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[ad_1] Political leanings: Democratic 2024 total spending: $256 million The House Majority PAC, or HMP, as it is formally known, was created in April 2011 by Alixandria Lapp, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official. It was one of several political action committees formed by Democrats in response to the heavy spending by conservative organizations in the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans won the House. House Majority PAC says it is “solely focused on electing House Democrats, including protecting our most vulnerable incumbents and boosting our most promising challenger and open seat candidates.” Abby Curran Horrell, a former chief of staff…
[ad_1] From Judge Paul Maloney (W.D. Mich.) in Mead v. Rockford Public School Dist.: Dan and Jennifer Mead have a child, G.M., who attended a middle school in the Rockford Public School District. The Meads contend that the District had policies that encouraged school staff to refer to students by their preferred names and gender pronouns, even without parental knowledge or consent. {Plaintiffs Dan and Jennifer Mead believe that everyone is born with a “fixed biological sex” as a “gift from God.” They believe that it is harmful to “refer[] to a child using pronouns that are inconsistent with that…
[ad_1] The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday that attempt to restrict birthright citizenship narrowly. This comes a little over a month after the Supreme Court struck down his attempt to suppress birthright citizenship much more broadly. The first order specifies certain groups of people whose children the administration says are not eligible for citizenship at birth; the second addresses “birth tourism.” The White House claims that the two measures will “protect the meaning and value of American citizenship.” In reality, the orders will not do much at all, because they combine unconstitutional provisions with performance art. Let’s…
[ad_1] Photo by Matt Artz Much news coverage of the Trump administration’s decision to end a Medicare drug subsidy program focused on the immediate effects – namely, higher health care costs for seniors. But the discussion has failed to zoom out and discuss the larger issues at play. Last week, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would end the temporary Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration earlier than originally expected. This program carries an estimated $9.8 billion price tag for 2025 and 2026. It was meant to offset costs for insurers created by one of the…
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[ad_1] Political leanings: Pro-cryptocurrency 2024 Spending: $195.8 million Fairshake, its website says, is a super PAC that “supports candidates committed to securing the United States as the home to innovators building the next generation of the internet.” Generally, it supports politicians who back policies favorable to the cryptocurrency industry. The group registered with the Federal Election Commission in 2023, and it is financially supported by some of the most influential companies and executives in the digital currency sector. FEC records identify Brandon Philipczyk as Fairshake’s treasurer and Josh Vlasto is the group’s spokesman. Philipczyk has worked on various campaigns for Democratic…
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[ad_1] Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, an in-depth investigatory show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (7/23/26). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant. Source Links (In Chronological Order): (1) The Last American Vagabond on X: “Hope to see you all in Nashville (Franklin, TN) on the…
[ad_1] “Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to reconcile it with everything else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly arise from lumpy gray matter?” —DAVID J. CHALMERS, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996) The philosopher Thomas Nagel famously stated that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is…