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- 2025/01/29 [L..T] Column: The population exodus from antiabortion states is underway and may be picking up steam Research published this month by economists at Georgia Tech validates long-standing predictions that strict abortion bans in many states would drive a mass exodus to more supportive states. Specifically, the paper shows «that by mid-2023, the 13 states with total bans had suffered a combined net loss of an estimated 36,000 residents per quarter, or more than 144,000 per year.»
- 2025/01/29 [L..T] A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Youth Care Ban Executive Order «A week after a flurry of executive orders, Trump is still signing orders to target the trans community. The latest, released Tuesday, tries to ban trans youth care nationwide.»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] The President of the Working Class «When the Teamsters get crushed by the new NLRB, I’m sure O'Brien will so good as a white man.» Mostly linked here for the comments section.
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] A new Supreme Court case would force the government to create religious public schools «The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least in the context of public schools.» / Each of the cases seeks to force state governments to fund an existing religious public school.
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump’s billionaires will accelerate American decline. Dr. Richard Wolff explains how. «n the campaign trail and beyond, Donald Trump and MAGA right have repeatedly presented themselves as the true representatives of America's beleaguered working class. And yet, like the Capitol rotunda on Inauguration Day, Trump's administration is filled with billionaires, mega-millionaires, and corporate oligarchs whose staggering wealth is increasing year after year while working people struggle to get by. How are people, voters and nonvoters alike, supposed to square this seeming contradiction?»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION «Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.» Thus begins a series of horrendous lies and harmful orders.
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Over 15 Navajo Nation Members Swept Up in Trump Immigration Raids «The exact number of Diné/Navajo Nation members who have been detained is unknown, but there have been at least 15 documented cases of people being stopped at their homes or workplaces over the past week, CNN reported on Monday. These individuals were questioned or detained by federal law enforcement, who demanded they provide proof of citizenship.»
- 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump Fires NLRB Leaders Jennifer Abruzzo and Gwynne Wilcox «Donald Trump is forcing out top leaders of the US labor board, ushering in a swift reboot of workplace law enforcement while testing the limits of presidential authority.» / «Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said she was fired via email late on Monday. Gwynne Wilcox, who was one of the labor board's two Democratic members, said she was ousted, too.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Trump signs executive order barring transgender people from military service «President Donald Trump signed four executive orders pertaining to the military Monday, including one barring transgender people from enlisting and serving openly and another cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the armed services.» The order's text lies, of course, about many things.
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Death in the Desert «No one will take responsibility for these deaths. Not U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Surely not my local Sheriff Kim Stewart, whose office refuses to respond to reports of dead migrants. "I have crimes that need investigation where I know there are victims," she told KTSM in November. "So I kind of have to choose how I prioritize some of this, don’t I?"» / «She assumes there are no crime victims among these dead. To admit otherwise might call into question U.S. immigration policy.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Trump tells federal employees, "You're fired!" But wait – not so fast. «As president, he is threatening to cut 50,000 federal positions. There will be federal employees whom he replaces as part of the usual political turnover, and others whom he will fire as retribution for being disloyal. But when it comes to firing most federal employees, it isn’t as easy as it appears on television. Federal employees are protected by a system that upholds accountability and fairness – values that cannot be undermined for political gain.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' – posts and users being blocked «Facebook is banning posts that mention various Linux-related topics, sites, or groups. Some users may also see their accounts locked or limited when posting Linux topics. Major open-source operating system news, reviews, and discussion site DistroWatch is at the center of the controversy, as it seems to be the first to have noticed that Facebook's Community Standards had blackballed it.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 2025 «We renew our resolve to end anti-Semitism and religious bigotry of all forms. We proudly reassert our strong bonds of friendship with the State of Israel.» This order also describes Israel as "our mighty friend". On the up-side, this should give pause to Holocaust denialists who would seek to ally with Trump/MAGA (if logic prevails at all, which is definitely not assumable with that mindset).
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/the-iron-dome-for-america/ Trump wants to beef up US ability to detect and intercept incoming missiles. This is a reasonable goal (especially with Putin's recent belligerence), but it also seems at odds with his other stated goal of cutting spending, if submitted plans are to be implemented.
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness This order forces the military to observe birth-assigned gender and denies gender-affirming medical care of any kind, apparently on the theory that transgender soldiers are somehow less tough than cis soldiers. This will result in a large number of trans military personnel leaving the military, reducing readiness.
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Restoring America’s Fighting Force «he Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall abolish every DEI office within the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security with regard to the USCG, respectively, including any vestiges of DEI offices, such as sub-offices, programs, elements, or initiatives established to promote a race-based preferences system that subverts meritocracy, perpetuates unconstitutional discrimination, and promotes divisive concepts or gender ideology.» Increasing military readiness is a reasonable goal, but then why did he ban trans people from serving?
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] REINSTATING SERVICE MEMBERS DISCHARGED UNDER THE MILITARY’S COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE This order reinstates any service members who were discharged solely because they refused to be vaccinated against COVID. This requirement had already been rescinded on 2023-01-10 by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, for reasons that are unclear; this EO makes that amnesty retroactive.
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Moving On from Legacy Media «We will need this "new" journalism going forward, because the dismal truth is that our traditional news sources have sold us out. While they remain somewhat able to report breaking news, they’ve become unreliable narrators who can’t be trusted to tell us either what happened or what it means.» / «So we have to look outside the mainstream – to bloggers, podcasters, and other more tech-forward outlets – to get the information we need. It will be a long slog.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES «Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion «The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] Republican Lawmakers in Florida Rebel Against DeSantis in Rare Power Move «In a special session on Monday, leaders seemed to be declaring their independence from a governor who has wielded so much power that legislative sessions have become largely predictable rubber stamps.»
- 2025/01/27 [L..T] From Meme to Controversy: Australia's journey with Elon Musk has escalated quickly «Let me tell you about a mural in Australia that got attention for reasons far different than the artist likely intended. It was a mural of Elon Musk pointing at Doge, the Shiba Inu meme.» [...] It's not clear what brought the mural into existence, but days after Musk's Hitler-salute on national TV, the mural was first subtly altered to add what could have been a shadow under Musk's nose but was also clearly a Hitler-mustache, and then was later more obviously defaced with hastily-sprayed words including "fascist", "boo", "loser", "Nazi cunt", and "Nazis fuck off" -- words reflecting the sentiments of many in Australia and worldwide.
- 2025/01/26 [L..T] Dr. Phil Is Shadowing Trump's ICE Raids for Some Reason «Television personality Dr. Phil scored exclusive access to the start of President Donald Trump's long-promised mass deportation efforts on Sunday, and he made sure to get it all on camera. » / «The longtime talk show host, whose full name is Phil McGraw, aired live coverage of a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Chicago on his streaming platform MeritTV over the weekend.» / «He was joined by Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, who was recently appointed acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).»
- 2025/01/26 [L..T] 'Quad-demic' Hitting US With Flu, COVID-19, RSV, Norovirus Surging The U.S. is currently going through surges of not one, not two, not three, but four different viruses. That’s prompted folks to nickname the current situation a "quad-demic." Here’s what you can do to protect yourself.
- 2025/01/24 [L..T] COUNCIL TO ASSESS THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY «There are serious concerns of political bias in FEMA. Indeed, at least one former FEMA responder has stated that FEMA managers directed her to avoid homes of individuals supporting the campaign of Donald J. Trump for President. And it has lost mission focus, diverting limited staff and resources to support missions beyond its scope and authority, spending well over a billion dollars to welcome illegal aliens.» Fact-check needed...
- 2025/01/24 [L..T] EMERGENCY MEASURES TO PROVIDE WATER RESOURCES IN CALIFORNIA AND IMPROVE DISASTER RESPONSE IN CERTAIN AREAS «The Secretary of the Interior, including through the Bureau of Reclamation, shall utilize his discretion to operate the CVP to deliver more water and produce additional hydropower, including by increasing storage and conveyance, and jointly operating federal and state facilities, to high-need communities, notwithstanding any contrary State or local laws. The Bureau of Reclamation shall take all available measures to ensure that State agencies – including the California Department of Water Resources – do not interfere with the Bureau of Reclamation's operation of the project to maximize water delivery to high-need communities or otherwise [...]»
- 2025/01/24 [L..T] ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT «For nearly five decades, the Congress has annually enacted the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that prevent Federal funding of elective abortion, reflecting a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice. However, the previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs. It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.»
- 2025/01/24 [L..T] Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the United States for International Development «I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.» Also revokes the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021 and reinstates the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017 (to be researched).
- 2025/01/23 [L..T] ICE agents raid NJ seafood store, detaining U.S. military veteran «U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a New Jersey seafood store on Thursday, according to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.» / «The store owner told PIX11 News that a U.S. military veteran was among the people detained.»
- 2025/01/21 [L..T] A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order «...Trump signed an executive order [...] aimed squarely at dismantling legal and social recognition of transgender people across the United States.» / «This far-reaching order impacts nearly every aspect of transgender lives, from federal identification to education, healthcare, and workplace protections.»
- 2025/01/20 [L..T] DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT «This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.» It's difficult to find any part of this that isn't a blatant lie.
- 2024/01/04 [L..T] Net Zero: Three graphs that might make you skeptical «Despite North Carolina slowly injuring itself by trying to eliminate oil, coal, and natural gas as energy sources, the scientific basis for “net zero” (the complete elimination of fossil-fuel usage) is based more on "general agreement" than hard data.»
- 2023/07/20 [L..T] RFK Jr. appears before Congress as his comments spreading misinformation draw scrutiny «All eyes are on the Republican primary this election cycle, but one Democratic underdog has been getting attention for his controversial comments spreading misinformation on a range of subjects. Lisa Desjardins reports on how Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. captured the attention of some voters and Geoff Bennett discusses Kennedy's vaccine stances with Dr. Paul Offitt.»
- 2023/07/19 [L..T] RFK Jr. Vows to Back Dollar With Bitcoin, Exempt BTC From Taxes «The Democratic presidential hopeful also reiterated a May stance defending the right to self-custody bitcoin, run blockchain nodes at home and promising industry-neutral energy regulation.»
- 2023/06/23 [L..T] RFK Jr. calls for DIPLOMACY with Russia instead of “forever war” in speech «Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.) called for diplomacy and de-escalation with Russia instead of a "forever war" in a speech mirroring that of his uncle's, former President John F. Kennedy (JFK).»
- 2023/06/22 [L..T] Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. «I’ve come to believe I have a responsibility to write about Kennedy because of my own shameful role in sending his toxic vaccine views into public discourse: I was the Salon editor, in partnership with Rolling Stone, who 18 years ago published his mendacious, error-ridden piece on how thimerosal in childhood vaccines supposedly led to a rise in autism, and how public health officials covered it up. From the day “Deadly Immunity” went up on Salon.com, we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data. Some of his sources turned out to be known crackpots.»
- 2022/12/05 [L..T] A Parent Speaks Out After Armed Fascists Force School Drag Event's Cancelation «The father of two children who attended Red Oak Community School spoke with us about the school and its values, and the impact of the terrorism that resulted in the cancelation of the Holi-Drag Storytime event.»
- 2022/12/04 [L..T] Armed Fascist Group Terrorizes Church, Shuts Down Youth Story Hour «Armed fascists successfully intimidated a church in Ohio into cancelling a Drag Queen Story Hour event yesterday. A group of masked fascists paraded in paramilitary style chanting “Life, Liberty, Victory” while others wore camouflage and military gear. Many openly carried long guns, and protest signs accused organizers and participants of this costume, dance, and story-reading event of child abuse. Terrorized participants were forced to make the call to cancel in light of lackluster police involvement in security and fears from performers that they would not be safe.»
- 2022/12/03 [L..T] Drag storytime organizers, police offer different explanations amid Proud Boys protest «The Red Oak Community School canceled its Holi-drag storytime Saturday morning following promises of protest from the Proud Boys and what school officials described as only a "casual, distant acknowledgement" of the event from police. / The Columbus Division of Police and city officials, however, said they'd been in communication with organizers since they'd learned about the event weeks ago.» These two accounts do not actually contradict each other, though the wording implies that they do. Later in the article, though, police statements directly contradict what the school said about who first contacted whom.
- 2022/11/25 [L..T] WPATH Experts Rebuke NYT on Puberty Blockers «On November 22 the medical organization responsible for setting standards for providers of gender affirming care, WPATH, released a statement in response to the terrible New York Times piece on puberty blockers. Saying that the Times piece “furthers the atmosphere of misinformation and subjectivity,” WPATH did not mince words, condemning the use of sources unfamiliar with transgender medicine as well as some of the methods undertaken by the Times reporters.»
- 2022/11/17 [L..T] The NYT's Big Piece on Puberty Blockers Mucked Up the Most Important Point About Them «It’s a common error for certain journalists to make—viewing an essential piece of transgender health care as a newfangled, untested invention that may pose grave harm.» «It’s true they have downsides and that they aren’t right for every young person with gender dysphoria—but this is true of every medication, no matter the patient population. The mainstream medical consensus is that blockers are a useful tool in treating gender dysphoria, and more data is coming in all the time to support their efficacy in the patients for whom they’re indicated.»
- 2022/11/14 [L..T] NYT Investigation Offers Biased Reporting on Puberty Blocker Concerns «It's an overtly biased piece of work, and will no doubt spur a heck of a lot of articles from trans people, and allies, seeking to fact check and provide context and criticism on where the Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett, went so wrong. As our specific beat is media criticism, this piece will highlight the clearest journalistic errors, weaselly phrasing, and other poor choices made in the writing and editing of this piece.»
- 2022/11/14 [L..T] They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? «Puberty blockers can ease transgender youths’ anguish and buy time to weigh options. But concerns are growing about long-term physical effects and other consequences.» A bit of think of the children scaremongering from your friendly neighborhood newspaper.
- 2022/10/14 [L..T] Mayor Will Announce Plan to Ban Unsanctioned Camping Across Portland and Build 500-Capacity Homeless "Campuses" «Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans next week to announce a sweeping strategy to ban unsanctioned camping across the city and build three massive sanctioned camping areas, called "campuses," each with capacity for 500 people. [..] Each campus would be divided into four camps with a 125-person capacity.» «The city will seek to hire an outside contractor to run the three campuses.»
- 2022/09/22 [L..T] A judge blocks the Indiana abortion ban a week after it took effect «Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon issued a preliminary injunction against the ban that took effect one week ago. The injunction was sought by abortion clinic operators who argued in a lawsuit that the state constitution protects access to the medical procedure.»
- 2022/09/21 [L..T] GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women’s suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment «John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also argued that women’s suffrage had made the United States into a “totalitarian state.”»
- 2022/09/16 [L..T] Book ban efforts surging in 2022, library association says «“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number of challenges and the kinds of challenges. It used to be a parent had learned about a given book and had an issue with it. Now we see campaigns where organizations are compiling lists of books, without necessarily reading or even looking at them.”»
- 2022/06/15 [L..T] The Battle Over Gender Therapy «What Leibowitz and his co-authors didn’t foresee, when they began, was that their work would be engulfed by two intersecting forces: a significant rise in the number of teenagers openly identifying as transgender and seeking gender care, and a right-wing backlash in the United States against allowing them to medically transition, including state-by-state efforts to ban it.»
- 2022/03/17 [L..T] Trans Kids: The Misinformation Battle «U.S. politicians are trying to keep trans kids from getting the medical care they need to transition — and states are banning them from playing on the sports teams that match their gender. So we’re looking at the science here, and asking: are the medical treatments for trans kids dangerous? And do trans folks have an advantage when it comes to sports? We talk to Florence Ashley, Dr. Jack Turban, and Joanna Harper to find out.»
- 2022/02/02 [L..T] What happened after these unhoused people got monthly $500 checks? Two-thirds have homes «The group predicted that the money would help reduce stress and improve food security, and it did. But two-thirds of the people who were unhoused when the pilot began also now have permanent housing. (The number has grown since the program first ended, when only a third had moved into new housing.)» This was quite unexpected.... further results