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You support your trans child. Increasingly, your country does not. And so, you worry. Then what?
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)The order is the latest in a series of injunctions that deny the rights, and even the existence, of transgender people.
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Social media rumors that a trans pilot was in the DCA crash follow a familiar playbook
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
via High Plains Public Radio (Texas)In the hours after a collision of a Black Hawk helicopter with a passenger airliner last week, social media exploded, falsely blaming a transgender Virginia National Guard service member.
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Phil and Tammy Murphy are breaking the law — NJ Top News
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
via New Jersey 101.5 (New Jersey)Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy, are breaking federal law by harboring an undocumented immigrant. Murphy says the woman is living over their garage.
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Trump order curbing access to gender-affirming care for youth creates ‘a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear’ in Vermont
Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
via Valley News (Vermont)President Donald Trump's executive order that aims to block federal funding and restrict gender-affirming care for people under 19 has transgender residents and advocates alarmed, though health care…
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Rockingham, BF and Saxtons River move toward permanent display of Pride flag
Friday, January 31st, 2025
via Brattleboro Reformer (Vermont)The town of Rockingham and its two villages of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River took a big step Tuesday toward permanently displaying the gay Pride flag, with supporters saying the
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Maine DOE says it won’t follow Trump’s gender order. Will Mass.?
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
via Boston.com (Massachusetts)Maine's DOE said that it would not enforce Trump's executive order that said the U.S. government would only recognize two genders.
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Miyares goes it alone
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
via The Daily Progress (Virginia)AG RUNS FOR REELECTION
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Moulton tackles culture war backlash, Dems’ response to Trump at first 2025 district town hall
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)Representative Seth Moulton discussed responding to the Trump administration and backlash to his comments on trans athletes at a town hall in Peabody Tuesday.
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House OKs bill limiting flags in schools
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
via Lewiston Tribune (Idaho)Senate will next have a chance to vote on the measure that would ban the display of flags and banners on Idaho public school properties that 'represent a political viewpoint'
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Freeze of Federal Grant Funds
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
via The New York Times (Virginia)A judge in Washington, D.C., has sided with activists who claimed the White House's freezing of billions of dollars in already approved funding violated the law.
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What they’re thinking: Iowa’s first openly trans lawmaker speaks out
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
via The Gazette (Iowa)Amie Wichtendahl of Hiawatha hopes her election serves as a 'repudiation' of anti-trans stereotypes
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Trump executive order seeks to erase the existence of transgender people
Monday, January 20th, 2025
via San Francisco Chronicle (California)'I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,' Trump said Monday.
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Belgium’s pastoral pastime of pigeon racing faces high anxiety over crime wave
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Belgium's once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing is in the midst of a high-tech crime wave.
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Update: Israel frees 90 Palestinian prisoners, detainees
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Israel freed 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The release came early on Monday, more than seven hours after three Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity in Gaza returned to Israel.
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Al Capone called it his sweetheart. The pistol that saved his life is coming to Vegas
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)A rare glimpse into mobster Al Capone's home life will be on display in a new exhibit at the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas.
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New chief appointed to Bedford Fire Department
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Bedford Town Council voted unanimously this week to appoint Stacey Wills as the town fire department's new fire chief.
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Relief, 21st-century style: As wildfires burn, GoFundMe becomes a repository of harrowing stories
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)As California's massive wildfires burn, thousands of GoFundMe campaigns for victims have become an outlet for onlookers transfixed by the blazes and eager to do something to help.
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Antwan Staley: 6 players to watch during the CFP national championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)After the first year of the expanded 12-team playoff, the national championship game is almost ready to kick off. Notre Dame (14-1) will try to win its first national championship
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Judges allow some Capitol riot defendants to return to DC for Trump’s inauguration
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return.
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