Another week, another horrific abortion ruling. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an abortion ban passed in 1864 when Arizona was still a territory, not a state. Arizonans have been living under a 15-week ban since December 2022, but this new ruling prohibits abortions at any gestation unless done to save the life of the pregnant person. Abortion providers could face up to five years in prison for violating the law, which could limit the number of people willing to perform an emergency abortion. Читать дальше...
Local and state-level politics is often a toxic ecosystem, but new reporting into a New Hampshire state lawmaker presents an elected official with an especially vile background. According to an internal investigation first reported by In Depth NH on Friday, before being elected to the state House in 2022, state Rep. Jon Stone (R) was ousted from his position at the Claremont Police Department in 2006 after he threatened to rape the police chief’s daughter and go on a shooting spree—on top of having an exploitative... Читать дальше...
Every year, over half a million people gather in Sturgis, South Dakota for a ten-day motorcycle rally—the largest in the United States. There, among the masses of confederate flag-wielding white men, is an Indigenous motorcycle group of women and femmes called the Medicine Wheel Riders, who've been traveling the 1,200 miles from Phoenix, Arizona to Sturgis every year since 2018. Their purpose? To bring national awareness to the countless missing and murdered Indigenous women who disappear or are killed at 10 times the national average. Читать дальше...
If you were in Nashville late Sunday evening and looked up at the sky, you’d have been in for a surprise. No, the solar eclipse wasn’t giving the honky tonk city a special preview. But you might have seen a chair hurling down at you from above that country musician Morgan Wallen threw off a roof. Around 10:45 p.m. on Sunday Wallen, who’s also been known to throw around some racial slurs, tossed a chair off of the sixth-floor rooftop of Chiefs Bar in downtown Nashville. It landed only a few feet from police... Читать дальше...
In November 2022, Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus announced their divorce, and the family has been ensconced in drama pretty much ever since. This week, Noah Cyrus—Miley’s younger sister—is continuing to stir the damn pot. Over the weekend, social media users noticed Noah “liked” an Instagram post from Miley’s ex, Liam Hemsworth, in which Hemsworth takes a revealing gym selfie, not-so-creatively captioned “#Legday.” There’s simply no way Noah thought no one would notice, so I’m willing to theorize this... Читать дальше...
On Monday, much of the U.S. saw a solar eclipse, which was cool...but unless you were in the path of totality, it was a tad anti-climactic. Which means that, for the rest of the country, the real blackout was Sunday night, on TV, in the form of a basketball game, when the Iowa Hawkeyes and South Carolina Gamecocks played in the women's NCAA championship, shattering another ESPN ratings record and fully...eclipsing...the men's tournament. (I barely knew the men's championship game was Monday night. Читать дальше...
