February 7, 2025 LGBT News, Trump Administration
Boston’s PBS affiliate reports: The annual State Department report documenting the severity of human trafficking around the world will not include a section on LGBTQ victims this year, one of its authors told GBH News. Each year the State Department publishes what it calls the Trafficking in Persons Report — also known as TIP — to gauge how individual countries …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Mother Jones reports: Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters. In this film—which credits Patel as an executive producer—he offers a blistering attack on the FBI. He …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: A federal judge today ordered an immediate halt to key aspects of President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, blocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio from placing 2,200 employees of the agency on leave in a matter of hours. “They should not put those 2,200 people on administrative leave,” U.S. District Judge Carl …
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February 7, 2025 Racism, Republicans
“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. “They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong …
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February 7, 2025 Democrats, LGBT News
The Associated Press reports: Three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under 19. Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington. The attorneys general of Oregon and Minnesota, and three doctors, also joined as plaintiffs. The complaint …
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February 7, 2025 Immigration, Trump Administration
NBC News reports: San Francisco officials filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration, arguing Trump’s executive orders that promise to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and prosecute local law enforcement officials who refuse to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts are unconstitutional. The suit, co-led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County officials, comes as the …
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February 7, 2025 Fox News, State Television
Media Matters reports: Fox continues to spread the false claim that immigrants with criminal records are the only people at risk of deportation in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation blitz, this time on Fox’s Spanish-language news show. Host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked her guest, Texas Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland, if it was correct that the current deportation efforts exclusively target “criminals, murderers, …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: President Trump said on Friday that there is “no rush” moving forward with his “Gaza takeover” plan, which he also described as a “real estate transaction” between America and Israel. “The U.S. would view it as a real estate transaction. We will be an investor in this part of the world. No rush to do anything,” he said. Trump …
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February 7, 2025 Elon Musk, Extremists
Reuters reports: One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as “Special Advisor to the Director” at the Office of Personnel Management, which has been spearheading Musk’s efforts to shrink the …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
First, there was this bizarre exchange: Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked President Donald Trump about Elon Musk declaring his “straight man” love for him. Doocy asked Trump what First Lady Melania Trump thought of Musk declaring his “straight man” love for the president. DOOCY: Elon Musk says I love Donald Trump as mush as a straight man …
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