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Levi Kalish

@kalish.bsky.social
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writing at the speed of trust words in HuffPost, Mother Jones, LAT and more find me at www.levikalish.com tips and tricks --> levikalish@proton.me Signal @levikalish.01 tips.hushline.app/to/LKalish

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
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America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thrilled to join Patrick Healy (NYT), Kerry Eleveld, Levi Kalish (HuffPost), Lex McMenamin (Guardian US), Scott Shafer (KQED) & Christopher Wiggins (The Advocate) at #NLGJA2026 for "Beyond the Horserace: Covering the Real Stakes of the Midterms." Sat 9/12 in SF: Hope people say hi! PTsched.co/2PBeB
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NLGJA 2026 National Convention: Beyond the Horserace: Covering The Real...
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Super grateful to have worked with Levi. Cannot encourage people to hire them more!
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
such a bummer, Levi has been my north star for LGBTQ community reporting.
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shruti rajkumar @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Levi has done incredible work covering the LGBTQ community. Hire them!!
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today is my last day at HuffPost. Like many others, I was hit by mass layoffs at BuzzFeed. I've done my best to hold power to account and tell complex stories with care, and I'm going to keep doing that. So please keep sending me tips! Contact: mattshuham@protonmail.com, 646-397-4678 (cell/Signal)
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Levi is driven and beyond talented - and good coverage of trans rights is woefully rare. Editors, take note!
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In 2023, Rhonda Jewell accidentally left 10-month-old Ariya in a hot car, resulting in the baby's death. Rhonda was acquitted of manslaughter — which would have required a finding of culpable negligence — but convicted of third-degree felony murder www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...
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A Baby Died In A Tragic Accident. Why Was It Treated As Murder?
The case against Rhonda Jewell threatens to upend a foundational principle of the U.S. legal system.
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HuffPost Union @huffpostunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If possible, please consider donating to the talented reporters, editors and designers impacted by this decision. Solidarity forever ✊ www.gofundme.com/f/support-hu...
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Donate to Support HuffPost Workers Impacted By Job Cuts, organized by HuffPost Union
This month, as part of a wider BuzzFeed reorganization under new owners… HuffPost Union needs your support for Support HuffPost Workers Impacted By Job Cuts
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Nathalie Baptiste 🇭🇹 @nhbaptiste.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today is officially my last day at HuffPost. So thankful for my union, this would be so much scarier without them 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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HuffPost Union @huffpostunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A statement from the HuffPost Union @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs.
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After 3 years, it's my last day at HuffPost. I was laid off as part of the larger cuts at BuzzFeed. I'm not sure what comes next but I'm proud of our union for holding it down. If you’re an editor or lit agent looking for someone to write about trans rights and politics, hmu at levikalish@proton.me
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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Leading @huffpost.com today www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
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colin feral @sal.gay · 23/07/2026
center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"
Transgender-inclusive and age-appropriate sports participation policies, which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide.While local bodies and associations should minimize unnecessary exclusion, restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances.
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Until recently, there was a former Do No Harm employee in the White House. Scott Centorino, the group's VP of policy and programs, worked as a special assistant to the WH on domestic policy, according to financial disclosures.
Do No Harm, a lobbying group founded in 2022, pushes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and initiates lawsuits against DEI practices in medical schools. Hsiao, the acting director of Enforcement and Affirmative Litigation Branch in the DOJ, specifically cited Do No Harms’ database of children’s hospitals that offer gender-affirming care in her statement within a lawsuit. By aggregating diagnostic codes and insurance data, Do No Harm claims to already know the number of patients that received hormone therapy or puberty blockers, and how much providers have billed insurance companies at more than a dozen hospitals across the country.

So far, at least 13 hospitals that have received either grand jury or civil subpoenas from the DOJ also appear on Do No Harm’s list of providers, according to an analysis from HuffPost.

The group has strong ties to both the Trump administration and right-wing money networks. Until a few months ago, Scott Centorino, Do No Harm’s former vice president of policy and programs, was an employee in the Trump administration, working as a special assistant to the White House on domestic policy, according to financial disclosures. Last year the group received $75,000 from The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing policy organization that drafted Project 2025. Do No Harm has also been supported by influential conservative donor Leonard Leo, who has helped Trump shape the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Over the last two years, the group’s budget has ballooned from $2 million to $10 million.
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I wanted to learn how DOJ chose hospitals to target. Buried in a DOJ testimony I found a clue: a 2024 database by Do No Harm, a newish Leonard-Leo funded group that targets DEI and trans healthcare. 13 hospitals that received DOJ subpoenas were also on DNH's list. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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The DOJ Requested His Teen Daughter's Medical Records. They Won't Stop There.
“The goal is to make every provider wonder whether or not they’re going to be next,” one LGBTQ+ health expert said.
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: The DOJ's efforts to obtain trans kids' medical records are a test of just how much power Trump can wield against anyone it views as an opponent. I spoke with one trans teen and one doctor whose records were subpoenaed -- they said it felt like intimidation. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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The DOJ Requested His Teen Daughter's Medical Records. They Won't Stop There.
“The goal is to make every provider wonder whether or not they’re going to be next,” one LGBTQ+ health expert said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed another person.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The White House directed Patel to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by @nytimes.com about security issues with the new Air Force One, leading to a flurry of subpoenas to reporters Friday night, according to people witj knowledge of the situation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New: Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers By Arelis R. Hernández Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting. Gift link! @arelisrhdz.bsky.social
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: DOJ filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in New York and California barring it from seeking private patient information via grand jury subpoenas about transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care as a minor.
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BREAKING: The Justice Department filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in New York and California preventing DOJ from obtaining personal medical ...
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
watching an old heritage foundation presentation for a story and just heard the word "unbiblical" for the first time
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black man, went out with a group of people to Horn Island off the coast of Mississippi for a July 4th party. The people he went with returned. He did not. His body was found on the island yesterday.
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Body Found on Horn Island Amid Search for Nolan Wells, Who Vanished on Trip With Friends
A park ranger found a body on Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Sunday amid the search for 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...
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Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/07/2026
🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 01/07/2026
I don’t think a cis person could ever understand just how much of a risk it was to drive my car down the street when Georgia would not let me change my gender marker.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I feel like I’m going insane, the degree to which politics and yes the media completely made this up. The anti gay marriage panic I got, there were a ton more gay people who wanted to get married, this thing is not a thing
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now a key question hangs over what comes next: How exactly will states, schools and sports officials determine whether a student athlete is a woman or a girl, under the court’s ruling? A must read from @kalish.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/advoca...
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Every Child In America Is Less Safe Because Of What Happened Tuesday
"Harmful, intrusive and humiliating," one advocate warned.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/06/2026
If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
anyway gonna run a race w other hella trans folks next month and could not have more spite to fuel my workouts rn
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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Breaking: Supreme Court upholds West Virginia and Idaho laws banning trans girls and women from participating in women's sports. More soon www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Rules on Trans Sports Cases
Trans athletes urged the court to protect their right to be free from discrimination so they could play the sports they love and enjoy the same protections as others.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Nathalie Baptiste 🇭🇹 @nhbaptiste.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@brandibuchman.bsky.social and I wrote about the real human impact of the TPS ruling www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Hands Trump A Major Win — Prompting Warnings Of ‘Violent, Needless Deaths’
Without legal status, hundreds of thousands of people are facing chaos, confusion and the threat of violence.
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ahead of July 4, I wanted to know: What would an immigration "revolution" look like? I asked people who would know: a former ICE detainee, a retired immigration judge, a pastor who accompanies people to court, a day laborer organizer, and more. Read what they said: www.huffpost.com/entry/july-4...
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This Is How The 'Immigration Revolution' Starts
HuffPost spoke with a former ICE detainee, an organizer for day laborers, a retired immigration judge and others about what an immigration revolution would look like.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
I’ve dug through thousands of exhibit files of FBI “evidence” taken in raids of the defendants’ homes. the federal government’s version of what happened that night — the basis of their “terrorism” — was a fraction of the files. the bulk is zines, books, stickers, patches: First Amendment activity.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“I cannot conceive of a crime that would require the breadth of disclosure sought in the subpoena,” Failla says of the DOJ's sweeping request to NYU Langone and other NYC hospitals. “The plaintiffs’ interest in privacy outweighs the government’s interest in breaching it.”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The discourse about trans care for teens is a lot of adults shouting. So Grace Byron talked to the teens instead, and they were thoughtful, nuanced, and tired of being silenced.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Breaking—Today Lambda Legal, ACLU and NYCLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Attorney General’s and DOJ's efforts to compel NYU Langone to hand over the identities/sensitive health info of trans youth who received gender-affirming care from 2020-2026. Complaint: www.nyclu.org/uploads/2026...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 31/05/2026
seeing reports of rubber bullets and tear gas with an absolute deluge of police forces at Delaney. for tue second night in a row, people are facing cops on charging horses. the governor said sending in state police was “deescalating” the situation.
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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@huffpost.com by @kalish.bsky.social:  www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates…
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/05/2026
days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com
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‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words
Organizers rally outside Delaney Hall, facing violent clashes with agents, as over 300 detainees are on hunger strike
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood
Conservatives have long argued they want to end transition care for minors, but federal policies have increasingly limited adult access. More restrictions are on the way.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The House passed a bill late Wednesday to force public school teachers to out transgender students to their parents. It wasn’t a party-line vote, either: Eight Democrats voted for it. www.huffpost.com/entry/8-demo...
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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
The bill requires educators to get parental consent for changing a student's pronouns or preferred names on any school forms. It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/05/2026
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the boundaries of the law. With @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts.
The Texas attorney general has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the bo...
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