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LGBTQ at the holidays, ‘found family,’ and fears about the future
As we approach the holidays, we’ll talk about the importance of found family — especially for people who are LGBTQ, and might be estranged from blood relations. Plus, the anxiety afflicting members of the community, especially people who are trans, anticipating the new administration in Washington.
President-elect Elon Musk?
Elon Musk exercised the kind of power past tycoons could only dream of, single-handedly bullying elected members of Congress into dropping a deal to keep the federal government operating into the new year. Republicans and Democrats were left scrambling, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was left with an even more complicated fiscal puzzle and the whiff of an impending sell-by date on his time in leadership. IPM's Washington correspondent, Linda Kenyon, breaks it down.