At grave risk, and in story after story this book chronicles how powerful players have hijacked the language of science to the detriment of we, the people, the essential bedrock of our democracy. Attacks on science and democracy are not new, though todays Political Climate brings them into sharp relief. Were witnessing the denial of facts and evidence, the dismantling of science and scientific the expertise in our federal agencies and the rollback of evidencebased public protections. The bottom line is that when science is sidelined in government decisions, people get hurt. And this assault poses an additional threat to our democracy. Indeed, the very fundamental institutions of our democracy our elected officials, appointed officials, our laws, our regulatory system, even the courts are under threat. Government is increasingly responding to the interests of the few over the interests of the many. Trust and confidence in our governmental and Public Institutions are eroding. Voter suppr
country hadn t heard of so we zephyr, but as the montana legislation was in session that year, she was paying close attention to the bills that were introduced, and she was fervently tweeting about them. zephyr is a trans woman. she was enraged by something called s b to 80, a piece of legislation which would ve made it difficult for transgender people to update their birth certificate. she commented on twitter, quote, having my birth certificate updated, and having it remove my that name, meaning the name that a transgender was given at birth, but no longer goes by, is one of the greatest joys i ve experienced. moments later, the bill passed the state senate by the slimmest of margins with a vote of 26 to 24. zephyr took note and wrote, quote, it would only take one person to have protected my community from discrimination. if that doesn t make it clear that we need trans representation and government, i don t know what will. ten minutes later, she tweeted again, quote, i am
mccarthy is insisting that he will have the numbers but the moment he does not because the number of the members simply are not decided. yet they are still reviewing the details is 320 page bill released just yesterday, something that has been the product of negotiations internally among republicans for the past several weeks that would raise the national debt ceiling by $1.5. trillion of debt ceiling already at 31.4 trillion, including in that a range of conservative policy priorities and cuts across the board and domestic programs, including, including a adding a plan to block president biden s loan forgiveness program initiative that rescinding new funding for the internal revenue service was part of the democrats inflation reduction act that was enacted last congress would also boost new provide new work requirements for social safety net programs like medicaid. but even as including some of those provisions intended to appease conservatives, some conservatives are not th
a gunman opened fire inside a medical building. he killed his orthopedic surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and another patient. he then shows hi life. he purchased a gun at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. less than three hours later, he went on a shooting rampage. our training led us to take immediate action without hesitation. that s exactly what officers do. that s what they did in this instant. law enforcement across the nation is dealing with increased violence among people. this is yet another act of violence upon an american city. president biden will address the nation tonight about the gun violence crisis in this country. there have been 233 mass shootings this year. it s june 2nd. that count is according to the gun violence archive. it defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people are injured or killed in a shooting. in the eight days since the uvalde elementary school massacre, there have been 20 mass shootings since. we have reporters cover mass s
off. trump s endorsement didn t make any difference to me. i totally respect president trump, but i m a georgian and i have opinions. a massacre in buffalo shakes the country. white supremacy is a poison. no evil racist person will scare me out of many i community. did america s so-called racial reckoning actually change anything? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. two of the biggest primary contests are playing out in georgia and pennsylvania. if the polls are right, georgia republicans are about to deal former president donald trump his biggest political defeat of the year. governor brian kemp is on his way to what looks like a landslide victory despite 18 months of trump attacking him for not helping him steal the 2020 election. trump recruited an opponent, ex-senator david perdue. what matters is georgians. that s what i m running on. i ve been do