2014

2014-01-01 The Affordable Care Act was fully implemented. This legislation was designed to prohibit insurers from denying coverage or charging more based on pre-existing conditions, and to stop lifetime caps. It also mandated a standard level of care for insurance plans.

2014 February

2014-02-04 Facebook rumors claimed Obama ordered $1 billion in disposable coffins for FEMA detention centers in case of an American revolt.

2014-02-19 Google launched smart glasses.

2014 June

2014-06-24 The GOP repeatedly attacked Michelle Obama for her efforts to introduce a nutrition program in schools that leaned heavily towards fresh fruits and vegetables.

2014 July

2014-07-17 When returns on capital exceed economic growth, wealth concentrates inevitably.

2014-07-23 Hungary’s history of media suppression and spyware contracts parallels that of the U.S. in 2025.

2014-07-23 In 2014 JD Vance wrote, “But I’m not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect. I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”.

2014 October

2014-10-10 An Alabama judge made it a crime to cause the death of an unborn child during an act of domestic violence. Once a fetus is recognized as a separate victim, that same logic can be weaponized against the mother.

2014 December

2014-12-12 A woman in Wisconsin quit meth once she found she was pregnant and voluntarily self-reported for help. On the day she self-reported the hospital refused to allow her to leave, forced her to join an emergency hearing for temporary physical custody of her unborn baby, denied her an attorney, and gave her fetus an attorney who immediately took a position adverse to the mother. Tamara Loertscher