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Abortion Ballot Measures Set the Stage Ahead of 2024

Caroline Vakil The Hill
Florida, South Dakota and Arizona are also battlegrounds for whether abortion is restricted or protected as states continue to contend with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer.

Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies

Erica Cirino Socialist Project
Clearly, micro- and nanoplastics are getting into us, with at least some escaping through our digestive tracts. We seem to be drinking, eating, and breathing it in.

Where Am ‘I’? Your Brain and You

Diana Kwon Scientific American
How does your brain create a physical sense of self? New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body.

Friday Nite Videos | July 14, 2023

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Fran Drescher Delivers Fiery Speech on SAG-AFTRA Strike. Integrity Watch: Harvard Fake Data Scandal Explained. Jack Smith Smacks Down 'Frivolous' Trump Delay Move. AOC Teams Up With UPS Workers. The Greediest 'Non-Profit' Hospital in America.

Tidbits – July 13, 2023 – Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return To Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums That Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; Announcements; Cartoons

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Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums that Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education Archive; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....

Racism and Race – The John Roberts Two-Step

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times
The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy becomes, the use of race in school placement.