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The fight pits billionaire money against transgender people and allied organizations in five states.

House Republicans’ efforts to subpoena the nonprofit left-wing news organization BreakThrough News

f you’re transgender, you can die for our country—but you cannot receive life-saving health care, access it for your transgender family members, or expect your family to be treated equally in schools run by the armed forces, should a new provision in the House NDAA become law.

This appears to be the politic of Democratic Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, of Texas; Donald G. Davis, of North Carolina; Shomari Figures and Terri A. Sewell, of Alabama. These lawmakers voted in favor of two proposals by South Carolina’s Nancy Mace, to amend the pending National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). If passed in the Senate, Amendment 255 would gut gender-affirming care for uniformed service members, retirees, and their family members around the world. Amendment 256 would in turn ban transgender girls from women’s sports in K-12 schools run by the military.

Here in New York, police say a former Army veteran has been taken into custody after using fireworks to start a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where many immigrants have been held in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. According to the FBI, 43-year-old Andrew Arrabaca doused a stairwell with gasoline and ignited it; he also fired five to seven pellets from an airsoft gun. The Department of Homeland Security described him as an “anti-ICE rioter.” This is James Barnacle,

The former president’s son said in an interview that this “closetocracy” was “the biggest problem in America.”

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fns/p/1048037/president-trump-dismantles-bears-ears-co-management-agreement

The changes removed protections from almost three million acres of public land and went further than reductions made during President Trump's first term.

The Bears Ears decision also ordered the termination of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Commission, which gave representatives of five Tribal Nations a formal role in managing the monument.

Orthodox Jewish organizations say the bill, if passed, would force morning prayer services to start after 9 a.m. in some parts of the country, making observant Jews late for work and school.

Seemingly unhappy with a group of women deciding to make rules for membership in their own organization, Virginia Republican Ben Cline has introduced legislation to force the Daughters of the American Revolution to ban transgenderwomen. The bill comes less than a month after the historical society voted 1474-981 to reject a ban on trans women.