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JOE IS WAKING UP!
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Hasan Abi • 4 days ago

JOE IS WAKING UP!

MR FUN | 1/14/26
The Majority Report • 4 days ago

MR FUN | 1/14/26

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes
Democracy Now • 4 days ago

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes

When Becky Pepper-Jackson started middle school, she wanted to join her school’s track and field team. Like many girls her age, she was excited to make new friends and cultivate a passion for a sport. But unlike the other girls on her school’s track and field team, Pepper-Jackson is trans. And because she lives in West Virginia, a state which has banned transgender girls from participating in public school sports, Pepper-Jackson was excluded from what for her classmates is a normal childhood experience. Pepper-Jackson sued, and her case is now before the conservative-majority Supreme Court — which, after oral arguments Tuesday, appears likely to uphold similar laws throughout the country. “The states have attempted to justify these things in terms of some sort of alleged sex-based athletic advantage,” says Karen L. Loewy of the LGBTQ+ legal advocacy organization Lambda Legal. “It’s really about whether the court is going to uphold trans people’s equal opportunity in all aspects of public life.”

ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase
Democracy Now • 4 days ago

ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase

A new report finds the number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump’s first year back in office, driven by indiscriminate arrest policies that have locked up more and more people without criminal records, “an unprecedented situation for immigration detention.” We break down the numbers with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which published the report. Reichlin-Melnick explains that ICE’s annual budget has approximately quintupled, even as 2025 marked the agency’s deadliest year so far. Four more people have already died in detention in just the first two weeks of 2026. “Crucially, all of this has been slower than they wanted,” he adds. “Their hope was to have over 100,000 people in detention by today; they’ve hit 70,000.”

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