Joan McCarter, Author at Flux

Republican AG’s try to cross state lines to prosecute abortions

Joan McCarter — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:37:09 +0000

Republican attorneys general in 19 states are claiming that they have the right to demand private patient records from health care providers in other states, where they have no jurisdiction. That’s the assertion they made in a letter last month to the Biden administration in opposition to a proposed rule to protect patient privacy from them. The only reason […]

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Ending Social Security and Medicare is the goal

Joan McCarter — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:04:30 +0000

Republicans are never going to be known for their eco-friendliness, but there is one thing they are very good at recycling: plots that combine ending Social Security and Medicare with schemes to cut taxes for the rich. They’re at it again with a new fiscal blueprint for the next 10 years reconstituted from the stuff […]

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Harlan Crow proves, once again, that the system is broken

Joan McCarter — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:47:09 +0000

Harlan Crow, Texas real estate magnate and very dear friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has instructed his lawyer to tell yet another Senate committee to pound sand. Congress doesn’t have the authority to oversee the Supreme Court, the lawyer asserted in a response to the Judiciary Committee’s request for details of the millions of […]

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This was a GOP-inspired assassination attempt against Pelosi, and media must say so

Joan McCarter — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:41:46 +0000

“Here’s a job for the national political press corps, if they can take time out from declaring doom for the Democrats in the midterms: Put elected Republicans and every GOP candidate on the ballot everywhere on the record about how their vilification of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resulted in an assassination attempt against House Speaker Nancy […]

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Don’t let Mitch McConnell win, and don’t let him destroy democracy

Joan McCarter — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:00:24 +0000

It’s hard to argue that there’s just one person responsible for the Republican Party having gone entirely off the rails of democracy. It’s been in process for decades, after all, arguably predating Richard Nixon’s resignation but definitely fueled by that in the past half-century. But if you want to find the person most responsible for […]

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GOP unveils plan to blow up the global economy and destroy Social Security while traditional media outlets stick their head in the sand

Joan McCarter — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:00:09 +0000

Last week we discovered, thanks to a niche media outlet, that Republicans are right now plotting about how they’ll destroy the economy as well as Social Security and Medicare if they take Congress. Last Tuesday, Bloomberg Government reported on Republican plans to use an must-pass increase debt ceiling next fall to make massive cuts to social insurance programs, like […]

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Republicans’ abortion problem keeps getting bigger, drives support for Democrats

Joan McCarter — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:00:03 +0000

The advantage of intensity in the abortion debate has always been on the side of forced birthers in the United States. The zealots hammered away at it for decades, making incremental progress toward eroding the fundamental human right of bodily autonomy, while the rest of the population couldn’t imagine that they could ever win, that […]

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Republicans are getting what they asked for on abortion, and regretting it

Joan McCarter — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:00:01 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end federal abortion protections secured half a century ago under Roe v. Wade continues to flummox Republicans who finally got what they wished for. After decades of running for elections promising precisely this—an end to legal abortion—Republicans are desperately trying to rewrite that history, pretend like the Supreme Court didn’t […]

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Trump offers to call off his violent thugs, but he has conditions

Joan McCarter — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:00:52 +0000

In a disturbing echo of his infamous exhortation to his Proud Boy supporters before the 2020 election to “stand back and stand by,” Donald Trump told Fox News Digital on Monday that he “will do whatever” he can “to help the country” following last week’s seizure of stolen documents from his Florida home. Trump said that the “temperature has to be […]

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At least four Supreme Court justices are flirting with helping the Big Lie win in 2024

Joan McCarter — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:00:06 +0000

While the Jan. 6 committee hearings are riveting much of the nation as they narrow in Donald Trump as the leader of the attempted violent overthrow of the government, a huckster industry has emerged in the states promoting the basis of Trump’s insurrection, the Big Lie. It’s not just the civically illiterate being taken in, […]

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