Rachel Leingang
Reporter at Freelance
Reporter, Guardian US at The Guardian
Democracy reporter at @GuardianUS. Past: @arizonaagenda, @azcentral, @azcapitoltimes. Signal: rachelleingang.241
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang
The US supreme court has sided with a Catholic charity group in a case that tested whether the charity and other religious groups should be exempt from unemployment taxes. In Catholic Charities Bureau Inc v Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, Catholic Charities argued it should not be required to pay unemployment taxes because it is a religious organization.
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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang
A trial underway in Colorado could add to the financial problems facing the pillow salesman and prominent election denier Mike Lindell and will serve as another test of whether defamation law can be effective to fight false claims about elections. Opening statements began Tuesday in a case brought by Eric Coomer, who formerly worked in security and voting technology strategy for voting machine company Dominion.
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3 days ago |
portside.org | Rachel Leingang
Mary Jane Meadows runs one of the longest-running Indivisible chapters, started after Trump’s 2016 win. The group, based in north-east Mississippi, provided a life raft in a deep-red part of the country, where people were initially scared to talk about their distaste for the president. She was not previously politically active.
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang
The immigration status of the man who allegedly attacked people with a makeshift flamethrower and other incendiary devices at an event for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, has become further fodder for the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.
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1 week ago |
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Across the country, GOP lawmakers are eroding church and state separation by passing laws that favor Christianity. They want these laws to go before the US Supreme Court to overturn separation entirely. We zoom in on Oklahoma to show what this looks like. https://t.co/e6BGKDW9NV
Jo Ellis was not involved in any way with the DC helicopter crash. But the Virginia National Guard pilot, who is trans, got pulled into a web of false claims by people looking for a scapegoat, especially one that fit the anti-DEI narrative. https://t.co/KsU1HmnqZx
“Is the goal to demonstrate you are an activist and to self-actualize, or is the goal to actually effect change? There can be overlap between those two things, don’t get me wrong, but I care far more about the second. My goal is to win."
the @guardian has launched a new series on democracy & justice. stoked to write on the threats the oil & gas industry (& the concentration of wealth and power) pose our first piece is on the future of protest. by @rachelleingang @adriawalkr and me https://t.co/BJwjNp5LFh