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Ally Robledo An Idaho Rosauers grocery store has filed trespassing charges against transgender woman Ally Robledo, banning her from ever shopping there. Her violation, according to Lewiston, Idaho Police Captain Roger Lanier, was “urinating while standing up”: LANIER: The store security officer said he had been dealing with a problem over a couple days with the person going into the women’s restroom and urinating while standing up .  A male subject who was using the female restroom, and that made some women customers uncomfortable because of the appearance that a male was using their restroom.

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Minutes after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) emphasized the need for bipartisan support on a carefully negotiated immigration reform deal that could be announced this week, Sen.

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Oily snakes — or snake oil? Sure, you thought nothing good could come from ExxonMobil’s pipeline spill of some 200,000 gallons into the residential streets of Mayflower, Arkansas. After all, it was “low-quality Wabasca Heavy crude oil from Alberta.” And a technicality has spared Exxon from having to pay any money into the fund that will be covering most of the clean up costs — a 1980 law ensures that diluted bitumen is  not classified as oil .

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The New Yorker examines the President’s latest budget and find it “represents a major dodge on climate change.” Hence columnist Ryan Lizza poses the headline question, “Has Obama already given up on climate change?” Sure Obama has been talking a good game on climate in the second inaugural address and State of the Union : But the budget released this week makes it clear that Obama’s surprising appeal to Congress was an empty piece of rhetoric.

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At the height of the manufactured “Climategate” controversy, distortions of an email from a top climate scientist made it all the way to one of the leading Sunday shows. But a recent study re-confirms what that scientist was actually saying — that much of recent heat has been trapped deep in the ocean

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Since the 2012 election, Republicans have consistently blamed President Obama for ignoring the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission he created shortly after taking office in 2009. Republican leaders have said they’d be “ willing to say yes to ” a Simpson-Bowles-style plan, which balanced revenue with spending cuts and changes to entitlements.

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As ThinkProgress has previously explained, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the second most powerful court in the country. It’s also a bastion of right-wing jurisprudence thanks in no small part to Senate Republican filibusters

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In trying to dream up a #slatepitch on the new Brad Paisley-LL Cool J collaboration “Accidental Racist,” a variety of contrarian avenues spring to mind: “Why Brad Paisley, Like Skynyrd Before Him, Is Right About The Stars & Bars.” “If You Love The Band You Can’t Hate ‘Accidental Racist.’” “Good Intentions Redeem Gag-Inducing Lyrics In Paisley-LL Collabo.” None of those headlines can sustain a valid argument.

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On Wednesday, Cape Cod Online reported on Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D-MA) push to shutter Taunton State Hospital — a Cape-area psychiatric facility that provides long-term care to severely mentally ill patients

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ThinkProgress recently received a very special package courtesy of technologist and public domain advocate Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org. It included one of the twenty-three books that makes up the District of Columbia (DC) Official Code published by Thomson Reuters subsidiary Westlaw with its binding stripped, a proclamation of digitization, and a flash drive shaped like George Washington containing a digital copy of the entire code

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