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"Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote in the court's decision. "Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person's sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain. Hence, the inability of transgender Montanans to receive government-issued identification documents accurately reflecting their gender identity is fundamentally about the nature of sex and suspect class discrimination."
Welcome to the real business world. Enterprises that bleed $40 million per year get cut.
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In the real business world, 40 million per year, what percentage of revenue that is for Paramount Skydance?
Here's how the business world operates under your boy Trump and his oligarch cronies:
Paramount paid $16 million to settle the CBS-Trump lawsuit in July 2025 to ensure that the FCC, headed by a Trump loyalist,[10][11][12] would not block the merger.[13][14][15] Paramount also chose to not renew The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after Colbert referred to the settlement on-air as a "big fat bribe".[16] After the merger went through, David Ellison made conservative-friendly changes to CBS News, including hiring political commentator Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief.[17] Trump praised the decisions to hire Weiss and to cancel The Late Show.[18][19] en.wikipedia.org
Republicans simply don't understand how the American economy works.
Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has observed that more than 8 million undocumented immigrants are currently working in the U.S in fields such as construction, agriculture, hospitality, etc. In that sense, they could predict that mass deportations would not open these positions up, but instead lead to 44,000 fewer jobs for U.S-born workers, ultimately causing a 2.6% to 6.2% decrease in GDP over the next decade (Payan & Rodrguez-Snchez, 2025).
www.colorado.edu
The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown
The U.S.-born workers most negatively affected, the economists find, seem to be men with "at most a high-school education" who work in sectors that rely on undocumented labor and were hit the hardest by ICE arrests and deportations.
"We find that for every six fewer undocumented workers working in a local labor market, that there is one fewer U.S.-born worker working in that labor market," East says.
www.kpbs.org
The Many Victims of Trump's Immigration Policy -- Including the U.S. Economy
Immigrant workers also contribute some of their wages to Social Security and Medicare, even though they do not receive benefits from those programs. In 2022, immigrants living illegally in the US paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes. The loss of this tax revenue concerns many economists since the Social Security fund is already expected to experience shortfalls by the mid-2030s.
So removing millions of existing workers, and intimidating millions more, is starting to shrink the workforce, drive up business costs and consumer prices, and reduce the economy's productivity.
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He is smart enough to know you're right and so he will keep his mouth shut.
"And now we're beginning to see a push to let these same people vote in local elections, watering down the votes of US citizens."
"local elections"
States Rights!