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City Council

City Council amendments protect human rights, medical care | #citycouncil

CARBONDALE — The City of Carbondale has some new ordinances on its books. The council passed an amendment to Title One of city code which adds Chapter 18 and protects a person’s medical health care decisions. They also added Title 22 to Carbondale Revised Code which protects basic human rights. Carbondale City Hall is shown in […]

Alabama

Florida Parents Vow Legal Fight After GOP Passes ‘Dangerous’ Attack on Gender-Affirming Care | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Florida Republicans on Thursday approved a draconian bill that, among other things, would enable the state to take trans children away from their parents if they are receiving gender-affirming healthcare, even though such care is consistent with the guidance of every major medical organization in the United States. In addition to trying to authorize kidnapping, […]

Arkansas

CNN Projection: Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders will win Arkansas governorship

CNN — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the one-time press secretary and communications director for former President Donald Trump, will win Arkansas’ gubernatorial race, CNN projects. She will be the first woman elected governor of Arkansas. Huckabee Sanders defeated Democrat Chris Jones, a minister and former nonprofit leader who got a degree in nuclear engineering from MIT. […]

Alabama

Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Washington CNN — When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction,” the amendment reads. The penalty […]

Alabama

Senate Republican Tuberville alleges that Democrats want to provide slavery reparations to ‘the people that do the crime’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of […]

Alabama

Black leaders rebuke first-term Senate Republican Tommy Tuberville’s inflamed remarks on crime and reparations | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

As far as Jeremy Ellis is concerned, Republican Tommy Tuberville should know or learn more about the long history and struggles of the Black Alabama residents he represents in the U.S. Senate. Tuberville told people Saturday at an election rally in Nevada that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think […]

City Council

Los Angeles City Council president resigns after racist comments in leaked audio | #citycouncil

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from the post Monday after she was heard making racist comments and other coarse remarks in a leaked recording of a conversation with other Latino leaders. Council President Nury Martinez issued an apology and expressed shame. “In the end, it is not […]