US-funded nonprofit The Open Technology Fund is being pressured by Trump appointee Michael Pack to fund repressive surveillance tech that will put human rights activists around the world in danger. The Open Technology Fund (OTF), “a U.S. government-funded nonprofit...
Trump’s HHS Finalizes Move Rolling Back ‘Unnecessary’ Transgender Healthcare Protections
Roger Severino, the Christian right activist who heads the Trump HHS's Office of Civil Rights, chose to roll back health care protections for transgender Americans during Pride month. The Trump administration just moved to roll back hard-fought Obama-era healthcare...
Trump DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Let Religious Adoption Agencies Discriminate Against LGBTQ Families
As far as the US Justice Department is concerned, forcing cities to work with discriminatory religious groups is the American way. President Donald Trump’s Dept. of Justice is telling the U.S. Supreme Court it should allow religious and faith-based adoption agencies...
Trump and the GOP Are About to Give a Rabidly Anti-LGBTQ Judge a Lifetime Appointment
Part of a sweeping effort by President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate to pack the courts with extremely conservative justices, Mississippi judge Cory Wilson has been open with his anti-LGBTQ political views. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Top Trump Campaign Adviser Compares Gays To Child Rapists, Supports Criminalizing Homosexuality
In the wake of marriage equality becoming the law of the land, Jenna Ellis told a talk radio show that the decision opened the door for "bestiality and pedophilia." She's since become a high-profile Trump campaign surrogate. Jenna Ellis, a top adviser for President...
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