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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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RFK Jr. is launching a government registry to track autistic Americans using private medical records.

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“RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans *** In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism...” (Given the Trump administrations many ties to associates of Palantir [co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale], this concerns me.) 1/

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The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that a trans teen cannot legally change their name until they turn 21 solely because they are trans despite having the support of both parents. This is unconscionable. www.advocate.com/law/mississi...

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A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

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HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email [email protected] for PDF and xlsx.

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Sheriff’s deputies across upstate New York are using minor traffic violations to harvest entire families of Latinos for deportation. The Syracuse Post-Standard calls it racial profiling — which is euphemistic journalese for racism. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

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A late one here but for MSNBC, I wrote about JK Rowling, the UK Supreme Court judgement on trans rights, and the current state of trans freedom in the English speaking world. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

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“Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic” But, of course that happened 😡 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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🚨NEW: Soldiers prevent Senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Hollen & the Garcia family attorney were pulled over, after the military were ordered to stop them, 3km from CECOT. NO-ONE is able to verify if Garcia is still alive and, if he is, what condition he is in.

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im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 6 days ago • 283 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 6 days ago • 1378 comments

Trump is using economic blackmail to force the UK to repeal all protections for LGBTQ people. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 6 days ago • 99 comments

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide. That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.

submitted 7 days ago • 233 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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6 of their 15 initial points are complaints about NPR/PBS reporting on trans issues. read that again 40% of their complaints are because trans people exist.

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NEW: Protestor is tasered by police at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall tonight in Cobb’s County, GA. Police have been moving in swiftly on anyone showing dissent from the crowd. (🎥 Greg Bluestein)

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The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network. But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...

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The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

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Trans people from abroad are banned from getting visas and entering the United States. www.wired.com/story/trans-...

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US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. https://ja.ma/3XXrCtw

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"This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace." Repealing some, stopping enforcement on others.

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It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

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Trump regime memo proposes eliminating almost all funding for international organizations that include the United Nations and NATO. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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The Supreme Court threatens to bring “Don’t Say Gay” to every classroom in America www.vox.com/scotus/40835...

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"I think it's only a matter of time before [a state attorney general] figures out how to file state kidnapping charges against those that are abducting people who are in the country legally..." says former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.

submitted 8 days ago • 270 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 8 days ago • 369 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 8 days ago • 1003 comments

WTF

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This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

A really emotional, powerful piece on how trans kids and families are handling the total assault on their right to exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How long, in minutes, would it have taken the GOP to introduce articles of impeachment against Clinton, Obama, or Biden if they had said they were going to ship American citizens to a prison in El Salvador? 15? Less?

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

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"After ICE abducted Khalil, Mahdawi sheltered in place for more than three weeks for fear of being picked up himself. Instead of taking him off the street, however, immigration authorities scheduled the citizenship test at the Colchester USCIS office and took Mahdawi into custody when he arrived."

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Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

submitted 8 days ago • 471 comments

Trump wants to send citizens merely accused of crimes to foreign prisons where he can claim the U.S. has no jurisdiction to bring you back, even after the judiciary orders it. Once that happens even a single time, nothing will stop ICE from doing the same thing to you that they did to Abrego Garcia

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

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This is alarming. The US president is personally stating plans to remove people he personally deems to be "home-grown terrorists" to indefinite imprisonment overseas The same prison where he claims authority to send anyone, in secret and without criminal charges or opportunity for appeal

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cw: suicide @hencarnell.bsky.social and I spent the last 3 months speaking to families with trans kids. I'd ask you click to through & listen to Renee tell the story of her daughter's coming out. It's so important to know that parents like this are out there. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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