Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.
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White supremacy flyers in southeast Wisconsin; police pick up hundreds
Police are finding white supremacy flyers, hundreds of them, across multiple counties in southeast Wisconsin.
White supremacy flyers in southeast Wisconsin; police pick up hundreds
What they left out:
Read More »Happy International Workers’ Day!
The Governor Of Illinois Is Trolling Donald Trump By Renaming The Great Lakes
Hello! If you haven’t checked Google Maps recently, then you are probably unaware that Google has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
The Governor Of Illinois Is Trolling Donald Trump By Renaming The Great Lakes
I hereby formally annex Northern Illinois! It is now officially Wisconsin territory! /s
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Read More »How Immigration Is Affecting Whitewater, Wisconsin + What ProPublica Leaves Out
Whitewater, Wisconsin, gained national media attention after the arrival of hundreds of Nicaraguan immigrants motivated the police chief to reach out to President Joe Biden for additional resources.
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Read More »Anti-trans activists release database flagging hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care [State Policy Network]
Do No Harm, a coalition of anti-trans doctors, nurses, and medical professionals, released a database of all the hospitals and medical centers in the U.S. that provide gender-affirming care for trans youth today.
Anti-trans activists release database flagging hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care
Wait until they find out about this!
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The organization’s executive director, Kristina Rasmussen, previously was chief of staff to former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, and served as president of the Illinois Policy Institute [State Policy Network], a conservative think tank, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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It won a $250,000 award last year called the Gregor Peterson Prize. Its previous recipients include the Center for American Liberty, led by Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and who is representing Cole in her lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente over gender-transition treatments she now says she regrets. The prize was announced in December at a summit held by the American Legislative Exchange Council [State Policy Network], a prominent provider of conservative model legislation.
Document: Atlas Network
Milwaukee Shipped in 4,500 Cops From Across the US to Suppress Protest at RNC + More
Contestations over the Republican National Committee’s efforts to foreclose avenues for lawful protest outside this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC) were already heated months before GOP delegates started booking their flights to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the convention.
Milwaukee Shipped in 4,500 Cops From Across the US to Suppress Protest at RNC
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Milwaukee officers will accompany all visiting police units after fatal shooting
Columbus police have killed more than 60 people since 2013
Columbus police shoot and kill more people than most of their peer cities, according to an analysis of police shootings data by the Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Trump and Biden, Republicans and Democrats all agree: affordable Chinese cars should be banned
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Trump’s attacks on Chinese cars strike a chord — with both parties
“Ohio knows all too well how China illegally subsidizes its companies, putting our workers out of jobs and undermining entire industries from steel to solar manufacturing,” Brown said in a statement. “We can’t wait for China to run this same playbook in the auto industry — we need strong rules, including but not limited to tariffs, to stop a flood of Chinese electric vehicles that threaten Ohio auto jobs.”
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He said the average price gap between a Chinese vehicle and its U.S.-made counterpart ranges from 44 percent to 179 percent. “That is a massive gap,” the executive said. “Tariffs alone aren’t going to take care of that.”
Reuters: Mexico yields to US pressure on incentives for Chinese car makers
He said that such incentives have declined during the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office in late 2018, although they have been offered to large investors such as Audi.
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is the United States:
Read More »Biden admin awards $8.5B to Intel for advanced chips
Biden admin awards $8.5B to Intel for advanced chips
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the agreement will set the U.S. up to meet its target of producing 20% of the globe’s leading-edge chips by the end of the decade.
Neo-Nazi Blood Tribe marches in downtown Madison; leaders respond
A neo-Nazi group protested in downtown Madison Saturday afternoon from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state capitol building, carrying flags with swastikas and shouting antisemitic rhetoric.
Neo-Nazi group marches in downtown Madison; leaders respond
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Who are “Blood Tribe” and what were they doing in Madison?
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