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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition. – Planned Parenthood	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
He (Perry) lost this fight in regular session, and even after they broke the rules he and his allies lost again in front of the entire country last night, they tried every trick in the book, blocking testimony from the very women whose lives would be affected, voting in the middle of the night, shutting down the debate — they couldn’t get this done because Texans would not let them. – Cecile Richards	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you want to blame somebody in terms of how this all unfolded, it’s very clear that China hid this, did not move quickly enough, and now is blocking investigation. – Beth Sanner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Chinese ship illuminated the green laser light twice toward the BRP Malapascua, causing temporary blindness to her crew at the bridge. The Chinese vessel also made dangerous maneuvers by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel’s starboard quarter, the deliberate blocking of the Philippine government ships to deliver food and supplies to our military personnel on board the BRP Sierra Madre is a blatant disregard for, and a clear violation of, Philippine sovereign rights in this part of the West Philippine Sea. – The Chinese ship	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're blocking BIPOC communities from being involved in the conservation movement and BIPOC communities are the ones who experience the impact of environmental calamities first, and disproportionately, we're essentially excluding them from their own rescue in a way. – Glenn Nelson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
SBI Securities seems to be cheating its traders by blocking their transactions and other stock brokers are not different. This needs to be probed, but who would do it when regulator itself protecting them – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheishmpatel_2 1 year ago
Culinary Union's the Republicans that are blocking anything that Nevada Democrats are trying to do. – Victor Villanueva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why won’t Speaker Pelosi stop blocking a bipartisan security bill that passed the Senate unanimously? – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Inexplicably, this urgent and uncontroversial bill has been sitting on Speaker Pelosi's desk ever since, the same The House Democrats whose irresponsible rhetoric has contributed to this dangerous climate are themselves blocking added security for the judges and their spouses and their children. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to remember, voter suppression isn't about stopping every voter, it's about blocking and impeding those voters who are considered inconvenient. – Stacey Abrams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russian Federation claims falsely that the international community's sanctions are to blame for worsening the global food crisis. Sanctions are not blocking Black Sea ports, trapping ships filled with food, and destroying Ukrainian roads and railways, russia is. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The theory of Elon Musk is that if shareholders tender to that condition, Elon Musk hasn't violated the poison pill because Elon Musk's not closing it... and if enough people tender Elon Musk can say to the company,' Look, I have the shares ready to be given to me, the only reason they can't is because you, the board, is blocking the will of the shareholders. – Ele Klein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While the U.N. Security Council can reach majority opinion and sometimes consensus on pressing international issues, there are glaring times when it is a complete failure. This is one such case, with Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, there is no way to avoid Moscow blocking a resolution that would condemn Russian aggression and support a ceasefire that would end to this horrific war. – Kelly Craft	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're in a serious crisis situation right now, and we're in an information warfare situation where maybe suspending these accounts, if not banning them for all eternity, would make a lot of sense, for now [ the platforms ] have stuck to a more free-speech approach rather than a blocking approach, which I also understand, but again, we're in a very different situation when it comes to what's happening in Ukraine right now. – Alina Polyakova	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout. … It shouldn't take place on a law student campus in the law school classroom. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The world will hold Russia accountable, president Putin’s actions demand a firm response. That’s why we’re imposing full blocking sanctions on VEB and Russia’s military bank, cutting off Russia from western financing, imposing sanctions on elites, and more. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Senator Johnson is blocking this committee from proceeding on a nominee Senator Johnson recommended to President President Joe Biden. – Dick Durbin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But blocking off the busiest border crossing between our two nations is not ok. So how do we get at least a lane of traffic open in each direction to allow trucks to continue to flow to get goods to market in the US ? – Drew Dilkens	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I support changing the Senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking actions on voting rights. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've been having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months. I'm tired of being quiet, i support changing the Senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking actions on voting rights. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I support changing the Senate rules in whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of Senators from blocking action on voting rights, when it comes to protecting majority rule in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Fair Fight Action's work with dedicated voting rights activists throughout Georgia has led to enormous gains in voter registrations in our state -- particularly among voters of color, who have helped spearhead advocacy for critical federal voting rights legislation to protect our democracy while also blocking Republicans' most dangerous anti-voter proposals in state legislatures, now, with the GOP's voter suppression campaign ramping up in state houses across the country, Fair Fight Action is proud to join with Michelle Obama and When We All Vote alongside other civil and voting rights organizations to fight back against Republicans' anti-voter agenda. We're ready to work with our allies to recruit new volunteers and keep organizing Americans to push for the Senate to pass new federal protections for voting rights at a time when we need them more than ever. – Hillary Holley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We know people have been stopped for extraordinary time periods leading up to these closure areas, but we are clearing trucks one by one to break through this blockage, and we will get to each driver and restore traffic flow, crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes. – Kelly Hannon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes, this is also occurring where traffic remains stopped on Interstate 95 northbound at mile marker 117 in Spotsylvania County. – Kelly Hannon	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

He (Perry) lost this fight in regular session, and even after they broke the rules he and his allies lost again in front of the entire country last night, they tried every trick in the book, blocking testimony from the very women whose lives would be affected, voting in the middle of the night, shutting down the debate — they couldn’t get this done because Texans would not let them.

– Cecile Richards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you want to blame somebody in terms of how this all unfolded, it’s very clear that China hid this, did not move quickly enough, and now is blocking investigation.

– Beth Sanner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese ship illuminated the green laser light twice toward the BRP Malapascua, causing temporary blindness to her crew at the bridge. The Chinese vessel also made dangerous maneuvers by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel’s starboard quarter, the deliberate blocking of the Philippine government ships to deliver food and supplies to our military personnel on board the BRP Sierra Madre is a blatant disregard for, and a clear violation of, Philippine sovereign rights in this part of the West Philippine Sea.

– The Chinese ship

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're blocking BIPOC communities from being involved in the conservation movement and BIPOC communities are the ones who experience the impact of environmental calamities first, and disproportionately, we're essentially excluding them from their own rescue in a way.

– Glenn Nelson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

SBI Securities seems to be cheating its traders by blocking their transactions and other stock brokers are not different. This needs to be probed, but who would do it when regulator itself protecting them

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

Culinary Union's the Republicans that are blocking anything that Nevada Democrats are trying to do.

– Victor Villanueva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why won’t Speaker Pelosi stop blocking a bipartisan security bill that passed the Senate unanimously?

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Inexplicably, this urgent and uncontroversial bill has been sitting on Speaker Pelosi's desk ever since, the same The House Democrats whose irresponsible rhetoric has contributed to this dangerous climate are themselves blocking added security for the judges and their spouses and their children.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to remember, voter suppression isn't about stopping every voter, it's about blocking and impeding those voters who are considered inconvenient.

– Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian Federation claims falsely that the international community's sanctions are to blame for worsening the global food crisis. Sanctions are not blocking Black Sea ports, trapping ships filled with food, and destroying Ukrainian roads and railways, russia is.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The theory of Elon Musk is that if shareholders tender to that condition, Elon Musk hasn't violated the poison pill because Elon Musk's not closing it... and if enough people tender Elon Musk can say to the company,' Look, I have the shares ready to be given to me, the only reason they can't is because you, the board, is blocking the will of the shareholders.

– Ele Klein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While the U.N. Security Council can reach majority opinion and sometimes consensus on pressing international issues, there are glaring times when it is a complete failure. This is one such case, with Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, there is no way to avoid Moscow blocking a resolution that would condemn Russian aggression and support a ceasefire that would end to this horrific war.

– Kelly Craft

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're in a serious crisis situation right now, and we're in an information warfare situation where maybe suspending these accounts, if not banning them for all eternity, would make a lot of sense, for now [ the platforms ] have stuck to a more free-speech approach rather than a blocking approach, which I also understand, but again, we're in a very different situation when it comes to what's happening in Ukraine right now.

– Alina Polyakova

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout. … It shouldn't take place on a law student campus in the law school classroom.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The world will hold Russia accountable, president Putin’s actions demand a firm response. That’s why we’re imposing full blocking sanctions on VEB and Russia’s military bank, cutting off Russia from western financing, imposing sanctions on elites, and more.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Senator Johnson is blocking this committee from proceeding on a nominee Senator Johnson recommended to President President Joe Biden.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But blocking off the busiest border crossing between our two nations is not ok. So how do we get at least a lane of traffic open in each direction to allow trucks to continue to flow to get goods to market in the US ?

– Drew Dilkens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I support changing the Senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking actions on voting rights.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've been having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months. I'm tired of being quiet, i support changing the Senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking actions on voting rights.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I support changing the Senate rules in whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of Senators from blocking action on voting rights, when it comes to protecting majority rule in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fair Fight Action's work with dedicated voting rights activists throughout Georgia has led to enormous gains in voter registrations in our state -- particularly among voters of color, who have helped spearhead advocacy for critical federal voting rights legislation to protect our democracy while also blocking Republicans' most dangerous anti-voter proposals in state legislatures, now, with the GOP's voter suppression campaign ramping up in state houses across the country, Fair Fight Action is proud to join with Michelle Obama and When We All Vote alongside other civil and voting rights organizations to fight back against Republicans' anti-voter agenda. We're ready to work with our allies to recruit new volunteers and keep organizing Americans to push for the Senate to pass new federal protections for voting rights at a time when we need them more than ever.

– Hillary Holley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know people have been stopped for extraordinary time periods leading up to these closure areas, but we are clearing trucks one by one to break through this blockage, and we will get to each driver and restore traffic flow, crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes.

– Kelly Hannon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes, this is also occurring where traffic remains stopped on Interstate 95 northbound at mile marker 117 in Spotsylvania County.

– Kelly Hannon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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