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Mapping the Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month UPDATES: In New Holland, Pennsylvania, law enforcement is trying to determine the identity of a man seen stealing and destroying multiple Pride flags. In Boise, Idaho, Pride flags have been vandalized for the fifth consecutive year.

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🎶💞 Kennedy Center Honors: Bette Middler #HappyPrideMonth youtu.be/EHkf7CIHqdU?...

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"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately." My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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SMDH “Would you say that it would be an illegal DEI for a lesson plan on the Tulsa Race Massacre?” “I’d have to get back to you on that,” McMahon replied. “Do you know what the Tulsa Race Massacre is?” Lee wondered. “I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it,” McMahon stated.

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"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately. There’s endless pressure to make enough money so you can keep paying sky-­high rents, and anxiety is our natural state. All of our culture is demanding that things be clear-­cut and simple, when messiness is beauty."

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🎶💞 Kennedy Center Honors: Bette Middler #HappyPrideMonth (youtu.be/EHkf7CIHqdU?...)

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ILGA-Europe's annual Rainbow Map highlights where it's safer to live and travel for LGBTQ+ individuals and their families.

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Consider supporting my work across several platforms today by subscribing to my SHERO newsletter. There are several tiers and even a free option so that you never miss a minute of independent journalism that connects the legal and political dots. Check it out! shero.substack.com/subscribe

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Unfit to Serve, Unseen by Choice Markets rally as Trump vanishes, while his administration quietly revokes emergency abortion rights, targets trans inmates, and chases political staffers down hallways. by Mary Geddry

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timeline cleanse 🎶 FROM THE HONORS, ALL THE MUSICAL TRIBUTES IN ONE VIDEO. FROM FRANK LANGELLA TO MATTHEW BRODERICK youtu.be/R7BLrVTouG8?...

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This is outrageous. A federal worker at our DC town hall talks about how employees are being asked to write letters stating their support for Trump. Our loyalty is to country not any particular president. As the woman said, “what the literal fuck.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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Next up, loyalty oaths. Morning songs of praise for Dear Leader. Youth groups ratting out their parents and teachers.

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ICE has taken around 500 children into government custody following so-called welfare checks since Trump returned to the White House, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

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Dana Goldberg's Gay of the Day, Day 4 - Bayard Rustin #HappyPrideMonth www.instagram.com/reel/DKezQlJ...

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New Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson's personal X page is a treasure trove of ultraright-wing content. She has posted about the great replacement theory—which alleges there's a coordinated plot to decrease America’s white population—incessantly for the past 3 years. https://trib.al/vrtqs6L

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A majority of Americans don’t approve of cloning animals, yet the practice is thriving in the livestock business. In fact, as one animal-science professor told Bianca Bosker, the offspring of clones may have already been eaten by tens or even hundreds of thousands of people.

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Forget WorldPride, D.C.’s best-kept secret is the idyllic, wine-filled, and gay-friendly Loudoun County

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