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Abortion Rates Keep Rising After Dobbs

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Three years ago..the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and conservative states rushed to pass strict new abortion bans or revive old ones still on the books but unenforceable under Roe. And for a short while, things went according to anti-abortion campaigners’ wishes, with the U.S. abortion rate—which had been declining since the 1990s anyway—continuing to fall.

But over the past couple of years, the U.S. abortion rate has begun to creep back up, according to data from the Society of Family Planning. There were more abortions in the U.S. in 2024 than in either 2023 or 2022, according to the group’s latest #WeCount report.”

https://reason.com/2025/06/23/abortion-rates-keep-rising-after-dobbs/

Mass Deportations Are Putting America’s Food Supply at Risk

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Without fixing H-2A, tougher immigration enforcement is a recipe for empty fields, higher food prices, and failing farms.”

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“Without a legal path to hiring the workers they need, mass deportations will gut the agricultural workforce with no backup plan, hurting farms, driving up grocery prices, and weakening America’s food security. If Washington ignores the warnings from farmers, the real harvest this fall will be shortages and higher costs for everyone.”

https://reason.com/2025/06/23/mass-deportations-are-putting-americas-food-supply-at-risk/

Pam Bondi fires three Jan. 6 prosecutors, sending another chill through DOJ workforce

Posted on by Lone Candle

If fired for appropriately investigating the president or his allies, then this is a great degradation of the rule of law. The U.S. cannot call itself a strong democracy when administrations can punish people for proper legal investigations. Future prosecutors and investigators will have to think twice before investigating any potential crimes by Trump or his friends. 

“At least three federal prosecutors who worked on cases against Jan. 6 rioters were fired Friday by the Justice Department, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials familiar with the dismissals.

A copy of one of the dismissal letters seen by NBC News was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, notifying the recipient that they were “removed from federal service effective immediately.” No reason for the removal was stated in the letter.”…”The Trump administration in late January fired probationary federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump. The administration also demoted some career prosecutors who worked on the Capitol siege investigation.Probationary workers are either recent hires or have taken new positions.The firings on Friday, though, marked the first time that career prosecutors who had worked Jan. 6 cases and who were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bondi-fires-two-jan-225031625.html

A Brief, Bloody History of All the Times the U.S. Caused Chaos in the Middle East

Posted on by Lone Candle

“The Iranian parliament, led by the charismatic Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, was trying to limit the power of the monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Mossadegh nationalized the oil fields, provoking a British blockade, while also clashing with the shah over domestic policy.

Mossadegh trusted the United States as a neutral mediator, but the feeling wasn’t mutual. The Eisenhower administration suspected that Mossadegh was too close to communists, and the CIA supported a coup d’etat by destabilizing the country. In August 1953, after months of protests subsidized by the U.S. and the U.K., monarchist generals in contact with the CIA surrounded Mossadegh’s house with tanks, bringing the shah back to near-absolute power.

Instead of allowing Britain to regain its dominance over Iran, the Eisenhower administration forced Iran to accept an American-led oil consortium. And the CIA helped train the shah’s fearsome new secret police, the SAVAK. When the shah finally fell in 1979, young revolutionaries took revenge by raiding the U.S. embassy, which they called a “den of spies,” and holding everyone inside hostage for more than a year. That began a 46-year conflict that continues to this day.”

https://reason.com/2025/06/23/a-brief-bloody-history-of-all-the-times-the-u-s-caused-chaos-in-the-middle-east/

Capping Student Loans Won’t Destroy Medical Schools

Posted on by Lone Candle

“When you effectively give every prospective medical student a limitless pile of money to draw from, colleges are incentivized to hike costs. If we want to make medical school more affordable, the first step should involve actually incentivizing medical schools to stop overcharging students.”

https://reason.com/2025/06/24/capping-student-loans-wont-destroy-medical-schools/