07/11/2021
Confederate Statues Taken Down In Charlottesville - News & Guts Media
Several controversial statues in Virginia were taken down today. This included the Confederate statue at the heart of the ‘Unite the Right’ rally. The Washington Post writes: Nearly a century after it was first erected, and almost four years after it triggered a deadly weekend of violence, the s...
05/31/2021
Democrats Walk Out Of Texas Legislature Blocking Passage Of Voting Bill - News & Guts Media
It may be largely symbolic in the end, but Democrats in the Texas House have delayed passage of a restrictive voting bill pushed by Republicans. The Texas Tribune writes: Senate Bill 7, a Republican priority bill, is an expansive piece of legislation that would alter nearly the entire voting process...
03/29/2021
Court Makes it Harder to Prosecute Rapists if Victim was Drunk - News & Guts Media
The Minnesota Supreme Court just made it harder to prosecute rapists. In an unanimous 6-0 decision last Wednesday, the court ruled that someone who is “voluntarily intoxicated” cannot be the victim of felony r**e. The decision centers on whether a woman can consent to s*x when’s she drunk. The...
03/27/2021
Army Veteran Reveals Scars to Fight Anti-Asian Hate - News & Guts Media
‘I’ll show you what patriotism looks like.’ Lee Wong, an elected member of the West Chester (Ohio) Board of Trustees, revealed his scars at a dramatic town hall meeting on Tuesday night in an effort to fight anti-Asian discrimination (watch above). Lee Wong, an elected official in West Chester...
01/25/2021
Biden Repeals Trump Ban on Military Service by Transgender Americans - News & Guts Media
President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise on Monday by revoking Donald Trump’s ban on U.S. military service by openly transgender Americans. The president called his action “the right thing to do.” “Biden had promised to reverse Trump’s ban as one of the first acts of his presidency,”...
12/12/2020
NYT: Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation Of Trump - News & Guts Media
The Manhattan D.A.’s office has significantly escalated its investigation of Donald Trump. Prosecutors have interviewed employees of Trump’s bank and insurance broker recently, according to the New York Times. It remains unclear whether the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Van...
11/25/2020
Joe Biden Delivers Empathetic, Inspirational Thanksgiving Message - News & Guts Media
Joe Biden delivered what was described as “a Thanksgiving address on the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and how we’ll get through this crisis together.” The message expressed both inspiration and empathy. It’s a message quite different than we have heard from the ...
11/16/2020
Barack Obama Says It's Time Donald Trump Puts His Country First - News & Guts Media
Barack Obama is addressing Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election. While promoting his new book “A Promised Land,” the former president told 60 Minutes: My advice to President Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it’...