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Christopher Wiggins
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Washington, D.C.-based Senior National Reporter at The Advocate.
I love sushi. Cilantro tastes good to me, and not like soap. My opinions are mine and obviously always correct. 🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🕷
Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · Apr 7
Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration recently signed an agreement with Uganda to accept asylum-seekers deported from the U.S.

Being LGBTQ+ is punishable by death there. And yet, DHS is trying to send queer and trans people there (and to Iran).

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Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say
Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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"The deportations are the most severe and life-threatening harm being experienced by the greatest number of LGBTQ community members.” - @shannonminter5.bsky.social told @cwnewser.bsky.social
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Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say
Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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NEWS: “It is telling that the government seems to recognize that it can’t defend this irrational policy without misrepresenting the facts,” lead counsel Shannon Minter told me.

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Trump DOJ lied to D.C. federal appeals court about trans military ban, lawyers say in stunning filing
“We hope the court recognizes that they were hearing a number of misrepresentations and that they will carefully read the record in this case,” attorney Shannon Minter told The Advocate.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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The Trump administration's house of cards is falling apart.

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Alex Pretti’s killers placed on administrative leave as Kristi Noem’s story of the shooting unravels
After days of outrage, two federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, who shot and killed the ICU nurse, have been sidelined.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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“I love it when someone says, ‘Oh, I don’t watch television,’” MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart told me in an interview this week. “And I’m like, oh, you’re lucky.”

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Jonathan Capehart on being seen, coming out, and ‘chosen family’ with Michelle Obama
“No one has a right to your time, your energy, your thoughts and feelings, especially when they are a drain,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and host of MS NOW’s The Weekend told The Advocate.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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SCOOP: The Trump administration recently signed an agreement with Uganda to accept asylum-seekers deported from the U.S.

Being LGBTQ+ is punishable by death there. And yet, DHS is trying to send queer and trans people there (and to Iran).

www.advocate.com/politics/imm...
Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say
Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.
www.advocate.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:04 PM
cwnewser.bsky.social
NEWS: “It is telling that the government seems to recognize that it can’t defend this irrational policy without misrepresenting the facts,” lead counsel Shannon Minter told me.

www.advocate.com/news/doj-mis...
Trump DOJ lied to D.C. federal appeals court about trans military ban, lawyers say in stunning filing
“We hope the court recognizes that they were hearing a number of misrepresentations and that they will carefully read the record in this case,” attorney Shannon Minter told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
cwnewser.bsky.social
The Trump administration's house of cards is falling apart.

www.advocate.com/news/alex-pr...
Alex Pretti’s killers placed on administrative leave as Kristi Noem’s story of the shooting unravels
After days of outrage, two federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, who shot and killed the ICU nurse, have been sidelined.
www.advocate.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
cwnewser.bsky.social
“I love it when someone says, ‘Oh, I don’t watch television,’” MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart told me in an interview this week. “And I’m like, oh, you’re lucky.”

www.advocate.com/news/people/...
Jonathan Capehart on being seen, coming out, and ‘chosen family’ with Michelle Obama
“No one has a right to your time, your energy, your thoughts and feelings, especially when they are a drain,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and host of MS NOW’s The Weekend told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Are you transgender and/or nonbinary and currently a federal employee whose job or benefits–including health insurance coverage–has been impacted by the actions of the Trump administration?

Lambda Legal wants to hear from you.

Share your experience: tinyurl.com/2xzpnpxf
January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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This app needs an edit button.
January 27, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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This Virginia judge seems to be using the Mitch McConnell argument from his Merrick Garland SCOTUS denial of “you can’t do that because there’s an election.”

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Virginia court blocks Democratic redistricting effort
Democrats plan to appeal the ruling. If upheld, it would keep the party from redrawing state congressional districts to net as many as four House seats in the midterms.
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January 27, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Pete Buttigieg said that Donald Trump is “doing the one thing he claims he’ll never do, which is back down.”

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‘Ground is clearly shifting’ against Trump as Americans rise up in Minneapolis, Pete Buttigieg says
“Congressional Republicans have begun changing their behavior,” the out former transportation secretary said.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Pete Buttigieg said that Donald Trump is “doing the one thing he claims he’ll never do, which is back down.”

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‘Ground is clearly shifting’ against Trump as Americans rise up in Minneapolis, Pete Buttigieg says
“Congressional Republicans have begun changing their behavior,” the out former transportation secretary said.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Call it the Pretti-Good American Gun Protection Act
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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“The detainment and now the order to deport Victor Acurio Suárez is morally bankrupt,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride said.

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Sarah McBride demands Trump administration release severely disabled Delaware resident from ICE custody
“He is the exact kind of individual that our asylum system is meant to protect,” the Delaware congresswoman said.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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“The detainment and now the order to deport Victor Acurio Suárez is morally bankrupt,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride said.

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Sarah McBride demands Trump administration release severely disabled Delaware resident from ICE custody
“He is the exact kind of individual that our asylum system is meant to protect,” the Delaware congresswoman said.
www.advocate.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.

It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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leading with "I've infiltrated their Signal!" and then moving on to explain that he didn't is sending me
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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enter the bagman
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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“Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Darin Smith has no business serving as a top law enforcement officer in any state — let alone a state with as much history of queer importance as Wyoming,” Josh Sorbe, spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats & Dick Durbin, told me.

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Trump’s ‘unqualified insurrectionist’ pick to be Wyoming U.S. attorney under fire for anti-LGBTQ+ record
"He’s an unqualified insurrectionist with no experience litigating criminal or federal matters, and his bigotry puts into serious question his commitment to upholding the law for all Americans,” Josh ...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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NEWS: “When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told me about ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

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Federal immigration agents are a modern-day ‘slave patrol,’ says former Minneapolis City Council president
“When we make the comparison to the Gestapo...when people say, ‘Oh, this is not us’ — no, this is us,” Andrea Jenkins told The Advocate.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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“This agency has gone completely rogue. ICE needs to be abolished. It cannot be reformed, and Kristi Noem must be impeached,” Robert Garcia said.

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Powerful House Oversight Democrat calls for Kristi Noem’s impeachment & ICE abolishment
“ICE in its current form cannot exist because what they’re doing right now is killing people in the street,” U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia said.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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BREAKING: The face of Trump's hardline goon squad will be leaving Minneapolis.

But he's being replaced by Tom Homan, who hasn't been much better.
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Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis
After two American citizens were killed under his watch, the Trump administration's face of hardline deportation policies is leaving Minnesota.
www.advocate.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM
cwnewser.bsky.social
BREAKING: The face of Trump's hardline goon squad will be leaving Minneapolis.

But he's being replaced by Tom Homan, who hasn't been much better.
www.advocate.com/news/greg-bo...
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis
After two American citizens were killed under his watch, the Trump administration's face of hardline deportation policies is leaving Minnesota.
www.advocate.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM