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@ISIDEWITH submitted…12mos12MO
Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris' bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president."We called to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office," Obama told Harris."I am proud of you. This is going to be historic," the former first lady told Harris.Talking into a cell phone and cracking a few smiles, Harris expressed her gratitude for the endorsement and their long friendship."Thank you both. It means so much. And we're gonna have some fun with this too," Harris said.The campaign said the video was the actual call, not a reenactment.Harris's surprise bid against Republican rival Donald Trump continues to gain steam from supporters, donors and politicians less than a week after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race amid slumping poll numbers.
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@ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO
Vivian Jenna Wilson, the estranged transgender daughter of Elon Musk, has announced her plans to leave the United States following Donald Trump's recent election victory. Wilson, who cut ties with her father in 2022, expressed that she no longer sees a future for herself in the country under Trump's…
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@ISIDEWITH submitted…5mos5MO
President Trump fired two Democratic commissioners from the EEOC - Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn SamuelsThe dismissals occurred before the end of their five-year termsBoth commissioners are seeking to challenge their dismissals as potentially illegalThe EEOC is a five-member bipartisan panel created under the 1964 Civil Rights ActThe commission's terms are intentionally staggered across presidential terms to maintain independenceThe firings have left the EEOC without a quorum to conduct businessThe move is part of Trump's broader effort to eliminate DEI programs in federal governmentThe commissioners had previously opposed Trump's executive orders on DEI and transgender worker protectionsRep. Bobby Scott criticized the decision as undermining civil rights lawsThe EEOC's primary role is protecting workers from discrimination based on protected characteristics
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A Ukrainian F-16 jet fighter was destroyed in a crash Monday, just weeks after the first of the American-made aircraft arrived in Ukraine, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.Initial reports indicate the jet wasn’t shot down by enemy fire, although the incident occurred during a massive Russian missile barrage across the country Monday, U.S. officials said.The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said contact had been lost with the jet while it was approaching its next target.Ukraine used the jets for the first time in combat to shoot down Russian missiles during the strikes this week, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Pentagon referred questions to the Ukrainian Air Force for comment. The Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement that a pilot, Oleksiy Mes, was killed in combat while helping repel the missile attack on Monday.
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In April 2021 the legislature of the U.S. State of Arkansas introduced a bill that prohibited doctors from providing gender-transition treatments to people under 18 years old. The bill would make it a felony for doctors to administer puberty blockers, hormones and gender-reaffirming surgery to anyone…
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On June 26, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the denial of marriage licenses violated the Due Process and the Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The ruling made same sex marriage legal in all 50 U.S. States.
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