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Hungary Refuses To Change Anti-LGBTQ Policies + More News

Hungary

Some news items you might have missed: • AP News: Hungary’s government will not change policies the European Union believes infringe on LGBTQ+ rights and those of asylum seekers, even if doing so would unfreeze billions in funding the bloc has withheld from Budapest. Continue reading “Hungary Refuses To Change Anti-LGBTQ Policies + More News”

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Texas House Committee Approves Raising Purchase Age For Semi-Automatic Weapons

A Texas House committee advanced a bill today that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles. Perhaps it was just the timing after this weekend’s deadly mass shooting at an Allen shopping mall, but a Texas House committee advanced a bill today that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. Continue reading “Texas House Committee Approves Raising Purchase Age For Semi-Automatic Weapons”

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TX Official: Police Response To Uvalde Shooting ‘An Abject Failure’

Uvalde Elementary School - Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a state Senate hearing today that the response by law enforcement officials to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was "an abject failure."
Uvalde Elementary School (screen capture via WFAA)
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told state lawmakers that the response by law enforcement officials to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was “an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre.” Continue reading “TX Official: Police Response To Uvalde Shooting ‘An Abject Failure’”

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Report: Police Didn’t Try To Open Uvalde Classroom Door

Uvalde Elementary School where police didn't try to open classroom doors where young children were trapped with a dangerous gunman
Uvalde Elementary School (screen capture via WFAA)
Extremely disconcerting: Surveillance footage during the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, shows police didn’t try to open the door to the classroom where young children were trapped with the gunman. Continue reading “Report: Police Didn’t Try To Open Uvalde Classroom Door”

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Pride Music, Milo Yiannopoulos + More News

Milo Yiannopoulos, right-wing gay troll turned “ex-gay,” is now an unpaid intern in anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office
Milo Yiannopoulos (screen capture)
Some news items you might have missed: • The Advocate: Milo Yiannopoulos, right-wing gay troll turned “ex-gay,” is now an unpaid intern in anti-LGBTQ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office. Reminder: Yiannopoulos resigned as a tech writer for far-right Breitbart website in 2017 after an interview surfaced in which he defended sex between men and boys, saying it was only pedophilia if the boy hadn’t reached puberty. Continue reading “Pride Music, Milo Yiannopoulos + More News”