HRC Article:

WASHINGTON — Last night, President Biden signed the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, which includes a provision inserted by Speaker Mike Johnson blocking healthcare for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision, the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, will rip medically necessary care from the transgender children of thousands of military families – families who make incredible sacrifices in defense of the country each and every day. The last anti-LGBTQ+ federal law that explicitly targeted military servicemembers was Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which went into effect in 1994.

Biden’s press release:

No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.

    • @[email protected]
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      217 hours ago

      You have a VERY limited list of sites that editorialize their headlines to manipulate readers.

      • @[email protected]M
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        117 hours ago

        This is why we had the MBFC bot making bad actor sites immediately apparent. People hated that though.

        • @[email protected]
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          317 hours ago

          You’re misunderstanding. It’s not just “bad actor” sites writing manipulative headlines. Fish around on a topic and you can find the headline you’re looking for from a mainstream publication.

          The New York Times writes manipulative headlines. The solution isn’t to ban the New York Times, it’s to allow editing and clarification of bad headlines. Which will then need to be judged mod staff. There’s no rules bot that can produce that answer. You just have to make subjective decisions about clarity and objectivity, because either the users will do it with article selection or the users will do it themselves.

          • @[email protected]M
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            16 hours ago

            Users can (and do!) do it in the comments.

            For the top level posting, the headline should be the original because the edited versions don’t necessarily line up with the article.

            For example, the user submitted headline here stated that Biden signed a law barring healthcare treatment for the LGBTQ community, which was not correct.

            It didn’t target the LGBTQ community as a whole, it specifically targeted the trans military kids community.

            • @[email protected]
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              216 hours ago

              For the top level posting, the headline should be the original because the edited versions don’t necessarily line up with the article.

              This is not what Rule 1 says. Post title matching the article title was a Reddit thing that was good to jettison.

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                  15 hours ago

                  What? That’s literally the rule you guys wrote. If you don’t like it and want to change it, you should probably edit the sidebar. And then make a public post to the community for a well-earned drubbing.