- House raises taxes on people with health insurance, institutes death penalty for f*cking | Pandagon – by Amanda Marcotte
- The logic of HR3 is kind of complicated, but basically they're arguing that if you get a tax credit or deduction, all of your money—all of it—is "federal" funds, and the government can limit how you spend it. Right now, they're defining that narrowly to say they'll take your tax credit or deduction if you use your private funds to pay for abortion or for an insurance package that could cover abortion. But there's no reason they have to stop there…
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- Anti-choice extremists own the Republican party | Pandagon – by Amanda Marcotte
- [HR3 passed the House yesterday.]
…They've…held rallies protesting contraception, fought against the HPV vaccine with fallacious claims that threatening young women with cervical cancer is an effective strategy to keep them virgins… openly promoted the argument that you need to kill women off in order to scare other women into virginity. …They're operating under the assumption that women who have sex forsake their right to live. …
HR3 had bundled in it…[an] amendment that allows anti-choice hospitals to refuse to save a pregnant woman's life if doing so would kill the fetus.
…I struggle to imagine that…ordinary Republican voters really believe…that contraception is a menace to society and that pregnant women who can't go to term might as well die …if anti-choicers have this much power, what's next on the chopping block?
- Number of the Day | Shakesville • by Melissa McEwan
- [Trigger warning for sexual violence.]
$45,000: The amount of money the Supreme Court has agreed, by virtue of declining to hear an appeal of the lower court's decision, that the cheerleader forced to cheer for her rapist must pay in restitution to the school district for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against it.
- Exxon Makes $30.5 Billion, So GOP Votes Unanimously To Give Them Tax Breaks | Think Progress • by Brad Johnson
- Today, the Republicans in the House of Representatives celebrated this massive redistribution of wealth from American families to oil executives. With the support of 7 oil-patch Democrats, 234 Republicans voted to block a bill to eliminate a $1.8 billion annual subsidy that treats oil drilling as “domestic manufacturing”:…
- Silks, Saddles and Discrimination | The Root
- With the Kentucky Derby going to post the first Saturday in May, it seems an appropriate time to consider why black jockeys, who once dominated the sport of horse racing, are no longer in the running. A researcher in Washington, D.C., has uncovered evidence, contained in a turn-of-the-century newspaper article, explaining how black riders were systematically "unionized" out of the sport. …
There was a time when riding a racehorse was almost exclusively a black occupation. It began with plantation owners using lightweight slave boys to race their horses against rival owners. Some slaves were tied to horses to keep them from falling off, resulting in injury and sometimes death.
- Wisconsin Republicans Threaten End Run Around Courts If They Block Union Busting Law | TPMDC
- Union officials in the state had been expecting Republicans to include the legislation — which eliminates collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers — in the state's upcoming budget, and jam it through the legislature this week. This development grants them a month-long reprieve.
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