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Get out of town, or we’ll bury you in debt and seize your home - that's how Pacifica has decided to address RV dwellers.

Once again, the Trump administration is abusing its power to attack access to reproductive health care. It has already gone after insurance coverage for contraception and federal funding for family planning and tried to allow health care institutions and providers to deny patients information and treatment based on personal religious or moral beliefs.

Now the administration has set its sights directly on California’s law requiring that insurance companies treat abortion no differently than other pregnancy-related care. The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold critical federal funding, jeopardizing the health and safety of millions of Californians, if the state doesn’t bend to the Trump administration’s blatant political agenda and drop this requirement.

After winning a record number of popular votes – more than 74 million – Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States.

​​​​​​​Proposition 24 won’t strengthen privacy rights for Californians. Instead, it will undermine protections in current law and increase the burden on people to protect themselves—in ways that will disproportionately harm poor people and people of color. Please vote NO on Prop 24.

To this day, I have not been able to watch the whole video of George Floyd’s execution by police on a Minneapolis street. Nor can I bring myself to view the countless other recordings of Black and brown people who have been unlawfully killed by those sworn to protect and serve the public. I start having flashbacks about my own traumatic police encounter that happened when I was 16 — a still vivid memory 11 years later. I’m reminded of how easily I could have ended up as another name chanted in the streets during Black Lives Matter protests.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazing social justice warrior who made it her life’s work to tear down gender-biased laws. The ACLU of Northern California shares some of our staff’s reflections on her legacy.