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North Carolina Governor Criticizes State GOP For Overriding His Veto On 12-Week Abortion Ban

North Carolina Governor Criticizes State GOP For Overriding His Veto On 12-Week Abortion Ban

Republicans stood their ground, overriding Cooper's veto days later. It was last Saturday that Cooper announced his veto of SB20 at a rally in Raleigh, NC | Photo by Hannah Schoenbaum/AP “Not a single Republican stepped forward,” Cooper told Capehart. “Not a single Republican followed through on a campaign promise to protect women's reproductive freedom like they said they would. And thus, he has unified the Republicans who are all together in an assault on women's reproductive freedom." The new law, It will enter into force on July 1., bans most abortions in North Carolina at 12 weeks, a sharp…
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AOC’s opinion on the debt limit: Democrats still have the upper hand

AOC’s opinion on the debt limit: Democrats still have the upper hand

And they had easy access to the White House with Ron Klain as Biden's chief of staff. They are now in the minority and far from the negotiating room where Joe Biden is trying to make a budget deal with Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling. Their main fight is trying to prevent the president from caving in to McCarthy on what they see as draconian budget cuts and policies that would weaken the social safety net. And in the White House, it is no longer very clear who they should call. AOC is well aware of these changing…
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How an animal rights activist at FreedomWorks became the target of ‘Dr.  Evil’s former PR shop

How an animal rights activist at FreedomWorks became the target of ‘Dr. Evil’s former PR shop

The chief operating officer left the group this week after enduring a barrage of attacks from a website called FreedomWoke, which had been calling for him to be fired citing his record of lobbying for the Humane Society's legislative arm and his work on behalf of Animal Wellness Action. . "Why is FreedomWorks 'waking up'?" the site read. The entity behind that anti-Irby campaign is Berman and Co., a public relations firm founded by public relations executive Richard Berman, whose work on behalf of corporate interests led him to be dubbed by his critics as “evil doctor.” Berman is no…
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