Trump Cuts Hundreds of EPA Grants
Critics argue the cuts to EPA grants aren’t funding projects that are "woke," they’re essential.
Tag: GEORGIA
Sponsor of Georgia Abortion Ban Spared Trauma of Watching Brain-Dead Loved One Carry fetus
Senator Ed Setzler is lucky he isn't the one being forced to watch a brain-dead loved one carry a fetus to term.
Georgia U.S. senators: Trump’s budget will gut clean energy projects
Georgia’s U.S. senators say they are outraged at the prospect of large job losses for clean energy workers if the Republican Congress implements its proposed cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act. Georgia Democratic U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are opposing Republican members of Congress…
Brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support due to Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban
Adriana Smith’s case is the latest instance in which Georgia’s six-week abortion ban and its impacts on Black women have raised serious concerns.
U.S. Citizen Released From Jail After Arrest Under Florida’s New Anti-Immigration Law
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” An official with Homeland Security Investigations in…
Protesters arrested, shocked with Tasers at U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall
People were forcibly removed, tased at a Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall in Georgia. One person asked about the KKK as MTG talked about removing MS-13 from the U.S.
Georgia GOP lawmakers pick on trans people in cynical play for votes
Look at the world around us. On the scale of injustices that government can and should attempt to correct, transgender women competing in female sports should barely rank a footnote. In the entire state of Georgia, the number of transgender students competing in high school sports is zero, largely…
Georgia’s Record Early Voting, Post-2020 Stress Tests Helped to Defuse Election Rules Overhaul
There have been fights in the courts for four years over voting laws enacted in Georgia after Biden won the 2020 election.
New Abortion Ad From Lincoln Project Hits Different. Grab Some Kleenex.
**Updated 10/14/2024 to add a relevant personal experience and additional information/content.**This new ad from Lincoln Project comes after ProPublica reported on the 2 women who died in Georgia after delayed emergency medical treatment.
Georgia prisons violate law against “cruel and unusual” punishment federal probe finds
Conditions in Georgia prisons are so bad that they violate the Constitutional rights of inmates against cruel and unusual punishment, according to the United States Justice Department, and the state…
Why Harris Talking About Amber Thurman Matters
By talking about the death of Amber Thurman, the vice president shifts how Democrats are talking about the impact of abortion bans.
‘Preventable’ and ‘predictable’: In Atlanta, Harris addresses deaths tied to Georgia abortion ban
"That story was the personification of the Black maternal health crisis," Harris campaign co-chair Sen. Laphonza Butler said of Harris’ retelling of Amber Nicole Thurman’s death at a Georgia…
6-Year-Old Boy Loses Mother Because Of Reproductive Healthcare Ban In Georgia
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
‘What Happens Three Months From Now?’ Mental Health After Georgia High School Shooting
An hour after the shooting, ambulances started arriving at nearby Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow with two students and two adults suffering from panic attacks.
‘Samantha Hyde’ was not the Apalachee High School shooter.
Hours after a teenager shot and killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, an X user claimed the suspect had been identified. "BREAKING: Apalachee High School shooter has been identified as non-binary trans girl Samantha Hyde," the Sept. 4 post said. Zany: I…
The Harris campaign takes its ‘freedom’ message to south Georgia — and conservative White women
The Democratic ticket looks beyond its urban strongholds with a strategy rooted in framing abortion access, gun safety and paid family leave as patriotic.
