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🥶This year, along with the crisp, cool autumn air will come something not so sweet: record-high prices to heat our homes. Under this administration, costs for natural gas, the most common source for heating homes, have spiked. This isn’t a few extra dollars that families have to spend on bacon, cereal, or diapers at the grocery store. While the 13-year high on inflation was enough to raise prices at Dollar Tree, the increase in home heating energy costs could amount to thousands of dollars for the fall and winter months.
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“It is up to us if we want a better country. It is up to us if we want more liberty. Join me and the Independent Women’s Network, and let’s fight together to make this a better country for future generations.”
- Lisa Boothe, Fox News commentator
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Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing all U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the FBI to meet with law enforcement leaders across the country to collaborate in investigating parents who protest Critical Race Theory and other school policies. The announcement comes a week after the National School Board Association requested federal assistance from the president to combat “the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” DOJ seems poised to use the threat of prosecution to squelch protest and suppress dissent. Read more.
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Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that only 194,000 jobs were added in September, as the labor market struggles to recover despite schools having reopened for in-person learning and government disincentives to work having come to an end. The overall unemployment rate fell 0.4 points to 4.8%, as jobs growth fell far below expectations of 488,000 jobs. The unemployment rates for adult women fell to 4.2% as over 380,000 women left the labor force. Share this story.
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Last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Election Integrity Protection Act of 2021, which standardizes state voting procedures with respect to issues such as polling hours, voting by car, and voting by mail.
Which of the following about the new Texas election integrity law is not true?
A. It expands hours for Sunday voting, a day some black congregations use for turnout drives.
B. It bans voters with physical disabilities from driving up to the curb of the polling place and voting.
C. It attempts to address ballot fraud committed against older voters in nursing homes.
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 She Thinks Podcast
- New Episode: Erica Komisar, a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parental guidance expert, joined She Thinks to discuss how to be present with young kids and her book, Chicken Little, The Sky Isn't Falling. Listen to it here.
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- Next Episode: On this Friday’s episode, Cynthia Monteleone, a world champion track athlete who specializes in the 400 meter, joins She Thinks to tackle the tough topic of how allowing male-bodied athletes to compete with female athletes puts women’s physical safety at risk. Hear it here.
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Facebook is taking a lot of heat following revelations from a former employee that it puts business ahead of doing what’s best for society (however, the whistleblower defines “best"). Beyond algorithms and content moderation, the tech company faces other criticism about the lack of diversity among the people working there.
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In May, the Department of Interior dropped its “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful 2021” plan. If the plan proceeds, it’ll shut out true conservationists from stakeholder discussions and give special interests undue influence over natural resources management.
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