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I share news on PA and US politics mostly
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Good thing they had nothing better to do over the weekend, like, maybe, object to their President using the goddamn military in kidnapping a foreign leader on the flimsiest of flimsy justifications and killing several dozen bystanders in the process 🤬

or maybe watch paint dry
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Petition signatories are a public record, no?

Track them down and ask them why they need to look at children's genitals.
January 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Far-Right will literally burn down the entire world just to have unrestricted access to children's bodies.
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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6. If the signatures are verified, legislators will have 3 options:
- Pass the initiative as written (and they can later amend it)
- Reject the initiative, whereupon it will go on the Nov 3 ballot
- Propose an alternative, and both the initiative and alternative will appear on the ballot
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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4. Under the proposed measure, participation in girls’ sports would be conditioned on a medical verification of sex, requiring either a genital examination or a blood test. Such provisions have proven highly controversial and have derailed similar efforts elsewhere, including in the US congress.
Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women's sports
Republicans are trying to keep the national spotlight on the issue after Trump and some of the party's down-ballot candidates ran on it in the 2024 election.
www.nbcnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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2. On January 3, 2026, the far-right political group Let’s Go Washington announced that it had collected more than 400,000 signatures—enough to place a transgender sports ban for high school students on the ballot with genital inspections as a primary verification method.
www2.sos.wa.gov
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Cute
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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PD / USPIS is looking for PA MXD-5185
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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They've released pictures
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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9. You can leave a public comment here. Note that public comments are just that—public—and so take steps to protect your anonymity if it is something that matters to you.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Condition of Participation: Prohibiting Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children
This proposed rule would revise the requirements that Medicare and Medicaid certified hospitals must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. These changes are necessary to protect t...
www.federalregister.gov
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM