A recent funding notice from the Department of Health and Human Services seems to contain a message for the anti-abortion movement: the administration hasn’t entirely forgotten them. The announcement offers applicants nearly $2 million in grant support to promote embryo adoption—and while the program isn’t new, it’s now couched in the fundamentalist language of fetal […]
Last week, most of the major news outlets ran the perennial story about how the Social Security fund is set to run out of money—now by 2032—and that benefits will have to be cut substantially unless Congress acts. Okay, so act. It’s stupid that we are being made to worry about a problem that’s solvable, […]
The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon Musk’s xAI over the health risks posed by the company’s unpermitted gas turbines. The Department of Justice didn’t intervene on behalf of the people breathing dirty air, though: instead, it submitted an […]
When the flood waters ravaged Micaville Presbyterian Church, lifting pews and pushing a neighboring house into the back of the building, the water level stopped just below the base of the stained glass windows. Saving the blue-rimmed fractal panes was one of many blessings for pastors Beth and Tom Hall, alongside receiving $140,000 in April [...]
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