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GOP advances "incredibly dangerous" bill to censor LGBTQ+ & race issues from education
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (884+ words) It dooms future generations to forget and potentially repeat the mistakes of the past," one gay Democrat said. Republican members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced H. R. 8705 on Thursday. The bill would ban federally funded civics and…...
Lesbian congresswoman: "Trump clearly has been protecting his pedophile friends"
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (781+ words) It should shock me, but I'm not shocked at all," she said. Out lesbian Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) accused President Donald Trump of protecting his pedophile friends" in a recent interview with the left-leaning Meidas Touch media outlet. The Meidas…...
Republicans tried to make a proposed women's museum transphobic. Democrats put a stop to it.
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1143+ words) Democratic women led the charge to keep transphobia out of the Smithsonian Women's Museum. The Democratic Women's Caucus on Thursday helped end a transphobic bill seeking to fund the building of the Smithsonian Institution's new Women's History Museum, after Republicans…...
Trump is giving billions to victims of "lawfare" while working overtime to weaponize the judiciary
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1217+ words) If there were ever a time that proved "Every Republican accusation is a confession" so thoroughly, it would be this week. Donald Trump has been complaining about Democratic "lawfare" for years now, a term he uses to imply that conservatives…...
National witch hunt for "vast network of homosexuals" intensifies after passage of harsh new law
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (937+ words) The crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community in Senegal, West Africa picked up speed following a new law signed by the country's president in April, which doubles the penalties for homosexual acts from five to 10 years, and imposes prison sentences on…...
"Oh my gosh!" Jasmine Crockett exasperated as GOP witnesses refuse to label groups white supremacist
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1477+ words) Let me be clear: Proud Boys are freakin" white supremacists. Neo-Nazis are too." Tensions were high during a Republican-led House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday to investigate alleged fraud by the famed civil rights organization, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)....
House passes "Don't Say Trans" bill that would force teachers to out trans students nationwide
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (1093+ words) 198 Democrats voted against the bill, but 8 joined Republicans in passing it. Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that, if passed by the Senate and approved by the president, would force teachers across the country to out…...
"Welcome to MAGA!" Pete Buttigieg's replacement rages at Dem who questioned his corporate funding
5+ day, 6+ min ago (963+ words) You are wasting my time!" she clapped back at he yelled over her. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy grew increasingly irate in an exchange with Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) on Tuesday during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, during which senators challenged…...
School board banned his piece honoring Marsha P. Johnson. He will now conduct the school band.
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (1092+ words) A school board banned the lyric-free composition, saying that it celebrates "political violence." But the show will go on at a local church. Music dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights icon Marsha P. Johnson and banned by a Wisconsin school board will get…...
Judge temporarily blocks gender-affirming care ban in big win for trans youth
1+ week, 57+ min ago (877+ words) In the wake of the injunction, the ACLU called gender-affirming care "the foundation of young transgender people's entire lives." A judge granted a temporary injunction on Friday, blocking Kansas's gender-affirming care ban and bringing "enormous relief" to trans youth and…...