Daily Links: 10/06/17 – Trump DoJ strips anti-discrimination protection from trans workers

• Trump Justice Department thinks anti-discrimination laws are fine so long as they don’t protect trans employees.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Screwing over even more workers, the Trump HHS Department expands religious exceptions for employers to deny contraception coverage.

• I’ll be honest: I don’t see what’s particularly shocking about the BuzzFeed story exposing the depth of Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart’s White supremacist ties. Being a racist shitlord haven is Breitbart’s entire m.o.; that they Nazi even harder than we thought they did doesn’t change much.

• Following last month’s vote, California officially becomes a “sanctuary state”, figuratively erecting a 500-foot middle finger to Trump and AG Sessions.

• Indiana teacher faces three years in prison for sexting with a 16-year-old girl whom he would’ve been legally allowed to have actual sex with.
  (via @fark)

• Turns out students do have rights: Georgia sheriff gets indicted after authorizing a borderline rapey pat-down of 900 male and female high-schoolers during a school-wide drug search last April. (No drugs were found.)
  (via Privacy Online News)

• Britain plans to impose a 15-year prison sentence (up from the current 10 years) on anyone caught viewing the wrong online videos.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Finally, Rep. Tim “anti-abortion-except-for-my-mistress” Murphy (R-PA) resigns.

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