copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “A few years back,” Mitchell Stadium in Bluefield, W.Va., “was voted the best high school football field in America.” (Mike Oliverio, 2023-08-29)
Evidence (2022-06-29): Believe it or not my favorite I saw was in all places San Francisco, Geo Washington HS. Basically has everything you want in a stadium: no track, well proportioned end zone to end zone bleachers, cool neighborhood setting, and the most amazing view of the Golden Gate Bridge> [...] By the way here is the view the other way up to Russian Hill. That football field is the complete opposite of the one in monument valley. Think about it, a HS Football field for what is now a marginal city team is probably sitting on one of the most valuable pieces of underdeveloped real estate in the most expensive housing markets in the country. What a city! The best football stadium in Ohio, where more high school games ought to be played ... Nippert Stadium
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): As it is outlined in a 900-page document titled "Mandate for Leadership," Project 2025 includes no proposal to eliminate same-sex marriage. The document refers to heterosexual families as "ideal" and calls for the protection of faith-based federal grant recipients who do not support same-sex marriage. Project 2025 is a "presidential transition project" led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Its contributors include a number of former Trump administration advisers, but former President Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from the plan. He has not advocated banning same-sex marriage during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-23): Though the proposal is not included in the Project 2025 policy book, eliminating no-fault divorce is one of the goals of many of the advisors to the project — an initiative put together by groups like the right-wing Heritage Foundation, to lay out an agenda for a second Donald Trump Presidency. And this is no isolated proposal. Newly minted Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance has called no-fault divorce "one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace." [...] Correction, July 23: The original version of this article, and its headline, mischaracterized Project 2025's stance on divorce. Several advisors to the project have stated their opposition to no-fault divorce, but it is not part of the Project 2025 policy book.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president, maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of gains for American women and LGBTQ+ people. The authors of Project 2025—80 percent of whom served in the first Trump administration—paint a picture of a nation where women are fundamentally second class citizens. Project 2025 contains an 887-page policy agenda. We read the whole thing, so you don’t have to. Here are the most terrifying things we found—from railing on mask and vaccine mandates, to denying climate change, to defining what makes a ‘good’ family.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-08-06): Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s ultra-conservative blueprint for the next Republican president, envisions an Ozzie and Harriet-style society in which children are raised by married heterosexual parents, unburdened by the prospect of same-sex neighbors or drag queen story hours at the local library. [...] "Any LGBTQIA+ expression – our existence – is to be legally categorized and charged as pornography," Brittain says of Project 2025’s objectives. "They want to remove any anti-discrimination protections that are afforded to the LGBTQIA+ community in terms of employment, housing, lending, and all other aspects of public life." [...] Critics suggest Project 2025’s policies are also in lock step with Russia’s 2013 anti-gay laws, entitled ‘For the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values’.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-20): On Aug. 8, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) launched a new push against Project 2025, the 900-plus-page conservative wish-list for a second Trump Administration. The HRC warned that Project 2025 constituted an existential threat to the LGBTQ+ community because it would "take a wrecking ball" to queer rights. The group argued that the Project 2025 Plan urges a second Trump Administration to curtail existing protections in education, employment, and healthcare, as well as institute new policies targeting same-sex couples, transgender people, and LGBTQ+ youth. [...] Project 2025 nevertheless bases its anti-LGBTQ family policies on the optimal childrearing argument. It baselessly states that "[s]ocial science reports that assess the objective outcomes for children raised in homes aside from a heterosexual, intact marriage are clear: All other family forms involve higher levels of instability (the average length of same-sex marriages is half that of heterosexual marriages); financial stress or poverty; or poorer behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes." It uses this flawed argument to conclude that government-funded programs "should affirm that children require and deserve both the love and nurturing of a mother and the play and protection of a father."
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-19): Ellis continued, "Project 2025 is a vehicle for disinformation against LGBTQ people. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) reports that Project 2025 and its leaders make multiple, demonstrably untrue claims about LGBTQ people, families and our marriages." [...] That Project 2025 would attack "the progress we've made with marriage equality … is another concern to so many of us who now have access to both the rights and responsibilities of marriage that we have fought for for decades," Renna added. [...] Buchert told Newsweek, "Federal law has long protected LGBTQ people and should continue to protect LGBTQ people regardless of whether Project 2025 was implemented by a hostile administration, but Project 2025 frantically and repeatedly urges a future administration to defy federal law in order to impose a regulatory definition of 'sex' that would strip LGBTQ people of vital protections in education, health care, housing, and countless other areas under the law."
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-04): I’m paraphrasing here, but Carpenter basically said that our wins, including in the military, for more equal rights, and for marriage could all be aberrations, temporary, and taken away before our very eyes. Sinister forces, like those behind Project 2025, want nothing more than to take away our rights and make our sexual orientations, and our identities, illegal. As we explained in a story late last month, Project 2025, drafted by the far-right, seeks to make the U.S. an authoritarian nation. The plan replaces tens of thousands of federal workers with those who have allegiance to Donald Trump. It also does away with access to contraception, a possible national abortion ban, cuts federal health care programs, and quite obviously includes a plethora of anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives. Just as Carpenter predicted, Project 2025 is also coming after LGBTQ+ service members, as well as marriage equality, queer parents, and LGBTQ+ books — among many other exclusionary and harmful initiatives.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-11): "What you're going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025, that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again," Vice-President Kamala Harris said early in the ABC News presidential debate. [...] The backlash against some of the more radical proposals in Project 2025, conceived by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has been intense. [...] Project 2025 aims to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and government departments as part of what it describes as a wider crackdown on "woke" ideology.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that opposes abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity. Project 2025’s largest publication, "Mandate For Leadership," is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda. [...] Project 2025 calls for hundreds of individual policy changes that will impact our constitutional freedoms, and every aspect of our lives. Among them are: [...] Project 2025 was published by The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank with direct ties to former President Trump’s administration. Though Trump has falsely claimed he is not connected to Project 2025, a recent report from CNN found at least 140 people who worked on Project 2025 previously worked in the Trump administration. The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts also previously worked on President Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has described his organization’s role as "institutionalizing Trumpism."
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-02-08): In such a lengthy, expansive plan, it can be easy to get lost in the details. This may be intentional, bogging down discussion and complicating reporting on the project’s potential impact. So let’s focus on the vision of society driving the blueprint. That means beginning with Project 2025’s threat to bodily autonomy: how Project 2025’s drafters plan to mandate their narrowly defined and state-enforced patriarchal, heterosexual, married, procreating family and how they plan to confine people within that vision. [...] This is the America envisioned by Project 2025: one in which gender and sexuality are not acknowledged as actually existing outside patriarchal, nuclear families. All that exists here is mothers and babies, children and families. Each family is meant to function as an extension of the state, dedicated to controlling and confining sex, gender, and sexuality, with all the coercive power and violence that would require. Full compliance could only be accomplished through self-policing under intimidation. These groups know they cannot expect people to do that completely. They know they cannot force everyone to be straight, to marry, to deny their gender, to birth a child. They know people will refuse. What they want is to use that inevitable noncompliance as a threat and a tool.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Project 2025 would not end gay marriage, but it calls heterosexual families 'ideal' [...] "Gay and Married? You won’t be under Project 2025," read a July 13 Facebook post that drew a slash through the phrase "Project 2025." Other posts we saw carried similar doomy messages about gay marriage: Project 2025 will "end marriage equality," "overturn" the right to gay marriage or "ban" gay marriage, they said. During an event hosted by the Center for American Progress, a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization, Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, also warned the plan would "ban gay marriage." [...] Social media posts claimed that Project 2025 would "ban" or otherwise end gay marriage.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-10): If you don’t know about Project 2025, it’s time you did. It’s a blueprint for a second Trump administration crafted by multiple former Trump administration officials. It should scare the heck out of you. Project 2025 proposes to ban abortions and contraceptives, tear down the wall between church and state, convert our merit-based civil service into a loyalty-based spoils system, pass tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, reverse/eliminate initiatives to combat climate change, direct the Department of Justice to prosecute political enemies, get rid of the Department of Education and other agencies, expand the use of public funds for private religious schools, dismantle civil rights protections, undo regulations on big business and oil, overturn recognition of gay marriage and remove equality protections for the LGBTQ community, neuter the FBI, deploy the military to put down protests, impose restrictions on classroom topics and round up immigrants and place them in camps. Trump has recently been trying to distance himself from this odious plan, saying he knows nothing about it. Don’t be fooled. More than 80% of the people involved in writing Project 2025 held formal roles in Trump’s presidency and some are current advisers. Many are in line for key positions to implement the plan in a second Trump administration.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-17): The Trump team has insisted that their candidate has nothing to do with the now-infamous Project 2025, despite its breathless ambition towards "institutionalizing Trumpism" (and Trump’s close ties with its architects). But Agenda47’s policy items are near-indistinguishable from Project 2025’s, making the difference largely a matter of branding. As Ms. magazine noted, Project 2025 also seeks an end to federal protections for trans people at any level, diametrically opposes Biden’s reinterpretation of Title IX, and would establish a "male/female" gender binary on the federal level, even prohibiting school officials and educators from using a trans student’s pronouns. Where the Heritage Foundation-organized document differs from Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ platform, it is in its discussion of marriage: While Trump avoids the topic of gay marriage, Project 2025 confidently states that "married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure." Trump has a long history of making bold policy claims that he cannot ultimately fulfill, but the combined promises of Project 2025 and "Agenda47" have sown fear among LGBTQ+ people across the U.S. — and further emboldened the former president’s most extreme fanbase. A new report from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) last week indicated a surge in support for Project 2025 and its aims among far-right militia groups including the Proud Boys and Patriot Front, with researchers documenting a 1,425% increase in usage of the phrase "Project 2025" on its monitored channels since June 30.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-04-22): This assault on civil rights is one plank of Project 2025, a transition plan spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation — a right-wing think tank — for the next Republican president. Trump hasn’t officially co-signed, but many of his associates are authors. [...] LGBTQ issues: Project 2025 seeks to ramp up the assault on LGBTQ rights and wipe out certain federal protections for queer Americans. This entails, as the policy agenda puts it, ending the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ "foray into woke transgender activism" by scrubbing the acknowledgment of gender and sexual identity from "every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists," criminalizing classroom instruction on LGBTQ experiences, and eroding vital medical coverage for transgender Americans. [...] Civil rights: As mentioned above, Project 2025 calls for shifting the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice to quashing the supposed menace of "anti-white racism" by abolishing affirmative action policies. The policy agenda also calls for the next Republican administration to use the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to "prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers" with affirmative action or DEI policies. And it demands that "voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction" be investigated by the DOJ’s Criminal Division instead of by its Civil Rights Division.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-12): "Project 2025 couldn’t make its anti-LGBTQ+ agenda any more clear. With far-right extremists at the helm, the project is a power grab by conservatives attempting to turn back the clock on hard-fought progress and fundamental rights," Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone said in a statement to The Advocate. "Project 2025 doesn’t just pose an existential threat to our democracy but seriously threatens the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ communities across the country." Project 2025 is spearheaded by the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, with Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, as the project’s director. Several other Trump associates are involved, such as Stephen Miller, was a senior adviser to Trump during his presidency; and Roger Severino, a notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ official in Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services; and Kiron Skinner, who was director of the Office of Policy and Planning in the Trump administration until she was fired for abusive and unprofessional behavior, including homophobic remarks. [...] "Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ+ policy recommendations are sweeping — affecting agencies throughout the federal government and even past Supreme Court rulings," the Accountable.US summary concludes. "In no uncertain terms, Project 2025 and its allies intend to slash LGBTQ+ equity advancements in favor of what they claim is ‘life and strengthening the family.’"
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-09): USA Today Fact Checks False Claim about Project 2025 Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including: [...] More About Project 2025
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-27): Much of Project 2025 relates to gender, sexuality and race, aiming to end most all of the federal government’s efforts to achieve equity and even collect data that could be used to track outcomes across the public and private sectors. [...] Here are other elements of Project 2025 that would impact women and LGBTQ+ Americans: [...] Project 2025 envisions a federal government that denies the existence of transgender people, undermines the rights of same-sex married couples and dismantles services for LGBTQ+ Americans wherever possible, primarily via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which the Heritage Foundation proposes renaming the Department of Life.
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-03-27): It's that if he has an army of employees that are willing to be loyal to whatever he wants and they implement what he directs, then the question is, is there going to be pushback through Congress, through the courts, through the voters?If there's no accountability and pushback, then the answer to your question is, yes, then these things can happen, because there's nothing to stop him. Laura Barron-Lopez: As you heard Professor Wehle say there, this plan really relies on loyalists being installed across the board in government for him to be able to carry this out. William Brangham: I mean, as you and others have reported, I mean, this — these LGBTQ changes, proposed changes, are pretty sweeping.But Project 2025 has a lot of other things. Who is it — you mentioned it's Heritage, but who else is behind this project?
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-12): Project 2025 is a presidential transition plan and a government in waiting, spearheaded and organized by the far-right the Heritage Foundation, and with 100 coalition partner organizations, many of which are well-known for pushing anti-LGBTQ policy, legal efforts, and harmful rhetoric, accompanied by Christian nationalism. The project is a 180-day playbook of regulations and executive orders that could be signed and implemented by the next president upon taking office, a database of potential appointees, and an online "education academy" to train appointees in its conservative tenets. [...] Partner organizations in Project 2025’s advisory board include anti-LGBTQ groups Alliance Defending Freedom, Eagle Forum, Family Policy Alliance, Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, and dozens of other far-right organizations. [...] Project 2025 aims to gut protections for the LGBTQ community, which its organizers believe exists in opposition to the "traditional American family" and its Christian nationalist underpinnings. The Project would prioritize families "comprised of a married mother, father, and their children," and would eliminate any federal policies that promote LGBTQ equality or that assist single mothers. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) reports that the project claims falsely that, "Only heterosexual, two-parent families are safe for children, and that, ‘All other family forms involve higher levels of instability (the average length of same-sex marriages is half that of heterosexual marriages); financial stress or poverty; and poor behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes.’ (Their data on the length of marriages is false)."
Claim: Project 2025 would end gay marriage. (Social Media, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-09): This is part one in a three-part series about Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president that maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for American women and girls. Here’s how it would play out. [...] Project 2025 promotes traditional heterosexual marriage, stigmatizing single parenthood and same-sex spouses, and cutting programs to support single mothers and their children. It directs the next president to develop policies and programs to "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family." [...] Project 2025 directs the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to reverse the agency’s focus on equity, "subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage, replacing such policies with those encouraging marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and nuclear families."