Plus: ‘Stigma’ Prevented California Health Officials From Closing Bathhouses Amid Monkeypox Spread
October 4 2022
Good morning from Washington, where a new Supreme Court term begins today. Josh Hammer looks at a couple of big cases coming up. Minnesota doesn’t make it hard enough to vote twice, Fred Lucas reports; and the vice president uses. On the podcast, a Missouri pastor tells how his church stands up to progressive pressure. Plus: energy costs spark bipartisan worries; D.C. may give noncitizens the vote Hurricane Ian to promote her equity message. On this date in 1863, grateful for a key Union victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday on the fourth Thursday of each November.
“I realized that I was always going to be a man. I was just a man who mutilated his body to make what I believe[d] was a woman [but was] just a caricature of a woman,” says Abel Garcia.
An email shared among government communications officials across California warned: “The implicit headline I’m afraid of is ‘Health officers say gay men will spread monkeypox at Pride weekend.’”
The fact that a bill on the Big Tech issue was able to pass the House is a sign that the political tides are shifting toward freedom and competition in the digital space.
Children now are inundated from a young age with messages about sexuality and gender, the founders of the CHANGED Movement say, but those messages aren’t always positive.
The Congressional Research Service has said the Equal Rights Amendment “formally died on June 30, 1982.” But now Illinois and Nevada are suing, claiming it already is in the Constitution.
“California will now be able to take away custody of children from their own parents—no matter what state they’re from,” says Emilie Kao, a vice president at Alliance Defending Freedom.