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Bills to defend and assure voting rights

lundi 12 septembre 2022 à 01:47

See how US representatives and senators voted on bills(PDF) to defend and assure voting rights.

Jan 6 insurrection participant knocked off ballot

lundi 12 septembre 2022 à 01:47

After several failures, one 14th Amendment case has succeeded in knocking a participant in the Jan 6 insurrection off a ballot.

(satire) Low-speed targeted rockets

lundi 12 septembre 2022 à 01:47

(satire) *Israel Deploys Low-Speed Targeted Rockets That Follow Individual Palestinians Around Throughout Day.*

Pressure to stop supporting Russian oil companies

lundi 12 septembre 2022 à 01:47

Activists are pressuring big western banks to stop supporting Russian oil companies.

Rule overturned for employer-funded medical insurance covering HIV medicine

lundi 12 septembre 2022 à 01:47

A judge overturned the rule that employer-funded medical insurance must cover medicine to control HIV.

Requiring employers to pay for employees' medical care gets the job done, but has bad side effects. For instance, it gives employers an incentive to replace workers with robots. And people who don't have an employer to fill this role get left out.

Instead, the state ought to pay directly for medical care, and raise income by taxing the rich. That would avoid all these problems, including the issue of whether the employer's religion should govern the employee's medical care.

However, there is no chance of passing the laws to do this unless we elect many more progressives to Congress, and in the mean time, this decision will be a setback for preventing further cases of HIV in the US.