Republicans voted to remove funding for three LGBTQ+ community projects

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee voted to remove funding from three small LGBTQ+ community projects in a larger funding bill, ignoring over 3000 other community projects getting funding to target the LGBTQ+ ones. 

“This is spitting on every person who is LGBTQ+,” Pocan said. “If you were to take away earmarks because they went to the NAACP or the Urban League, you would rightfully so be called racist bigots! But when you do it to the LGBT community, it’s another frickin’ day in Congress.”

President Barack Obama

Obama issued a statement opposing book bans, saying that "books have always shaped how I experience the world."

Greene, who supports many book bans, shot back by retweeting images from sex ed books and other books with nudity that someone else called "pornographic content offered to kids in schools across the country" and said, "Books like these shaped his life while he was growing up."

The transgender military ban

In a Tuesday CNN interview, DeSantis said that the military was "losing its way" and that he would help improve lagging recruitment numbers by reinstating Trump's ban on trans military service members. He also promised to roll back other "woke" military policies, including ones advocating for more racial diversity among the troops.

To allow him to travel to other states while awaiting trial

Santos asked the court to allow him to travel to states outside of the Washington D.C. area while awaiting trial. His lawyer said this would allow him to shop and dine around the D.C. area without the burden of notifying court officials beforehand.

Louisiana

Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) vetoed the bill in June after vowing to veto any anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sent to his desk. But the House voted 75 to 23 to override the gender-affirming care veto, and the Senate voted 28 to 11 to do the same. 

The gender-affirming care ban will take effect on January 1 and will prevent trans youth from receiving gender-affirming medications and surgery (though surgery is almost never performed on trans youth). It would also punish doctors for providing this care by taking away their license for at least two years.

Falsely claiming to be Michigan's electors to steal the 2020 election for Donald Trump

Nessel's office says that the 16 alleged false electors met in December 2020 and put together a plan to "certify" the state as having voted for Donald Trump even though President Joe Biden won the state by 154,000. They then sent the false certification - that said that they met in the Michigan Capitol, which was closed that day - to Congress and the National Archives in hopes of changing the election results.

"The false electors’ actions undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,” Nessel said in a statement.

Jamaica

Many believe the United States retaliated against Jamaica's move by sending three U.S.-based Jamaican diplomats home, rejecting a request to extend their visas despite the fact that granting extensions is standard practice. Same-sex marriage is illegal in Jamaica. 

Nonbiological mothers were retroactively removed from their children's birth certificates

Three couples said that they are among the first to have their families legally erased after their children's birth certificates were changed to conform with the current rightwing leadership's views on what constitutes a family.

One mother said she "cried for ten days" after receiving a letter informing her she would be removed from her daughter’s birth certificate. “It was as if I did not exist.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Joe Exotic

From prison, The Tiger King tweeted an anti-trans message to Budweiser: "Try putting the world’s favorite transphobic gay redneck on a can and get back to selling beer,” wrote Joe Exotic’s team on Twitter before touting his presidential campaign: 'Joe Exotic 2024.”' Exotic is running for president as a Democrat.