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David Letterman Laments Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: ‘This Is Misery’, by Todd Spangler, via Gruber.
This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well, by M. Gessen.
The Democrats’ Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party, by Adam Bonica, via Philip Bump.
Trump Files Emergency SCOTUS Motion Over Trans Passport Gender Markers; Decision Could Come Quickly, by Erin Reed.
Also by Erin: Trump Digs In On Anti-Trans Provisions In Shutdown Fight Message. She concludes:
[If] these anti-LGBTQ+ provisions make it through, they would lock some of the harshest restrictions on transgender people into federal law and hand Trump a stronger platform to target transgender healthcare and rights nationwide. Only if Democrats stand firm for their trans and queer constituents will this outcome be stopped.
Trans Health Care “Skeptics” Lost a Key Ally—Now They’re Having a Meltdown, by Henry Carnell.
Trump’s order said that he was declaring antifa a
domestic terrorist organization— a designation that does not actually exist under U.S. law. Anti-fascism, like fascism itself, is a broad political ideology rather than a specific organization, and the U.S. does not have a domestic terrorism law.
Three Transgender Women Shot Dead, Left On Roadside, Outside Pakistan’s Largest City, by Margaret Hetherman.