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Two Flint Water employees who were due to give important evidence to investigators preparing a lawsuit against the water company were both found dead in the space of a week this month. Water Treatment Plant Foreman, Matthew McFarland, and the woman leading the suit, Sasha Avonna Bell, were both...
yournewswire.com|By Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Endless Kafkaesque inquisitions. Bad evidence, worse charts. The threat of violent anti-abortion extremism. This inquiry is a tragic farce that's doing real harm.
vox.com|By Emily Crockett
I hear you. You’re angry. I get it, I’m angry too. I’m not talking to the people who are angry at Target because their Pro Transgender bathroom policy flies in the face of their c…
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The way things are headed, with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick setting the state's legislative agenda, Texas may very well have its own crack squad bathroom police. In the meantime, it's up to self-appointed enforcers of traditional gender norms to adjudicate which bathrooms strangers should use. C…
dallasobserver.com|By Eric Nicholson
Wayne Simmons, who regularly appeared on Fox News, has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.
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From Sean Hannity to Michelle Malkin, conservatives have been having a shit-fit about this "bad role model" this week.
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John Martin Roos, 61, repeated threatened to kill Obama amid regular racist rants on Twitter and Facebook.
www.huffingtonpost.com|By Ryan J. Reilly
MoveOn has launched a #StandWithTarget petition to counter the petition authored earlier this week by the AFA. From the MoveOn petition: “I pledge to support Target and any other business that stands up for transgender rights and accommodates transgender people in their restroom use.” Sign here. Just under 26,000 names already.
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Probing further than any other reporter thus far, Fox's Megyn Kelly grilled North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory last night on the Kelly File over his effort to pass ‪#‎HB2‬ - the bill that (among other things) forces transgender men and women to use the bathroom aligning with the assigned sex on their birth certificate.

Fox's Megyn Kelly grilled North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory last night on the Kelly File over his effort to pass HB2 - the bill that forces transgender...
www.peacock-panache.com|By Tim Peacock

It’s too late for “fear of God” wedge issues. America has had same-sex marriage for a year now, and the apocalypse hasn’t occurred. Young people are more irate about their student loans than about who’s peeing in the next stall. The population keeps moving into cities, where there tend to be gay people and black people and brown people, and women in executive positions, and Americans have gotten used to the idea that the diversity is sort of nice.

It’s too late for “fear of God” wedge issues. America has had same-sex marriage for a year now, and the apocalypse hasn’t occurred. Young people are...
www.peacock-panache.com|By Sheila Suess Kennedy
Ken Ham, the Ayatollah of Appalachia and founder of Kentucky’s Creation Museum, is at the pulpit of Covington’s First Baptist Church in Louisiana. He’s ...
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“Perverts” are not coming for your children, disguised as transgendered persons, in your local department store bathroom. Far more likely- by orders of magnitude in fact- they’re coming for them in…
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There were more than twenty errors, fabrications and distortions in this book. You can find them here: http://mm4a.org/1EUxozw

Many media outlets admitted the book had little evidence to back up its claims.
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A video has been released which shows a lesbian being removed from a bathroom in the US, after she cannot prove that she is female.
pinknews.co.uk|By PinkNews

A judge just found Omaha, Nebraska resident Cameron Mayfield guilty of a hate crime in the burning his lesbian neighbors' pride flag last year. Though he attempted to argue in court that it was a misunderstanding stemming from a drunken prank, evidence showed otherwise.

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Waiting until the very last moment to take action, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed ‪#‎HB1840‬ into law yesterday effectively legalizing the right to refuse to treat mental health patients using religious belief as justification. The bill (HB1840) was billed as ‘patient referral’ legislation but goes much further than allowing a mental health professional to simply pass on a patient based on that person’s personal characteristics.

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed HB1840 into law yesterday effectively legalizing the right to refuse to treat mental health patients...
www.peacock-panache.com|By Tim Peacock

Thanks, Obama! The Right's Obsession With Misplaced Blame

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"It's really a kind of narcissistic personality disorder."
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