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HHS demands answers from organizations over support for youth gender-affirming care, which studies show can be life-saving treatment for transgender young people.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
SCOTUSblog reports the Supreme Court announced a two-step test for adjudicating Second Amendment challenges in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
A man shot by ICE in NYC last week has yet to receive surgery for a bullet in his neck, and lawyers for Oscar Belgal have called for his immediate release.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
IA-01 Dem candidate Christina Bohannan answers an anti-trans ad without throwing trans people under the bus, an approach markedly different from Sand, Turek, and Trone Garriott.
Source: Erin in the Morning (erininthemorning.com)
Elon Musk is bankrolling a massive push for Ken Paxton in Texas, and Musk's PAC has boosted Republican candidates in the five most competitive US House races in the state.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Immigration attorneys and advocates say this summer's surge in ICE arrests showed a change in ICE tactics in Chicago, with arrests becoming less flashy and more targeted.
Source: Borderless Magazine (borderlessmag.org)
A candlelit vigil was held for the victims of a shooting at an Oregon elementary school in which a teacher and children aged five, eight and 11 were killed, local police say.
Source: BBC News US & Canada (bbc.co.uk)
With the 2026 midterm elections less than three weeks away, Republicans and Democrats have put the Supreme Court in the spotlight; Sen. Steve Daines said the Supreme Court's on the ballot.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa shares the story of Estrella Diamantina González, an undocumented transgender woman deported to Mexico after a nine-year sentence in a Texas men's prison.
Source: Democracy Now! (democracynow.org)
Rep. Analilia Mejía criticized ICE for secretly using a federal government warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, to stage and process detentions in September.
Source: Democracy Now! (democracynow.org)
Trump's new press secretary Katie Zacharia was ousted after 5 days; a Texas woman sues an anti-abortion group under a law it helped pass, and OB-GYNs are advised to start HRT sooner.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
A transgender woman in Kansas is running as a Democrat for a state legislative district, and mismatched IDs are not stopping trans Kansans from voting.
Source: The 19th (19thnews.org)
Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and years of counterterror surveillance that paved the way for the Trump administration's abuses.
Source: The Intercept (theintercept.com)
MAGA activists are pushing President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures including martial law if they believe the midterm elections are 'rigged,' Axios reports.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
The MAGA movement is redoubling its attacks on trans healthcare in an attempt to win votes this November.
Source: The Nation (thenation.com)
Progressives are backing Puerto Rican independence, with more leftists concluding that statehood for the island is not enough.
Source: The Nation (thenation.com)
Carl Ginsburg writes in The Nation about how ICE still brings fear to Minneapolis.
Source: The Nation (thenation.com)
The BBC reports that Iowans are sticking with Trump ahead of the midterms, saying a dollar on gas won't change their vote.
Source: BBC News US & Canada (bbc.co.uk)
Sen. Bernie Moreno wants his fellow Republicans to cancel their holiday plans and jam through "everything that we could possibly get" if they lose the majorities in November's midterms.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
A Texas school cancelled its Little Shop Of Horrors production after a girl was cast as Seymour, citing an Anti-LGBTQ+ law.
Source: Erin in the Morning (erininthemorning.com)