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On Saturday’s edition of “AM Joy,” former Senate aide Jimmy Williams clashed with Log Cabin Republicans spokesman Charles Moran over his Washington Post op-ed hailing President Donald Trump for supposedly taking “bold actions that benefit the LGBTQ community.” “Since Trump became president, he’s done, established, promulgated rules, or met with virulently homophobic leaders in the White House 123 times. Not 100 times, not 23 times, 123 times,” said Williams. “In fact, yesterday, the Trump Department of Justice sent an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States saying...

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On Saturday, MSNBC’s Garrett Haake broke down the nightmare situation Republicans are facing with Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who has faced outrage for years of white supremacist comments, and more recently suggested that rape and incest might be a good thing for society. “What more recourse do Republicans have?” said host David Gura. “We had this cycle of condemnation in the past after comments were made. He was stripped of committee assignments. Is there more Republicans can do vis-a-vis Steve King?” “They could kick him out of of the conference...

According to a report from ABC, Donald Trump’s economic advisers are baffled about how to stop what appears to be a recession coming before the 2020 election after his trade war upset an already teetering worldwide economy. With the report noting that Trump had hoped to run on a strong economy as part of his 2020 re-election strategy, warnings from economists that a recession may arrive before then has White House officials in a panic. “The financial markets signaled the possibility of a U.S. recession this week, sending a jolt...

Thirteen and a half percent of all transgender people in the US have been through conversion therapy despite major medical organisations calling it ineffective and unethical, research has found. Equating to some 187,923 trans people across all 50 states, the study found that the controversial practice of attempting to change a person’s gender identity was most prevalent in Wyoming and South Dakota. Conversion therapy has been condemned by almost all major health association’s in the US, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of...

More than 150 students identified as non-binary when sitting their A-level exams this year, according to two of the UK’s leading exam boards. It’s the first time that the number of non-binary A-level candidates has been publicly shared since exam boards Edexcel and OCR made changes to the the way they classify gender in 2018. The changes mean that students who don’t identify as “male” or “female” can opt out of the binary system and choose a gender-neutral option instead. Edexcel also removed gender categories completely from the documents that...

The Trump administration on Friday informed the U.S. Supreme Court it is the opinion of the Dept. of Justice that it is legal under federal law for employers to fire transgender workers merely for being transgender. The DOJ’s brief states Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, does not apply to transgender workers. In reporting the development Buzzfeed calls it one of the Trump administration’s “most agressive steps yet to legalize anti-transgender discrimination.” Friday’s move comes just days after the...

House Republican leadership has sent a memo to GOP members of Congress directing them to lie about right wing white supremacist gun massacres, and to call it “violence from the left.” The memo, which The Tampa Bay Times acquired, includes talking points for congressional Republicans to parrot when speaking with reporters or constituents. It instructs them on how to address questions about gun violence, including the domestic terrorism recently perpetrated in El Paso, Texas. If asked a question like, “Do you believe white nationalism is driving more mass shootings recently?” GOP...