‘America Cannot Be Complicit': Dems Press Biden After 100 Gazans Die Waiting For Food

“This has gone on for far too long without sufficient action," Sen. Chris Van Hollen said.

huffpost.com/entry/gaza-democr

House Republicans subpoena Harvard brass in campus antisemitism inquiry

Request comes six weeks after lawmakers grilled school president Claudine Gay, who lost her job in aftermath of contentious hearing

theguardian.com/education/2024

The CDC Foundation today announced a new endowed scholarship program, Voices Today for Change Tomorrow, for descendants of the Black men who were part of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Study of Untreated Syphilis at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL, 1932–1972. The study represents one of the most well-known, large-scale medical ethics violations in U.S. history.

cdcfoundation.org/pr/2024/Voic

A South Dakota tribe banned Gov. Kristi Noem from a reservation over her US-Mexico border remarks

“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.

apnews.com/article/oglala-siou

Texas Attorney General Expands Pursuit Of Medical Records For Trans Youth

For the second time, and despite questionable legal authority, Ken Paxton is seeking medical records from providers that are not based in Texas.


huffpost.com/entry/texas-ag-tr

Florida Republicans Introduce the Most Terrifying Assault on Trans Rights Yet

“This bill is rooted in a dangerous ideology that denies transgender people do or should exist,” Maurer wrote. “It is part of a blatant attempt to oust transgender Floridians [and] their families from the state, making them political refugees. We’re ready to fight.”

newrepublic.com/post/177893/fl

EVIL and WRONG

Migrants taking trains from New Jersey to NYC after bus arrivals restricted: officials

After New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) restricted bus arrivals last week in an effort to curb a surge of migrants, bus operators appear to have found a loophole by dropping migrants off at a New Jersey train station from which they can continue on into the city.

thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

Every Day ~Today in Black History
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December 27, 1956 ~ Segregation is outlawed on public buses in Tallahassee, Fla.
The decision followed a six-month long boycott by the city’s African-American population. Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted temporary injunction restraining city officials from interfering with integration of Tallahassee city buses and said "every segregation act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail.

‘They will be refused care’: Inside an American ally’s decision to warn citizens about the US

Abortion rulings and anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the States moved Ottawa to alert Canadians about travel risks.

politico.com/news/2023/12/24/c

VP Harris going on 2024 reproductive health access tour

The “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour will begin in Wisconsin on Jan. 22, 2024, and comes as Democrats plan to make abortion a central point of the 2024 election. Wisconsin is a crucial battleground state where abortion access is currently being fought in the courts. Control of the state supreme court recently flipped liberal.

thehill.com/newsletters/health

Meet 18 women who shared heartbreaking pregnancy journeys in post-Roe world

In a monthslong investigation, 18 women from across 10 states shared their deeply personal stories, chronicling their heartbreaking journeys and how, in some cases, they were brought to the brink of death because they couldn't access timely care in their home states.

These are their stories.

abcnews.go.com/US/meet-18-wome

Arizona court weighs 1864 abortion ban that risks ‘conditions of misery’

On Tuesday, the Arizona state supreme court will hear arguments in a case over whether to reinstate an abortion ban that originated in 1864, before Arizona even became a state. The ban blocks people from helping to “procure the miscarriage” of a pregnant woman and only allows abortions to save her life. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.

theguardian.com/world/2023/dec

Check out this link to my Human rights thread to familiarize yourself with your human rights. Enjoy and leave some comments if you like. Let's have a conversation.

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We are all born free & equal. I am sharing this photo to show that all human beings should be treated in the same way, regardless of sex, race, language, religion, social standing, etc.


Well, Missouri doing a bit much. This is absolutely CRAZY

Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions

Republicans in both the state House and Senate have introduced bills to be considered in the legislative session that begins next month to apply homicide laws on behalf of a victim who is an “unborn child at every stage of development.”

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mi

Massachusetts attorney general files civil rights lawsuit against white nationalist group

Massachusetts' attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ma

Just freaking EVIL

Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion

Paxton’s office petitioned the high court just before midnight Thursday, after a Travis County district judge granted a temporary restraining order allowing Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her nonviable pregnancy. Paxton also sent a letter to three hospitals, threatening legal action if they allowed the abortion to be performed at their facility.

texastribune.org/2023/12/08/te

LGBTQ couple in Nepal becomes the 1st to receive official same-sex marriage status

An LGBTQ couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it

nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/l

Obama, Clooney and Gates: 'We can end child marriage in a generation'

At the current rate of progress, the UN has warned it will not be eradicated for 300 years.

But former First Lady Mrs Obama told BBC News: "It is an issue that can be solved tomorrow."
The three women spoke exclusively to BBC 100 Women during a visit to Malawi and South Africa.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-67473254.

Every Day
Today in Black History
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October 23, 1947~NAACP sent “An Appeal to the World” to the UN. The petition, authored by W.E.B. Du Bois, charged the U.S. with systematic denial of civil and human rights to African Americans.

It stated, “We appeal to the world to witness that this attitude of America is far more dangerous to mankind than the atom bomb; and far, far more clamorous for attention than disarmament or treaty.”

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