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The Right Uses "Religious Freedom" to Attack Trans People'What About Mine?
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (269+ words) LGBTQ+ rights advocates rally outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports on January 13, 2026, in Washington, DC. When politicians attempt to ban gender-affirming care, bar trans kids from playing…...
Nearly Every Child On Earth Now Exposed to At Least One Fossil-Fueled Climate Hazard
2+ week, 2+ day ago (32+ words) Common Dreams To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page....
Why 'Are You Going to Let Strangers Raise Your Baby?' Is the Wrong Question
3+ week, 2+ day ago (359+ words) Organizer Hope Joyner attends a SPACEs In Action and Blandi's Childcare Center rally to demand funding for the Pay Equity Fund and childcare subsidies at the Blandis Childcare Center on March 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. What we should be asking is what…...
Pediatricians Warn Trump Attack on Medicaid 'Will Harm Children's Long-Term Health"
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (216+ words) A pediatrician examines a child at a healthcare facility in Denver, Colorado on March 12, 2025. "Efforts to undercut or undermine Medicaid for the children who rely on it are a bet against the future of the country," said the president of…...
More Tech, Less Play: The Hidden Costs of AI Toys
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (29+ words) Opinion | More Tech, Less Play: The Hidden Costs of AI Toys Common Dreams To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page....
We Are All With You: Outpouring of Support as Platner Family Shares Fertility Heartbreak
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (365+ words) US Senate candidate Graham Platner and his wife Amy, seen at their home in Maine, announced on April 27, 2026 that they had experienced a miscarriage. Platner is running in the Democratic primary in Maine. "Just as the difficulty in accessing fertility…...
ACLU Will Challenge Trump Administration's Unconstitutional Effort to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1168+ words) The administration's proposal seeks to prohibit the provision of evidence-based, medically necessary care for transgender people under 18care that is supported by every major medical association in the United States, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics....
Raising Misbehavin' Girls
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (625+ words) Fifty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich popularized the phrase, "Well-behaved women rarely make history." It became a feminist call to action. Even women who didn't claim feminism invoked it before challenging a rule, a system, or a…...
Movements Worldwide Draw the Line Against Genocide, Injustice, Fossil Fuels, and Call for Rights, Jobs, and Justice
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1761+ words) Draw the Line is a global action (15-21 September) with widespread events taking place across the world peaking over the weekend of September 1921, 2025. In the lead-up to COP30 and as world leaders gather in New York for the General Assembly of the…...
MAHA report parrots pesticide industry playbook, abandoning RFK Jr. s promises
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (1697+ words) The Environmental Working Group today criticized the Trump administration's final "Make America Healthy Again," or MAHA, report for abandoning MAHA leaders' promises to ban toxic agricultural chemicals. Instead, the MAHA plan echoes the pesticide industry's talking points. The recommendations for…...