Evening Drive: May 3, 2022

MORE ON COURT ABORTION OPINION

Right to Choice Is in Our Hands
RBG Could Have Saved Roe By Retiring
Trigger States Will Ban Abortion If Roe Falls
Where Do We Go From Here?

PLUS:

UN: Over 3,000 Civilians Killed So Far In Ukraine, Likely MoreThe Hill
PayPal Quietly Shuts Down Left Wing Media AccountsJacobin
Medicare Beneficiaries See Unexpected Drug Price HikeNPR
Democrats Are Losing the Base — The Intercept
… And They Need to Put Up or Shut Up — Discourse Blog
California Private Prison Ban Has Another Shot in Court — Daily Kos
Tories Won’t Tax Record BP Profits — TruthOut
FOX NEWS FOMENTS DIVISION: STUDY — Common Dreams
Mulvaney Was Scared of What Trump Was Capable Of — Raw Story
Florida Groups Fight For Progressive Change — Blue Tent
Hochul Picks Delgado — New York Times

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Midday Magazine: May 3, 2022

FALLOUT FROM SCOTUS LEAK CONTINUES

“Leave It All On the Field”: AOC
GOP Deflects, Attacks Leaker
4 Things We Know About SCOTUS Draft Opinion
Roberts Orders Investigation Into Leak
Biden Calls For Dems to Vote Harder
Renewed Push To Eliminate Filibuster, Codify Roe
Erosion Of Abortion Access Couples With Democratic Backslide
Protesters Flood Supreme Court; More Protests Planned For Today

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Primaries to Watch This Week — Bolts
Global Impact of End of Roe — VICE
European Leaders React To Roe NewsNew York Times
God Damn America — Discourse Blog
GOP Pay to Play Scheme on Climate — CMD Exposed
Feinstein Decline Getting Worse — New York Times
Omicron Variants Mutating Fast; What You Need to Know — New York Magazine
Pfizer Profit Up 61% In Q1ABC News
Ballistic Path Dependency — Wars of Future Past

COMICS CORNER

What Does the Billionaire Think? — Jen Sorensen
History of the Boycott — The Nib

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Midday Magazine: May 2, 2022

Free Speech? Trump Wanted Protesters Shot — Axios
GOP CIVIL WAR: Trump v DeSantis — Raw Story
Pro-Choice Groups to Spend $150 Million On Election — Politico
Grand Jury to Investigate Trump on Attempts to Overturn Election — CBS News
Georgia Officials Tried to End Election Call — Daily Kos
Far Right Influencing 2022 Election — TruthOut
Big Oil Lobbyists Caught Ghostwriting For State LegislatorsHuffPost
“HELL ON EARTH” in Mariupol — New York Times
Previously Undisclosed Docs Expose Facebook’s ManipulationGizmodo
Upsetting: Queer Youth Suicide Attempts Spiked During Pandemic — USA Today
Thunder Scares New Yorkers — Indy100
Woman Cleared of Murder Still at Risk for Deportation — The Guardian
Germany and India Sign $10.5 B Green Development Deal — ABC News
Diversifying Democratic Congressional Staffers — HuffPost
SCOTUS Rules Against Boston In Christian Flag CaseThe Hill
Delta Airlines Kills More Than 5 Million HoneybeesNew York Times
Workers At Reproductive Rights Group Push To UnionizeTruthout

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Midday Magazine: April 29, 2022

Russian Navy Deploying Trained Dolphins to Warzone — USNI News
15 MILLION Could Fall Off Medicaid Rolls — Daily Kos
New York Bill Would Curtail Amazon Quotas — VICE
Netflix Layoffs Target Writers of Color Brought On With Promises of “Stability” — Gizmodo
Louisiana State Lawmakers Taking Steps to End Teen Solitary — Marshall Project
Starbucks Union Drive Has Management Scrambling — Jacobin
Ah Well. Nevertheless: Trump Unlikely to Be Indicted — New York Times
Trump To Headline Nebraska Rally With Republican Accused of Sexual Assault — Washington Post
Texas Vice Principal Arrested For Beating Middle School Student — Raw Story
Worst Marine Extinction in 250 Million Years On Horizon — Common Dreams
Under-5 Vaccine Could Be Ready In June — CNN
India Heat Wave Destroying Wheat Crops — AP News
QAnon Candidate Concedes Error in Debate — Raw Story

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Morning Commute: April 29, 2022

Will Biden Really Cancel Student Debt? — The Insurgents
…Because Dems Want Him To — New Republic

New Study: Fracking Is Really, Really BadCommon Dreams
Amazon Stock PLUNGES, Company Posts $4 Billion LossCNN
Feds Want Manafort Fined for $3 MILLION — Politico
Brazilian Indigenous Girl Allegedly Assaulted, Killed By Miners — Reuters
Kim Kelly on Union History — Discourse Blog
Major ‘Alt-Right’ Figure Disavows White Nationalism — HuffPost
Plastic Pollution is On Exxon, Says Cali — LA Times
Whistleblower Notified FDA Months Before Baby Formula DeathsPolitico
DeSantis Delights In Owning the Libs — Raw Story
Fox Doesn’t Like New Gov Disinfo Board — Daily Beast
What’s Really Driving Inflation — The Lever
Roger Stone Rejoins Twitter, Immediately BannedHuffPost
Brutal, Dangerous India Heatwave Continues — Daily Kos

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Evening Drive: April 28, 2022

SOCTUS Ruling on Puerto Rico “Modern Day Colonialism” — MSNBC
Vice President Kamala Harris Promised Me a Fracking Ban — Atmos
Chipotle FIRES Worker For Leading Union EffortThe City
The Community Where Patrick Lyoya Was Killed by Cops Saw It Coming — VICE
Union Decline Hurting Dems in Ohio — New York Times
Republicans Admit Biden Can Cancel Student DebtThe American Prospect
Biden Cancels Student Debt………For Beauty School GradsUSA Today
No Punishment For Amazon After Tornado Kills StaffMother Jones
FDA To Nix Newports?CBS News
11 Million Hectares Of Forest Wiped Out in 2021 — The Hill
Corporate Front Group Targets Pensions To Protect Big OilRawStory
Loophole Allows Cops To FINE StudentsProPublica
Louisiana Inches Closer To Outlawing Solitary For TeensNBC News
Felons Got The Right To Vote In Florida, Now Face Charges For VotingNFTS
Lake Mead Drops To Unprecedented Low Water LevelCNN

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Midday Magazine: April 28, 2022

NYC Help Wanted Ads Will Have to List Pay — AP
Trumpers Hack US Election Systems — Reuters
GDP Shrinks 1.4% In Q1, 7.8% Increase In Consumer Prices — CNBC
Billionaires Try To Buy Ohio, PA. Elections…ABC News
…And Organize An Elite Gathering In LA For Joe ManchinThe Intercept
Repubs Turn On McCarthyMother Jones
Fundraising LOSS For Marjorie Taylor Greene CampaignThe Daily Beast
Dems Finally Call Out Big Oil For Price Gouging — The Hill
Biden Admin Tangled In Trump Immigration PolicyNPR
White House Rules Out $50K Student Debt CancellationCNN
PODCAST: Edward Ongweso Jr. On the Tech Hustle — Tech Won’t Save Us
Heterodox Politics — Carl Beijer
Unhinged Homophobe Harassed Over 200 TeachersMedia Matters
Violence in Haiti Kills 20, Displaces Thousands — HuffPost
You Paid More At the Pump So Oil CEOs Could Make Billions — TruthOut
Alaska, Canada Fires Could Emit Tons of Carbon — The Hill
Twitter Revenue Up As Musk Prepares TakeoverNew York Times

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Morning Commute: April 28, 2022

“This Is the Bullshit Corporations Do”: Sanders Talks to Starbucks Workers — More Perfect Union
$66 BILLION In Oil Exports For Russia since War Began — USA Today
Surprise, Surprise: Minneapolis Police Illegally Racially Profile Residents — Star Tribune
Moderna Asks For Under-Six Vax Approval — NPR
You Can’t Beat Trump in a Primary — Discourse Blog
Vaccine Rules Change Could Allow Djokovic to Play Wimbledon — New York Times
“Disappointing”: Biden Admin Challenges Grey Wolf Protection — Common Dreams
Madison Cawthorn’s Week From Hell — VICE
Building Power In the Midwest — Blue Tent
US Park Police Not Helping Families of Homelessness Advocates Killed in Hit and Run Last Year — DCist
CBS News Hiring Mulvaney “Bad For Democracy” — FAIR
Musk Already Wielding Power to Harass Twitter Employees — New York Times
Abbot Begs For Donations To Bus Migrants To DC — Raw Story
Civilian Harm of Sanctions — The Intercept
Our Revolution Endorses in Wisconsin Senate Race — Politico

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Midday Magazine: April 27, 2022

MORE OIL IS NOT THE ANSWER — Washington Post
Abbot’s Border Stunt Cost Texas $4.2 Billion — Alternet
Blaming the Left For the Right’s Actions — The Column
Who Is Biden’s New Covid Czar? — The Lever
The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About — TomDispatch
Neoliberalism Is Doing Just Fine, Unfortunately — Jacobin
Union Drive Spurs Delta To Improve Conditions For Flight Attendants — CNBC
Coachella Billionaire Funding GOP For Midterms — Open Secrets
US Corporations Jacking Up Prices on Consumers At a Time of Record Profit — The Guardian
House Lawmakers Demand More Labor Board Funds — HuffPost
Why Joe Biden Is Losing Young Voters — Vox
Aleksander Hemon on War — The Nation
NYPD’s New Neighborhood Unit Full Of Bad Cops — Bolts Mag
118 Degrees: Record Heatwave in India — Gizmodo

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Morning Commute: April 27, 2022

Bernie to Biden: Cancel Amazon Contracts — Common Dreams
Living Wage Out of Reach For Many Americans: Report — ABC News
Warren Warns Dems Of “Urgency” Of Action — Politico
Midterms Senate Map, Broken Down — Vox
High School Teacher in Florida Forced to Take Down “COEXIST” Flag — Alternet
FREE MAN: Donziger Talks His New Life — The Intercept
“Forever Chemicals” Linked to Liver Damage — The Hill
Nina Turner Fighting “Evil Money” — The Daily Beast
Russia Cuts Off Gas to Poland and Bulgaria — HuffPost
Wimbledon’s Ban on Russian Players Is the Coward’s Way Out — New York Magazine
Elon Musk and the Billionaire’s Internet — VICE
TESLA Loses Value Equal to Twice What Musk Offered For Twitter In Just One Day — Washington Post
McCarthy Recordings Show GOP Leader Was Afraid Republicans Would Cause Violence — New York Times
GREEN DREAM: Japanese Railway Powered By Renewable Energy — ABC News
Ukraine War Adding to Egypt’s Economic Crisis — The New Arab

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