Again racism for the sake of saving white fraigle feelings. Nothing the president and this white nationalism administration have done to erase the true history of the US has worked to make them feel better about what the white people did in the past to the black people then and what the system is doing to black people now. The right and the white Christian nationlist desperatly always seem to need a scapegoat villain to keep their feelings from being hurt by preconceived slights that the loss of their privileges makes them feel. When everything is given to you automatically, when everything is just normally your privilege to be first and suddenly you have to start standing in line with others it seems like oppression rather than simply being equal to others. Hugs
If President Donald Trump gets his way, the first thing visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be greeted with are signs warning them that because of “inaccurate information presented in the Museum” they should seek “accurate information” elsewhere.
The president on Friday ordered the installation of temporary “warning” signs on the museum’s sidewalks, marking a major escalation in his campaign to pressure the Smithsonian Institution to rewrite American history to better align with his administration’s ideology.
The executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and several other Cabinet officials to utilize “all available authorities to encourage” the Smithsonian Institution to “correct the issues found” in a scathing White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of “extreme political activism” and claimed it “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”
The sidewalks and walkways outside of the popular museum, which welcomes just shy of two million visitors annually, are federal property controlled by the National Park Service. The signs would “notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent” with the findings of the July 4 report. They would also “direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”
Trump also accused the museum of failing to “to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country,” and instructed Burgum to install “temporary exhibits” on Smithsonian walkways to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum.”
“The Report demonstrates that the Smithsonian leadership does not present American history as a shared national inheritance to be taught and celebrated, but instead views American history as a ‘prime tool’ to advance ideas of social justice and the radical transformation of our society,”according to the newly signed executive order.
The signage order followed a week of congressional testimony by Smithsonian officials in hearings called by House Republicans in response to the White House report. Anthea Hartig, head of the National Museum of American History, was grilled over her patriotism and dedication to country.
Hartig said the White House report “does not fairly characterize the full body of work of this museum.” And under questioning from GOP lawmakers she reaffirmed her allegiance to her country multiple times, at one point answering, “I love this country unconditionally.”
The report, oversight hearings and signage demand compound more than a year of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order that vowed to strip federal funding from Smithsonian programs that present what he viewed as “improper, divisive, or anti-American” ideology.
The Trump administration has since threatened to withhold federal funding from the Smithsonian Institution unless a number of its museums submit documentation for an expansive content review.
Sydney Carruth is a breaking news reporter covering national politics and policy for MS NOW. You can send her tips from a non-work device on Signal at SydneyCarruth.46 or follow her work on X and Bluesky.
"Why Wall Street Firms Are Paying $100,000 a Month [to Trump Media] for a Fast Track to Trump Posts: Traders who already monitor the president’s pronouncements with automated systems can pay for an ultrafast feed. At least five firms have signed up." Gift link: wsj.com/finance/stoc…
This is a jarring visual every American should see.Trump has made $2.24 BILLION as President.Trump gets richer while you pay more for everything. Corruption like we've never seen.
BREAKING: Feds withdraw NYT subpoenas into reporting on Qatar-gifted jet The government called the subpoenas to reporters' family members an “error.” http://www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-quas…
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters last week, right after he'd met with Todd Blanche, that Blanche told him "I made a mistake" by creating Trump's $1.7B slush fund for J6ers.Direct quote, Durbin said.Here's Blanche now denying it, in his written responses to judiciary committee members:
Trump: "We made a purchase of 10% of Intel. We got it for the right price. And we made approximately $72 billion on that deal. So it was good. Do I get credit for that one? No. I get no credit!"(Tell me more about how Democrats are communists … )
Mitch McConnell has been accused of violating one of the Senate’s own rules after disappearing from public view for 39 days while missing dozens of votes. https://t.co/Qrf9snCMwM
BREAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has made a full recovery after tests revealed he was only suffering from low-T. Doctors contacted Pete Hegseth to remedy the situation and the Senator was discharged from the hospital eager to return to the Senate. pic.twitter.com/15BMr8kI2t
— 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘾𝙀 𝙂𝘼𝙕𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀 ™ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@FrancisWegner) July 18, 2026
PabloReports: The fellas at MeidasTouch want to know where you’re at on the moon landing. The anniversary was yesterday.
Boebert: I don’t know. I think it was done in an Amazon warehouse… Oh, they didn’t have those then—a different warehouse. pic.twitter.com/J75AqQ6dah
A group of Democratic senators is accusing the Social Security Administration of using a July email to distribute "misleading information" and "a partisan, politicized message," saying it threatens the agency's credibility as an independent agency. https://t.co/eN3asPgTZn
PabloReports: Tell us about this effort to prevent members from dating staffers.
Cammack: If you’re looking for love, I suggest you look elsewhere. Maybe join—I don’t know—what are the dating apps these days? eHarmony? Match? Grindr? Tinder?
BREAKING: New poll shows Mike Lindell expanding his lead in the MNGOP governor primary. The stakes could not be higher — we cannot afford to allow Mike Lindell to become Minnesota's governor.
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that election officials in states that choose not to use a faulty federal database to verify citizenship status could face fines or prison time.The statement marks an escalation in the administration's effort to exert federal control over elections.
House votes to restrict Trump's Iran war powers in latest rebuke over the conflict. The Senate is expected to vote soon on a similar measure. https://cnn.it/4wZX3m1
🇾🇪 Reuters: Yemen’s Houthis say they struck Saudi tankers ENCELIA and LAYLA with missiles and drones after announcing a Red Sea blockade of Saudi ports. The attacks threaten shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, which carries about 12% of global trade.
cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
Watters: I want to talk about these college-educated, downwardly mobile women, because it’s mostly women… You’re going to become bitter because you are single, and if you are a woman, men don’t care if you have a Ph.D. So you are going to get angry, and then you are going to get… pic.twitter.com/I9tSH9fsIg
"That's it?" — Durbin confronts a Trump DOJ nominee named Konstantinos Ligris with some of his tweets — including calling Walz "tampon Tim," Biden officials "retarded," and referring to cops as "dumb as dirt" — and Ligris doesn't even try to defend them, leaving Durbin… pic.twitter.com/j8W7cxCulj
The Trump administration’s EEOC withdraws its subpoena seeking the names of Jews working for the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.thedp.com/article/2026…
Musk to The Economist: “I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around five years. In five years…roughly five years…is my guess.“So there really won't be anything that AI can't do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps.”Something he knows nothing about, apparently.
For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cutsLancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up
Elon Musk gets mad when people point out that DOGE and its USAID cuts killed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of babies, children, mothers, and elders
A man employed by a company running a U.S. ICW facility near Denver was charged on Wednesday with assault stemming from the shooting and wounding of an ICE protester there last week, local prosecutors say.
The FDA has identified a new outbreak of cyclosporiasis that has sickened at least 72 people, according the agency. The additional outbreak comes in the midst of the U.S.’s worst year on record for the intestinal illness.
NEW: Donald Trump must divulge detailed financial information from his many businesses as part of his $10B defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, a federal judge ruled during a discovery hearing on Tuesday
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 22, 2026
NEWS: A Florida judge has ordered Donald Trump to turn over financial records sought by the BBC in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
The judge granted the BBC's motion to compel records from Trump's revocable trust, handing the broadcaster a MAJOR early win in discovery. pic.twitter.com/W54AbaVB6I
FT Exclusive: The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money. https://t.co/j1PIzzMlZfpic.twitter.com/4aKvSPdp2c
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Ken Paxton just melted down and stormed out of a press conference after being asked about his 15 houses and alleged voter fraud. What a disaster for Texas Republicans. pic.twitter.com/m0PAgTHRpu
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) July 21, 2026
Cornyn told Semafor that he would not support committee action on Kari Lake’s nomination to be ambassador to Jamaica or Doug Mastriano’s bid to become ambassador to Slovakia without confirmation that the administration will distribute money from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
John Thune: “Yes, we would welcome him” if John Fetterman wanted to join the Republican conference.“I haven't talked to him recently,” Thune says, while adding that “many” Senate Rs would happily welcome him. “Ultimately that's a decision that's up to him.”
PASSED: Nancy Mace's ban on gender-affirming care coverage in TriCare (219-208) Mace ban on trangender participation in women's sports at DoDEA schools (221-203)
FAIL: Boebert's ban on trans servicemembers (212-217)
As a former C-Suite executive at a publicly traded company, providing this important information to the EEOC helped to fight discrimination. Trump lies. US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 yearsapnews.com/article/eeoc…
Here’s a radical thought: maybe Trump should have sought congressional approval for the war with Iran before trying to stick Congress with the bill.www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec…
He believes the U.S. should become a Christian theocracy, married women shouldn’t have the right to vote and gay sex should be illegal.‘Hand Jobs, Oral Sex and Anal’: Pete Hegseth's Pastor Wants Gay Men Prosecuted for These Acts [WATCH]open.substack.com/pub/uncloset…
HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration–REED: Listen — we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to Biden is just a very very obvious excuse
MURRAY: Why exactly are billions of dollars for the National Guard and this administration's illegal strikes in the Caribbean urgently needed for the Iran war?HEGSETH: Because of Biden
REED: These airstrikes have not yet deterred and defeated the Iranians. Do you think airstrikes alone will do that?CAINE: Air power has limits and we always have to be mindful of thoseREED: The next step would be escalation by ground combat
HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effortREED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?
HEGSETH: Iran is not charging tolls and they are shooting at ships right nowMURRAY: Trump said he wanted to charge a 20% tollHEGSETH: We have a blockade and it is effective
MURRAY: How it is possible if Iran's capabilities were 'functionally destroyed' 3 months ago for them to be bombing us now?HEGSETH: Iran is at the weakest point militarily it has ever been in
Reminder: Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts.Now, he's bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion
OSSOFF: You stated on the 14th day of this conflict that Iran's military was 'destroyed.' Was that an accurate statement — yes or no?HEGSETH: Iran's ability to challenge the US–OSSOFF: That's not what I asked. Yes or no?HEGSETH: What the milit—OSSOFF: Will you answer the question?
Ossoff demolishes Hegseth — then Hegseth has an epic crashout
Sen. Jon Ossoff used Hegseth's premature declarations of victory against him during his Senate testimony, repeatedly reading back statements Hegseth made in March and April about Iran's military being "destroyed"… pic.twitter.com/KIFv6TW6Ir
Neither Trump nor Rubio plan to block the extradition of Andrew & Tristan Tate, despite the brothers’ numerous MAGAville tieswww.axios.com/2026/07/22/t…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 22, 2026
RULE: Marketing supplement? HUGE RED FLAG. 🚩The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed http://www.nytimes.com/video/techno…"…found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers."
JUST IN: Trump plans to dramatically raise the cost of imported generic medications for Americans.
A 100% import tax starting August 1, 2028, then 200% starting August 1, 2029. pic.twitter.com/XQmNPrJ9j4
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 21, 2026
Cue Terminator theme music"OpenAI effectively found an escape route to the internet – by locating a vulnerability that had not been discovered before.The agent then hacked Hugging Face, which is a database of AI models, to locate technology that would help it pass the hacking evaluation."
More than 4 million people nationwide were dropped from the federal food assistance program known as SNAP from July 2025 through March, according to a nonpartisan think tank.Arizona has seen the sharpest decline.
The House on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would codify President Trump’s executive order preventing transgender individuals from serving in the military.
The lower chamber voted 212-217 to reject the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). Four Republicans sided with Democrats to kill the measure.
The executive order, implemented by Trump in January, states that “consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
The order also states that the armed forces “shall neither allow males to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, nor allow females to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for males.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 2-1 in June that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to expel people who are currently serving was motivated by animus against transgender people, violating their constitutional rights.
However, the court’s ruling did not cover people wishing to enlist in the military; the court ruled that it involved different considerations.
Republicans have spent years pushing policies targeting transgender Americans as a central part of their legislative agenda, arguing the measures are intended to protect women’s sports, parental rights and military readiness. Democrats have broadly opposed the efforts, arguing the measures discriminate against transgender people and infringe on their rights.
The NDAA is an annual, must-pass bill that establishes policies and authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense’s military activities, military construction and the Department of Energy’s defense activities.
Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.…
The BBC has issued 47 subpoenas to the elder Trump's inner circle, including Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller. But the Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.
Trump: “I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every 6 months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all — Got every question right. Few people in DC could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan”
Australian broadcaster on hot mic after Trump crashes Spain’s World Cup trophy presentation: “They’re gonna edit him out of that” pic.twitter.com/s2vIIw3cgE
New: Trump installed a Thomas Jefferson statue in the Rose Garden last week, continuing his statue spree, per ppl familiar.Three of the new Rose Garden statues were provided by HARLAN CROW, conservative collector and donor, we learned.More on Trump’s statue push with @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social.
The Trump administration sought phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — to try unmasking confidential sources who provided information about the security capabilities of Trump’s new Air Force One jet.www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b…
SCOOP: After pardoning hundreds of allies over the course of his 1st 18 months back in the WH, Trump this month quietly rejected clemency applications from nearly 6,000 people who mostly lacked connections & had been waiting in a queue at @TheJusticeDept. https://t.co/3NAcYDW867
WSJ report on the stunning amount of money Israel is spending on propaganda includes this: Brad Parscale works for Israel AND is chief strategy officer at Salem media. His contract for Israel involved “integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties”(!!) pic.twitter.com/oPNy2bg7pS
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups asked a federal appeals court Monday to stop Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana from using the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for mass voter screenings. https://t.co/E2dKmKWrhl
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court revived USPS’ ability to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting rule.The rule would mandate new federal checks before mail ballots are sent to voters
Today, I’m introducing MediKids – guaranteed healthcare for every child no matter where they live or how much their parents make.The concept is simple: Every kid deserves to be happy and healthy. Let's invest in our kids and build a stronger, healthier future.
In 2018, Chuck Edwards’ son committed suicide, allegedly with a gun. The whole ordeal is tragic.
— TheseKeystrokesKillFascists (@Agt00Soul) July 20, 2026
New Orleans published a document saying its police could put weapons on their drones, deleted it, now says it was a mistake. But it aligns exactly with when the drone manufacturer began musing about allowing police to weaponize their drones:www.404media.co/new-orleans-…
A Republican senator recited the Declaration of Independence — next to a Confederate flag.
As he stood a few feet from a Confederate flag, Sen. Dan Sullivan spoke glowingly about "core ideas" in the Declaration of Independence — like the principle that all people are "created…
Trump's DOJ brings hundreds of cases against protesters accusing them of "assaulting ICE officers," and these cases turn out, almost uniformly, to be predicated on easily exposed lies. The fact that protesters and bystanders regularly record everything that happens on their smartphones
Question: Do you regret giving ICE more money, given the killings, including the one in your state? Susan Collins: Q: No regrets, Senator? Collins: That money went to body cameras and training Q: They didn't wear cameras, though, did they Senator? Collins: pic.twitter.com/BUePoTv4M6
NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members.
In other sports news of the day, a golfer at The Open Championship told officials he wanted to call Trump to ask him for assistance after he was penalized for breaking a ruleSource: http://www.the-daily-drive.com/p/fox-steals…
The Chief Justice for the District of Minnesota, Eric C. Tostrud, tossed out a federal lawsuit Monday that aimed to invalidate Minnesota state and local policies that limit collaboration with immigration enforcement.
Immigration enforcement shouldn’t come at the cost of the public’s safety or trust.38 Senate colleagues joined me to renew the call for commonsense reforms—including body cameras & greater transparency—following the fatal ICE shootings in Maine & Texas.www.pressherald.com/2026/07/20/d…
[Real human costs of Trump's deportation] Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out “Our work force is being drastically disrupted, relationships are being severed and lives are being upended right now” http://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u…
Pentagon proposes new secrecy power to withhold unclassified records from public-access laws making it harder for the public to know how taxpayer money is being spent within the government’s largest federal agency raising concerns among watchdogs: CBS News https://t.co/cO9Gu3vtBG
Before "the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes … [that] injured dozens of U.S. service members …But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage."
Oil prices jumped above $90 per barrel Sunday in the first major trading since the deaths of three U.S. service members and escalating Middle East hostilities.www.axios.com/2026/07/19/o…
Q: There are no signs Iran is ready to stop fighting. So what's the plan?TRUMP: How do you know there are no signs? Do you know something I don't?Q: They continue to kill AmericasT: They want to meet desperately. You don't get that when you listen to your fake station. You dont know anything.
Q: Do you believe Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?TRUMP: All we do is read the fake news. Maybe this one they have right. But it's okay. It doesn't mean anything unless they have the material. We'll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.
Q: Do you think Iran is trying to impact the midterm elections by threatening the Strait of Hormuz?TRUMP: Probably. They won't have any impact on me. I'm just going to do the right thing. I don't view it as, 'Gee, we're having an election.' I think people are very impressed.
Q: Do you think Iran is trying to impact the midterm elections by threatening the Strait of Hormuz?TRUMP: Probably. They won't have any impact on me. I'm just going to do the right thing. I don't view it as, 'Gee, we're having an election.' I think people are very impressed.
The largest copyright class action settlement in history was granted final approval Monday, with $1.5 billion awarded to authors and creators whose work was used by the AI company Anthropic to train its large language models. http://www.courthousenews.com/anthropic-to…
Why do these haters hate so much towards the LGBTQ+ people? We never hurt them, but they claim we hurt their god. But if that is true then can’t their all powerful god fix such an offense? Unless he made the LGBTQ+ people as he wanted them to be.
I want to point out the total switch and bait these haters use. Read the article to see the hate and refusal to accept anyone not straight and cis. Here is a quote from this person; notice how he frames it just to incite outrage.
Forcing local schools to permit a teenage boy who ‘identifies’ as a girl to use changing rooms, locker rooms, and bathrooms with five-year-old girls.”
See the bait and switch? A teen boy is somehow threatening your little 5 yr old girl. Oh the humaity.
Congressman Brian Babin, R-Texas, Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, speaks about the introduction of the Birthright Citizenship Act at a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. | Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK
A Republican member of Congress went to an event hosted by a hate group and, during a prayer, thanked God for sending Donald Trump to stop children from being led “down the path of homosexuality and perversion.”
“Lord, we beseeched thee,” prayed Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) at the Family Research Council’s (FRC) National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance event at the Museum of the Bible in D.C. on February 4. The FRC is classified as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Our prayers were answered in getting us a new president and taking a different direction in our country than we had seen for the previous four years,” he continued. “Apostasy, blasphemy, taking our children down the path of homosexuality and perversion. Open borders. Criminals running rampant in our streets.”
“Lord, we have new leadership, and we thank you for that. But Lord, we know that government is not going to save our country. It’s going to be the American people returning to the path that you have set out for us and our Founding Fathers.”
Babin has consistently gotten a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard for the past several sessions of Congress, showing his solid opposition to LGBTQ+ equality.
In 2022, Babin was one of several Congressional Republicans who introduced a federal bill in the House to ban schools, libraries, hospitals, government entities, or other organizations from “hosting or promoting any program, event, or literature involving sexually-oriented material.” The bill defined “sexually-oriented material” to include anything that discusses LGBTQ+ people.
In 2015, Babin was outraged that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing same-sex couples to marry in its Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
“As a strong supporter of traditional marriage and a firm believer in state sovereignty, I am deeply disappointed that five members of the U.S. Supreme Court have over-ruled tens of millions of Americans – including millions in the State of Texas – who have voted to enact state statutes and state Constitutional amendments to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” he said at the time.
“Traditional marriage has been under assault as courts and some state legislatures have sought to both redefine marriage as something other than between one man and one woman and to penalize and discriminate against those who have religious and conscience convictions against the redefinition of marriage,” he continued.
In 2016, he introduced a bill to roll back Obama-era protections for transgender students, saying that those protections were “throwing common sense and decency out the window and forcing local schools to permit a teenage boy who ‘identifies’ as a girl to use changing rooms, locker rooms, and bathrooms with five-year-old girls.”
The Obama-era protections did not allow for boys to use girls’ facilities. Instead, they were recommendations about how schools could accommodate transgender students, which included allowing them to use facilities associated with their gender identity.
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Alex Bollinger (He/Him)February 10, 2026, 9:03 am ESTCongressman Brian Babin, R-Texas, Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, speaks about the introduction of the Birthright Citizenship Act at a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. | Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK
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