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Missouri House advances limits on health care, sports participation for transgender minors

2 years 7 months ago

The Missouri House on Tuesday gave initial approval to bills that would ban certain medical procedures for transgender minors and prohibit transgender athletes from competing in school sports according to their gender identity. The legislation is similar to a pair of Senate bills that chamber approved last month.  A House committee held a public hearing […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

Republicans are playing games with blue slips yet again

2 years 7 months ago
Blue slips are back in the news after the Biden administration thought it had a consensus candidate for a judgeship in Mississippi, only for it to be blocked at the last minute by a Republican senator. Let's listen in: Republicans abandoned the blue-slip process for appeals court judges after gaining control of the Senate in ...continue reading "Republicans are playing games with blue slips yet again"
Kevin Drum

It’s Good That AI Tech Bros Are Thinking About What Could Go Wrong In The Distant Future, But Why Don’t They Talk About What’s Already Gone Wrong Today?

2 years 7 months ago
Just recently we had Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders on the Techdirt podcast to discuss their very own podcast mini-series “Silicon Valley v. Science Fiction.” Some of that discussion was about this spreading view in Silicon Valley, often oddly coming from AI’s biggest boosters, that AI is an existential threat to the world, and […]
Mike Masnick