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List of abortion resources from this article:
https://aidaccess.org/en/
https://www.ifwhenhow.org/about/mission-vision/
https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/sma-contact-the-helpline/
https://www.mahotline.org/
https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy
https://reproaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CPC-Action-Toolkit-2.0.pdf
https://www.ineedana.com/
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“There’s not public benefit to him being incarcerated,” Jack Stollsteimer, the local district attorney said at the time. “This defendant from the beginning has accepted responsibility for his actions, and he has paid the price for them.”
When Bartman pleaded guilty, nearly 1,000 miles away, in Memphis, a Black Lives Matter activist named Pamela Moses was facing her own election-related criminal charges. A few years previously, Moses, who is Black, permanently lost the right to vote after committing a felony. But no one had actually removed Moses from the voter rolls or told her she couldn’t vote. And in 2019, when state officials began looking into her eligibility, a probation officer signed a certificate saying Moses had completed her sentence and was eligible to vote. So she applied to do so. Even though corrections officials conceded they made an error, Moses was indicted anyway.
Moses’ case immediately attracted comparisons to the case of Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for voting while on federal supervised release – similar to probation – in 2016. Probation officials testified that they never told Mason she couldn’t vote, and her ballot was never counted, but a judge found her guilty of illegally voting anyway.
Last summer, Texas officials also arrested Hervis Rogers, who is Black, for voting while on probation for a felony. Rogers, who received national attention after waiting seven hours in line to vote in 2020, also says didn’t know he was ineligible. His case is currently pending and he could face years in prison.
Last year, a 72-year old Republican voter in Pennsylvania was sentenced to probation after putting on sunglasses and trying to impersonate his son at the polls. In Arizona, a 64-year-old woman pleaded guilty to forging her deceased mother’s signature on a mail-in ballot; she was sentenced to probation and could face up to 90 days in jail when she is sentenced in March. In Nevada, a Republican who voted using his dead wife’s ballot and then lied about it pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation.
And in 2018, about a month after Mason was sentenced, a white justice of the peace in the same county pleaded guilty to forging signatures to get on the ballot when he was running for office. He was sentenced to probation.
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Before its construction, former president Donald Trump promised Mexico would pay for construction of the border wall and that it would be “virtually impenetrable”.
Ultimately, 458 miles of new border fencing was paid for by taxpayers at a cost of $11bn and there was evidence as early as 2019 that smugglers were sawing through the boundary with $100 power tools.
By 2021, the government had spent another $2.6m in taxpayer funds to repair the “wall”, and cited the lack of infrastructure infrastructure and personnel as an impediment to keeping it intact.
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‘A roadmap for a coup’: inside Trump’s plot to steal the presidency
Investigations by the US House and Senate have added granular detail that has astonished even seasoned election-watchers in terms of the scale and complexity of Trump’s attempted coup.
A startling memo, a surreal Oval Office encounter – just some of the twists in the unfolding story of Trump’s bid to cling to power, which critics say was no less than an attempted coup
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“The mechanical, ritualistic application of statistics is contributing to a crisis in science. Education, software and peer review have encouraged poor practice–and it is time for statisticians to fight back.”
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01174.x
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David Spiegelhter’s explanations always pack a punch because of who he is.
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Please get vaccinated to save lives.
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Although the exposé doesn’t mention “statistics” at all and “data” only once, its arguments hinge entirely on proper statistical and data scientific practices. It demonstrates what statistics literacy should amount to.
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“David Spiegelhalter is chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge”
Importantly, Spiegelhalter is a statistics professor.
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