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Mike Males, YouthFacts.org Like Wile E. Coyote blundering off a cliff and thrashing midair to forestall his inevitable plunge, America’s juvenile justice system is staving off demise by pretending the last 30 years never happened. The juvenile system’s...
by mmales
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:38 AM PST
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According to a report from UCLA’s William Institute School of Law: the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation pushed by Republicans and right-wing extremist groups has had a colossal impact on transgender and non-binary youth. Right-wing media spent 2023...
by VPSReports
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 07:41 PM PST
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PDA's New Youth-Outreach Group Young Progressives for Democracy in America hosting a free online event with Marianne Williamson, Tuesday, 1/16 at 7pm ET/4pm PT. RSVP Here. While Progressive Democrats of America has not endorsed any candidate running...
by Progressive Democrats of America
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 02:03 PM PST
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When North Carolina’s state Supreme Court struck down conservative-gerrymandered election maps saying that they were in conflict with the state’s constitution, the belief that something ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Grace Panetta The19th Originally published by The 19th Your trusted source for contextualizing politics news ahead of Election 2024. Sign up for our daily newsletter . Vice President Kamala ...
by The19th
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 06:35 AM PDT
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Mike Males Advocates backing laws and bills across the country to ban male-to-female transgender students from school athletics typically cite points such as Psychology Today’s 2012 article reporting that "men have greater cardiovascular reserve, with...
by mmales
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on Mon Aug 14, 2023 at 01:02 PM PDT
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Jeniffer Gerson Originally published by The 19th Your trusted source for contextualizing health and safety news. Sign up for our daily newsletter . Young Americans who identify strongly with gun ...
by The19th
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on Mon Aug 07, 2023 at 08:21 AM PDT
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by Aaron Mendelson
Center for Public Integrity
Santiago Mayer moved to Southern California from Mexico City in 2017, around the time President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” was sparking ...
by The Center for Public Integrity
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 09:45 AM PDT
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By Mike Males Younger Millennials and Generation Z are astonishingly different in ways beyond usual generational disparities, as my previous article on California teenagers’ 90%-plus declines in crime argued. Young people’s radically different...
by mmales
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 01:36 PM PDT
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By Mike Males California Gov. Gavin Newsom and justice reformers deserve praise for taking on the hard politics necessary to finally close the state’s scandal-ridden, violent, lawsuit-papered Division of Juvenile Justice (formerly California Youth...
by mmales
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 10:59 AM PDT
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A group of Montana youth who say their lives are already being affected by climate change and that state government is failing to protect them are the first of dozens of such efforts to get their lawsuit to trial Monday. They will try to persuade a...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 06:08 AM PDT
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The earth has experienced as many as 5 previous mass extinctions, the 5th being 65 million years ago, and was caused by a large comet or meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, then the Earth’s dominant species. We are now deep into the 6th, with the...
by psychusa
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on Thu May 25, 2023 at 06:02 AM PDT
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When Republicans decided that “parental rights” would be a great talking point in their continuing effort to con voters who don’t benefit from their policies, you had to know that they’d eventually default to their natural trait of hypocrisy. Sure, you...
by RickElia
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 06:08 AM PDT
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I suppose we could keep saying “The cruelty is the point” but this is truly unsurprising. The recent rash of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, specifically anti-transgender legislation, is having its intended effect: queer and trans youth are becoming more...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 01:22 PM PDT
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During the Vietnam war era, the argument was made that if one could fight and die for our country, one should have the right to vote at the age of 18, which was the draft age for military combat duty in Vietnam. And so, the voting age was lowered to...
by RussellWriter
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on Sat Apr 22, 2023 at 06:44 PM PDT
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What we’re seeing now as states fall one by one to anti-transgender laws actually goes back to an email sent by a conservative state representative hoping to make it a felony for physicians to offer gender-affirming care to transgender minors....
by Rebekah Sager
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 01:30 PM PST
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One aspect of a culture is how they consider children to grow and turn into adults. What milestones must a young person pass to take their place among the grown-ups?� Which things are reserved to ...
by strawbale
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on Thu May 11, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Very clever ad to get young people to vote! If you agree, please forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xS-uMKUb4&t=1s
by ProfWriter101
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on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 01:03 AM PDT
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Young voters under 30 showed up in historic numbers in 2018 and 2020, helping to shift the outcome of those elections toward major Democratic victories in both cycles. This cycle, under-30 voters once again hold the fate of the nation in their hands...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 08:08 AM PDT
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Queerphobia results in all students losing out on valuable educational opportunities and connections. Whether young people are LGBTQ+, questioning, allies, or cisgender and straight, when they’re denied access to history texts, books, and other media...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 02:57 PM PDT
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