Southern Progressives

Democracy is based on the will of the people & that is a function of the information to which citizens have access - Can America rescue our nation’s currently polluted streams of information and news?

New estimates provided exclusively to FiveThirtyEight by #WeCount — a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research on abortion and contraception — indicate that there were 24,290 fewer legal abortions between July 2022 and March 2023, compared to a pre-Dobbs baseline.

What We Learned from Arraignment Not a lot. Arraignment is usually perfunctory, and Trump’s was no exception. The defendant pleaded not guilty. He was released on his own recognizance—that means he didn’t have to post a bond. It seems like a pretty safe bet that someone who has the Secret Service guarding them 24/7 isn’t going to slip quietly out of the country.

“DONALD TRUMP UNDER ARREST, IN FEDERAL CUSTODY.” It was quite a chyron from CNN, marking the first time in the history of the United States that a former president has been charged with federal crimes. And in this case, what crimes they are: the willful retention, sharing, and hiding of classified documents that compromise our national security. Trump’s own national security advisor John Bolton said, “This is material that in the hands of America’s adversaries would do incalculable damage to the United States. This is a very serious case and it’s not financial fraud, it’s not hush money to porn stars, this is the national security of the United States at stake. I think we’ve got to take the politics out of this business when national security is at stake.”

The Southern Baptist Convention has rejected an appeal by the California megachurch of its ejection for having women pastors.