alabama law on Tuesday that would have banned abortions in nearly all cases and threatened providers with up to 99 years in prison for performing an abortion. Planned Parenthood and…
Border Crossings Are Falling Dramatically as Trump’s Crackdown Strategy Coalesces
Razor wire is strung along the US and Mexico sides of a port of entry in El Paso, Texas, in August.Jinitzail Hernández/Getty In the summer of 2017, the Trump administration made El Paso the test site for a family separation policy whose existence the administration denied. Now the administration is using El Paso to test…
Let’s Remember Some Good Blogs
The news over at Deadspin, where a corporate ghoul named Jim Spanfeller is apparently hell-bent on turning the site into some kind of Sports Forbes hellscape, is grim. Hi! I’ve just been fired from Deadspin for not sticking to sports. — Barry Petchesky (@barry) October 29, 2019 This fucking sucks. Remember when blogs were good? Let’s…
House Democrats Just Released the Text of Their Impeachment Resolution
Ron Sachs/Zuma House Democrats have just released the text of the impeachment resolution that the full House of Representatives is expected to vote on Thursday. The resolution directs committees to continue their ongoing impeachment investigations and also lays the groundwork for making the process “open and transparent” to the public. It says House Intelligence Committee…