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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/01/2026
1. A terrible new bill targeting trans youth has passed committees in Florida. It would potentially allow health care practitioners, including therapists, to be charged with "aiding and abetting" transgender youth to transition, local orgs say. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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From Pharmacists to Therapists, Florida Could Prosecute “Aiding And Abetting” Trans Youth Care If New Bill Passes
These bills can be weaponized against providers or schools based on “suspicion, politics, or grievances from ideological extremists.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/01/2026
1. In a major new federal rule, Trump is attempting to attach billions in international aid to recipients agreeing to impose anti-trans restrictions. This includes social transition "at any age," attempting to export transphobia globally. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Pressures International Orgs To Disavow Trans Care, Social Transition Globally "At Any Age" With Funding Ban
The new rule would enact the "Mexico City Policy" towards what it calls "gender ideology."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/01/2026
Weeks ago, CHLA ended treatment of trans youth in capitulation to the Trump administration. Then, the government demanded the personal info of 3,000 trans kid patients there. Six families just successfully stopped them with a lawsuit. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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In Huge Lawsuit, Six CHLA Families Successfully Prevented The Trump Admin From Obtaining Info Of 3,000 Trans Kids
Legal documents outline the impossible choices faced by families attacked by the Trump regime and stonewalled by CHLA—and how lawyers stepped up to stop them.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/01/2026
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2026
1. Multicare / Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Washington State has become the latest hospital to shut down its trans youth care clinic in capitulation to Trump. Private clinics say they are stepping up to take patients. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital In WA Shuts Down Youth Gender Clinic Amidst Federal Funding Threat
What arguably amounts to an appeasement strategy simply falls short.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hey Schumer, was this part of your spending talks? DHS is spending millions and millions in cash on warehouses to cage people. Is Congress just going to sit there and let the fascist Trump regime turn America into a nation of concentration camps? @schumer.senate.gov
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/01/2026
*ICE repeatedly ignores the Constitution* Schumer: What these guys need are a few guardrails
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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
And just like that, the HORRIBLE deal Chuck Schumer cut with Trump to fund the government just got blown up by Republicans. Schumer bent over backwards and spread his cheeks for ICE's baton. Still wasn't enough for the GOP. We may have a shutdown after all.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/09/2025
I just voted against a GOP bill that gives up Congress's power over spending. Instead of working with Democrats to stop premiums from DOUBLING next year, Republicans are sending us straight into a shutdown—and pushing bills to give up their own power and hand it over to Trump.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I wonder if Chuck Schumer hesitated for even an instant as he ran from the White House to announce this, to wonder if “The president didn’t even know about any of the bad stuff in his bill!” is almost certainly a lie, and also, more importantly, a message that actually helps the president.
Tweet from Alex Bolton: 
Chuck Schumer tells reporters at White House that Trump seemed completely oblivious to impending increase in health insurance rates and closing of rural hospitals: "By his face and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time.”
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Donald Trump is apparently so out of it that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries surprised the president by describing to him the healthcare crisis that he is about to unleash.
politicususa.com
Chuck Schumer And Hakeem Jeffries Stunned Trump During Shutdown Meeting
Donald Trump is apparently so out of it that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries surprised the president by describing to him the healthcare crisis that he is about to unleash.
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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Water lily with it's reflection.
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Nolan Hahn @nolanhahn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Man it sucks that we are finally winning just as a combo of tariffs, high interest rates, and self inflicted labor shortages stop most new construction. I am not looking forward to the articles about "we did the Yimby stuff and nothing changed"
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Politico @politico.com · 16/07/2025
COLUMN: Why is the DOJ botching the Epstein saga? “The possibilities range from bad to worse” — especially for what they suggest about the country’s legal leadership, writes former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori.
politico.com
3 Scenarios That Explain the Epstein Debacle
All reflect poorly on the Department of Justice.
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New York State of Good Repair @ludmirdevotee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It just makes me mad when our Secretary of Transportation spews elitist trash about how rich people in the suburbs need to be able to drive here without paying any tolls, because they're too precious to risk their lives taking the transit system normal people in New York take every day
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Hey Jake Tapper, fodder for your next book!👇
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2025
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Fascinated by this
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
BREAKING: At 2 AM, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn’t even protect rural radio or emergency alerts. Congress should decide what we spend and what we cut—not Trump and not Russ Vought. I voted NO.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17/07/2025
17 Jul 25 - My new piece on Skrmetti decision -- "Appreciate Your Sex...Or Else!" -- and what it means for gay rights and feminism is up at The Advocate. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
advocate.com
Appreciate your sex—or else: The Supreme Court’s strange new commandment
In a stunning Supreme Court ruling, Tennessee's law mandating minors embrace their birth sex has ignited fierce debate over bodily autonomy, revealing a troubling intersection of religious zealotry an...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too." A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A truly excellent and necessary read - readmaterialgirl.substack.com/p/the-imposs...
Excerpt from the essay - “The tragedy is that so much of the left, the very political tradition that should champion this possibility, is unable to see it. This blindness is symptomatic of how the left has been colonised by liberal modes of thinking that are fundamentally anti-radical. We equate disagreement with violence; we mistake exclusion from discourse for liberation; we police each other’s associations more vigorously than we organise against actual systems of oppression. We’ve accepted the liberal framework that says politics is about managing existing arrangements instead of imagining new worlds.

In this way, we’ve already lost.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In general I find discourse and news coverage focuses too much on the rules being broken in any given story and not enough on why someone was breaking the rules. Impact over process!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/07/2025
Heads up, the fight is not over with respect to the trans care medicaid amendment. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reintroduced it on the House side. Call your house reps now and tell them not to approve it. Even republicans, especially moderate Republicans.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/07/2025
Just because Katelyn's reporting here is coming under question, I too can independently confirm that McBride was active behind the scenes on this issue for at least the last week. I do not think this absolves her public statements and NYT interview, but this is accurate reporting.
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Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
new episode is out on youtube now! we welcomed @sandyernestallen.bsky.social onto the pod and then absolutely obliterated the NYT's new anti-trans podcast "The Protocol" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrL...
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We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
See bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
ErinReed 1 Jul 25 -- A big story in the behind-scenes about Reps dropping Medicaid cuts of adult affirming care from tax bill after nix from Parliamentarian -- apparently Sen Dems remained united against it (with vote whipping by Sen's Baldwin & McBride) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
erininthemorning.com
GOP Drops Federal Medicaid Ban On Trans Care From “Big Beautiful Bill”
In a sudden and much-needed victory for LGBT rights, Senate Republicans abandoned their efforts to ban federal Medicaid funding of gender-affirming care for trans people.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 02/07/2025
The future of abortion care and trans healthcare are inextricable linked because conservatives want to control every aspect of people's lives, forcing Christian religious beliefs on believers and nonbelievers alike.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 02/07/2025
Conservative media is FREAKING OUT as Spain gets serious about punishing conversion therapy. @alyssaur.bsky.social has more:
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Spain Makes Moves to Criminalize Conversion Therapy — Assigned
Spain’s Socialist Parliamentary Group submitted a bill last month that would elevate the punishment for practicing conversion therapy, and it was approved and sent to the senate just last week.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Tarana Burke
It’s not about the failure of the movement; it’s the failure of the systems,” Burke explained. “These systems are not designed to help survivors, they’re not designed to give us justice, they’re not designed to end sexual violence.” 

“When we bind ourselves to the outcomes of these cases, we are constantly up and down with our disappointment, our highs and lows,” Burke continued. “What they tell us is just how much work we need to change the laws and the policies but most importantly, to change the culture that creates the people who commit, who perpetrate acts of harm.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"What I Heard On A Suicide Hotline For Trans Kids" "My callers wished their parents weren’t in denial and didn’t echo right-wing talking points. They wished they didn’t feel so alone late at night. They called from Utah and Arizona and Iowa...'Somebody has to give me a reason to live.'"
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Opinion | What I Heard on a Suicide Hotline for Trans Kids
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Screenshot of a news update by Annie Karni with a timestamp reading “2 minutes ago.” The text reports that Representative Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware and the first openly transgender member of Congress, is making some progress with Republican colleagues. Representative Steve Womack, a Republican from Arkansas, referred to her as the “gentlelady from Delaware” on the House floor. The article notes this is only the second time Republicans have referred to her as a woman in that setting, while in other hearings and on the floor, they have routinely misgendered her.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
As a result of this, Riley Gaines is now the fifth-place finisher of her race with Lia Thomas. She previously had tied for fifth place.
Screenshot of a tweet from Pop Crave (@PopCrave) stating: “Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will have her records and titles stripped after UPenn was pressured by the Trump administration. The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.” Below the text are two side-by-side images: on the left, Lia Thomas in swim gear holding an NCAA trophy, and on the right, the University of Pennsylvania logo on a blue background.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 02/07/2025
Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/07/2025
8. Transgender people who wish to update their passports without urgent travel are advised to hold off until word is announced either by the government or organizations involved in the legal process, according to a source at the ACLU. You can find their FAQ here: www.aclu.org/trumps-assau...
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Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
One part of Republicans' Big Ugly Bill that hasn't gotten enough attention? It DEFUNDS Planned Parenthood—a big step toward the GOP's plan for a Backdoor Nationwide Abortion Ban where women won't be able to get care anywhere. NOW is the time to speak up against this heinous bill.
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Jes 👊🇺🇸🔥 (Admin@antifa.org) @jestastrophy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“The American people are furious at Trump and Republicans’ dangerous attacks on their healthcare, and vulnerable Republican representatives. Barrett, Bacon, Lawler, and Fitzpatrick will seal their political fate if they go along with Trump’s disastrous budget." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net
DNC to campaign against Trump’s ‘one, beautiful bill’ to reduce public spending by at least $1.5tn to pay for tax cuts
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I appreciate emails from #DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social. He details the head-on Dem fight for Medicaid: “We’re targeting four vulnerable Republicans— Tom Barrett (MI-07), Don Bacon (NE-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01). “The price for this vote is their job.” Go get ‘em.
We can’t just sit by and watch it happen. We’re organizing. We’re fighting back.

We’ve just launched our “Fight to Save Medicaid” month of action to put vulnerable House Republicans on notice in case they think they can get away with ripping health care away from their own constituents.

Specifically, we’re targeting four vulnerable Republicans — Tom Barrett (MI-07), Don Bacon (NE-02), Mike Lawler (NY-17), and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01).

These Republicans need to understand something: the price for this vote is their job. And we’re going to deliver that message loud and clear: in town halls, by urging voters to contact their representatives, and through constant pressure and accountability.

Our representatives must serve the people — not ignore them — and certainly not harm them. Republicans will either learn that lesson now or at the ballot box.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump does not have the authority to commit us to another Middle East war, one that endangers US troops and increases the risk of terrorist attacks. Ask our representatives to back the War Powers Resolution against Trump: Fitzpatrick 202-225-4276 McCormick 202 224-6324 Fetterman 202-224-4254
newsweek.com
Full list of Congress members backing War Powers Resolution against Trump
"Trump's strikes are unconstitutional," Congressman Ro Khanna said in a statement emailed to Newsweek.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Sneaked into the Big Ugly Bill is the loosening of regulations on gun silencers, which will make it harder to locate criminals and to stop mass shooters. Tell our representatives public safety is another reason to vote NO: Fitzpatrick 202-225-4276 McCormick 202 224-6324 Fetterman 202-224-4254
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GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers and some rifles and shotguns
The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns.
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Frans Osinga @osinga.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Read the whole article. It's cataclysmic. statuskuo.substack.com/p/alligators...
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Alligators and Aliens
The Trump regime ups the stakes on its anti-immigrant campaign.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
More context of scale for the #ICE budget. We are going to war with ourselves.
As Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, noted,

The spending is so large that it defies easy understanding. For example, ICE will receive a 365% increase in detention, spending $45 billion. For context, this is more than the combined budget for all 50 state prison systems. The current budget for the federal Bureau of Prisons is just over $8.3 billion.

Moynihan notes that the ICE detention budget is larger than the former budget for USAID, and that the increase is larger than budget cuts to education, SNAP, and larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined.

“It is on the scale of the type of supplemental budgets that the US passed when engaged in foreign wars,” Moynihan warns.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
Do you have Medicaid? Medicare? Employer-sponsored coverage? Under Trump's Big Ugly bill, it hardly matters what insurance you’re on when you don’t have a hospital to get care anymore! And when 17 million Americans lose health care, premiums skyrocket for EVERYONE.
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The cheeseheads rock on!
theguardian.com
Wisconsin supreme court strikes down 1849 abortion ban
Liberal justices rule the state’s 19th-century ban was replaced by later law allowing abortion until viability
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