10 posts tagged ‘bill’
This Oklahoma State Senator Really Doesn’t Want You Watching Porn
Jezebel,
Oklahoma state senator Dusty Deevers (R) hasn’t even been in office a full month but he’s already making plans to introduce a bill to ban pornography. Not too concerned about being popular, it seems! The Christian pastor, religious extremist, and abortion abolitionist (he thinks people who have abortions should be… Read more...
Ohio Governor Vetoes Trans Healthcare Ban, Then Attacks Trans People Himself
On the last Friday of 2023, I got multiple push alerts about a Republican governor shockingly vetoing a bill that would have banned minors from getting gender-affirming healthcare. For a quick second, it almost seemed like Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) supported trans rights when he rejected House Bill 68, which would… Read more...
Nikki Haley Sucks and Is Also Inadvertently Hilarious
Nikki Haley is such a uniquely, nauseatingly awful politician because she insists on play-acting as the reasonable adult in the room. In reality, she’s said she would ban abortion if she could, she wants to defund schools that teach whatever she deems to be “critical race theory,” and, as of Thursday night, she… Read more...
The best documentaries of 2023
AV Club,
In the age of the internet, the world has become smaller, more connected—and a lot messier. In fact, it can be convincingly argued that the events of especially the last 10 to 15 years show humankind isn’t really wired for the type of constant connection that social media can provide. The rawness and pain of life,… Read more...
A Murder At The End Of The World recap: Darby makes “the big old mistake”
[Editor’s note: This recap, like all recaps on The A.V. Club, contains spoilers.] Read more...
A Murder At The End Of The World recap: Darby drills down in the show's best episode yet
[Editor’s note: This recap, like all recaps on The A.V. Club, contains spoilers.] Read more...
Should U.S. Aid to Israel Be Contingent on Human Rights?
The New Yorker,
Senator Ben Cardin, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, explains why humanitarian concerns should not hold up funding for Israel’s war effort.
A Murder At The End Of The World recap: For Darby Hart, the game is finally afoot
The game is finally afoot At The End Of The World, with writers Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij, and Melanie Marnich focusing on the mystery at hand rather than the one in Darby’s book. Filling in gaps is undoubtedly essential to this story, but the dual narrative was exhausting in those exposition-filled openers.… Read more...