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Iowa Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Hinson released an ad immediately after the June 2 primary that said her Democratic opponent, state Rep. Josh Turek, supports “sex changes” for minors. The ad makes two similar but distinct claims. Its narration says Turek “supports kids changing gender without parental consent.” But the on-screen text says “sex changes for kids,” while video of surgeons in an operating room plays behind an image of Turek. Hinson’s social media post sharing the ad also used the phrase “sex changes for kids.” “Sex change” is not a standard medical term. Gender-affirming care can include a range…

From Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton, decided yesterday by the Fifth Circuit (Judges Jerry Smith and Andrew Oldham): The Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 2420 …, the App Store Accountability Act, with bipartisan support to help parents direct and supervise children’s downloads of apps and in-app purchases. The Act accomplishes those goals by requiring age verification; parental consent; and age rating and content display. {[The law] requires app stores to provide certain information in obtaining parental consent, referring to ratings and content … that are determined by the developer.} The district court issued universal preliminary injunctions against SB2420…

For much of the nation, it feels like we are in a permanent economic crisis with no end in sight. I have been documenting our long-term economic decline for years, and now we have reached a point where Americans have literally never felt this bad about the state of the U.S. economy. Considering everything that we have been through over the last several decades, that is saying a lot. So how will the American people be feeling if economic conditions continue to deteriorate? We might want to be thinking about that, because all of the long-term trends are taking us…

Image Source: CBS News – Public Domain It is terrible to see Bari Weiss, under orders from Trumper owner David Ellison, dismantle 60 Minutes and the rest of CBS News. CBS was never close to being a paragon of unbiased reporting; the rich always had a disproportionate voice, but the network, and especially 60 Minutes, did much excellent investigative reporting. The Weiss-Ellison team is explicitly saying that this will no longer be the case under their leadership. Any investigative reporting this crew does will most likely be on Donald Trump’s political opponents. And the material they present will likely be…

Bitcoin fell below $60,400 on Friday afternoon reaching its lowest price since October 2024, and down over 50 percent from its all-time high of $126,000 in October 2025. The cryptocurrency is down 5 percent on the day and 17 percent on the week.The most recent decline began Monday when Michael Saylor’s Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sold $2.2 million in Bitcoin, its first sale since 2022.Friday’s jobs report came in stronger than expected, strengthening Wall Street’s prediction that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates before the end of the year to combat inflation with a stable labor market. These higher rates…

Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein — by way of donations from those with some link to the late convicted sex offender. Democrat Sherrod Brown’s campaign charges that Republican Sen. Jon Husted “took more money from Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators than anyone else in Washington, and then voted to keep the Epstein files secret.” The donations total $116,892 over more than 20 years. Husted’s TV spot, meanwhile, calls Brown “a liar,” saying that Husted “voted to release the Epstein files” and that Brown took $100,000…

A judge on Friday struck down one of the Trump administration’s attempts to hamstring legal immigration, ruling that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ran afoul of federal law when it instituted an indefinite pause on processing asylum and green card applications submitted by people from certain countries. “The rule of law has to apply to everyone equally and, as evident here, USCIS has neither ‘followed the law’ nor ‘done things the right way,'” wrote Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. “Indeed, the agency has violated the very immigration laws…

The country has gone without a Senate-confirmed surgeon general for more than a year, yet the office continues producing pronouncements. On May 20, the Office of the Surgeon General released an advisory on screen use in children and adolescents. Yet the advisory rests on surprisingly weak evidence and illustrates how far the office has drifted from its original mission. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) classifies advisories as public statements that call attention to an issue and provide recommendations. They are distinct from the surgeon general’s reports, which are comprehensive scientific reviews prepared by experts, and from calls…

In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and other immigrant communities. She shares stories about the importance of cross-class and interethnic organizing when state-run disaster response fails. Visit Tagnawa.org for more information. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Source link

CBS News fired three “60 Minutes” correspondents in the past few weeks, and social media rumors said that a popular podcaster may be up for the job. “NEW: Joe Rogan is reportedly being considered as a possible ‘60 Minutes’ replacement for Anderson Cooper,” the betting site Polymarket posted June 4 on X. Other X accounts posted the same claim. CBS News recently fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and Scott Pelley; Anderson Cooper announced his departure in February and his final episode as a correspondent aired in May. The network hired Nick Bilton as the new executive producer for “60…