SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Alliance Defending Freedom: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Cybertruck Owners Are Asking Congressional Reps To Protect Them From People Who Don’t Like Cybertruck Owners

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Cybertruck Owners Are Asking Congressional Reps To Protect Them From People Who Don’t Like Cybertruck Owners

There are many reasons a person might feel compelled to purchase a Tesla Cybertruck. Most of those reasons are tied to Elon Musk himself. If you like Elon Musk and think he’s a pretty cool du…

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#ProtectedClass

#The #Constitution and the #FirstAmendment protects every individual’s right to #advocate for #marginalized #groups, regardless of their own #identity. You do not need to belong to a #protectedclass to exercise #freespeech #rights, nor to be protected from #retaliation by the #government for what you said

This #ruling, which fails to uphold those principles, and should be overturned on #appeal, and the #judge removed from the bench for failing to #protect basic #constitutionalrights.

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7 suspects identified in brutal campus anti-LGBTQ+ attack. They can't be charged with a hate crime. - LGBTQ Nation

In the wake of this crime, out Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel blasted the state legislature for failing to make LGBTQ+ folks a protected class.

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The Supreme Court allows discrimination against LGBTQ people

After 20 years of expanding gay rights, the justices swing back.

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Advocates say Maryland lawmakers missed a chance to protect trans inmates

A trans woman is suing Baltimore City Correction Center over harassment and ignored reports of assault.

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Last month, the city council in Somerville, #Massachusetts passed the first three ordinances defining “family or relationship structure” as a #ProtectedClass, akin to race, gender or sexual orientation. The ordinances also extended specific #AntiDiscrimination protections in police interactions and employment. A fourth ordinance is currently under consideration to bar housing discrimination.

https://www.them.us/story/somerville-massachusetts-legal-protections-polyamorous-families

#ConsensualNonMonogamy #Polyamory #Polycule #NonNuclear #ChosenFamily

Polyamorous Families Now Have Legal Protections in This Massachusetts City

Ordinances passed by Somerville’s city council — the first of their kind in the country — are aimed at recognizing the rights of non-traditional families.

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Formerly Incarcerated People Seek Discrimination Protection as “Protected Class”

Formerly incarcerated people in Atlanta won collective protection from discrimination, inspiring organizing nationwide.

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