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Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] water 67 points 1 month ago

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

--Lyndon B. Johnson

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US supreme court rules Virginia can continue removing voters from rolls (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by water to c/virginia

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27371042

Virginia does not have to restore the registrations of 1,600 voters, some of whom appear to have been wrongly removed, ahead of next week’s election, the US supreme court said on Wednesday.

The court made the decision on its emergency docket and did not give a rationale for its decision, which is customary for rulings on an expedited basis. All three liberal justices on the court – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would not have halted a lower-court ruling earlier in October ordering the state to restore the voter registrations.

The legal dispute centers on a 7 August executive order by the Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, directing the state to run its voter registration rolls against DMV data on a daily basis to check for non-citizens. The justice department and civil rights groups sued, saying that the state was violating a federal law that prohibits systematic removals of voters within 90 days of a federal election.

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A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care (www.propublica.org)

submitted 1 month ago by water to c/texas

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21436202

Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy.

The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.

But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”

For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.

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Missouri governor rescinds purchasing goals order for businesses owned by women and minorities (apnews.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/18356889

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‘I’m walking here!’: Jaywalking legalized in New York City (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by water to c/newyork

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/18356779

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How a rightwing machine stopped Arkansas’s ballot to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans (www.theguardian.com)