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Joe Biden | Supporters of gun control and firearm safety measures hold a protest rally outside the US Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in State Rifle and Pistol v. City of New York, NY, in Washington, DC, December 2, 2019 (Getty Images/Salon)

After Texas, Republican threatens Biden

Jon Skolnik

"Try to take our guns and you'll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place"

MAY 24: People mourn outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

What we know about school shootings

James Densley, Jillian Peterson - The Conversation

"The key to stopping these tragedies is for society to be alert to these warning signs and act on them immediately"

State troopers stand outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Uvalde gunman legally bought AR rifles

Reese Oxner - The Texas Tribune

Law enforcement provided more details on the shooting and refuted misinformation about the attack

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The GOP only cares about imaginary kids

Amanda Marcotte

For all the talk about "groomers" and "pro-life," the GOP ignores — or exacerbates — threats against real children

Donald Trump and Wayne LaPierre (Getty Images/Salon)

NRA bans guns at Trump's Texas speech

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"If 'guns don't kill people, people kill people,' then why ban them at their own event?"

Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas GOP eased gun laws after massacres

Kate McGee, Jolie McCullough - The Texas Tribune

"We're supposed to keep children safe. And here we’ve done exactly the opposite," said state Sen. Roland Gutierrez

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. (Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

Gosar: TX shooter "transsexual leftist"

Jon Skolnik

The claim appears to have been percolating on 4chan before Rep. Paul Gosar picked it up

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the "Get Out the Vote" rally on Feb. 12, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

AOC slams Dems over "pro-NRA" candidate

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Ocasio-Cortez criticizes party’s “utter failure of leadership” for backing Henry Cuellar over Jessica Cisneros

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Manchin nixes filibuster change for guns

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

West Virginia senator willing to do "anything" except tackle the one thing blocking all gun legislation

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

Newspaper slams Abbott's "cowardice"

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

Chronicle editorial board slams governor's "bald face lie" on shootings after he loosened gun laws

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gallego rips "f**king baby killer" Cruz

Igor Derysh

Cruz calls for guns in schools even after teenage gunman "outgunned" armed police before killing 19 children

Ultrasound of a pregnant woman and test (Getty Images/SabdiZ)

In Myanmar, lessons for life after Roe

James Stout - Undark

In Myanmar, abortion is illegal unless the pregnancy can be proven to be a risk to the life of the birth parent

Gun owner with holstered gun at belt (Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

More guns is the NRA's only answer

Heather Digby Parton

Repeated massacres, even of tiny children, automatically evoke calls to put more guns in schools and on the streets

Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Why won't more seniors get boosters?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News

Poor messaging around booster shots has left millions at risk, researchers say

Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

After Buffalo, Trump threatens civil war

Chauncey DeVega

As the Trump movement builds toward violent conquest, mainstream media keeps pretending it's all a game

Vladimir Putin | A destroyed tank lies in rubble, in central Mariupol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t land

Sophia A. McClennen

Putin isn’t just trying to take over Ukrainian land — he is trying to obliterate Ukrainian identity

Women celebrate after Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez (background) promulgated the abortion law known as Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law in Buenos Aires on Jan. 14, 2021. (EMILIANO LASALVIA/AFP via Getty Images)

How will abortion bans be enforced?

Gillian Kane

In Argentina, midwives were prosecuted. In Brazil, clinics were raided. In Rwanda, hundreds of women went to jail

Donald Trump; NRA President Wayne LaPierre (Getty/Jim Watson)

Trump to address NRA after Tex. shooting

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz are scheduled to speak at the event as well

Young woman holding birth control pills blister pack (Getty Images/Dimitri Otis)

How Christians popularized birth control

Samira Mehta - The Conversation

Over the decades, Protestant leaders have largely disappeared from pro-birth control arguments

Justin Hartley as Kevin, Chrissy Metz as Kate and Sterling K. Brown as Randall on "This Is Us" ( Ron Batzdorff/NBC)

After "This Is Us" who can we cry with?

Melanie McFarland

It's one of the last network dramas that transcends partisanship. When it goes, not much can take its place

Close-up of a stretched smile (Getty Images/Niels Busch)

No one can tell you're acting fake

Matthew Rozsa

Our society values authenticity — but that authenticity can be easily faked, new psychology research shows

Scene outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

21 dead in Texas: "They failed our kids"

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams

Texas community suffers worst school shooting since Sandy Hook: GOP offers prayers; activists demand gun reform

2018 Netflix comedy special "Ricky Gervais: Humanity" (Ray Burmiston/Netflix)

Gervais' TERFy tirade disguised as jokes

Joy Saha

The comedian targets trans women in a series of inflammatory jokes that center on genitalia and rape

(Mj Kroeger / Food52)

How to make chicken stock

Kelly Vaughan - Food52

A very popular Ina Garten recipe — chicken stock — is made with three 5-pound store-bought rotisserie chickens

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