Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, advocates and politicians are calling on states and congress to codify Roe. But what does this actually mean for abortion rights?
April 19, 2021
Last week, Mastercard, Inc., announced new rules for banks processing credit card payments to pornography websites, designed to combat child pornography and sex trafficking. Unfortunately, for a country whose corporate overlords refuse (or are unable) to distinguish between intrinsic evil and prudential policy judgments, this promising development will likely also serve as a beta test to further attack conservative groups.
In December, Mastercard and Visa banned the use of their credit cards on the Pornhub website after The New York Times ran a column by Nicholas Kristof detailing the availability of child abuse and rape videos on that site. Mastercard explained its decision by confirming that Pornhub, a subsidiary of MindGeek, had violated the company’s standards by providing “unlawful content.” Visa quickly followed suit, announcing that it too had instructed “the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to suspend processing of payments through the Visa n
Presidency in Review: Which Campaign Promises Did Trump Uphold?
By Aine Givens, Stacker News
On 1/9/21 at 8:00 AM EST
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Donald Trump made numerous promises about what he would do when he reached the White House.
Stacker compiled data from PolitiFact s Trump-o-Meter, which continually tracks the promises President Donald Trump made in his 2016 campaign for president. For four years, PolitiFact s reporters kept track of the promises and researched whether each promise was kept, broken, compromised on, stalled, or in the works. Each slide provides a description of the promise, the status of the promise, a link to more information from PolitiFact s researchers on the promise, and our own research into the promise.