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"The Coming Coup": Ari Berman on Republican Efforts to Steal Future Elections
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman warns the Republican Party is laying the groundwork to steal the 2022 midterms and future elections through a combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression and election subversion, that together pose a mortal threat to voting rights in the United States."
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Hundreds of Mail-In Ballot Applications Are Being Rejected Under Texas' New Voting Rules
Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune
Ura writes: "Hundreds of Texans seeking to vote by mail in the upcoming March primary elections are seeing their applications for ballots rejected by local election offices trying to comply with stricter voting rules enacted by Texas Republicans last year."
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The Supreme Court Goes Anti-Vaxx
Irin Carmon, New York Magazine
Carmon writes: "From a building closed to the public except for essential personnel, where lawyers are allowed to argue only if they have a negative PCR test, six vaccinated, boosted conservative justices of the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for workplaces."
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Ex-Chicago Cop Who Killed Laquan McDonald Will Be Released From Prison Early
Jaclyn Diaz, NPR
Diaz writes: "After serving a little more than 39 months of an 81-month sentence for the shooting death of a Black teen in 2014, former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke will be released from prison next month."
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Coronavirus Infections Inside US Immigration Detention Centers Surge by 520% in 2022
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News
Excerpt: "The number of coronavirus infections among immigrants detained at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers has surged by 520% since the start of 2022, prompting calls for increased vaccination efforts and detainee releases."
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In Guatemala, Ex-Paramilitaries Face Trial for Wartime Rape of Indigenous Women
Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada, NACLA
Excerpt: "In 2019, a judge decided not to believe 36 Maya Achi women who accused six men of acts of sexual violence that took place between 1981 and 1985, the height of Guatemala's bloody 1960-1996 internal armed conflict. The judge dismissed the charges and the men walked free."
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Earth Is Running Low on Wildlife. Plants Will Be Next.
Benji Jones, Vox
Jones writes: "The seeds of this story were planted in a steaming pile of elephant dung somewhere in the African savanna."
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