Texas Republicans are harassing peaceful Muslims!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gU2fnckTBgk

 

DOGE staffer who flagged grants for 'DEI' struggles to define the term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbGF7l-t2w

 

Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications – Mother Jones

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?"… 

(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. 

(e) "Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/trumps-definitions-of-male-and-female-are-nonsense-science-with-staggering-ramifications/

Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gq-5qNekdo

What is ‘sex’? What is ‘gender’? How these terms changed and why states now want to define them - PolitiFact

Although they're sometimes used synonymously, "sex" and "gender" have different meanings to medical professionals. Sex traditionally refers to one's biological characteristics, whereas gender is how a person identifies…

https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/mar/22/what-is-sex-what-is-gender-how-these-terms-changed/

Cambridge Dictionary changes definitions of ‘woman,’ ‘man’ to now include trans people - The Washington Post

"An adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth," it reads...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/13/woman-definition-cambridge-dictionary-transgender/

Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn seemed to think defining a woman is easy, then they tried do do it - The Washington Post

So, to review, here's the GOP tip sheet: If you want to know whether someone is a woman, you should simply walk up to them and say, "Pardon, are you of Adam's rib?" Alternatively, you could demand to see either a uterus or a "tallywhacker."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/04/06/republican-woman-definitions/

Merriam-Webster agrees to update definition of 'racism' after email from reader | TheHill

Merriam-Webster has agreed to update its definition of “racism” after a reader emailed editors requesting the entry be expanded to address its systemic aspects. Kennedy Mitchum, 22, of Florissant, Mo. a recent graduate of Drake University, told St. Louis TV station KMOV4 that she would get into arguments with people who pointed to the definition of racism to support their position.....
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/501932-merriam-webster-agrees-to-update-definition-of-racism-after

The Signs of Creeping Fascism Are All Around Us - Truthdig

This would be a good time for Americans to familiarize themselves with the essential elements of fascism. ....
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-signs-of-creeping-fascism-are-all-around-us/

Trump administration considering narrowing legal definition of gender: report - The Hill

The Trump administration is weighing a change that would require individuals to identify as male or female based on their genitalia at birth....
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412418-trump-administration-considering-narrowing-legal-definition-of-gender

The Threat of HHS Excluding Trans and Intersex People - The Atlantic

A report that the Trump administration plans to define gender based on the appearance of infants runs counter to developmental biology and individual privacy.....
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/trump-defines-gender-hhs/573544/

Scalia returns from the grave to pollute America’s water

On Tuesday, February 28, surrounded by Republican lawmakers, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to begin the process of rolling back the Obama administration’s Clean Water Rule.

That rule was finalized in 2015, so Trump couldn’t unilaterally undo it with the stroke of a pen. Instead, he asked the appropriate agencies to rewrite the rule and redefine “navigable waters” — a term that has plagued courts for decades — according to the definition put forth by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2006. And while that might seem like a small change, legal experts say that directive could vastly reduce the federal government’s ability to protect the nation’s streams, rivers, and wetlands from pollution....
https://thinkprogress.org/waters-of-the-united-states-rule-scalia-trump-rewrite-7327a1343836