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The Texas Court Trying to Intimidate a New York Hospital

Just a few weeks into Trump’s return to the White House, thousands of people made their way to a Manhattan park close to NYU Langone Hospital. The...

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T​he Trans Idahoans Fighting an Extreme Bathroom Ban

On July 1, perhaps the most punitive bathroom ban in the country is set to go into effect in Idaho. The ban threatens people with criminal penalties...

08.05.2026 6

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The Right’s Upside-Down Argument Against the Abortion Pill

Over the last few days, the courts have contributed yet again to the ongoing American whiplash about abortion access. On Friday, a ruling from the...

06.05.2026 1

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How the FBI Turned a Custody Dispute Into Cheap Anti-Trans Fodder

Earlier this month, someone at the FBI made an extraordinary decision: to send a plane to Cuba to bring home an American child who had allegedly been...

30.04.2026 4

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RFK Jr.’s Anti-Trans Policy Has Been Toppled for All the Right Reasons

On Saturday, a U.S. district judge, Mustafa T. Kasubhai, blocked a federal policy that forced healthcare providers to follow the government’s agenda...

23.04.2026 3

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The Terrifying Convergence of Fetal Personhood Laws and Abortion Bans

In March, when Georgia police arrested a 31-year-old mother, alleged that she’d had an abortion, and charged her with murder, the woman’s mugshot...

20.04.2026 5

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Idaho Is Ground Zero of Republicans’ Escalating War on Trans People

In a small corridor near the governor’s office at the Idaho State Capitol last week, state and local police officers stood in formation, blocking...

13.04.2026 5

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Trump and ICE Want You to Think Renee Nicole Good Deserved It

14.01.2026 40

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The Tim Walz Saga Shows Why Debunking Conspiracy Theories Doesn’t Work

06.01.2026 8

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Kristi Noem Is the Villain DHS Was Made For

25.12.2025 20

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Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

14.12.2025 9

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The Radical Honesty of Trump’s Racist New Asylum Policy

03.12.2025 10

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When Is It Time to Flee?

26.11.2025 8

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Trump Is Waging War on an American City

09.10.2025 10

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A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe

02.10.2025 10

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The Right​’s Baseless​ Project to ​Link Trans People​ With Extremism

25.09.2025 10

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Trump’s Terrifying, Self-Serving Rebrand of Political Violence

19.09.2025 10

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Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys

The beatdown in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was caught on video. Two masked men in tactical vests grappled with a delivery...

19.08.2025 9

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DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is

14.08.2025 10

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Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug

12.08.2025 10

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The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda

08.08.2025 10

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QAnon Isn’t Dead. It Lives In the Heart of the Republican Party.

31.07.2025 10

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The Ugly Truth About ICE’s Abusive Detention Centers

24.07.2025 10

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ICE Is Making an Example of California

17.07.2025 10

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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp

02.07.2025 10

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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling

26.06.2025 10

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The Fringe Religious Movement that Schooled Vance Boelter

19.06.2025 10

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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense

10.06.2025 30

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Missouri’s Historic Abortion Victory Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes

05.06.2025 10

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Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access

21.05.2025 10

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Missouri’s New Fight to Roll Back Abortion Age Restrictions

01.05.2025 7

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The Trump Administration Isn't Pro-Family. It's Pro-Patriarchy.

24.04.2025 20

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The Trump Team Knows Its Case Against Abrego Garcia Is Thin

22.04.2025 10

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Why the Trump Team Keeps Turning ICE Raids Into Reality TV

10.04.2025 10

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This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign

25.02.2025 10

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