With the Supreme Court slated to overturn Roe v. Wade in the coming months, there’s been a loud and growing chorus from most elected Democrats focusing the party’s voters, activists, and donors on the usual suspect, the filibuster. There’s a problem though: Overhauling the filibuster – whether this week or four months from now – would do nothing for the millions of women on the verge of losing their reproductive rights.

In the aftermath of the leak, high profile progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), immediately called for nuking the filibuster. With women’s rights at stake, they’ve been joined by many rank and file Democrats who are scrambling to show voters resolve while also giving them hope, even if its currently false hope.

A leaked decision by Justice Samuel Alito gave Americans a glimpse into the way the High Court will eliminate the rights of women in the United States.

There are two dozen states with "trigger laws," or pre-Roe abortion bans that would impact women once the Supreme Court decision is officially published. Four others are expected to pass bans in the future, the Guttmacher Institute anticipates, CNN reported.

Monday evening, Politico released the draft decision by Justice Samuel Alito that overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, possibly calling into question rights including access to birth control (Casey) and same-sex marriage (Obergefell). Pro-choice activists are warning that the ban won't eliminate abortions, rather it will eliminate safe abortions, as was recorded in the 1970s before the Roe decision.

The law hasn't yet been overturned, as the draft hasn't been officially published by the Supreme Court. The final documents should be published in June.

The J6 committee filed a motion in court arguing that Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows should be compelled to testify about his role in the plot to overturn the election. The filing uses Meadows’ text messages and witness testimony to paint a detailed picture of Meadows as Trump’s insurrection point man.

Meadows was subpoenaed to testify before the J6 committee in December, but at the last minute he announced that he’d had a change of heart. In true Trumpian fashion, rather than showing up to testify, Meadows sued the committee.

Group Behind Restrictive State Laws Wants to Stop Investments in Companies with Pro-Environmental and Social Policies

The right wing’s legislative hit squad is targeting a wide variety of corporations that focus on environmental, social and governance issues as well as profits.

The conservative back scene influencer group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is known for successfully pushing model state legislation written by its corporate and political sponsors, many of which are in the fossil fuel energy business.

CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to reflect that Terpsehore Maras stated in an anonymous declaration that she had “been a private contractor with experience gathering and analyzing foreign intelligence.” A previous version of the story incorrectly stated that Maras’ declaration represented that she was a former “electronic intelligence analyst under the 305^th Military Intelligence [Battalion.”

In mid-November 2020, lawyer Sidney Powell turned to a provocative source in her quest to build a bogus case that votes had been electronically altered through foreign interference, with collusion from Deep State actors, to tip the presidential election from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

I did my taxes Friday. I traveled down to South Carolina for the holiday. After spending time with family, I sat down and typed the necessary values into some overpriced tax software. It turns out, for the second year in a row, I owe Uncle Sam.

Around that time, a piece from ProPublica came across my radar.

Unless the Biden administration loses its nerve, one of the most corrupt banks in the world – Credit Suisse – will soon be banned from the lucrative business of steering pension fund assets into opaque investments where thievery and poor performance are easy to hide.

If you haven’t heard this news it’s because nothing has appeared about it in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, or even Bloomberg. We checked those and other influential news organizations and found zip.

As Vladimir Putin wages war in Ukraine, little attention is being paid to how he has long waged a quiet campaign to win the hearts of African strongmen.

Over the last decade, Russia’s involvement in Africa largely escaped world attention as the world focused more on ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the Taliban in Afghanistan. As a result, Russia stealthily cemented ties with many African countries during this period, including Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda, and the Central Africa Republic.

A recording made by a disgruntled election conspiracist is the strongest evidence yet that operatives in Donald Trump’s orbit summoned supporters to Washington on January 6 for the express purpose of coercing lawmakers into overturning the 2020 election.

News broke late Tuesday afternoon, whereupon this bombshell of a story was promptly buried under an avalanche of other news.

We are living it totally crazy times, and if you don’t think so, you haven’t been paying attention. For the first time in modern history, it is no longer fringe to believe in UFOs. Unidentified Flying Objects that move in ways that seem to be leagues beyond today’s technology have been captured on video by military agencies and released by the U.S. government. Whether these UFOs are spacecraft manned with extraterrestrials or just shockingly advanced military technology is an open question. There’s also the possibility that the videos are not what they appear—that they are capturing something in some sort of way that creates a visual illusion. Whatever explanation you favor, it is safe to say that you are in no position to claim any certainty in the matter. And if you are betting on aliens, you are not a fool. The physics displayed by the supposed craft in the videos released by the U.S. government defy explanation.

In this article, I don’t intend to convince anyone that the videos show aliens. I’m going to make an argument that I can back up with well-established science, which suggests that intelligent life is not all that rare in the universe, and from that fact, let the reader make up their mind about whether or not they think ETs are among us. Whatever you decide, you will come away with a new understanding of the universe and our place in it. The saga of cosmic evolution is a story of intelligent beings inevitably becoming gods, or at least sentient agents with god-like powers. This evolutionary trajectory has nothing to do with anything supernatural—it is a product of natural processes that create a tendency toward higher complexity.

A unique LGBTQ-affirming charter school in Homewood, Alabama has been forced to add security after a far-right candidate for governor aired ads that its principal says are “scaring the hell out of our kids”, Al.com reports today.

The ad has been aired by businessman Tim James, who is mounting a far-right primary challenge to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. It targets the Magic City Acceptance Academy, which al.com says is “believed to be the only LGBTQ-affirming charter school in the Southeast.”

Corporations hold enormous political power on the obscure issues that almost no one follows but nonetheless have an enormous impact on our economy. For example, the pharmaceutical industry has vigorously pushed for longer and stronger patent protection to increase its monopoly profits.

As a result, the amount we pay for prescription drugs has risen from 0.4% of the economy in 1980 to more than 2.2% of Gross Domestic Product today.