Results for: elizabeth warren
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Refund Equality Act Aims to Recover Same-Sex Couples’ Tax Benefits Denied by DOMA
This legislation would ensure that legally-married same-sex couples – who, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision, were barred from filing federal taxes jointly – are permitted to file amended tax returns back to the date of their marriage.
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Betsy DeVos Carves Out Her Own Terrifying Niche in a Cabinet of Nightmares: Threatening Public Education
Betsy DeVos is truly awful and the idea of her as an education secretary should strike terror into all our hearts. Here’s why!
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How To Oppose Secretary of Labor Nominee Andy Puzder With Your Phone and Your Friends
Andy Puzder is an ethical nightmare! If you or someone you know lives in Tennessee, Wyoming, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, Kansas or Alaska, you or that person can make a real difference in his confirmation.
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Rebel Girls: 16 Women and Girls Who Shook the World in 2016
Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.
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Disney Villain/North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory Finally Admits He Lost The Election
Grassroots activism wins the day!
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Help Stop Betsy DeVos from Becoming Education Secretary With Your Phone And Your Friends
Who needs to call: people who live in Tennessee, Wyoming, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, Kansas and Alaska. Who needs to act? Everyone who knows anyone who lives in these states.
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2016 Democratic National Convention, Night One: Michelle Obama Transcends Humanity
Michelle Obama said the motto she and the president share with their daughters is: “When they go low, we go high.” And then she demonstrated it to the point of transcendence.
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Steve Bannon is the Racist Far-Right Internet Personified — and He Hates Women and Gay People, Too
There’s no way to overstate how dangerous it is to have Bannon whispering directly into Donald Trump’s ear every day like a Disney movie villain.
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Democrats Sit In Over Gun Legislation while SCOTUS Releases Rulings Left and Right
So much news today! The Democrats’ sit-in in the House over gun legislation, SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, the status of many undocumented people in the US, the Dollar General case, as well as rulings related to Freddie Gray’s death and trans kids using bathrooms at school, and more.
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Kentucky Legislator Wants to Defeat Marriage Equality with the Power of “Matrimony”
A KY legislator thinks he’s cracked the code on how to stop marriage equality; how and why anti-LGBT sentiment is ramping up in Indonesia, the big abortion case the SCOTUS just heard, and more.
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Rebel Girls: It Turns Out, Voting For Women Isn’t Enough
Voting for women isn’t all it takes to reach gender parity in politics. Changing our political system from the bottom-up will go a lot further.
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5-Year-Old Girl Has Two Moms, Is Therefore Barred From Her School
Today Planned Parenthood is offering free STD testing in 28 cities for #PinkOut Day, Michelle Obama launched a new campaign for girls’ education, Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks about the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and more news stories.
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Oh For F*ck’s Sake: Kansas Legislator Dick Jones Claims Gay People are a “Third Sex”
This jerk Dick Jones in Kansas, last night’s GOP town hall, a lesbian high schooler wins the right to wear a gay t-shirt to school, women making moves in state and federal government, and more!
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Pop Culture Fix: I Hope You Want to Talk About Ellen Page and Maybe Some Other Fun Topics
Cookie is (maybe) going to be queer on Empire, Mulan will return to Once Upon a Time, women are still underrepresented on television, and Caitlyn Jenner clarifies her position on marriage equality.
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There Won’t Be A Government Shutdown Over Planned Parenthood (Yet)
A Planned Parenthood government shutdown is stalled for now, Memories Pizza just catered a gay wedding, new report on bisexual visibility at work, and more.
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Meet the Reproductive Rights Group Pushing the Movement Even Further Left
Reproaction was borne out of a simple observation: the pro-choice movement is losing in America.
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25 Women Who Shook Things Up in 2014
From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.
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9 Not-Terrible Things That Happened in Last Night’s Election
We actually won a handful of really important things.
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Apocalypse Now? Democrats Get Wrecked in the 2014 Midterm Elections
When will Hillary Clinton step in and save us from this doom?
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Top Seven Great Things That Happened On Election Night
But seriously, let’s get to the actually important stuff and talk about the lady with the flag in her hair and Donald Trump’s Twitter tantrum.