Tag: LDS Church
Utah makes welfare so hard to get, some feel they must...
Utah’s safety net for the poor is so intertwined with the LDS Church that individual bishops often decide who receives assistance. Some deny help unless a person goes to services or gets baptized.
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Judge orders release of family after prolonged detention and reported neglect in ICE facility
Federal ruling finds continued detention risks constitutional violation after nearly a year of confinement, medical emergencies, and allegations of worsening conditions at Texas center.
Trump invokes wartime powers to expand fossil fuel production amid rising energy costs
Defense Production Act orders authorize federal support for oil, coal, liquefied natural gas, and grid infrastructure as industry profits increase during Iran conflict.
‘Data Colonialism’: Native communities fight AI data centers on indigenous land
As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, an activist said, “We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.”
Just desserts: MAGA suicide pact climaxes its cult of destruction
The more bizarre the MAGA fable,/ The more desperate to finagle. Can hypocrites throttling the Bible/ Not make its movement suicidal?
When progress misleads: The hidden baseline problem in public-interest advocacy
Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are actually declining.