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Target confirmed that it would not carry Pride Month merchandise at all stores in June after the discount retailer experienced a backlash and lower sales over its collection honoring LGBTQ+ communities. In May of 2023, right-wing media outlets helped to radicalize a handful of efforts by Conservative activists to bash Target for selling “tuck-friendly” women’s swimsuits that allowed some trans women to hide their genitalia. False rumors were also spread online that the products were made for children, and offered in various kid sizes. The ignored truth was the swimsuits were only made for adults. The manufactured outrage was...

Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on May 31 and build momentum for his bid to seize the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness, and the criminal justice system as a whole. Ranting from inside his namesake tower in Manhattan in a symbolic return to the campaign trail, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered a message aimed squarely at his most loyal supporters. Defiant as ever, he insisted without evidence that the verdict was “rigged” and driven by politics. “We’re going to fight,” Trump said...

President Joe Biden on condemned Donald Trump’s unfounded assertions of a biased legal system as “reckless” and “dangerous” on May 31. The unprecedented statements broke his long-held silence on the presumptive Republican nominee’s criminal woes, as Trump’s nearly three dozen felony convictions injected a new element of uncertainty into a volatile presidential campaign. President Biden’s sober denunciation of his predecessor and his defense of the U.S. legal system — delivered in just under two minutes from the White House — came after campaign aides made clear they would continue to focus on issues such as democracy, abortion rights and...

CNN and MSNBC both cut away from the criminally indicted and convicted felon ex-president Donald Trump as he spoke live on May 31, less than 24 hours after a jury of his peers unanimously found him guilty in New York on 34 counts related to falsifying business records in order to illegally influence the 2016 election. The decisions, along with coverage of the trial’s aftermath in general, spoke to how the nation’s divisions are reflected in the media and the way journalists continue to wrestle with how best to deal with Trump as he is well into his third...

Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That is because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump’s case, New York law only removes the right to vote for people convicted of felonies when they are incarcerated. Once they are out of prison, their rights are automatically restored, even if they are on parole, per a 2021...