To my Massachusetts friends, happy Patriots' Day!

Lexington, MA

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Do you have information about Donald Trump and/or his Cabinet?

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ezs note:  It's a conundrum you face, of course.  You want to expose all the lies Donald Trump keeps blathering about, yet you want to keep your job.  It's kinda like Spy vs. Spy - only they're both after you!  What to do?  One possible solution might be found at McClatchy, found here.  They've got a good system going here.  Do they offer an ironclad guarantee?  No - no one does.  What they do is take this business damn seriously.

Donald Trump - Syrian refugees don't 'want to go to US', envoy says in defense of Trump ban

Jon Swaine
The Guardian

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Senegal - Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Senegal (see esp. 'Education')

Press
Human Rights Watch

Pointe des Almadies, Senegal

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civil rights - Gay rights advocates want Illinois schools to be required to teach LGBT history

Bill Lukitsch
Chicago Tribune

Springfield, IL (State Capitol)

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Minnesota - OutFront Minnesota announces LGBTQ winners

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Insight News

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lead story - In 'protest suicide,' lawyer famed for gay rights cases burns himself to death in New York

Michael Livingston, Steve Padilla
Los Angeles Times

Thích Quang Ðuc, earlier

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Donald Trump - President Trump denounces James Comey as 'untruthful slime ball' in response to book

David Jackson, Gregory Korte
USA Today

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Singapore - Singapore couple's marriage annulled after sex change

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SBS News

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civil rights - Iowa 4-H is reaching out to LGBTQ kids, and it's causing an uproar among conservatives

Courtney Crowder
Des Moines Register

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Idaho - Idaho Begins Allowing Transgender People To Change Their Birth Certificate

James Dawson
Boise State Public Radio

Boise, Idaho

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lead story - Federal judge keeps hold on Trump transgender troop ban

Jacqueline Thomsen
The Hill

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Hartford, Connecticut

estimated transgender population:  715*
(rounded up)

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ezs note - What the... it's my favorite city on planet earth, Hartford, Connecticut!  (I didn't plan this...honest! ) Yeah, yeah, Hartford has its grumblers.  I don't freakin' care... I love this city!

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Donald Trump - I’m a Peeliever and You Should Be, Too

Jonathan Chait
New York

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Spain - Book documents challenges of undefined gender in 1700s Spain

George Diepenbrock
The University of Kansas

Jusepe de Ribera, La Mujer Barbuda

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civil rights - These parents are pushing against a rollback of transgender rights

Bella English
The Boston Globe

Bridgewater (MA) Town Hall

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Tennessee - Opinion | I am a transgender Tennessean, and I am concerned that I am unwelcome at home

Henry Seaton
Tennessean

Tennesseans

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lead story - Defense chief says he is 'prepared to defend' new transgender military policy

Claudia Grisales
Stars and Stripes

Sec. Jim Mattis

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Donald Trump - The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence

Ronan Farrow
The New Yorker

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Trinidad and Tobago - Human rights groups to meet outside Parliament against 'buggery laws'

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looptt

Trinidad and Tobago

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civil rights - Judith Light Talks LGBTQ Activism and Civil Rights at Jeffrey Fashion Cares Charity Soiree

Nia Groce
Footwear News

Judith Light

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Indiana - Mike Pence's hometown to host its first gay pride festival, with high school senior at helm

Maureen Groppe
IndyStar

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