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Thunder Thighs: Learning to Chillax (opens the original)
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Thunder Thighs: Necessary for Your Sanity (opens the original)
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Thunder Thighs: 2026 Has Been Weird Y'all (opens the original)
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Sex Ed Suffers Another Devastating Blow (opens the original)
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Last year, the Trump administration issued a notice to a number of organizations receiving Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grants that their grants would be revoked if their materials were not brought in alignment with the recent spate of executive orders targeting gender ideology, “radical indoctrination,” “illegal discrimination,” etc. Many of these organizations scrambled to fall in line, as a loss of funding could mean their end. Still, earlier this month, Trump abruptl
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