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Levi Kalish

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Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 2w ago

center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"

Transgender-inclusive and age-appropriate sports participation policies, which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide.While local bodies and associations should minimize unnecessary exclusion, restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances.
Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · 3w ago

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Levi Kalish@kalish.bsky.social · 3w ago

Until recently, there was a former Do No Harm employee in the White House. Scott Centorino, the group's VP of policy and programs, worked as a special assistant to the WH on domestic policy, according to financial disclosures.

Do No Harm, a lobbying group founded in 2022, pushes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and initiates lawsuits against DEI practices in medical schools. Hsiao, the acting director of Enforcement and Affirmative Litigation Branch in the DOJ, specifically cited Do No Harms’ database of children’s hospitals that offer gender-affirming care in her statement within a lawsuit. By aggregating diagnostic codes and insurance data, Do No Harm claims to already know the number of patients that received hormone therapy or puberty blockers, and how much providers have billed insurance companies at more than a dozen hospitals across the country. So far, at least 13 hospitals that have received either grand jury or civil subpoenas from the DOJ also appear on Do No Harm’s list of providers, according to an analysis from HuffPost. The group has strong ties to both the Trump administration and right-wing money networks. Until a few months ago, Scott Centorino, Do No Harm’s former vice president of policy and programs, was an employee in the Trump administration, working as a special assistant to the White House on domestic policy, according to financial disclosures. Last year the group received $75,000 from The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing policy organization that drafted Project 2025. Do No Harm has also been supported by influential conservative donor Leonard Leo, who has helped Trump shape the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Over the last two years, the group’s budget has ballooned from $2 million to $10 million.
Levi Kalish@kalish.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wanted to learn how DOJ chose hospitals to target. Buried in a DOJ testimony I found a clue: a 2024 database by Do No Harm, a newish Leonard-Leo funded group that targets DEI and trans healthcare. 13 hospitals that received DOJ subpoenas were also on DNH's list. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The DOJ Requested His Teen Daughter's Medical Records. They Won't Stop There.

“The goal is to make every provider wonder whether or not they’re going to be next,” one LGBTQ+ health expert said.

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Levi Kalish@kalish.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The DOJ's efforts to obtain trans kids' medical records are a test of just how much power Trump can wield against anyone it views as an opponent. I spoke with one trans teen and one doctor whose records were subpoenaed -- they said it felt like intimidation. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The DOJ Requested His Teen Daughter's Medical Records. They Won't Stop There.

“The goal is to make every provider wonder whether or not they’re going to be next,” one LGBTQ+ health expert said.

huffpost.com

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4w ago

The White House directed Patel to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by @nytimes.com about security issues with the new Air Force One, leading to a flurry of subpoenas to reporters Friday night, according to people witj knowledge of the situation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting

The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers By Arelis R. Hernández Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting. Gift link! @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: DOJ filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in New York and California barring it from seeking private patient information via grand jury subpoenas about transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care as a minor.

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner)

BREAKING: The Justice Department filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in New York and California preventing DOJ from obtaining personal medical ...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 4w ago

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black man, went out with a group of people to Horn Island off the coast of Mississippi for a July 4th party. The people he went with returned. He did not. His body was found on the island yesterday.

Body Found on Horn Island Amid Search for Nolan Wells, Who Vanished on Trip With Friends

A park ranger found a body on Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Sunday amid the search for 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells.

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Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · last mo.

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

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Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last mo.

I feel like I’m going insane, the degree to which politics and yes the media completely made this up. The anti gay marriage panic I got, there were a ton more gay people who wanted to get married, this thing is not a thing

Micah@rincewind.run · last mo.

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · last mo.

If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

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Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · last mo.

Ahead of July 4, I wanted to know: What would an immigration "revolution" look like? I asked people who would know: a former ICE detainee, a retired immigration judge, a pastor who accompanies people to court, a day laborer organizer, and more. Read what they said: www.huffpost.com/entry/july-4...

This Is How The 'Immigration Revolution' Starts

HuffPost spoke with a former ICE detainee, an organizer for day laborers, a retired immigration judge and others about what an immigration revolution would look like.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · last mo.

I’ve dug through thousands of exhibit files of FBI “evidence” taken in raids of the defendants’ homes. the federal government’s version of what happened that night — the basis of their “terrorism” — was a fraction of the files. the bulk is zines, books, stickers, patches: First Amendment activity.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Molly Crane-Newman@mollycranenewman.bsky.social · last mo.

“I cannot conceive of a crime that would require the breadth of disclosure sought in the subpoena,” Failla says of the DOJ's sweeping request to NYU Langone and other NYC hospitals. “The plaintiffs’ interest in privacy outweighs the government’s interest in breaching it.”

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.

A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.

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DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.