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The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms. How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...

US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

This is outright un-American. Kicking out trans Air Force members AND denying them the retirement package that every other service member has access to is disgraceful.
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Heinous.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Trumponomics folks

'Incredibly dystopian': ICE enforcement upends lives for rural Delaware communities ICE crackdowns have sparked fear in immigrant communities along the Delaware-Maryland border, upending residents’ lives.

Abandoned cars line highways in rural southern Delaware, silent signs of ICE’s growing presence. As arrests surge, immigrant communities retreat. Families in #Dagsboro, #Frankford, #Millsboro and #Seaford share what life looks like under Trump’s crackdown.

Trump Demands New U.S. Census That Excludes Undocumented Immigrants The push comes as the president and his allies are pressing Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps to benefit their party.

President Trump said that he had ordered the Commerce Department to begin work on a new census that excludes undocumented immigrants, a move that would affect both the allotment of congressional seats and the amount of federal money sent to states.

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.

New @motherjones.com: The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly published a proposed rule on Friday to eliminate VA coverage for limited & lifesaving abortions for vets & their dependents.

Advocates say it could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide.

Scorching Heat Dome Sends Tampa to 100 Degrees F for the First Time Records are starting to fall to the continuing heat dome that is covering much of the eastern U.S.

Tampa, FL just hit 100°F for the first time in recorded history, driven by climate change. Until now, sea breezes, frequent thunderstorms, and high humidity had prevented temperatures from reaching triple digits.
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Let them eat cake.

The ball is in our court. Nemours made their decision, now it’s time for us to make ours. I, for one, will not let this slide.

Trans youth in Delaware deserve access to care. It’s outrageous that families are now forced to leave the state for the very care they moved here to find. If we can’t guarantee that access, what message are we sending to those fleeing states like Texas or Tennessee?

At the signing of Executive Order No. 11, I said Delaware must do everything in its power to protect healthcare access and trans youth. This is the moment to prove we meant it.

The fact that Nemours has yet to make a formal public statement about its decision is shameful. Instead, families are learning the news directly from their providers, after reaching out for care, or from other advocates, not from the institution itself.

Trans youth face care crisis in Delaware as health options shrink Nemours' decision to halt new admissions for gender-affirming care leaves many families without access to the theatment in Delaware.

I’m one of the thousands who fled their home state in search of access to gender-affirming care after bans made it impossible to stay.

For Delaware to call itself a “sanctuary state” in words but not in action is deeply frustrating, for patients, for families, and for advocates.

Let’s be clear.

Man detained in Alligator Alcatraz had to endure a surgery for hemorrhoids and has been in there for 25 days. He has not been able to meet with his lawyer and has not been able to speak with an immigration officer. Like most detained there, he doesn’t show up in the ICE locator.

Olympic level cognitive dissonance.

Gaza is on the brink of a catastrophic man-made famine. Starvation is already widespread; 1 in 3 people are going days at a time without food, and kids are dying daily of hunger-related causes.

After imposing a full blockade for months, Netanyahu is now letting in only a fraction of the aid needed.

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

even if you generously read this as "the existence of age verification keeps children safe" it still falls apart within the same clip because he literally just explained that the system can be easily worked around AND YEAH NO SHIT KIDS WILL HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT ALREADY CHIEF.

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

Two days ago, an act of senseless violence took the lives of Officer Didarul Islam, Wesley LePatner, Aland Etienne, and Julia Hyman.

Today, I visited Officer Islam's family and learned of his legacy.

I ask you to join me in in honoring the memory of these four New Yorkers.

US mass shootings, 1982–2025: Data from Mother Jones’ investigation The full data set from our in-depth investigation into mass shootings.

There were TWO mass shootings on Monday, though only the one in NYC drew big coverage. The other was at a resort in Reno, NV, where three victims died and three others were injured.

Our pioneering database, launched 13 years ago, now documents 153 mass shootings www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

@roycoopernc.bsky.social highlights his work as governor to expand Medicaid to 670,000 North Carolinians... which is currently being undermined by Republicans, Trump and Michael Whatley as they strip Medicaid away from 17 million Americans.

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He was the lead sponsor of the van on gender affirming care in Florida along with several other major bills targeting queer and trans people such as drag bans. No one paid attention to what a monster he was because it was trans people. Now, it's undeniable.