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The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth

White evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t initially care about abortion. They organized to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions — and only seized on banning abortion because it was more palatable than their real goal.

Politico
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

ProPublica
The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-sudden-fall-of-openais-most-hyped-product-since-chatgpt-64c730c9
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be ā€œStunnedā€ By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702

Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public ā€œwill be stunnedā€ to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you&#8…

Techdirt
With their candidates losing in metro Atlanta, Georgia GOP seeks to remove party labels

With Democrats steadily wiping out Republicans electorally in the core Atlanta counties of swing-state Georgia, Republicans have a new idea: Make most local candidates run for office without party labels. […]

WABE
Minnesota helped fund Lockheed Martin subsidiary until community members objected

Testimony against a grant extension for a subsidiary of the defense contractor Lockheed Martin prompted a St. Paul City Council no vote.

MinnPost
ā€˜Shadow administrator’ at FEMA part of investigation by DHS internal watchdog, sources say

An outside contractor installed in the Department of Homeland Security by then-Secretary Kristi Noem and her adviser Corey Lewandowski, gained outsized influence over the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the past year, with a major hand in steering the disaster agency’s spending and day-to-day operations, according to sources who worked with her.

CNN
Pussy Riot protests US tech company Ubiquiti for 'powering Russian war crimes'

"We demand that (Ubiquiti) obey U.S. sanctions laws," co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova said.

The Kyiv Independent