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gaysonoma.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen |Sam Van Pykeren
Columns/ Features/ HIV & AIDS/ Top Stories Rebecca Denison expected to have a short life.
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3 weeks ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jackie Flynn Mogensen |Sam Van Pykeren
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Rebecca Denison expected to have a short life. She’d acquired HIV as a college student in the 1980s, she told the audience at an infectious disease conference in San Francisco earlier this month, and got an official diagnosis in 1990. “Back then,” she said matter-of-factly, “It was understood we were all going to die.” Within six years, that all changed.
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1 month ago | 
motherjones.com | Henry Carnell |Sam Van Pykeren
Across the nation, citizens have been protesting unelected budget-cut overlord Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency”—in part at Tesla auto dealerships, where, this weekend, Musk’s former neighbors in Palo Alto took a stand. The Bay Area city was home to Musk and his electric vehicle empire for more than a decade.
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2 months ago | 
motherjones.com | Sam Van Pykeren
Like most things Elon Musk brags are new and revolutionary, DOGE is neither new nor revolutionary—in fact, a similar agency has existed for more than 100 years. “All of these people acting like, ‘Oh, we’re going to set up an agency to identify waste,’” highlighted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez on a recent Instagram livestream. “As though that’s never been an idea before.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Henry Carnell |Sam Van Pykeren
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Sam Van Pykeren
Share If you want a glimpse into what Project 2025’s education agenda might look like if implemented nationwide, look no further than Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has already been leading book-banning, inflaming culture wars over LGBTQ rights, and dismantling comprehensive sex education.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Julia Métraux |Sam Van Pykeren
Fred Trump III, Donald Trump’s nephew, very much hopes for a bipartisan national effort to better support the needs of disabled people, a passion driven by being the father of a disabled son. That’s why he tried—when his uncle was president of the United States—to use his family ties to push for disability rights. Fred did manage to have a White House meeting with disability advocates that his uncle Donald attended.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Sam Van Pykeren
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Sam Van Pykeren |Stephanie Mencimer
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Before she married Eric and became a Trump, Lara Trump was a dabbler. She’d interned at North Carolina TV stations after college, gone to culinary school, and started selling custom cakes. She rescued some animals and became a personal trainer. But then, after six years of dating, in 2014, she married the former president’s younger son.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
motherjones.com | Sam Van Pykeren
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Henry Ford may be known for revolutionizing the automobile industry, but there’s another thing he mass produced: antisemitism. That’s one thing my colleague Dan Schulman explains in his new book, The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America.
