A sitting Republican congressmen, , decided that body shaming a teenager was okay.
So to spite him I raised $1 million in donations to abortion funds in under 72 hours.
Abortion is healthcare. Period.
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Julián Castro
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Father, husband, Texan. He/Him/Él. Former Sec. of HUD, Mayor of San Antonio. NBC/MSNBC Political Analyst. Email: julian@julianforthefuture.com
San Antonio, TXJoined January 2009
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BREAKING: The San Antonio City Council will consider a resolution supporting the right to abortion.
The resolution would seek “to protect the rights of individuals to make their own reproductive healthcare choices.”
A special city council meeting is planned for Tuesday
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Warning. Don't come for Brown v. Board. We will not allow the sacrifices of our clients in the 5 consolidated cases that made up this landmark, unanimous decision that struck down the ignominious apparatus of racial apartheid in the U.S. to be disregarded by re-writing Brown.
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NEW: LDF has filed a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in SFFA v. University of North Carolina on behalf of LDF and the NAACP in support of UNC’s race-conscious admissions process.
Our statement: naacpldf.org/press-release/
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Damning 1/6 testimony has created a credibility issue for the Secret Service.
"That desire to protect and defend against all threats has extended through the years to defending, at all costs, their own reputation," says.
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Breaking News: Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid. What to know about his diagnosis – including the president’s prognosis and the timing – with and :
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Remember that movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ — and the weirdly similar ‘Good Morning Britain’ clip? Well as Europe suffers from a scorching heat wave this week, we’ve got *another* real-life example that might as well be another scene from the Oscar-nominated satire 🤨
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Is there any evidence from the 1/6 hearings that could sway Trump’s supporters? “I don’t really think so,” says.
"That’s a mistake that people have made a lot over the past five years: to suggest that support for Donald Trump is based on evidence."
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Thursday’s 1/6 hearing will feature new witnesses and evidence to shed light on Trump’s hours of inaction during the riot.
But are the hearings changing any Trump supporters' minds? says we have reason to believe the answer is yes.
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TONIGHT: — the lone Democrat on the Texas House committee that investigated the response to the shooting in which 21 people were killed — joins the show on to discuss what it was like sifting through the evidence, and his key takeaways.
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. and bonded over personal tragedies. Now, they run , a podcast network that shares an unfiltered version of the human experience. Listen to their story on the latest episode of “Spotify: Mic Check” 🎙️ spoti.fi/3RHnIjA
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This is a powerfully detailed thread about sexism and retaliation in the workplace.
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Several yrs ago, when my @NewYorker newsletter hit a 70%+ unique open rate (as I've mentioned previously here), I noted this accomplishment to a male icon of journalism. I was pleased by this feat & thought he would be, too. Instead, he turned to me & said, “Now don’t get cocky!”
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NOW: is guest hosting for from 6-8pm ET.
Important conversation about the Uvalde tragedy and the failures of those who responded.
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Today, the Texas House Investigative committee released new video footage and its preliminary report of the Uvalde school shooting. Join us at 6pm ET on with guest host to discuss these new findings with TX state reps. That and much more tonight on A.V.
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I’m excited to be guest hosting tonight on , filling in for from 6-8pm ET. We’ve got a lot of news to cover, including breaking news out of Uvalde—see you there!
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"At every single level there was failure." talks to about the new report by the Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde shooting and what needs to happen next.
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This cruel policy criminalizes homelessness.
It also takes away money from communities pursuing effective policies to end homelessness, such as housing first. It’ll make the streets-jail-streets cycle worse, not better.
No wonder the governor’s own appointee opposed it. twitter.com/stltoday/statu
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And then the told us tonight:
“It is his weakest showing since 1980,” pollster J. Ann Selzer said of Grassley.
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National folks might want to start paying attention to the Iowa Senate race: @FrankenforIowa has outraised the octogenarian Senator Grassley $4,208,670.08 to $2,959,256.37 to date in 2022!
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“Our nation faces a severe housing affordability crisis that urgently requires investment in housing supply with an eye toward eliminating longstanding barriers to housing opportunity for underserved communities.” — , former secretary
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We are beyond appalled by the news that faced such a horrifying & hateful threat at her own home. [seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l]
Full statement from our Deputy Director Catalina Velasquez. 1/
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Anti-Black racism is a blinding sickness. What a horrific account.
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Hospital security officers detained a black man they suspected of “casing” a parking garage, beat him, and told him to never come back. He was a patient, looking for his car. He’d been receiving treatment for kidney failure.
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You can’t protect choice by rewarding anti-abortion ideologues with lifetime appointments to the federal bench.
If a deal’s been cut with McConnell, at least be transparent about what the deal is. Cozy backroom politics in the face of anti-Roe extremism ain’t cutting it.
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NEW from @jbendery -- The White House is privately signaling that it's moving forward with Chad Meredith, the anti-abortion court pick in Kentucky, despite the backlash huffpost.com/entry/chad-mer
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🚨 The 2022 Texas Democratic Convention begins next week and we're pleased to announce more special guest appearances 🤠
Join , , & with at the Kick-Off Reception!
Get tickets now: txdem.co/2022Kickoff!
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Dozens of migrants died in a sweltering tractor-trailer last week. San Antonio Democrat says what about the survivors, asks DHS to shield them from deportation . . .
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The Texas Freedom Caucus is threatening employers that reimburse travel expenses for abortions with criminal prosecution.
They also claim they’ll introduce a bill next session to “impose additional civil and criminal sanctions” for those employers.
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.’s anti-abortion extremism will hurt him this fall. Abbott is siding with rapists over women. He’s taking away a woman’s right to choose whether to give birth but giving the rapist a right to forcibly choose which woman will birth his child.
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Akron police fired more than 90 rounds and lodged 60 bullets into the body of Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black man who was running from them. Then they handcuffed his lifeless body.
These officers need to be fired and prosecuted.
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Watch live as Akron police release body-camera video of city officers killing Jayland Walker earlier this week. beaconjournal.com/story/news/loc
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“This one small beginning small step of people feeling like there’s some accountability for the total failure that happened.”
on the #Uvalde Schools Police Chief stepping down from his city council seat:
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In one yr SCOTUS has created a new "law-free" test for evaluating cases under Sec. 2 of thVoting Rights Act; elevated a new "major questions doctrine" from an obscure fn to govern the parameters of agency power; created a "history & traditions" test to eliminate fundamental rts;
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Texas can enforce its 1925 abortion ban, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday night
Abortion providers can now face fines & lawsuits even before the state’s trigger law banning abortions goes into effect
From texastribune.org/2022/07/02/tex
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The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the state can now enforce its 1925 law criminalizing abortion.
Abortion doctors can now be jailed up to 10 years—no exceptions for rape or incest.
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The state now asks abortion providers to send sheriff's offices reports of women who were impregnated by rape or incest and are trying to terminate the pregnancy
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The Supreme Court has shown the American people that it has become an extremist body with a far-right agenda.
It has discredited itself and left only a quarter of Americans confident that it can do its job. Congress must consider serious reforms to restore faith and trust.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration has the authority to end the Trump's "Remain in Mexico" program.
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Decisions like WV vs. EPA make it clear just how much the system is rigged against us.
A Supreme Court that sides with the fossil fuel industry over the health and safety of its people is anti-life and illegitimate.
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