Me & Evan McMorris-Santoro reported in March about how new challenges keep the #Uncommitted movement running, despite its original intentions to disband post-MI primaries. With the DNC now considering a hybrid format for Aug , organizers' antennas have shot straight up.notus.org/biden-2024/unc…

'People who allege misconduct [at human rights nonprofits] can also face a very different kind of accusation from their colleagues: that they may be spies or influence agents for the Chinese government attempting to destroy a righteous cause.'

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Sen. Merkley says the objections are coming down to the youth tech regulation bills KOSA and COPPA — holdouts trying to get leadership to commit to putting them up for a floor vote.

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Biden has cranked out 35 big regulations related to climate/environment in the last 3 months. That's a staggering amount at a crazy speed.

Deadline is looming, lawsuits are threatening, activists are cheering. Broke down the rush for NOTUS notus.org/whitehouse/bid…

After a loss on FISA, the unlikely coalition of privacy-minded senators have a new target: TSA’s facial recognition program.

“The potential for misuse of this technology extends far beyond airport security checkpoints”

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Lobbyists, parents and opponents are geared up for a fight over KOSA this week — even as Senate leadership insists “non germane” amendments are unlikely to make it on the must-pass FAA bill. NOTUS

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NEW: Activists are happy to see Biden embracing abortion. But they’re frustrated by his campaign’s focus on one kind of abortion: medically necessary ones — the “good” kind, as one put it

“He’s actually furthering abortion stigma,” one advocate told me

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Public health officials are reigniting a legal fight with the White House. They say Biden has missed too many deadlines to ban menthols.

“I think the Biden administration is afraid of seeming racist,” an attorney involved in the lawsuit said. notus.org/biden-2024/bid…

NOTUS stays late and does the work on the Capitol beat. Matt Fuller is arriving at great team on the come up.

Progressives call on Florida Democrats to cancel Senator John Fetterman fundraising keynote Saturday.

FETTERMAN (who also called student protesters 'pup-tent intifada' this week) responded: 'I absolutely celebrate the diversity of thoughts and beliefs within our party'

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FL AHCA issued guidance today on the state's 6-week abortion ban, listing exceptions.

An OBGYN doesn't think the rules will help: 'They just use so much inaccurate and stigmatizing language ... This doesn’t clarify the majority of situations.'

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Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida wants Florida Democrats to cancel John Fetterman as key note speaker at the Leadership Blue gala over his “unwavering support” for Israel post 10/7 in Gaza

The Vice President Kamala Harris visited #Jacksonville to denounce Florida's Heartbeat Protection Act, which abolishes abortion after six weeks.

Jacksonville Today was in the room as Kamala Harris shared her remarks to an energetic crowd of Floridians.

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Duval school district rebuffs pressure to end relationship with Jacksonville Public Library - Jacksonville Today buff.ly/3WiUCMl

Florida Democrats are rallying against the state's new six-week abortion ban, but there is little agreement about how to effectively counter the GOP's anti-abortion stance.

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FL Dems are unified in their opposition to the six-week abortion ban taking effect today, but don’t all agree on how to harness the backlash politically.

“I really question the wisdom of overly ‘partisanizing’ that particular issue.”

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As Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect, Rick Scott tells me that if he were 'writing' a bill to ban abortion, he would do a 15-week ban

He then adds that he would though sign into law any anti-abortion bill, including a 6-week ban

In Florida, abortion is illegal for anyone past 6 weeks.

I met a woman who learned she was pregnant a week and a half ago. Today, at 6 weeks & 0 days, she got an abortion.

She was the sole patient the clinic treated. The doctor came in just for her.

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NEW: Border communities in Texas have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems
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More than 25,000 women traveled to Florida for abortions over the past five years, many from Southeastern states. But with a six-week abortion ban days from becoming law, where will women with unwanted pregnancies go now? Pics by Luis Santana Tampa Bay Times

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