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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 is partnering with PragerU.

The conservative, biased education company is already making AI content in a series launched with the Trump administration.

And new reporting suggests the White House could be eying PragerU as a substitute for PBS.

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I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_

After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.

1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create.

Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people.

No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets.

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It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29

Measles just reached a 33 year high in the U.S. both predicted and predictable. Here are my 4 recommendations for things we can do now (but choose not to, unfortunately) @plosglobalpublichealth.org

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Zohran Mamdani Beats Andrew Cuomo for NY Mayoral Bid—Without Abandoning Trans People Trump wants to strip kids of life-saving care. Mamdani says he won’t let it happen.

1. Last night, Zohran Mamdani prevailed in the Democratic Primary for New York Mayor.

He didn't run from trans people... He fought for them, pledging $65M to shore up care.

He even spoke at rallies against hospitals like NY Langone capitulating to Trump.

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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations.

House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults The provision was stricken late at night to appeal to hardline conservatives.

1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid!

A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors."

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Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender.

It IS conversion therapy.

Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.

FEMA chief is fired Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.

The head of FEMA was just fired, one day after telling a congressional committee that the nation needs the emergency management agency that Trump has suggested abolishing.

The agency is now without a leader three weeks before the start of hurricane season.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.

This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.

www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare.

It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process.

My fact check of the Trump HHS review.

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Illustration of Aang and Katara, both air bending and water bending respectively. The water below and the moon above have koi fish based on the moon/ ocean spirits

Illustration I did for ATLA's 20th anniversary concert 🌊

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles “The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.

It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.

The latest from S. Baum.

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The First Plague Bringing Back the Disease Classics

Man, remember when measles was eliminated?? Those were the days.

My piece on the measles outbreak and the bungling that our administration is currently doing:

Trump administration moves to cut off K-12 funding to Maine amid 'impasse' over transgender athletes Federal officials said they were launching administrative proceedings to terminate grants to Maine after state officials refused to comply with the Trump administration's demand that Maine ban transge...

The Trump administration says it will begin cutting off K-12 school funding to Maine.

The state has rejected a list of demands over transgender athletes, and in response the White House is moving to take hundreds of millions of dollars from Maine's kids.

www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

It’s impossible to not think too hard about people being kidnapped and whisked away to a “prison” that’s magically never full.

The Trump Administration Is About To Release It's Own Anti-Trans, Junk-Science "Cass Review" The review is expected by insiders to establish new standards of care to justify state bans, with no expert participation in its crafting.

1. The Trump administration is about to release it's own anti-science "Cass Review," a sham review with pseudoscience that will be used to justify sweeping crackdowns on trans care in the United States.

No experts are involved in its drafting.

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Oregon and Washington are considering laws to give striking workers unemployment benefits.

Oregon’s bill would make it the first state to provide pay for picketing public employees.

Washington’s would pay striking workers for 12 weeks, starting after two weeks on the line.

Such a cute game! I loved making all my villagers little backyards on my island! The museum is so pretty in that one also.

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over dismantling of Education Department The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.

Nearly two dozen Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration. They're seeking to halt an effort to fire half of the Department of Education.

www.cbsnews.com/news/educati...

Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8

These are not "transgender mice"

These are mouse models used to determine the effects of certain medications on health. You know, the thing even those opposed to transgender healthcare often state we should be doing.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Federal Government is Asking the Public to Report Illicit DEI The Department of Education has opened a tip line to report sightings of diversity, equity and inclusion.

1. They never learn.

The US Department of Education has launched a snitch line for reporting "divisive ideologies" in schools.

Previously, states doing this were flooded with meme submissions.

The latest from writer S. Baum.

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What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.

Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.

S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.

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So we’ve established vaccines are beneficial, now we’re just haggling about how often.

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