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Los Angeles, California · Los AngelesApproximately 93 percent of transgender youth aged 13 to 17 live in states that have proposed or passed anti-trans laws, according to a new report by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. “For the second straight year, hundreds of bills impacting transgender youth were introduced in state legislatures,” Elana Redfield, federal policy director at the Williams... SourceSee the Story
93% of Trans Teens Live in States That Have Proposed or Passed Anti-Trans Laws
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Grants Pass · Grants PassGrants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, has passed three ordinances since 2017 to prohibit “sleeping on public sidewalks, streets, or alleyways,” and prohibit camping on “sidewalks, streets, alleys, lanes, public rights of way, parks, benches, or other publicly-owned property or under bridges or viaducts.” According to University of Mississippi law professor William W. Berry III... SourceSee the Story
SCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People
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Mike Johnson · LouisianaAs some Republicans in the House of Representatives ramp up efforts to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), a new report reveals that Democrats may come to the extremist speaker’s rescue should such a vote be forced to the floor of the chamber. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) filed a motion to vacate Johnson from his post late last month. So far, two other Republicans have... SourceSee the Story
Dozens of Dems Say They’ll Vote Against Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson
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Gaza · GazaThe 2023-2024 academic year has already been very challenging for institutions of higher learning. In the midst of college closures, the firing of tenured faculty members, politically motivated bans of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs, academic program cuts at public universities, attacks on faculty and students protesting the war on Gaza, and attacks on Black faculty... SourceSee the Story
Administrators Are Trying to Strip Decision-Making Power From Faculty
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Republican PartyLeonard Leo, co-chair of the right-wing legal group The Federalist Society and noted coordinator of dark money donations to conservative causes, and Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor known for his lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices, have received robust support from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for refusing to abide by subpoenas issued by Democrats. SourceSee the Story
Watchdog Group Calls Out GOP Senators Over Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo Defenses
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United Auto Workers · VanceLast week, the United Auto Workers (UAW) notched a historic victory when workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted decisively to unionize. This is the first triumph in the UAW’s ambitious new campaign to organize over a dozen nonunion auto plants across the U.S., especially in the South. Now the focus moves to Vance, Alabama, where 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers will vote on a... SourceSee the Story
Corporate Power Has Long Dominated Alabama. Autoworkers May Change That.
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Donald Trump · New YorkNew York Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial, has so far refused to issue a formal decision over whether Trump violated a gag order in the case, although he chastised Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday for claiming their client was trying to follow the rules imposed on him. Trump has been charged with 34 counts relating to covering up hush money payments to women he... SourceSee the Story
Judge Rejects Trump Lawyer’s Gag Order Defense: “You’re Losing All Credibility”
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United States · United StatesEach week, my organization, Project ANAR, receives multiple requests for assistance from Afghans of all ages who are detained in U.S. immigration prisons after crossing the southern border to seek asylum here. And each year, Ramadan brings to the forefront the depths of anti-Muslim racism they experience while navigating the U.S. immigration system. Part of my job as a grassroots immigration... SourceSee the Story
Afghan Asylum Seekers Are Being Denied Their Religious Rights in ICE Prisons
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