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14 Aug 2020, 1:12 pm by ACLU
”“What was remarkable and important for me to discover was that the history I was telling lives inside many of the women whom we recognize as of our own movement, like Stacey Abrams or Ayanna Pressley,” says Jones. [read post]
20 May 2024, 4:38 pm by Hannah Zhao
The seven page letter, from Senators Ed Markey, Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren, and Representative Ayanna Pressley, begins by questioning the “accuracy and effectiveness” of ShotSpotter, and then outlines some of the latest evidence of its abysmal performance, including multiple studies showing false positive rates—i.e. incorrectly classifying non-gunshot sounds as gunshots—at 70% or higher. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 9:58 am
I can see why Pressley might want to deal with her bad feelings about baldness by making people look right at it. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 10:37 am
I thought of Peck’s argument when confronted this week by a speech by Democratic congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.... 'We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 7:08 pm by Tom Smith
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and others, to announce Thursday they were reintroducing a nonbinding measure calling on Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in debt per federal student loan borrower and nix any tax implications. [read post]
18 Dec 2021, 4:32 am by SHG
That’s not some random nutjob, but Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of the Massachusetts 7th Congressional District. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 6:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) introduced the “Electronic Currency And Secure Hardware Act” (ECASH Act) to direct the Treasury Secretary to develop and issue an electronic version of the U.S. dollar, with an eye to preserving privacy and anonymity in transactions. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:13 am by Rich Vetstein
Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, a supporter of the measure, said that the bill “was not supported by the Judiciary Committee…but where it stands now is not promising. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 8:11 am by Gabrielle Wast
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) also spoke out, saying that “CBP hastily put Shahab on a flight out of Boston Logan [without] due process, violating a court order. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 8:52 am by Tom Smith
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York—have been especially vocal in their criticism of Mrs. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 3:03 pm by Matthew Guariglia
Tell your senators and representatives they must co-sponsor and pass the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020, introduced by Senators Markey and Markley and Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, and Yvette Clarke. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 11:26 am by Nathan Sheard
The bill is sponsored by Senators Markey and Merkley and Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, and Yvette Clarke. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 4:32 pm
Councilor-at-Large Ayanna Pressley, who is one of the lawmakers spearheading the act, called the problem of inadequate bicyclist safety a “public health issue,” said The Globe. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 2:45 am by Allan Blutstein
Some of the freshmen members—such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley—weren’t terribly probing in their lines of questioning, or they seemed to veer off into topics unrelated to the FOIA, as Kevin mentioned. [read post]
20 May 2019, 3:51 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In March, when Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts proposed a 16-year-old voting age amendment to House Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill, it failed 126 to 305, with almost half of her fellow Democrats voting against it and only one Republican in support. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 6:41 am by John L. Culhane, Jr.
Earlier this month, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, together with Democratic Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Katie Porter, sent a letter to the Department of Education seeking information about possible ED plans to use ISAs in federal higher education programs and expressing concern that ISAs create the potential for discriminatory practices. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 9:06 am by Tom Smith
Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ro Khanna, and Pramila Jayapal elected last November. [read post]