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  "When prominent women athletes fail these kinds of tests, or are even suspected of failing them, their identities are routinely publicized and scrutinized on a massive scale… "… an accomplished striker for the Orlando Pride… has also experienced this kind of harassment — based not on any sex tests, but on how she looks…" Women’s tennis league stands alone as it greenlights genetic sex testing https://19thnews.org/2026/07/tennis-women-genetic-sex-testing/

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  "Because censorship undermines literacy, disinformation becomes an effective tool to erase diverse perspectives from the discourse… supplanting them with a version of history that serves those in power. "'The places where disinformation and censorship become closely linked, are also the places where marginalized groups are ready targets'…" A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Alberta-Banned-Book-Club-Bl...

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  "This memo tells the Justice Department they can weaponize conservative Christianity in order to use it against LGBTQ people, women, religious minorities, atheists, etc. An agency that’s supposed to defend the constitutional rights of all Americans is now manufacturing legal arguments for Christian privilege. It acts like damn near every conservative Christian grievance is a potential civil rights emergency…" https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-justice-depts-new-religious-li...

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  "The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a 'duress' password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents..." DOJ Charges Alleged Cop City Activist Over “Duress” Password That Wipes Phone | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/doj-charges-alleged-cop-city-activist-over-duress-password-that-wipes-phone/

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  "While it might seem silly to waste my breath talking about the anti-democratic daydreams of a multi-billionaire, there’s a very good reason I want to talk about this: because this Shopify executive has been trying to influence Canadian policy..." Shopify's CEO just suggested poor people shouldn't have the right to vote. He's also influencing our politics. https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/shopifys-ceo-just-suggested-poor

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  Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past. Trump and Musk both want to control America's history - Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2026/07/28/trump-and-musk-both-want-to-control-americas-history/

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  Tim Hortons isn't going to let loud, overt transphobia and the direct funding of anti-trans causes get in the way of a little profit. "This really hurt more than most. How can one person's hateful voice carry this far…?" Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-harry-potter-jk-rowling-9.7287100?cmp=rss

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  "However, unlike the other four states mentioned, there is an important caveat: the policy hasn’t actually been implemented yet. DPS employees indicated that the ban, while not in place at the moment, will be enforced 'as soon as [they] get word' from their superiors to do so…" South Dakota Will Become the 11th State to Ban Gender Changes on Driver’s Licenses ‘Soon’; Trans Residents May Only Have Days to Update their Licenses https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/so...

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  At Canadian religious conservative website LifeSiteNews, allowing women and girls to get a high school education is "woke."

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  "… she said, it 'may be time to introduce a bill requiring gender-appropriate professional attire for public school employees' to “protect children from being exposed to more complex and mature gender-identity questions and concepts at too young of an age…" NC Republican Lawmaker Proposes Banning Trans Teachers Who Don’t Dress According to their ‘Biological Sex’ https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/nc-republican-lawmaker-proposes-banning

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  "The groups are specifically pushing for the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee to study the issue, which would put it on the parliamentary agenda and force members of Parliament to directly confront the impact of these laws…" Carney has been silent as Alberta attacks trans youth. Parents and advocates have a plan to change that https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/carney-has-been-silent-as-alberta

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  "'Once people get used to the concept of paying out of pocket for more things themselves then we can change the conversation on health care,' she added…" Smith Brazenly Broke This Promise on Health Care | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/30/Smith-Brazenly-Broke-Promise-Health-Care/

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  "To counteract the threat, Shawn, Quinn, and many others have built up stockpiles of hormones. Sources all shared that everyone they knew had stockpiles or wanted to do so—this practice was so universal among trans people that it was hard to find a single member of the community who hadn’t long ago built their own HRT nest egg for hard times to come…" What is Driving Trans People to Stockpile their Medications? - Assigned Media https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/what-is-d...

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  "if those incentives to create original, creative, independent content disappear, does content just come from big and powerful companies, or from governments, or from AI itself…?" The web is being redesigned for AI. What does that mean for human readers? | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-summaries-chatbots-human-web-traffic-9.7289409?cmp=rss

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  "here's something that really is happening: ecommerce sites charge parents of newborns extra when they order thermometers in the middle of the night. I'm not saying that anyone ever sat down and said, 'Parents with sick children will pay whatever we charge for a thermometer at 2AM…' this is the kind of thing an automated system can do without any human intervention…" Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul...

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  "… they know that they don’t have a true foundation in science. So they go through a process of identifying negative personal anecdotes and mobilizing around them. Then conservative news agencies begin publishing articles about the alleged 'victim' in it; this triggers wider news coverage… They’ve produced an entire alternative anti-trans information ecosystem to avoid just coming out and saying Trans people are gross and against God…" TJ Billard on Anti-Trans...

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  "The extent to which people care about a given topic is co-productive with the media environment. The more they care, the more content they’ll see that feeds their beliefs, both because of how social media algorithms function and how media companies respond to topics that deliver them high traffic. And the more content people see like that, the more likely they are to be persuaded that this is something they should care about…" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/the-right-is-...

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  "Weeks after Acton endorsed a transgender sports ban and called transgender girls 'boys…' a meeting the campaign promised would begin repairing the damage instead further inflamed tensions… Acton did not show up, her campaign manager barred… a transgender candidate… from even entering the Zoom call… another… was ejected… And in the end, the campaign ultimately refused to apologize… and ended the meeting with no plans for what come next…" https://www.erininthemo...

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  The target was never just trans women alone. "'WNBA is a hot bed of androgyny and homosexuality that inevitably leads to transgenderism,' he added…" MAGA hate pastor says women's sports 'inevitably lead to transgenderism' - LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/hate-pastor-says-womens-sports-inevitably-lead-to-transgenderism/

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  "Yenor’s fix is for Title IX to 'accommodate nature.' In practice, this would channel girls and women toward the non-competitive tier—yoga, dance, hiking clubs—and boys toward competitive sport. Yenor casts this as simply letting Title IX align with the 'natural interests' and 'inherent differences'…" Rightwing think tank blames Simone de Beauvoir for girls playing competitive sports. They're wrong. - LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/rightwi...

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  "Democratic Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, of Texas; Donald G. Davis, of North Carolina; Shomari Figures and Terri A. Sewell, of Alabama… turned their backs on trans people when it came time to protect their right to be free from discrimination in health care and in schools…" Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/five-dems-crossed-party-lines-to

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  "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…" Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-pushed-anti-trans-laws-transition-care-bathroom-trump-rcna350199

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  "A UBI could be deployed in ways that reduce poverty, reward unpaid care, and increase the bargaining power of wage earners but it could also be used to co-opt dissent, justify cutbacks in public services, and enhance control over the population…" Backing for UBI Is Growing. Let’s Push for the Most Progressive Version of It. | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/backing-for-ubi-is-growing-lets-push-for-the-most-progressive-version-of-it/

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  "… Yenor is merely using… trans athletes… as a springboard for his true target: women’s sports, and… 'the deeper feminist settlement that has governed athletics for decades…' [which] aimed to make women 'more independent and even dominant and less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces'…" After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility...

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  "Trump administration officials reportedly believed that the Israeli government intended to assassinate Iran’s top negotiators…" "… In response, the US 'went so far as to ask other countries in the region to warn Iran about the possibility Israel could target the two officials'…" Israel Reportedly Planned to Assassinate Iranian Negotiators During Peace Talks | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/israel-reportedly-planned-to-assassinate-iranian-negotiators-during-...

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  Clarification. "Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reviewed all of the approximately 6,500 applications it received for citizenship by descent… "… The 67 suspended certificates represent 'roughly one per cent of total certificates issued under C-3 to date'…" Immigration Department suspends citizenship for 67 'lost Canadians' as it reviews program | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-canadians-citizenship-certificates-9.7254266?cmp=rs...

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  "To the politicians slashing Pride: We do not need your approval, your recognition, or your permission to exist. We certainly do not want your friendship. The bridges are already ash in the wind. Long after this latest moral panic has exhausted itself, future generations, including your own children, will reject you and be left to rebuild the communities, freedoms, & institutions you worked so hard to dismantle…" This Pride, I'm over meeting homophobes 'in the middle.'...

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  Mark Carney taking in an anti-vax, anti-trans, Christian Nationalist, Islamophobic, far-righter to get his majority government says everything you need to know about his cynical drive for power, commitment to principles and care about anything but money. Former Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-marilyn-gladu-crosses-floor-to-liberals-9.7156167?cmp=rss

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  "The study authors make no effort to describe how Finland treats patients with gender dysphoria, or highlight the differences between their model and mainstream practices in the field. Instead, they present their findings as relevant to outcomes of medical gender reassignment writ large…" Finland is Incredibly Bad at Treating Transgender Young People — Assigned https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/finland-trans-study-kaltiala-bad-science

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  "Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use as the document turns 44…" Charter at a turning point as it turns 44 | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charter-rights-freedoms-turns-44-9.7166036?cmp=rss