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The Unspeakable Cruelty of Targeting Trans Kids to Score Campaign Points
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, as part of his reelection bid, wants to punish supporters and caregivers of trans youth as child abusers.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Can the Left Learn From Canada’s “Freedom Convoy”?
The left should seek to employ the disruptive power on display in Canadian protests — but only on its own anti-racist, antifascist terms.
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Supreme Court’s Alabama Ruling Is Major Step Toward Dismantling Voting Rights Act
The attacks on voting rights go hand in hand with current assaults on Black history and exposing histories of foundational American white supremacism.
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Anti-Trans Bills Are Moving Through State Legislatures With Remarkable Speed
South Dakota’s anti-trans sports ban is the first bill to pass among a record number targeting trans children this year.
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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The Bronx Fire Was Not Only a Tragedy, but Also a Housing Injustice
The fire, New York's deadliest in decades, shows why pandemic-era housing policy Band-Aids aren't enough.
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Eligible for Release in 2016, Mutulu Shakur Remains Behind Bars With Worsening Cancer
Judicial discretion and an antiquated parole system are turning the Black liberation leader’s illness into a death sentence.
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An Animal Rights Activist Saved a Sick Baby Goat From a Farm — and Faces Years in Prison
Wayne Hsiung faces felony charges — an escalation in the government's war against those who would put the value of life ahead of property.
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Cases Over Far-Right Violence Show Limits — and Opportunities — for Anti-Fascism in the Courts
The Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial and the civil suit against organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville hold lessons about fighting fascism with the law.
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A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot
Daniel Baker’s calls for armed defense against possible far-right attacks led to a much harsher sentence than that facing most insurrectionists.