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    hope European countries would have the institutions to tell Elmo where he can
    shove his money. -3 ( +3 / -6 ) GBR48 Jan. 8 07:38 am JST Anyone funding extremism
    can be classed as a terrorist and blocked from entry. Appeasing Trump will work
    as well as appeasing Hitler did. European security services need to realise that
    the main threat they now face in internal and right wing, supported by Musk''s
    money, not China, Russia, Jihadists or environmentalists. And this threat is existential.
    Musk has enough cash to buy power in most countries. So use the political tools
    at your disposal to prevent this. The legal ones and the covert ones. And get
    up to speed really quickly, because Musk is enjoying this and won''t stop. Washington
    is no longer an ally of Western democracies, but their most dangerous enemy. -1
    ( +5 / -6 ) Geeter Mckluskie Jan. 8 09:21 am JST Europeans will make their own
    decisions about their political fate. If they are influenced by Musk, then so
    be it. That''s their prerogative. Musk is using X “a bit like an old-style newspaper
    mogul,” to promulgate his political views. Yes, just as the likes of the BBC use
    their platform to promulgate left-wing views. Ultimately, the people will decide
    which of these opposing views is in line with their political preference. -1 (
    +6 / -7 ) itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 02:15 pm JST How much influence does Elon Musk
    wield over President elect Donald Trump? This question is causing political nerves
    to become increasingly frayed across Europe. Musk constant verbal assaults on
    Keir Starmer, UK elected Prime Minister, his blatant meddling in the up and coming
    German elections is unacceptable. To endorse a candidate, then on his own social
    media platform X livestream an interview Thursday with the AfD''s Weidel, is outrageous
    interference. What is also disturbing is Europe''s leaders appeasing Elon Musk,
    when they should be beating a path to the oval office demand Elon Musk cease and
    desist. -6 ( +0 / -6 ) itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 02:37 pm JST The main stream press
    media liberal elite totally foolishly under-estimated Donald Trump. Trump is using
    Elon Musk like a political blunt instrument, "coshing" Europe''s leadership with
    impunity. Heavens sake wake up. -4 ( +1 / -5 ) wallace Jan. 8 02:42 pm JST Musk
    is using his power, money, and X platform to influence elections and countries
    and now being an appointed member of the Trump cabinet should not be doing that
    and harming relationships with allies of the US. His actions are highly disturbing.
    -2 ( +3 / -5 ) Harry_Gatto Jan. 8 03:10 pm JST Two spoiled rich kids who have
    never experienced anyone saying NO to them. How the American public could be so
    easily taken in by a loud-mouthed oik like Trump is beyond my ken and as for the
    unelected Musk he should be banned from entering any country where he tries to
    interfere with its government. Hit him where it hurts, ban his products like X
    and Tesla too. -1 ( +3 / -4 ) wallace Jan. 8 03:54 pm JST Musk is a megalomaniac.
    The Trump-Musk bromance won''t last the course. 0 ( +5 / -5 ) Roger Gusain Jan.
    8 06:21 pm JST Elon is shining light into dark corners. God bless him. -6 ( +3
    / -9 ) Roger Gusain Jan. 8 06:39 pm JST Starmer has managed to unite the country
    -- everyone hates him. What is he hiding? I am not sure I want to find out. -5
    ( +3 / -8 ) Zaphod Jan. 8 06:54 pm JST Roger Gusain Starmer has managed to unite
    the country Unite?? In what universe? -4 ( +3 / -7 ) Great Bird Jan. 8 07:15 pm
    JST Unite?? In what universe? Magaverse 0 ( +2 / -2 ) R B Quinn Jan. 8 08:42 pm
    JST Musk has become the second most dangerous embarrassment in the United States
    of America after the former Insurrectionist-in-Chief. 1 ( +3 / -2 ) ClippetyClop
    Jan. 8 09:04 pm JST ''Tariffs'' should become Europe''s favourite word too. On
    Musk''s dull cars. See how gobby he is when it affects his salary. 2 ( +3 / -1
    ) itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 09:52 pm JST It would be helpful to listen to AfD Candidate
    Alice Weidel state in her own words AfD manifesto. Germany Election: AfD Candidate
    Alice Weidel on Election, EU, Trump, Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYB_Hmsu84
    0 ( +2 / -2 ) Zaphod Jan. 8 11:29 pm JST R B Quinn Musk has become the second
    most dangerous embarrassment in the United States of America after the former
    Insurrectionist-in-Chief. Musk turned Twitter from an elitist propaganda machine
    back into free speech platform. For that alone, you might be a tad grateful. -1
    ( +2 / -3 ) wallace Jan. 8 11:48 pm JST The father of Musk made a public statement
    Musk wants to buy Liverpool FC because his grandmother was born there and still
    has relatives in the city. Though he has never visited the city of his relatives.
    Today, the current owners issued a statement stating the club is not for sale.
    The fans too issued a strongly worded statement telling him where to put his offer.
    1 ( +2 / -1 ) TaiwanIsNotChina Jan. 9 02:40 am JST ZaphodJan. 8 11:34 pm JST TaiwanIsNotChina
    I would hope European countries would have the institutions to tell Elmo where
    he can shove his money. Funny thing, I do not remember any of the people who are
    now demonizing Musk saying anything about the big money behind the elitist political
    machine. George Soros and his "open society foundation" with its tentacles everywhere?
    Facebook and Google, who might have been able to swing the US election, had Musk
    not been there as a counterbalace? Crickets.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
    Party line decision and argued against by the Obama administration. QED 0 ( +0
    / -0 ) Peter Neil Jan. 9 03:47 am JST “Look at what happened in the U.S. His bet
    on Trump worked. He is playing the same game in Europe.” getting elected is not
    governing. any fool can get elected. look at houses of parliament and the u.s.
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    the UNFPA has ever been involved in or supported coercive practices. There is,
    though, overwhelming evidence that the UNFPA works tirelessly, in China and elsewhere,
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    health and to exercise their rights as human beings. In an accompanying interview,
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    rights. The complexities of abortion Central to the US decision to withdraw funding
    to the UNFPA is the allegation that the agency has supported forced abortions
    in China. The UNFPA does not promote abortion as a method of family planning,
    nor does it engage in debates about the legal status of abortion. The agency does
    advocate for , and support post-abortion care and argues that health systems must
    deal with complications that result from unsafe abortions and are often life-threatening.
    In the US, the politics of abortion are deeply divisive domestically and have
    shaped policies toward international development assistance for decades. The Kemp-Kasten
    amendment to the appropriations bill was adopted in 1985, prohibiting the provision
    of US aid to any organization determined by the US Administration as supporting
    coercive abortion or forced sterilization. The prohibition of such violations
    of women’s rights is on the face of it welcome, yet the Kemp-Kasten amendment
    has been used in highly political ways that have little to do with supporting
    the rights of women. The amendment was used by the Bush administration in 2002
    to withdraw funding from the UNFPA, a decision that was later reversed by the
    Obama administration. The most recent enactment of the Kemp-Kasten amendment reflects
    the continuing division between Republicans and Democrats on foreign aid and engagement
    with global development priorities. It also highlights the extent to which those
    debates play out through control over women’s bodies. Indian woman is denied abortion
    at 26 weeks. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The politics of women’s bodies The politics
    of sexual and reproductive health and rights are deeply worrying – and here we
    see regress rather than progress with the US government’s most recent position.
    The withdrawal of US funding to UNFPA follows the Presidential Memorandum Regarding
    the Mexico City Policy, issued by Trump on the first full day of his presidency.
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    lost on Trump and the cartel of suited, middle-aged men who surrounded him as
    he signed the executive order in January. The use of women’s bodies to advance
    particular ideological and political agendas is not new. Nowhere is this more
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    document. “Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?” That post got 38.6 million views
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    Thomas CNN — Heather Thomas spent months pleading with Tennessee legislators to
    vote against a ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, which she says
    saved the life of her transgender son. ‚ÄúIt‚Äôs just so important. I mean, it
    saved his life. Why would I not share that to try to help others not have to go
    through what we went through?‚Äù Thomas told CNN. Even when many parents in Tennessee
    became afraid they would become targets of the bill, Thomas continued speaking
    out. But despite her efforts, including testifying before the state Senate, last
    week Tennessee became the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender
    youth and the first state this year to restrict public drag show performances
    . Thomas, as well as transgender people and advocates in multiple states, told
    CNN they are increasingly alarmed about the unprecedented number of measures introduced
    in state legislatures this year that are seeking to restrict LGBTQ rights and
    queer life . People gather in support of transgender youth during a rally at the
    Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers on
    Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, gave final approval for a measure that would ban most transgender
    youth from receiving gender-affirming health care like surgery or puberty blockers.
    (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick Bowmer/AP/FILE Related article GOP lawmakers escalate
    fight against gender-affirming care with bills seeking to expand the scope of
    bans ‚ÄúMy child doesn‚Äôt want to be transgender; he‚ÄØis‚ÄØtransgender and has
    been his whole life. So just because he transitioned doesn‚Äôt mean he wasn‚Äôt
    trans before. He always has been,‚Äù said Thomas, adding that her 23-year-old
    son Ellis lived with severe depression before starting testosterone treatments
    as a teenager. At least 385 bills targeting LGBTQ rights and queer life have been
    introduced around the country through March 7, according to data compiled by the
    American Civil Liberties Union. The number of bills has already surpassed last
    year‚Äôs total of 306, according to ACLU data shared with CNN. The proposed bills
    cover a wide range of policies, including some that seek to restrict transgender
    people from competing on sports teams or using bathrooms that align with their
    gender identity, but it appears youth and medical care is a growing legislative
    focus. Youth who identify as transgender make up a tiny fraction of kids in the
    United States ‚Äì the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated
    in a 2019 study that less than 2% of high school students identify as transgender.
    Health care professionals have said the types of bills being pushed in this Republican-led
    effort are likely to further ostracize transgender kids, a group who already struggle
    with higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide . closeup of a transgender
    pride flag waving on the blue sky, moved by the wind, with the sun in the background
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    thousands of young people in America Emerson J. Sykes, an attorney for the ACLU,
    said each of the issues potentially impacted by the bills are distinct, but are
    creating a ‚Äúdramatic chilling effect‚Äù even if they don‚Äôt become laws. ‚ÄúThe
    message is loud and clear: LGBTQ people ‚Äì trans people in particular ‚Äì are
    under a microscope and anybody who supports or uplifts or features transgender
    people or voices of any kind, whether that‚Äôs in schools, in libraries, on stages
    or even just existing in the world, and getting access to health care and recreation
    and all of those basic things,‚Äù Sykes said. ‚ÄúWe are definitely in protection
    mode and trying to figure out what we could do to protect our neighbors and their
    rights,‚Äù he added. In Oklahoma, one of the states with the most proposed bills
    targeting health care for LGBTQ people (15 so far, according to the ACLU), Juno
    Stump said she is worried about her future as a transgender woman. Last week,
    House Bill 2177 advanced to the state Senate after the House passed it 80-18.
    The measure would ban certain gender-affirming care like puberty blockers, hormones
    and surgeries for people under 18 years and blocks insurance from covering gender-affirming
    care for anyone, regardless of age. Oklahoma Rep. Kevin West, the bill‚Äôs sponsor,
    has said legislation restricting gender-affirming care is about protecting children
    and ‚Äúputting a safeguard in place‚Äù for them. ‚ÄúThis legislation is about
    protecting our children from those who would seek to profit from their gender
    confusion,‚Äù West said in a statement following the House vote. ‚ÄúAs a state,
    we must not be partner to irreversible health practices that permanently change
    the bodies of our children before they are of an age where they can fully understand
    the consequences of their decisions.‚Äù Juno Stump told CNN she is worried about
    her future as a transgender woman. courtesy Juno Stump Under HB 2177, Stump, a
    31-year-old freelance writer, says she would no longer be able to use her health
    insurance to pay for her gender-affirming care. She told CNN it would cost ‚Äúthousands‚Äù
    to travel to another state and buy her medication without insurance. When Stump
    first heard that HB 2177 had advanced to the Senate, she was devastated. ‚ÄúI
    broke and fell apart into pieces in my friend‚Äôs arms in the middle of the day,
    and then in my wife‚Äôs arms ‚Ä¶ because it just felt so hopeless,‚Äù Stump said.
    ‚ÄúBecause anything I can think of that makes me feel better, is temporary, because
    it‚Äôs like, well, when does this stop? When does this end?‚Äù Stump said she
    suffered from depression and harmed herself for several years before she started
    receiving gender-affirming care in 2021. Receiving hormones changed her life,
    Stump said, because it freed her from having to ‚Äúmask‚Äù by presenting herself
    as a cis-gendered, heterosexual man. ‚ÄúEvery single time I took a step, every
    single time I took a breath, every single time I said anything, I had to have
    this quick little conversation inside my own head ‚Ä¶ and that conversation was,
    ‚ÄòIs this coming across in a way that is masculine and going to help me pass
    as a boy?‚Äô Because that‚Äôs what I‚Äôm being forced to do,‚Äù Stump said. New
    York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys
    general urging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to rescind his administration''s request
    to colleges in the state for information about students receiving gender-affirming
    care. Getty Images Related article Democratic AGs condemn DeSantis administration
    for asking Florida colleges for information on students receiving gender-affirming
    care Nicole McAfee, the executive director of LGBTQ advocacy group Freedom Oklahoma,
    said young LGBTQ people in the state were already feeling the harm and burden
    of policies targeting them and now, ‚Äúit‚Äôs only getting worse.‚Äù The recent
    push to restrict gender-affirming care in Oklahoma began last year when Oklahoma
    Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law that blocks funding to the University Hospitals
    Authority if its facilities provide gender-affirming care. At the time, the governor
    also called on state lawmakers to ban gender-affirming care for minors across
    the state during the 2023 legislative session. Last year, Stitt signed laws that
    require students at public schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that match
    the sex listed on their birth certificates , banned transgender women and girls
    from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity and banned
    nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs
    a bill on March 30, 2022, that prevents transgender girls and women from competing
    on female sports teams. Sean Murphy/AP/FILE Stitt has argued these laws are for
    the benefit of children, calling out gender-affirming health care in his 2023
    state of the state address: ‚ÄúWe must protect our most vulnerable - our children.‚Äù
    In banning funding for such health care for minors at the Oklahoma Children‚Äôs
    Hospital, the governor said it was ‚Äúwildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars
    to be used‚Äù for these procedures. McAfee says the chilling effect of bills like
    HB 2177 would impact more than just transgender people. Some providers would be
    worried about being criminalized or being impacted by civil liability for providing
    care, they said. ‚ÄúThat means we‚Äôre going to lose doctors, we‚Äôre going to
    lose pediatricians, all who treat all children, not just children who are transgender.
    And in a state like Oklahoma, where we already have a really fractured health
    care system, adults and kids of all genders are going to suffer because of this
    legislation,‚Äù McAfee said. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey delivers her State of the
    State Address at the State Capitol Building in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday evening
    January 11, 2022. Mickey Welsh/Advertiser/USA Today Network/Reuters Related article
    Lawsuit filed against Alabama over law that makes it a felony to administer gender-affirming
    health care to minors Stump, Thomas and other advocates told CNN they were astonished
    and disappointed that more people outside the LGTBQ community are not alarmed
    by what lawmakers are doing or encouraged to act against the growing wave of bills
    against them. ‚ÄúI really wish that more people cared ‚Ä¶ at least for self-preservation,‚Äù
    Stump said, ‚ÄúBecause right now I‚Äôm on the chopping block, but, people in power
    aren‚Äôt gonna get rid of me and then all of a sudden start trying to fix roads
    and fix health care and, you know, fix the cost of food ‚Äì they‚Äôre just gonna
    look for the next person,‚Äù Stump said. CNN‚Äôs Lucy Kafanov contributed to this
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    (Opens in new window) Pro-life marchers in Tokyo braved heat and indifference.
    Photo: Neil Day It was a small rally, but a determined one. Amid the blistering
    July afternoon sunshine, in the face of puzzled onlookers, approximately 250 people
    braved Tokyo’s heat to march from Tsukiji to Hibiya Park. Carrying banners, signs
    and fans, the sweat-soaked marchers wound their way past high-rises and the old
    wooden shops of Chūō Ward, flanked by a handful of policemen in starched blue
    uniforms directing traffic with tasseled white batons. There was a matsuri , or
    festival, atmosphere. Some marchers held aloft a festooned statue of the Virgin
    Mary, while singing in Portuguese and Japanese. The “March for Life” though, now
    in its fifth consecutive year, remains an oddity in Japan. Begun in 2014 by Japanese
    Catholic activist Masaaki Ikeda after attending the March for Life in Washington,
    the Tokyo event, though small in numbers, stands out for its cosmopolitan character.
    At an informal rally outside the Tsukiji Catholic Church before setting off, Ikeda
    asked where marchers were from. Ireland, Taiwan, India, Argentina, the Philippines,
    Peru, American Samoa, the United States, Colombia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Costa
    Rica, France and Brazil were just some of the replies. Masaaki Ikeda, the organizer
    of the Tokyo March for Life, addresses marchers at the Tsukiji Catholic Church.
    Photo: Neil Day Pastor Kenzō Tsujioka, who was instrumental in publicizing and
    organizing the march during the earliest days when only a couple of dozen people
    took part, encourages marchers to smile and avoid confrontations. Dr Ligaya Acosta,
    the regional director for Asia and Oceania at pro-life powerhouse Human Life International,
    attended the Tokyo march for the first time this year. According to her, it is
    an opportunity to unite across national borders in defense of the natural dignity
    of humans. Joe Woodard, a pro-life leader based in Hong Kong, agrees that the
    march is emerging as a key human rights event for Asia. Friendly smiles, dark
    history The friendly demeanor of Japan’s pro-life movement contrasts with Asia’s
    dark history of eugenics – policies designed to improve the genetic quality of
    the population – sterilization, racial politics and widespread governmental population
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    mineral deal is no US security guarantee During the 1930s and early 1940s, Tokyo
    needed as many people as possible to colonize Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and
    Manchuria, work in the factories and at home and man the army as the government
    enacted expansive and aggressive policies. At a time when the infant mortality
    rate was high, multiple births were encouraged. But with Japan’s 1945 defeat,
    and the subsequent loss of her overseas empire, Tokyo shifted from inflationary
    biopolitics to biopolitical austerity. Hundreds of thousands of women began streaming
    back to the home islands – many of whom had been raped by Soviet or Chinese soldiers,
    or by Korean men. Abortions would become the order of the day. This hidden history
    is only now coming to light. In a new book on an evacuee repatriation center in
    Hakata, author Masaharu Shimokawa mines contemporary diaries and records to show
    how Sei’ichi Izumi– the archaeologist who would later become famous for his discoveries
    of Incan religious sites in the Andes – personally arranged for doctors and nurses
    to assemble in Fukuoka and perform hundreds of abortions on rape victims. There
    is even evidence that Prince Takamatsu approved these emergency measures. The
    biopolitical history of occupation But the threat to Japan’s “racial purity” was
    becoming permanent at home. Rapes were a never-ending source of tension between
    US occupation forces and Japanese authorities. The Japanese government, at the
    request of the Americans, opened special “Recreation and Amusement Authority”
    (RAA) centers – essentially, licensed brothels like the now-infamous “comfort
    stations” provided for Japanese forces during the war. Yet mixed-race children
    continued to appear, both from rape and from fraternization. The occupation press
    code prohibited Japanese media from reporting on crimes committed by the US military,
    but American brass were plagued by how to cover up evidence of rape. A solution
    was hit upon: the infamous 1948 Eugenics Protection Law. This law was the first
    to recognize the legal right to abortion, although only in “exceptional cases”
    – a clause which could be taken to mean abortion on demand, without restriction.
    The Japanese government got to keep their population racially pure; the American
    government got to minimize the negative publicity of thousands of mixed-race babies.
    The Eugenics Protection Law was, in effect, a complement to the laws and rules
    already in place prohibiting American servicemen from marrying Japanese women
    and bringing them back to the United States. Japan: Abortion capital of the world
    Subsequently, women from across the globe flocked to Japan for abortions. In 1954,
    for example, the abortion rate in Japan for women of all nationalities was an
    astounding 64.6%; the abortion rate for Japanese women for 1955 was a very high
    40.3%. It remained at that level or higher throughout the rest of the 1950s. The
    eugenics mentality remained strong in Japan for decades. Government guidelines
    in 1960 advocated teaching “national eugenics” at high schools. Guidelines for
    1970 still contained recommendations for “marriage eugenics.” A law allowing forced
    sterilizations for mentally handicapped women was not revised until 1996 , and
    cases from the age of eugenics continue to work through the court system in Japan
    today . Population control: ‘One child’ China Japan’s attitudes toward abortion
    changed slowly in the 1960s and ’70s, due largely to the efforts of Dr Noboru
    Kikuta (1926-1991). Kikuta had been a prolific abortionist before undergoing a
    religious conversion at the hands of March for Life’s Tsujioka. After Kikuta stopped
    performing abortions, he started helping place orphaned children into adoptive
    homes by forging household registry paperwork. He eventually took his fight public,
    helping to change public opinion about adoption while highlighting its high rate.
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    most-read stories Sign up The international makeup of marchers reveals that many
    countries in the region and beyond have their own histories of biopolitics and
    population control – histories entangled with American biopolitics. For example,
    the 1974 Kissinger Report , formulated by the CIA and other American government
    agencies, called for population control, including abortion and sterilization,
    in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and a half-dozen
    other countries outside of Asia. There is a grassroots effort in the Philippines
    today to overturn the policies and laws implemented with money and influence from
    the US government operating under the Kissinger Report. Yet even this was dwarfed
    in scale by what may be the biggest population-control experiment in world history:
    China’s “one child” policy, which is estimated to have resulted in some 336 million
    abortions. Pro-life marchers in Tokyo were small in number, but cosmopolitan in
    makeup. Photo: Neil Day Given the long history of foreign interference in Asian
    biopolitics, it is significant that countries throughout Asia are reforming their
    approaches to abortion. From the Philippines to South Korea and beyond, a new
    democratic movement is challenging the status quo and speaking up in favor of
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    determination themselves.” Trump has not said explicitly that he would veto abortion
    ban legislation, but he has said that abortion restrictions should be left up
    to states. “Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion
    rights,” the former president said in a video on social media earlier this year.
    “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,
    the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both.” Trump supported
    the U.S. Supreme Court in overturning its own precedent established in Roe v.
    Wade, which concluded that access to abortion was a constitutional right. The
    justices, including three appointed by Trump, ruled in 2022 that this conclusion
    was erroneous. The ruling also reversed a 1992 Supreme Court decision that had
    prevented states from imposing significant restrictions on abortion before a fetus
    could survive outside the womb. The ruling was “only made possible because I delivered
    everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected
    and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court,” Trump
    wrote on his platform, Truth Social, at the time. “It was my great honor to do
    so!” Vance said on NBC that Trump “wants to end this culture war over this particular
    topic” and that “Trump’s view is that we want the individual states, and their
    individual cultures, and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions
    because we don’t want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue.” Instead,
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    that make electric cars and shoot for the stars, Elon Musk. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED
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    Of course, Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He owns several companies
    that could benefit from Trump''s presidency. NPR''s tech reporter Dara Kerr joins
    us. Dara, thanks for being with us. DARA KERR, BYLINE: Of course. Nice to be here.
    SIMON: We''ve seen this relationship grow right in front of our eyes. How did
    it get started? KERR: Elon Musk has been a supporter of Trump for a while. But
    it was really in July when things got revved up, right after that first assassination
    attempt on Trump. Almost immediately, Musk posted on his social media platform,
    X, I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery. And that''s
    when the bromance between the two of them really took off. Musk started deeply
    fundraising for Trump and posting more and more pro-Trump content on X. At the
    same time, he was criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris. And in the last few
    weeks, Musk hit the campaign trail, speaking at Trump''s rallies. In all, Musk
    has donated more than $100 million of his personal money to the campaign. And
    this has really earned him what seems to be a very close relationship with the
    president-elect. SIMON: And, in addition to the benefits of friendship, what else
    could flow from this relationship? KERR: It really boils down to all of the companies
    that Musk owns. Besides X, he has Tesla and SpaceX, the rocket company. He has
    Starlink, which is a satellite internet company, and even more. And many of these
    companies rely on government grants and subsidies. Tesla, for example, has gotten
    millions in government funding to install EV charging stations, and SpaceX has
    been awarded billion-dollar contracts from NASA for missions to the moon. And
    so now there''s some fears that he can get more contracts or that he may face
    less government scrutiny. I spoke to Gita Johar. She''s a professor at the Columbia
    Business School. GITA JOHAR: I think the government contracts could be given without
    much oversight to Musk, whether it''s for SpaceX or whether it is for his satellite
    links, and that''s lack of regulation, lack of oversight, all of which will serve
    to benefit Musk. KERR: I should say the Trump campaign, representatives from SpaceX
    and X and Musk himself did not respond to our request for comment. Just yesterday,
    Trump had a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and several major
    news outlets have reported that Musk was also on the call, though NPR has not
    independently confirmed those reports. Musk''s satellite company, Starlink, has
    played a big role in providing internet access to Ukraine during the war. SIMON:
    And, of course, didn''t Donald Trump mention that he might put Elon Musk on some
    government commission? KERR: Yes. Yes, he did. This first came up in August when
    Musk interviewed Trump during a livestream conversation on X. Musk told Trump
    that he should create a, quote, "government efficiency commission." Shortly after
    that, Trump announced that he would create the commission and put Musk in charge,
    which is something that experts are saying could create a conflict of interest
    because Musk could have some sort of influence over the agencies that are tasked
    with policing his companies. And a lot of Musk''s companies are under some of
    federal investigation. We''re talking inquiries by the Justice Department, the
    Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and so
    on. And with this, quote-unquote, "efficiency commission," both Musk and Trump
    have said they want to slash federal budgets. At rallies, Trump has hailed Musk
    as the, quote, "secretary of cost cutting," and Musk has said he wants to cut
    $2 trillion from the federal budget. That''s nearly a third of the budget. SIMON:
    Something that has puzzled me, because of course, Elon Musk has a huge investment
    in electric vehicles... KERR: Right. SIMON: ...Donald Trump used to hate EVs,
    didn''t he? KERR: Yes, yes. But now he really seems to be on board with them.
    And Trump has been giving Tesla real shoutouts in his rallies. In August, Trump
    said that he was all in for electric cars. And then he said, quote, "I have to
    be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly." So, Scott, it''s really
    hard to tell what''s going to happen come January. But there''s no doubt that
    we are going to keep hearing about this very public relationship between the president
    of the United States and the world''s richest man. SIMON: NPR''s Dara Kerr, thanks
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    & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart,”
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    details of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, has already sent loud signals
    about his concerns about how speech is controlled on the platform. It is widely
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    in Twitter’s moderation policies were front and center after Musk clinched a deal
    to buy the platform in April. But he walked away in July, Twitter sued and attention
    was then riveted by the legal drama, including a whistleblower, as the two sides
    sparred over texts, Slack messages and general discovery. Musk, who was staring
    down a deposition and possibly facing tough odds in a trial set for Oct. 17, renewed
    his $44 billion offer last week pending financing. A Delaware Chancery Court Judge
    stayed the trial and gave him until Oct. 28 to close the deal, refocusing attention
    on the real life impact of a Musk-owned Twitter just as the West controversy emerged.
    Twitter locked the rapper’s account for a violation of the social media platform’s
    policies after he tweeted Saturday that he was going “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
    “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,”
    said West, also known as Ye. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic
    because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried
    to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” The Twitter ban followed restrictions
    on West’s Instagram account by Mark Zuckerberg owned-Meta after West shared a
    screenshot of a text exchange with Sean “Diddy” Combs. He accused Combs of being
    controlled by Jewish people, saying he would use Combs as an “example to show
    the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence
    me.” West, who hadn’t used Twitter for years, turned to the platform to complain.
    Musk responded, tweeting, “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” Yesterday, he
    followed up with the tweet saying that he’d expressed concerns to West. Talked
    to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took
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    “Get ready. Elon Musk is about to rip open Pandora’s box and flood the internet
    once again with hate, misogyny, racism and conspiracy theories.” “If this deal
    goes through, Twitter will become an even more dangerous place for women, threats
    of violence online against Black women and women of color will skyrocket, and
    anti-trans content will take hold of user feeds. Donald Trump will be replatformed
    and he will use his account to spread conspiracy theories and promote political
    violence,” it said. Nonprofit Media Matters called Twitter’s sale to Musk “the
    end of the company as we know it, and the beginning of a more toxic platform with
    incredible potential for real-world harm.” The debate over speech on social media
    has been raging for years with tech company heads called to Capitol Hill numerous
    times for a grilling. Federal law, specifically Section 230 of the Communications
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    Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute , The government
    wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights
    are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power
    struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government
    or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual
    freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s
    so much more at play. In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued
    its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade , the government has come to believe that it
    not only has the power to determine who is deserving of constitutional rights
    in the eyes of the law but it also has the authority to deny those rights to an
    American citizen. This is how the abortion debate has played into the police state’s
    hands: by laying the groundwork for discussions about who else may or may not
    be deserving of rights. Despite the Supreme Court having overturned its earlier
    rulings recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment,
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    are being denied their rights under the Constitution. Unarmed citizens who are
    tasered or shot by police for daring to hesitate, stutter, move a muscle, flee
    or disagree in any way with a police order are being denied their rights under
    the Constitution. Likewise, Americans—young and old alike—who are shot by police
    because they pointed a garden hose at a police officer, reached for their registration
    in their glove box, relied upon a cane to steady themselves, or were seen playing
    with air rifles or BB guns are being denied their rights under the Constitution.
    Female motorists who are unlucky enough to be pulled over for a questionable traffic
    infraction only to be subjected by police to cavity searches by the side of the
    road are being denied their rights under the Constitution. Male pedestrians and
    motorists alike who are being subjected to roadside strip searches and rectal
    probes by police based largely on the color of their skin are being denied their
    rights under the Constitution. American citizens subjected to government surveillance
    whereby their phone calls are being listened in on , their mail and text messages
    read, their movements tracked and their transactions monitored are being denied
    their rights under the Constitution. Homeowners who are being fined and arrested
    for raising chickens in their backyard, allowing the grass in their front yards
    to grow too long , and holding Bible studies in their homes are being denied their
    rights under the Constitution. Decorated military veterans who are being arrested
    for criticizing the government on social media such as Facebook are being denied
    their rights under the Constitution. Homeless individuals who are being harassed,
    arrested and run out of towns by laws that criminalize homelessness are being
    denied their rights under the Constitution. Individuals whose DNA has been forcibly
    collected and entered into federal and state law enforcement databases whether
    or not they have been convicted of any crime are being denied their rights under
    the Constitution. Drivers whose license plates are being scanned, uploaded to
    a police database and used to map their movements , whether or not they are suspected
    of any crime, are being denied their rights under the Constitution. The same goes
    for drivers who are being ticketed for running afoul of red light cameras without
    any real opportunity to defend themselves against such a charge are being denied
    their rights under the Constitution. Protesters and activists who are being labeled
    domestic terrorists and extremists and accused of hate crimes for speaking freely
    are being denied their rights under the Constitution. Likewise, American citizens
    who being targeted for assassination by drone strikes abroad without having been
    charged, tried and convicted of treason are being denied their rights under the
    Constitution. Hard-working Americans whose bank accounts, homes, cars electronics
    and cash are seized by police (operating according to asset forfeiture schemes
    that provide profit incentives for highway robbery) are being denied their rights
    under the Constitution. So, what is the common denominator here? These are all
    American citizens — endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ,
    rights that no person or government can take away from them, among these the right
    to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—and they are all being oppressed
    in one way or another by a government that has grown drunk on power, money and
    its own authority. If the government—be it the President, Congress, the courts
    or any federal, state or local agent or agency—can decide that any person has
    no rights, then that person becomes less than a citizen, less than human, less
    than deserving of respect, dignity, civility and bodily integrity. He or she becomes
    an “it,” a faceless number that can be tallied and tracked, a quantifiable mass
    of cells that can be discarded without conscience, an expendable cost that can
    be written off without a second thought, or an animal that can be bought, sold,
    branded, chained, caged, bred, neutered and euthanized at will. It’s a slippery
    slope that justifies all manner of violations in the name of national security,
    the interest of the state and the so-called greater good. Yet those who founded
    this country believed that what we conceive of as our rights were given to us
    by God—we are created equal, according to the nation’s founding document, the
    Declaration of Independence—and that government cannot create, nor can it extinguish
    our God-given rights. To do so would be to anoint the government with god-like
    powers and elevate it above the citizenry. Unfortunately, we have been dancing
    with this particular devil for quite some time now. If we continue to wait for
    the government to restore our freedoms, respect our rights, rein in its abuses
    and restrain its agents from riding roughshod over our lives, our liberty and
    our happiness, then we will be waiting forever. The highly politicized tug-of-war
    over abortion will not resolve the problem of a culture that values life based
    on a sliding scale. Nor will it help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific
    minefields that await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to a point
    of singularity. Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a whole new frontier
    when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what it means to be a human being.
    As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around how present-day legal
    debates over bodily autonomy, privacy, vaccine mandates, the death penalty, and
    abortion play into future discussions about singularity, artificial intelligence,
    cloning, and the privacy rights of the individual in the face of increasingly
    invasive, intrusive and unavoidable government technologies. Yet here is what
    I know. Life is an inalienable right. By allowing the government to decide who
    or what is deserving of rights, it shifts the entire discussion from one in which
    we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” (that of life,
    liberty property and the pursuit of happiness) to one in which only those favored
    by the government get to enjoy such rights. If all people are created equal, then
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    which aims to reduce government spending and reform, or remove, entire federal
    agencies. The pair is tasked with cutting the federal government’s roughly $6.75
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    regulations. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my
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    government spending. Musk plans to use artificial intelligence and crowd-sourcing
    to find waste , abuse, and fraud in the federal government’s expenditures. That
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    on benefits, which could cost the government even more. Spending on health insurance
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    office, and the last four years have been especially active,” wrote Susan E. Dudley,
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    bills in the senate chamber at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama,
    on Thursday April 7, 2022. Mickey Welsh/USA TODAY NETWORK/Reuters CNN — Alabama‚Äôs
    Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the session
    targeting transgender children, including one which makes it a felony for a doctor
    to administer gender-affirming health care to minors. Another bill, which requires
    K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex, included a
    last-hour amendment Thursday critics have compared to similar legislation in Florida
    dubbed the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù law. It would ban classroom discussions about
    sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. The state‚Äôs House
    of Representatives also approved SB 184, which would make it a class C felony
    for medical professionals to provide gender-affirming care ‚Äì such as hormone
    therapy, puberty blockers and gender-reassignment surgery ‚Äì to people 18 and
    younger. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bills into law Friday. ‚ÄúThere are
    very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today‚Äôs societal
    pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made
    you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should
    especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries
    when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on
    helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be,‚Äù she
    said, according to a statement from her press office. Senate Bill 184 states medical
    professionals who provide gender-affirming care could face up to 10 years in prison.
    ‚ÄúThe decision to pursue a course of hormonal and surgical interventions to address
    a discordance between the individual‚Äôs sex and sense of identity should not
    be presented to or determined for minors who are incapable of comprehending the
    negative implications and life-course difficulties attending to these interventions,‚Äù
    the bill reads. from Gov. Ron DeSantis/Twitter Related article Book bans move
    to center stage in the red-state education wars The legislation would also make
    it a violation for public or private school officials, such as teachers, principals,
    nurses and counselors to encourage a minor to withhold from their parent or guardian
    ‚Äúthe fact that the minor‚Äôs perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent
    with the minor‚Äôs sex.‚Äù The bill, dubbed the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion
    and Protection Act, passed the Republican-controlled House following a 66-28 vote,
    according to the state legislature‚Äôs website. The GOP-led Senate passed the
    bill 24-6 in February, and it will become law 30 days after the governor‚Äôs signature.
    Alabama would be the latest state to enact such a measure. Last year, Republican
    lawmakers in Arkansas overrode a veto from their governor to put their own health
    care ban on the books, and Tennessee and Arizona have passed similar bans . The
    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Arkansas over its ban last year, and
    in July, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law.
    The ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama and other legal advocacy groups announced plans
    to file a legal challenge to the bill. ‚ÄúOur representatives have been hearing
    from medical experts, parents, transgender youth, and other advocates for the
    past three years in an attempt to stop this harmful bill from passing. But despite
    this strong opposition, the Legislature seems determined to move ahead with this
    shameful effort to prevent parents and kids from deciding the best course of treatment
    for themselves,‚Äù said Kaitlin Welborn, staff attorney for the ACLU of Alabama.
    ‚ÄúIf the state moves forward in passing this unconstitutional bill, we‚Äôll see
    them in court.‚Äù Transgender students bathroom bill passed Later, the legislature
    passed a bill requiring K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological
    sex. House Bill 322 also includes a late amendment banning classroom discussions
    or instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools.
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    Kentucky. One of the bills signed into effect was SB4, which places more restrictions
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    ban An original version of the bill sought ‚Äúto require public K-12 schools to
    designate the use of rooms where students may be in various stages of undress
    upon the basis of biological sex.‚Äù Just before the final vote Thursday afternoon,
    Republican state Sen. Shay Shelnutt introduced an amendment to ‚Äúprohibit classroom
    instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for students
    in kindergarten through the fifth grade.‚Äù Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment also declares
    schools should not ‚Äúengage in classroom discussion or provide classroom instruction
    regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner that is not age-appropriate
    or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.‚Äù
    The bill, including Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment, passed the state Senate in a 26-5
    vote. After the bill was sent back to the House for a concurrence vote, the amendment
    was adopted Thursday night following a 70-26 vote. The bill now heads to Ivey
    for final approval, according to Julie Saint, supervisor for enrolling and engrossing
    for the Alabama House of Representatives. Opponents of the measure condemned its
    passage, with the ACLU of Alabama saying, ‚ÄúIt also invokes legislation similar
    to Florida‚Äôs controversial ‚ÄòDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äô bill by banning classroom instruction
    or discussion of gender identity in public elementary schools.‚Äù The legislation
    violates the US Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the ACLU said.
    The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement Thursday night, ‚Äútransgender students
    will bear the cost of the discrimination ‚Äì discrimination which already causes
    transgender youth to feel unsafe in school, suffer academically, and have a higher
    likelihood of dropping out of school.‚Äù The governor said signing the bill was
    a ‚Äúno-brainer.‚Äù ‚ÄúLet me be clear to the media and opponents who like to
    incorrectly dub this the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù amendment: That is misleading,
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    with “virtually no chance” such a scenario could occur. No correction was attached
    to either story since earlier this year when U.S. officials designated a lab leak
    as the most likely culprit. “Seems accurate,” Musk wrote at the time and included
    a definition of state-sponsored media which he said applies to NPR. This time
    around, he may be too busy to clap back at the Guardian; his heavy investment
    in President-elect Trump paid off, and Musk will be at the forefront of the administration’s
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    out to Kanye West after the rapper’s anti-Semitic tweets. “Talked to ye today
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    was then riveted by the legal drama, including a whistleblower, as the two sides
    sparred over texts, Slack messages and general discovery. Musk, who was staring
    down a deposition and possibly facing tough odds in a trial set for Oct. 17, renewed
    his $44 billion offer last week pending financing. A Delaware Chancery Court Judge
    stayed the trial and gave him until Oct. 28 to close the deal, refocusing attention
    on the real life impact of a Musk-owned Twitter just as the West controversy emerged.
    Twitter locked the rapper’s account for a violation of the social media platform’s
    policies after he tweeted Saturday that he was going “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
    “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,”
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    me.” West, who hadn’t used Twitter for years, turned to the platform to complain.
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    followed up with the tweet saying that he’d expressed concerns to West. Talked
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    “Get ready. Elon Musk is about to rip open Pandora’s box and flood the internet
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model-index:
- name: SentenceTransformer based on sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
  results:
  - task:
      type: semantic-similarity
      name: Semantic Similarity
    dataset:
      name: Unknown
      type: unknown
    metrics:
    - type: pearson_cosine
      value: 0.9799696092976358
      name: Pearson Cosine
    - type: spearman_cosine
      value: 0.8249423833511556
      name: Spearman Cosine
---

# SentenceTransformer based on sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2

This is a [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) model finetuned from [sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2). It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more.

## Model Details

### Model Description
- **Model Type:** Sentence Transformer
- **Base model:** [sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2) <!-- at revision 12e86a3c702fc3c50205a8db88f0ec7c0b6b94a0 -->
- **Maximum Sequence Length:** 384 tokens
- **Output Dimensionality:** 768 dimensions
- **Similarity Function:** Cosine Similarity
<!-- - **Training Dataset:** Unknown -->
<!-- - **Language:** Unknown -->
<!-- - **License:** Unknown -->

### Model Sources

- **Documentation:** [Sentence Transformers Documentation](https://sbert.net)
- **Repository:** [Sentence Transformers on GitHub](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers)
- **Hugging Face:** [Sentence Transformers on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers)

### Full Model Architecture

```
SentenceTransformer(
  (0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 384, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: MPNetModel 
  (1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False, 'include_prompt': True})
  (2): Normalize()
)
```

## Usage

### Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)

First install the Sentence Transformers library:

```bash
pip install -U sentence-transformers
```

Then you can load this model and run inference.
```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("ashwinpatti/all-mpnet-base-v2_political_view_ft-legal-ft-v0")
# Run inference
sentences = [
    "Alabama governor signs into law two bills limiting transgender youth protections | CNN CNN values your feedback 1. How relevant is this ad to you? 2. Did you encounter any technical issues? Video player was slow to load content Video content never loaded Ad froze or did not finish loading Video content did not start after ad Audio on ad was too loud Other issues Ad never loaded Ad prevented/slowed the page from loading Content moved around while ad loaded Ad was repetitive to ads I've seen previously Other issues Cancel Submit Thank You! Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much appreciated. 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Sen. Shay Shelnutt, seated at center, listening to debate on transgender bills in the senate chamber at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday April 7, 2022. Mickey Welsh/USA TODAY NETWORK/Reuters CNN — Alabama‚Äôs Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the session targeting transgender children, including one which makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors. Another bill, which requires K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex, included a last-hour amendment Thursday critics have compared to similar legislation in Florida dubbed the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù law. It would ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. The state‚Äôs House of Representatives also approved SB 184, which would make it a class C felony for medical professionals to provide gender-affirming care ‚Äì such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender-reassignment surgery ‚Äì to people 18 and younger. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bills into law Friday. ‚ÄúThere are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today‚Äôs societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be,‚Äù she said, according to a statement from her press office. Senate Bill 184 states medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care could face up to 10 years in prison. ‚ÄúThe decision to pursue a course of hormonal and surgical interventions to address a discordance between the individual‚Äôs sex and sense of identity should not be presented to or determined for minors who are incapable of comprehending the negative implications and life-course difficulties attending to these interventions,‚Äù the bill reads. from Gov. Ron DeSantis/Twitter Related article Book bans move to center stage in the red-state education wars The legislation would also make it a violation for public or private school officials, such as teachers, principals, nurses and counselors to encourage a minor to withhold from their parent or guardian ‚Äúthe fact that the minor‚Äôs perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor‚Äôs sex.‚Äù The bill, dubbed the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, passed the Republican-controlled House following a 66-28 vote, according to the state legislature‚Äôs website. The GOP-led Senate passed the bill 24-6 in February, and it will become law 30 days after the governor‚Äôs signature. Alabama would be the latest state to enact such a measure. Last year, Republican lawmakers in Arkansas overrode a veto from their governor to put their own health care ban on the books, and Tennessee and Arizona have passed similar bans . The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Arkansas over its ban last year, and in July, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law. The ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama and other legal advocacy groups announced plans to file a legal challenge to the bill. ‚ÄúOur representatives have been hearing from medical experts, parents, transgender youth, and other advocates for the past three years in an attempt to stop this harmful bill from passing. But despite this strong opposition, the Legislature seems determined to move ahead with this shameful effort to prevent parents and kids from deciding the best course of treatment for themselves,‚Äù said Kaitlin Welborn, staff attorney for the ACLU of Alabama. ‚ÄúIf the state moves forward in passing this unconstitutional bill, we‚Äôll see them in court.‚Äù Transgender students bathroom bill passed Later, the legislature passed a bill requiring K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex. House Bill 322 also includes a late amendment banning classroom discussions or instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 09: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Center for African American Heritage during a bill signing event on April 9, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the bills signed into effect was SB4, which places more restrictions on no-knock raids and limits police departments power to use them. This bill comes as a response to the killing of Breonna Taylor during the execution of a no-knock warrant on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Jon Cherry/Getty Images Related article Kentucky's Democratic governor vetoes anti-trans sports ban An original version of the bill sought ‚Äúto require public K-12 schools to designate the use of rooms where students may be in various stages of undress upon the basis of biological sex.‚Äù Just before the final vote Thursday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Shay Shelnutt introduced an amendment to ‚Äúprohibit classroom instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through the fifth grade.‚Äù Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment also declares schools should not ‚Äúengage in classroom discussion or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.‚Äù The bill, including Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment, passed the state Senate in a 26-5 vote. After the bill was sent back to the House for a concurrence vote, the amendment was adopted Thursday night following a 70-26 vote. The bill now heads to Ivey for final approval, according to Julie Saint, supervisor for enrolling and engrossing for the Alabama House of Representatives. Opponents of the measure condemned its passage, with the ACLU of Alabama saying, ‚ÄúIt also invokes legislation similar to Florida‚Äôs controversial ‚ÄòDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äô bill by banning classroom instruction or discussion of gender identity in public elementary schools.‚Äù The legislation violates the US Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the ACLU said. The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement Thursday night, ‚Äútransgender students will bear the cost of the discrimination ‚Äì discrimination which already causes transgender youth to feel unsafe in school, suffer academically, and have a higher likelihood of dropping out of school.‚Äù The governor said signing the bill was a ‚Äúno-brainer.‚Äù ‚ÄúLet me be clear to the media and opponents who like to incorrectly dub this the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù amendment: That is misleading, false and just plain wrong,‚Äù Ivery said. ‚ÄúWe don‚Äôt need to be teaching young children about sex. We are talking about five-year-olds for crying out loud. 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The Tesla founder, who is negotiating final details of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, has already sent loud signals about his concerns about how speech is controlled on the platform. It is widely expected that former President Donald Trump and others who have been banned by the social media platform will be welcomed back. The West affair takes Musk’s position to a different level, given the backlash against West in recent days. Related Stories News Elon Musk Says X Is Under "Massive" Cyberattack As Platform Suffers Multiple Outages News Korea\'s Barunson E&A Partners With Indonesia\'s Miles Films On \'What\'s With Love\' Reboot \'Rangga & Cinta\' Potential changes in Twitter’s moderation policies were front and center after Musk clinched a deal to buy the platform in April. But he walked away in July, Twitter sued and attention was then riveted by the legal drama, including a whistleblower, as the two sides sparred over texts, Slack messages and general discovery. Musk, who was staring down a deposition and possibly facing tough odds in a trial set for Oct. 17, renewed his $44 billion offer last week pending financing. A Delaware Chancery Court Judge stayed the trial and gave him until Oct. 28 to close the deal, refocusing attention on the real life impact of a Musk-owned Twitter just as the West controversy emerged. Twitter locked the rapper’s account for a violation of the social media platform’s policies after he tweeted Saturday that he was going “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” said West, also known as Ye. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” The Twitter ban followed restrictions on West’s Instagram account by Mark Zuckerberg owned-Meta after West shared a screenshot of a text exchange with Sean “Diddy” Combs. He accused Combs of being controlled by Jewish people, saying he would use Combs as an “example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” West, who hadn’t used Twitter for years, turned to the platform to complain. Musk responded, tweeting, “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” Yesterday, he followed up with the tweet saying that he’d expressed concerns to West. Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022 In a statement last week as the Musk-Twitter merger came back into focus, women’s group UltraViolet warned: “Get ready. 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]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 768]

# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]
```

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## Evaluation

### Metrics

#### Semantic Similarity

* Evaluated with [<code>EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator</code>](https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sentence_transformer/evaluation.html#sentence_transformers.evaluation.EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator)

| Metric              | Value      |
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| pearson_cosine      | 0.98       |
| **spearman_cosine** | **0.8249** |

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## Training Details

### Training Dataset

#### Unnamed Dataset

* Size: 4,278 training samples
* Columns: <code>sentence_0</code>, <code>sentence_1</code>, and <code>label</code>
* Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
  |         | sentence_0                                                                           | sentence_1                                                                           | label                                                          |
  |:--------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------|
  | type    | string                                                                               | string                                                                               | float                                                          |
  | details | <ul><li>min: 64 tokens</li><li>mean: 383.36 tokens</li><li>max: 384 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 64 tokens</li><li>mean: 378.24 tokens</li><li>max: 384 tokens</li></ul> | <ul><li>min: 0.0</li><li>mean: 0.36</li><li>max: 1.0</li></ul> |
* Samples:
  | sentence_0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | sentence_1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | label            |
  |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------------|
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* Loss: [<code>ContrastiveLoss</code>](https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sentence_transformer/losses.html#contrastiveloss) with these parameters:
  ```json
  {
      "distance_metric": "SiameseDistanceMetric.COSINE_DISTANCE",
      "margin": 0.5,
      "size_average": true
  }
  ```

### Training Hyperparameters
#### Non-Default Hyperparameters

- `eval_strategy`: steps
- `per_device_train_batch_size`: 16
- `per_device_eval_batch_size`: 16
- `num_train_epochs`: 5
- `multi_dataset_batch_sampler`: round_robin

#### All Hyperparameters
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- `overwrite_output_dir`: False
- `do_predict`: False
- `eval_strategy`: steps
- `prediction_loss_only`: True
- `per_device_train_batch_size`: 16
- `per_device_eval_batch_size`: 16
- `per_gpu_train_batch_size`: None
- `per_gpu_eval_batch_size`: None
- `gradient_accumulation_steps`: 1
- `eval_accumulation_steps`: None
- `torch_empty_cache_steps`: None
- `learning_rate`: 5e-05
- `weight_decay`: 0.0
- `adam_beta1`: 0.9
- `adam_beta2`: 0.999
- `adam_epsilon`: 1e-08
- `max_grad_norm`: 1
- `num_train_epochs`: 5
- `max_steps`: -1
- `lr_scheduler_type`: linear
- `lr_scheduler_kwargs`: {}
- `warmup_ratio`: 0.0
- `warmup_steps`: 0
- `log_level`: passive
- `log_level_replica`: warning
- `log_on_each_node`: True
- `logging_nan_inf_filter`: True
- `save_safetensors`: True
- `save_on_each_node`: False
- `save_only_model`: False
- `restore_callback_states_from_checkpoint`: False
- `no_cuda`: False
- `use_cpu`: False
- `use_mps_device`: False
- `seed`: 42
- `data_seed`: None
- `jit_mode_eval`: False
- `use_ipex`: False
- `bf16`: False
- `fp16`: False
- `fp16_opt_level`: O1
- `half_precision_backend`: auto
- `bf16_full_eval`: False
- `fp16_full_eval`: False
- `tf32`: None
- `local_rank`: 0
- `ddp_backend`: None
- `tpu_num_cores`: None
- `tpu_metrics_debug`: False
- `debug`: []
- `dataloader_drop_last`: False
- `dataloader_num_workers`: 0
- `dataloader_prefetch_factor`: None
- `past_index`: -1
- `disable_tqdm`: False
- `remove_unused_columns`: True
- `label_names`: None
- `load_best_model_at_end`: False
- `ignore_data_skip`: False
- `fsdp`: []
- `fsdp_min_num_params`: 0
- `fsdp_config`: {'min_num_params': 0, 'xla': False, 'xla_fsdp_v2': False, 'xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt': False}
- `fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap`: None
- `accelerator_config`: {'split_batches': False, 'dispatch_batches': None, 'even_batches': True, 'use_seedable_sampler': True, 'non_blocking': False, 'gradient_accumulation_kwargs': None}
- `deepspeed`: None
- `label_smoothing_factor`: 0.0
- `optim`: adamw_torch
- `optim_args`: None
- `adafactor`: False
- `group_by_length`: False
- `length_column_name`: length
- `ddp_find_unused_parameters`: None
- `ddp_bucket_cap_mb`: None
- `ddp_broadcast_buffers`: False
- `dataloader_pin_memory`: True
- `dataloader_persistent_workers`: False
- `skip_memory_metrics`: True
- `use_legacy_prediction_loop`: False
- `push_to_hub`: False
- `resume_from_checkpoint`: None
- `hub_model_id`: None
- `hub_strategy`: every_save
- `hub_private_repo`: None
- `hub_always_push`: False
- `gradient_checkpointing`: False
- `gradient_checkpointing_kwargs`: None
- `include_inputs_for_metrics`: False
- `include_for_metrics`: []
- `eval_do_concat_batches`: True
- `fp16_backend`: auto
- `push_to_hub_model_id`: None
- `push_to_hub_organization`: None
- `mp_parameters`: 
- `auto_find_batch_size`: False
- `full_determinism`: False
- `torchdynamo`: None
- `ray_scope`: last
- `ddp_timeout`: 1800
- `torch_compile`: False
- `torch_compile_backend`: None
- `torch_compile_mode`: None
- `dispatch_batches`: None
- `split_batches`: None
- `include_tokens_per_second`: False
- `include_num_input_tokens_seen`: False
- `neftune_noise_alpha`: None
- `optim_target_modules`: None
- `batch_eval_metrics`: False
- `eval_on_start`: False
- `use_liger_kernel`: False
- `eval_use_gather_object`: False
- `average_tokens_across_devices`: False
- `prompts`: None
- `batch_sampler`: batch_sampler
- `multi_dataset_batch_sampler`: round_robin

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### Training Logs
| Epoch  | Step | Training Loss | spearman_cosine |
|:------:|:----:|:-------------:|:---------------:|
| 0.1866 | 50   | -             | 0.2289          |
| 0.3731 | 100  | -             | 0.6570          |
| 0.5597 | 150  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 0.7463 | 200  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 0.9328 | 250  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.0    | 268  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.1194 | 300  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.3060 | 350  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.4925 | 400  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.6791 | 450  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 1.8657 | 500  | 0.0056        | 0.8249          |
| 2.0    | 536  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 2.0522 | 550  | -             | 0.8246          |
| 2.2388 | 600  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 2.4254 | 650  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 2.6119 | 700  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 2.7985 | 750  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 2.9851 | 800  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 3.0    | 804  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 3.1716 | 850  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 3.3582 | 900  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 3.5448 | 950  | -             | 0.8249          |
| 3.7313 | 1000 | 0.0           | 0.8249          |
| 3.9179 | 1050 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.0    | 1072 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.1045 | 1100 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.2910 | 1150 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.4776 | 1200 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.6642 | 1250 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 4.8507 | 1300 | -             | 0.8249          |
| 5.0    | 1340 | -             | 0.8249          |


### Framework Versions
- Python: 3.11.11
- Sentence Transformers: 3.4.1
- Transformers: 4.48.3
- PyTorch: 2.5.1+cu124
- Accelerate: 1.3.0
- Datasets: 2.14.5
- Tokenizers: 0.21.0

## Citation

### BibTeX

#### Sentence Transformers
```bibtex
@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
    title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
    author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = "11",
    year = "2019",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}
```

#### ContrastiveLoss
```bibtex
@inproceedings{hadsell2006dimensionality,
    author={Hadsell, R. and Chopra, S. and LeCun, Y.},
    booktitle={2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06)},
    title={Dimensionality Reduction by Learning an Invariant Mapping},
    year={2006},
    volume={2},
    number={},
    pages={1735-1742},
    doi={10.1109/CVPR.2006.100}
}
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