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Biden Admin Restores Transgender Health Protections, Reversing Trump

The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in healthcare, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care.

The action by the Department of Health and Human Services affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people. The Trump administration had defined “sex” to mean gender assigned at birth, thereby excluding transgender people from the law’s umbrella of protection.

“Fear of discrimination can lead individuals to forgo care, which can have serious negative health consequences,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Everyone — including LGBTQ people — should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”

Becerra said in a statement the Biden administration policy will bring HHS into line with a landmark 6-3 Supreme Court decision last year in a workplace discrimination case, which established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also protect gay and transgender people.

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CIA Releases New Woke Recruitment Video After Previous Ads Mocked

The CIA is plowing ahead with its series of new recruitment ads aimed at millennials, releasing a new video ad last week despite the scoffs and criticism with which the previous installments were met.

The latest “Humans of CIA” video ad features a man who says he is an “agency librarian” for the CIA and describes his struggles with being gay and the acceptance he encountered at the CIA.

“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family. I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work,” the man in the CIA ad says. “Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at the CIA and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director Brennan’s lanyard.”

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Amherst Students Suspended For Not Wearing Masks Outside Campus

  • $16,000 dollars down the drain.

Three students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were suspended for a whole semester at a cost of $16,000 dollars each after administrators discovered a photo of them partying without masks even though it happened off campus and was outdoors.

Parents of one of the girls who was suspended fought back by alerting the media, pointing out the hypocrisy of the UMass Amherst Hockey Team celebrating their national championship on campus without some of the team members wearing masks.

“There was a photo sent to the administration of these girls outside off campus on a Saturday. This is why they lost a whole semester of their schooling,” said Kristin, the girl’s mother.

Theresa, whose daughter was also suspended, told, CBSN Boston, “She was valedictorian and class president of her high school. She did everything right.”

However, when asked, several of the other students at the university supported the decision to suspend the girls.

“The town of Amherst made it really clear they don’t want any big parties,” said one.

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Fat Activist, Plus-Size Model Tess Holliday Comes Out As Anorexic

Plus-size model and fat activist Tess Holliday revealed last week that she has anorexia and is in recovery.

“I’m anorexic & in recovery,” Holliday wrote to Twitter on May 1. “I’m not ashamed to say it out loud anymore. I’m the result of a culture that celebrates thinness & equates that to worth, but I get to write my own narrative now. I’m finally able to care for a body that I’ve punished my entire life & I am finally free.”

“Not the ‘but your [sic] fat how are you anorexic’ comments. Y’all don’t know how science & body works huh. My technical diagnosis is anorexia nervosa & yes, I’m still not ashamed. I’m too damn happy for y’all to even come close to dimming my shine.”

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Texas House Passes GOP-Backed Election Integrity Bill

The Texas state House on Friday passed a GOP-backed election overhaul bill that would add new penalties and rules, becoming the latest state Republican-led legislative body to pass similar legislation in recent days.

The House passed Senate Bill 7 on a 78-64 mostly party-line vote. The bill, which was first passed in the Senate but was significantly reworked in the House, will now head back to the Texas state Senate for a vote.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday lauded the Republican state lawmakers for passing the bill in the House.

“This bill will help ensure that we have trust & confidence in the outcome of our elections,” Abbott wrote in a tweet. “One step closer to my desk & making it TX law.”

The measure will make it a felony to provide voters with a vote-by-mail application if they hadn’t already requested one. It would also bar the usage of public funds to facilitate the distribution of mail-in voting applications.

“A person commits an offense if the person knowingly collects or possesses a ballot voted by mail or official carrier envelope from a voter in connection with vote harvesting services,” the bill’s text reads.

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Next White House Press Secretary Likely to Be LGBT

The surprise statement Thursday by Jen Psaki that she would most likely step down as White House press secretary early next year has sparked speculation over who would succeed her behind the most famous lectern in the world.

Most of the talk about the second press secretary to President Joe Biden pointed to a historic ”first” — the first-ever LGBT person to serve as top spokesman to the president.

The immediate name on the lips of most White House correspondents was Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary. A longtime fixture in Democratic campaigns, Jean-Pierre served as regional political director in the Office of Political Affairs under President Barack Obama and as chief of staff to Kamala Harris during her vice presidential campaign last year.

Jean-Pierre is openly gay and has long spoken of this.

”President Obama didn’t hire LGBT staffers, he hired experienced individuals who happen to be LGBT,” she told The Advocate. “Serving and working for President Obama where you can be openly gay has been an amazing honor. It felt incredible to be a part of an administration that prioritizes LGBT issues.”

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Jen Psaki admits Biden is told to avoid answering impromptu questions from reporters

White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the Biden team tells President Joe Biden to avoid answering impromptu questions from reporters.

Psaki made the comments while appearing on CNN’s “The Axe Files with David Axelrod.”

Axelrod was praising the communications team for managing Biden so well that there’s never a surprise from what he says to reporters.

“It seems to me that you guys have done a good job of managing that, because a lot of his interactions are speeches and settings in which you have a pretty good sense going in what he’s going to say,” Axelrod said.

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Facebook should not have the power to ban Donald Trump says … Elizabeth Warren

The Facebook oversight board’s ruling this week upholding the social media platform’s decision to kick President Donald Trump off his Facebook and Instagram accounts elicited cheers from anti-Trump voices across the U.S. — especially the former president’s left-wing critics.

But one notorious Trump-hating leftist wasn’t so thrilled about the media giant’s move: Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Instead, Warren ripped the company for its move — despite the fact that she is glad the former president is no longer on Facebook and considers him to be a “real danger.”

What did she say?

The woman Trump loved to taunt with the moniker “Pocahontas” appeared on Cheddar News following the Wednesday announcement and told the outlet that it was not OK for the platform to ban Trump and that the move was just one more example that Facebook has too much power.

“I’m glad that he’s not on Facebook,” Warren said. “I think that he poses a real danger. But I don’t think that Facebook ought to have this kind of power.”

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China’s Emissions Exceeded Those Of All Other Developed Nations Combined

A new report released late week found that communist China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were higher than the rest of the developed world combined.

The report was published by the Rhodium Group, a leading independent research provider that specializes in matters involving China, energy & climate, India, and economics.

“Using our newly updated global emissions data through 2019, we estimate that in 2019, for the first time since national greenhouse gas emissions have been measured, China’s annual emissions exceeded those of all developed countries combined,” the report said. “China’s emissions were less than a quarter of developed country emissions in 1990, but over the past three decades have more than tripled, reaching over 14 gigatons of CO2-equivalent in 2019.”

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Former NFL player says bringing God into schools is the only way to solve racism, economic division

Former NFL player Jack Brewer says that God needs to get back in the classroom in order to solve racial and economic divisions in the United States.

What are the details?

In an interview with the Daily Wire, Brewer — an outspoken conservative and founder of the Jack Brewer Foundation — said that educating children early will help prevent the spread of racism and more.

“Back in 2016, when [Colin] Kaepernick started kneeling, I said, ‘There is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,'” he said. “And so we started that program and partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap. And I served for a couple years as the spokesperson for the police athletic league.”

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