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Happy Sunday; Texas SB 240, a trans bathroom ban bill, is dead

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I programmed the computer to say it’s going to fuck my wife. Some dunce journalist: The computer is dangerously close to fucking your wife.

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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

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According to Anthropic, which means take this with a softball-sized grain of salt

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The Texas House passed HB 1188 on third reading today. It requires medical providers to include a person's "biological sex" in electronic health records. It also would allow the OAG to go after any provider to enforce compliance.

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The judge who wrote the circuit's opinion said: "judging from the rhetoric in the briefs, one would think Llano County had planned to stage a book burning in front of the library." A lawyer for the plaintiffs said they are looking into next steps. My coverage of the ruling for @kxan.com:

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So tired of big trans women doomer accounts man

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SB 20 passed -- using AI to make CSAM, or possessing of AI-made CSAM, will be a crime in Texas starting in September. My latest for @kxan.com:

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Huge day to own a tiny truck. ✍️ @kissphoria.bsky.social www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Austin Democrat Rep. John Bucy was taken to the hospital today and is under observation, per an announcement minutes ago from Rep. Charlie Geren in the House. He's expected to be released this afternoon, Geren said.

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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans. Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect. I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”

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Black trans organizations face a different level of treatment compared to their white counterparts. This is the reality. I believe that if we were white, we would receive significantly more support. These are the facts and this is our reality.

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Here is our current position. We are on the brink of having to shut down our shelter because we lack the necessary funding to cover electricity and other essential bills. Meanwhile, trans individuals are being unjustly arrested for being unhoused. If you are able to donate to please do

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This was one of my stories today for @kxan.com -- the answer is probably not. But only if it is actually a Level 4 autonomous vehicle. If Tesla is actually ready for a June pilot, it would represent a wildly massive leap in its AV & AI tech. Key word is "if".

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I know this may sound overly charitable, but I think she was answering the question she wanted to hear/came up with in her head

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There was a huge fuss raised in the lege about this in March. A day after a Texas "DOGE" meeting, he launched an investigation. It ended yesterday, according to a brief press release.

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Trans reporters, the really big and visible ones, they have a strength beyond me. It's incredibly hard to keep up the high level of work as life rapidly changes around us.

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friendly reminder my job is hiring a social person in the houston area!

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I really hope that I don't die here

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The advocates will rally around 12:30 today, where they hope to convince Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to intercede and advance the bill.

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Saw the Bob Dylan biopic, my takeaways: - wow he hated women - he made Pete Seeger sad - if I fumbled Joan Baez I'd kms

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One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...

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Wrote up the #txlege Senate State Affairs hearing on HB 229 for @kxan.com -- the bill that would define Texans' sex on official records as based solely on genitals. The bill explicitly calls for intersex people to be categorized into the sex binary at birth. www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...

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There's so much news i s2g

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My latest for @kxan.com: A surprise lawsuit has been brought by four elected attorneys against Texas AG Ken Paxton. The specific rule they're suing over threatens them with a yet unused removal process if they don't turn over entire case files to the OAG.

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About 80% of bills filed in the #txlege House of Reps died at midnight. My look at the numbers & how they compare to last year for @kxan.com:

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The "gender identity fraud" bill was one of over one thousand bills in the Texas House that "died" at 12am this morning because they did not pass before a key deadline to become law: #txlege

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My wife and I are watching Band of Brothers, and the next episode is my favorite (cajun heartthrob medic)

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Wow is it a condition experienced by a group of people? Like a class maybe?

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We'll update this one tomorrow morning with final numbers from the House. But, as of an hour ago, about 80% of Texas House bills are poised to die at midnight. #txlege

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I got tired of answering #txlege deadline questions, so I wrote up an explainer for @kxan.com: The first big deadline is today; any House bills not passed in the House by midnight, die.

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so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

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Andor absolutely contextualizes the character's actions in Rogue One

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Any journalist playing footsie with conversion therapy thinks you should be raped straight, or at the very least, that's the cost of doing business, and you should treat them as such.

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HB 229, the Texas House Bill enshrining definitions of male and female into law, contains some language that is nearly identical to model legislation from the Independent Women's Forum "Stand With Women Act" model legislation #txlege

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Each of these stories is such a delightful hit

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SB 1257, which will require insurance companies to cover the "adverse effects" of gender affirming care and cover detransition care, passed the Texas House 82-37. It goes to Gov. Greg Abbott. #txlege

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This is the senate version of HB 778

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Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’

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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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My latest for @kxan.com:

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Incredible work from @kxan.com Investigative Fellow & Digital Reporter Abigail Jones! Give it a read!!

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is mastercard a queer ally? is this tv show my friend? is the catholic pope progressive?

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