doctor is a professor at ufc san francisco s collaborative research group. inventing new standards and reproductive, health a professor at advancing new standards of reproductive health. the author of no real choice, how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy. robbyn marty is the operations west alabama woman. center also the author of the new handbook for a post-roe america. i will discuss the latest on the debt ceiling standoff with democratic senator, chris coons of delaware. he says that defaulting would have a quote, catastrophic effect on the country and must be taken off the table. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it s saturday may 20th, as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after just one bat election cycle, the gop would have regrouped and reassess its shortcomings so it could rebound. but it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significan
metaphors, seeing yourself in the protagonists. is a form of resistance. now, we re seeing a new form of resistance. against florida s literary censorship. the publishing giant, penguin random house, free speech organization pin america, some american parents including johnson and perez came together this week and filed a federal lawsuit against florida s escambia county school district courts book bans. alleging that the district and its school board violated the first amendment, by removing these books from shelves. the lawsuit asserts, in part, quote, ensuring that students have access to books on a wide range of topics and expressing a diversity of viewpoints supports a core function of public education, for preparing students to be thoughtful and engaged citizens. in contravention of these basic principles, the lawsuit alleges, escambia county has set up to exclude certain ideas from their school libraries, by removing or restricting books, some of which have been on the shelves