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Indicted Over Jan. 6 Panel Snub, Steve Bannon – Pushing Key Question Over Presidential Power To The Courts
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Indicted Over Jan. 6 Panel Snub, Steve Bannon – Pushing Key Question Over Presidential Power To The Courts

Jennifer Selin, University of Missouri-Columbia Former Trump ally Steve Bannon faces possible fines and time behind bars after being indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress. The criminal charges, announced on Nov. 12, 2021, by the Department of Justice, follow a vote by the House of Representatives in October to hold Bannon in contempt when he defied a subpoena issued by a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Bannon’s lawyers have said their client refused to testify in accordance with the instructions of former President Donald Trump. The indictment is the first in history to involve a contempt prosecution of someone claiming executive privilege. But Trump and his advisers aren’t the first to try to keep some details of a president’s time in o...
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Texas Is Pushing The Most Anti-Trans Bills In The Country, Advocates Fear Deadly Consequences
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POLITICS

Texas Is Pushing The Most Anti-Trans Bills In The Country, Advocates Fear Deadly Consequences

Though more research is needed, as greater numbers of anti-trans bills have been introduced across more states within the last two years, more trans homicides have taken place in those states. Orion Rummler Originally published by The 19th Texas has introduced the most bills targeting transgender youth in the country, triple the number of any other state. Though none of Texas’ over 40 proposed anti-trans bills have been passed, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has made restricting trans youth’s sports participation a priority for the state’s third special legislative session. Local and national LGBTQ+ advocates worry that regardless of whether the bills pass, the language in and around them that characterizes trans girls as boys will spur violent, potentially deadly attacks and worsen men...
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Coronavirus lockdowns are pushing mass transit systems to the brink – and low-income riders will pay the price
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COVID-19, VIDEO REELS

Coronavirus lockdowns are pushing mass transit systems to the brink – and low-income riders will pay the price

Low-income Americans have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. They may also get left behind in the recovery. CC BY-ND Steep declines in ridership during the crisis have pushed public transit systems across the U.S. into deep financial distress. Though Congress included allocations for transit in the CARES Act, cities said it won’t be nearly enough. Even major systems in large metro areas like New York City and Washington, D.C., have serious concerns about long-term survival without more sustained support. Failure of transit systems would be a disaster for the large proportion of low income households that depend on buses and trains to get to work and elsewhere – not only in urban areas, but in rural ones too. I’m currently in the middle of a two-year study of transport inequali...
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Poets Of Color Carry Pushing For Social Change In Their Communities.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Poets Of Color Carry Pushing For Social Change In Their Communities.

Most often in the United States, when poetry is discussed, what comes to mind for many is the works of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, even Emily Dickinson. These are referred to as the “classics.” While their works have influenced much of American culture, the works of poets of color have championed revolutionary change, many through social justice movements. Poets such as Joy Harjo, Khalil Gibran, Gloria Anzaldua, Suji Kwock Kim, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry, and was born into slavery, yet many do not know her name. Even when we look globally, many poets were key revolutionaries in the Sandinista National Liberation Front against the Somoza regime and United States oc...
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Housing in Chicago: Pushing out the poor?

Geoff Smith: Low-income areas are losing affordable housing due to decades of economic disinvestment and discrimination. Newly sworn-in Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot ran on a campaign that promised change for every day Chicagoans. Pursuing office as an outsider without decades of connection to the Chicago political machine, Lightfoot pledged to address Chicago's growing housing affordability gap. Now in her first days as mayor, Lightfoot has appointed Marisa Novara to head Chicago's Department of Housing. The department will operate as a standalone government entity for the first time in 11 years, a decision that was made during the final months of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration. Novara comes from the Metropolitan Planning Council, wh...
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