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Andy Borowitz | Obama Urged to Work Closely With People Suing Him

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "President Obama is under increasing pressure to work closely and coöperatively with a group of people who are suing him in federal court, the people suing him confirmed today."
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How Voter Suppression Helped Produce the Lowest Turnout in Decades
Juan Thompson, The Intercept

 

(photo: Eric Gay/AP)

Thompson writes: "Yes, President Barack Obama's poor performance and approval rating undoubtedly played a role in the lower turnout. But the evidence is piling up that systematic voter suppression, including voter ID laws and dubious vote-fraud prevention software, played a significant part in keeping people from casting ballots, as well."
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Mexican AG: Burned Remains Probably Are 43 Missing
Christopher Sherman, Associated Press
Sherman writes: "Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college students have confessed to loading the youths onto dump trucks, murdering them at a landfill, then burning the bodies and dumping the ashen remains into a river, Mexican authorities said Friday."
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Charles Pierce | Low Bridge: The Lingering Death of Health Care Reform
Charles Pierce, Esquire

 

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Pierce writes: "On Tuesday, there was something of an ideological shift in our politics. You may have noticed. Then, yesterday, a federal circuit court of appeals pretty much shoved the question of marriage equality in the direction of the Supreme Court."
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Buy Your Daughter All the Butch Dolls You Want, She Still Won't Be Able to Get an Abortion in Texas

 

Goldie Blox calls itself, 'A company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers.' (photo: Goldieblox.com)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper, The Intercept
Vargas-Cooper writes: "And what is freedom? Freedom is buying a butchy-girl action figure. Not interested? Well, your progressive-leaning parents who mistake 'buying stuff' for collective action might be!"
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Supreme Court to Hear New Obamacare Challenge
Adam Liptak, The New York Times
Liptak writes: "The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act, potentially imperiling President Obama's signature legislative achievement two years after it survived a different Supreme Court challenge by a single vote."
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Genetically Modified Potato Is Approved by USDA
Andrew Pollack, The New York Times
Pollack writes: "A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday."
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