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#LoveIsBlind spoiler I guess but anyone who's been paying attention wouldn't be surprised that two relationships ended because the men were more conservative than the women.

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Is Trump cutting Medicaid? The 19th explains what to watch for as Republicans negotiate tax cuts — and how they plan to pay for them: 19thnews.org/2025/03/medi... via @19thnews.org

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Trump's executive orders share a common goal: removing trans and nonbinary people from public life wherever possible. @19thnews.org will be closely reporting on the anti-trans policies enacted by the Trump administration and their effects nationwide. Here are the key policies enacted so far.

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All the ways Trump wants to exclude trans people from public life 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum... via @19thnews.org

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The Trump administration cannot close the Department of Education without approval from Congress, but it can deprive it of vital staff and resources to render it ineffective, critics of closing the agency contend. 19thnews.org/2025/03/lind...

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‘It’s impacting us all’: Six Americans on how Trump’s second term is reshaping their lives 19thnews.org/2025/03/six-... via @19thnews.org

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Fellowship alert! Applications are open for @19thnews.org next Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship cohort! Early to mid-career HBCU alums join our newsroom for a yearlong, full-time, remote fellowship with a minimum $70K salary + great benefits. Apply by 03/31 → 19thnews.org/apply-for-a-...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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seems legit 🧐

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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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Weekend emails from the boss is a specific kind of torture and obviously that's the point.

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@propublica.org ran our own experiment on Cruz's database of “woke” research, asking one of the models powering ChatGPT to evaluate all 3,500 grant descriptions as if it were an investigative journalist looking for Marxist propaganda, “woke ideology,” or diversity, equity & inclusion.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Slack is down so you think I'd be hyper focused on some documentation I need to get done. Instead I'm wondering if my colleagues would appreciate me emailing them every meme and story I come across. Probably no.

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First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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we're hiring a summer intern to work on our advice team at Slate! they'll do a bunch of things, including some editing. jobs.lever.co/slate/d22006...

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1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites. Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Heartbreaking. PEPFAR was the best thing George W. Bush did during his administration. It saved millions of lives over the years.

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Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent, but also who gets deputized to do what. newrepublic.com/article/1919... via @newrepublic.com

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I checked out the #SAGawards just in time to watch Jane Fonda's incredible speech as she accepted a lifetime achievement award.

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There are more diagnosed autistic people because they changed the diagnostic criteria and started diagnosing people other than white boys with autism. Also: 40 years of "awareness" campaigns. That's it. Mystery solved.

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Excited to moderate Anact's Act Up! Accelerate Action event on International Women's Day. It's a free event about advancing gender equity, battling the climate crisis and addressing policy reform in the apparel industry. Join me and an inspiring group of leaders. www.eventbrite.com/e/anact-pres...

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Friends (and frenemies I guess), let me know if you're going to be at SXSW next month! The 19th has a few things happening and I'd love to invite you.

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‘Horrible discrimination’: Federal judges say Trump’s anti-trans orders are rooted in bias, not law 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum... via @19thnews.org

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This is one of the last people in the country who should be given the benefit of the doubt about this.

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Disability community is 'outraged and scared' over lawsuit that could weaken protections 19thnews.org/2025/02/disa... via @19thnews.org

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The Health Equity Advisory committee was designed to reduce barriers to health care for people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans using Medicare and Medicaid. Trump deemed it "unnecessary." 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum... via @19thnews.org

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Good and comprehensive look at Musk and antisemitism by @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social forward.com/news/698038/...

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"If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend." www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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I realize it's a lot of pressure that Quinta Brunson didn't ask for but fresh Abbott Elementary episodes are one of the only things getting me through this winter. I wasn't emotionally prepared to go without one this week. 😢

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"The level of access DOGE possesses means that the organization may already be able to siphon data that Musk or his agents could hold on to forever, long after his time as a government liaison, or even after a potential falling-out with the president."

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The 19th Explains: How Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children 19thnews.org/2025/02/medi... via @19thnews.org

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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Clearly DEI was the only thing keeping airplanes in the air. What is going on!?

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The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.

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"You won Latino men by 30 points in an election in which Trump dominated that group. I know men are a very broad group, but what do you think Democrats have misunderstood about them?" Not even the slightest nod to the fact that sexism impacts how people vote. 🤔

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The White House says the AP is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely over using "Gulf of Mexico" www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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Stand with @apnews.com!

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As the Trump administration demands that all references to “gender ideology” and diversity, equity, and inclusion be removed across federal agencies, Black and transgender Americans are having their histories erased and their livelihoods put at risk. Check out my column for @19thnews.org here

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The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the DOJ ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Very legit, very cool

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During her hearing, which protesters disrupted at least a half-dozen times, McMahon said that she and the president have already discussed developing a plan for “a better functioning Department of Education” to present to Congress. @nadrakn.bsky.social reports. 19thnews.org/2025/02/lind...

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today we published a big package of interviews with the people and institutions on Trump's hit list: trans people, immigrants, scientists, lawyers who serve whistleblowers...it's an incredible collection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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