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Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence AUSTIN – In response to the political assassination of national hero Charlie Kirk and the disturbing rise of leftist violence across the country, Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched undercover investigations into various groups affiliated with left-wing political violence known to be operating in Texas. “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.” The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk’s bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.

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Is America contagious? Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

NEW: I talked to scholars who study political contagion about how America’s freefall could affect the rest of the world. They are… concerned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Second, as more than half the country has passed bans on best practices for gender-affirming care, conservatives, like RFK Jr. are pushing so-called "exploratory therapy" as an alternative to puberty blockers and HRT. LGBTQ+ advocates have warned that this is "conversion therapy" under a diff name.

Chiles v. Salazar is significant for a number of reasons. In recent years SCOTUS has handed the ADF several wins, including allowing Christian cake makers and wedding website designers to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people all in the name of religious freedom.

I also spoke with Ryan Kendall, who was subjected to conversion therapy as a teen, and shared his story as part of an amicus brief to protect CO's law.

The case is personal to Kendall who spent his 20s advocating for conversion therapy bans. "They could wipe out my life's work in one court case."

Today, 23 states and Washington D.C. have bans prohibiting conversion therapy practices -- and these laws have received bipartisan support.

Major medical institutions have found that "conversion therapy" leads to high rates of suicidality, depression, and anxiety -- and obviously doesn't work.

This isn't the first time the ADF or conversion therapy advocates have tried to bring a case like this to the highest court. ADF argues that 1A protects Chiles' speech even in a professional context - tho CO's law is about protecting youth and regulating the care administered by licensed therapists

Chiles, who denied any desire to offer such counseling, says she fears getting fined or losing her license due to this law. So TL;DR she wants to be able to offer therapy to kids who want to...detransition or stop being gay

This is another classic ADF hypothetical scenario.

CO's law bars therapy practices that attempt to change a minor's gender identity or sexual orientation.

Plaintiff Kaley Chiles says the ban restricts her ability to properly counsel minors who want "to resist same-sex relationships or align the client's sense of identity and biological sex."

Supreme Court To Hear Major LGBTQ Case That Could Have Devastating Effects On Youth A Christian therapist is challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, claiming it violates her right to free speech.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments about Colorado's conversion therapy ban tomorrow. In Chiles v. Salazar, a Christian therapist - repped by the Alliance Defending Freedom - claims that CO's 2019 ban on conversion therapy infringes on her freedom of speech.

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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

BREAKING: Kash Patel's FBI Cuts All Ties to Southern Poverty Law Center FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to The Daily Signal that the bureau has cut all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Heritage Foundation’s right-wing publication is reporting that the Kash Patel FBI has terminated its longstanding relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center, one day after severing its relationship with the ADL. www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/03/b...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

“What we found was … a mix of lawyers blaming IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants.”

If you're a student at Angelo State University (or know one!!) with thoughts on the school's new policy barring discussions of transgender identity in classrooms, I'd love to talk to you for a story I'm working on. DM me on here, or find me on Signal at kissphoria.57

30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

i waited until college to watch the last episode bc i was so sad that it was only one season and damn it hit

I highly recommend that you read @leximcmenamin.com's latest:

"When the WSJ reporting came out, I knew it didn’t matter if it was true or false; the damage was already done. It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric."

“If there was a shooter...on campus, that’s basically how we’re treating ICE," one teacher said.

Teachers, tenant advocates and immigration organizers are patrolling schools, organizing grocery runs, and educating families on their rights as LA braces for new ICE raids after last wk's SCOTUS ruling

This School District Is Preparing ‘Lockdowns’ — But Now It’s Not Just For Shootings They’ve spent years preparing for natural disasters and school shootings. Now, they are ready to do lockdowns in response to immigration raids.

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE

@jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report

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Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

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“I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers

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Texas drops lawsuit against doctor accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says one of the first doctors in the U.S. accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found not to have broken the law.

Wow: Texas quietly dropped its lawsuit against Dr. Hector Granados, an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist who Ken Paxton called a "scofflaw" for allegedly violating the state's ban on providing hormones / puberty blockers to trans kids:
apnews.com/article/tran...

“THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing “More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state.”

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Charlie Kirk Brought Hard-Right Politics To A New Generation Kirk, who was fatally shot while on stage at a speaking event, lit a path for the future of Trumpism.

Kirk, who was fatally shot while on stage at a speaking event, lit a path for the future of Trumpism.

A judge in Massachusetts today issued what I think is the first judgment against the DOJ's attempt to subpoena doctors who treat trans patients. The judge quashed the subpoena the DOJ issued against Boston Children's Hospital, home to the country's first gender clinic for adolescents.

In the United States Court of Amperla For the Eleventh Circuit No. 22-13626 ANNA LANGE, versus HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, HOUSTON COUNTY SHERIFF CULLEN TALTON, in his official capacity, Plaintiff-Appellee, Defendants-Appellants, HOUSTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia D.C. Docket No. 5:19-cv-00392-MTT

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, JILL PRYOR, NEWSOM, BRANCH, GRANT, LUCK, LAGOA, BRASHER, ABUDU, KIDD, and WILSON, * Circuit Judges. BRASHER, Circuit Judge, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and NEWSOM, BRANCH, GRANT, LUCK, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges, joined. NEWSOM, Circuit Judge, filed a concurring opinion. ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge, filed an opinion concurring in the judg-ment. JILL, PRYOR, Circuit Judge, filed a dissenting opinion, in which JORDAN, ABUDU, KIDD, and WILSON, Circuit Judges, joined. ABUDU, Circuit Judge, filed a dissenting opinion. WILSON, Circuit Judge, filed a dissenting opinion, in which ABUDU and KIDD, Circuit Judges, joined

We took this appeal en banc to answer whether the insurance policy facially violates Title VII. We conclude that it does not. Many of Lange's arguments have been rejected by the Supreme Court. See United States v. Skrmetti, 145 S. Ct. 1816 (2025). Although the plan does not cover sex change surgeries, it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic. Because the exclusion is not facially discriminatory under Title VII, we reverse the district court's judgment, vacate the permanent injunction, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

NEWS: The full Eleventh Circuit, in an 8-5 vote, held that an insurance policy excluding transgender gender-affirming surgical care does not facially violate Title VII b/c — following SCOTUS's Skrmetti reasoning — "it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic."

YouTube video by HuffPost The Bill Gates Link To ICE Deportations

The great HuffPost video team made this to accompany the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA0J...