Tag: domestic violence
Justice Thomas sparks outrage with defense of gun rights for domestic...
Clarence Thomas stands alone in dissent as the Supreme Court upholds a law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing firearms, sparking outrage and renewed calls for judicial accountability.
Abortion bans impede efforts to address domestic violence: An alarming consequence
The very doctors who play a crucial role in identifying and assisting victims of intimate partner violence, namely OB-GYNs, are facing increasing challenges in providing this essential care.
How unions are combating domestic violence
Dozens of unions in the United States and Canada with contract language providing domestic violence survivors with the resources crucial to breaking free of their abusers.
Effects of domestic violence during Covid on children mind-set
I hope and wish that all do our very best to protect our kids and children from going through such experiences in the first place.
The Violence Against Women Act is unlikely to reduce intimate partner...
But the fact is that the criminal system supported by the act isn’t stopping intimate partner violence.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 29
Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.
California joins nine other states and passes trio of gun control...
“People at risk of harming themselves or others should not have easy access to firearms."
Mass shootings and domestic violence
“There’s absolutely no doubt that the practice of violence within a home . . . opens the floodgates to public violence.”
How domestic violence and militarism “open the floodgates” to mass shootings...
For those leading our country, gun control simply doesn’t seem as dangerous or as risky as it does for the people who are being killed and hurt on a daily basis.
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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home stretch
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.