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Nope. It’s not just your imagination. The Biden administration has been on a roll to finalize several regulations — from changes at nursing homes and updates to Title IX to health care protections for transgender people. Kimberly explains what’s really behind the mad dash. Also, Kai is back with a reminder: Don’t sleep on the foreign exchange market, folks! And we’ll smile about the tales of two cats.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Biden administration strengthens health care protections for LGBTQ+ Americans” from The 19th News
• “Congressional Review Act Threat Looms Over Biden Administration Rulemakings” from Inside Privacy
• “A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World”from The New York Times
• “Japan Intervenes After Yen Slides Against the Dollar” from The Wall Street Journal
• “Nebraska’s “Capitol Cat” brings paw-sitivity to politics” from USA Today
• “Stowaway Cat Gets From Utah to California in Amazon Returns Package” from The New York Times

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Nudity prevails in Washington state after a gay nudist beach wins a case against a children's playground.

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The Supreme Court delivered another major decision this past week, ruling in favor of a web designer who said she had a First Amendment right to refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Adam Liptak, a Times correspondent who covers the court, explains what the ruling might mean for all kinds of different groups of Americans.

Guest: Adam Liptak, who covers the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• The justices settled a question left open in 2018: whether businesses open to the public and engaged in expression may refuse to serve customers based on religious convictions.
• Here’s what to know about the free speech decision.

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Fox News employees leak internal Fox corporate training on radical LGBTQ+ politics – and it’s shocking; the White House struggles to navigate its alienation from the American body politic on gender and sex; and RFK Jr. gains on Joe Biden as the elderly president fades.

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On tonight's episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers debates whether Boris Johnson could ever make a return to politics after the release of the partygate report. Piers is joined by Womens Rights Campaigner and Olympic Swimmer Sharron Davies and Champion Cyclist Hannah Arensman who's quit the sport after losing to a biological man. Piers discusses the Pride over Patriotism as video goes viral of the British being removed for a Pride flag.

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Taylor Swift accidentally gets something right about Pride, the new World Health Organization Chief accidentally outs the COVID lockdown-mongers as political hacks, and a Utah school district bans the Bible from libraries.

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Drag show performances have become the new front in America’s culture wars. Lawmakers in more than a dozen states are considering legislation that would limit or ban drag shows. But after major corporations came out against anti-LGBTQ laws last year, we’re wondering: Where is corporate America now? Plus, big news on the ban on British sausages.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “To Tap Federal Funds, Chip Makers Will Need to Provide Child Care” from The New York Times

• • “Watchdog Report on Afghan Collapse Points to Abrupt Withdrawal, Lack of Planning” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Florida Governor DeSantis ends ‘corporate kingdom’ of Walt Disney World” from Reuters

• • “Memphis drag community says Tennessee bill restricting drag shows is ‘dehumanizing’ and bad for local businesses” from WATN

• • “Tennessee residents, business owners worry about the ‘unintended’ consequences of new drag bill” from WTVF

• • “The story behind Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood comeback” from Screen

• • Tweet from @RishiSunak on the U.K.-EU agreement on Northern Ireland

• • “Why are British sausages being blocked from entry into Northern Ireland? The dispute explained” from The Conversation

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The Biden White House celebrates same-sex marriage with a star-studded event at the White House; Sam Bankman-Fried is indicted; and Florida governor Ron DeSantis announces that the state will investigate covid-19 lies.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats in the Senate sign religious liberty's death warrant, with 12 Republicans obediently going along with it. Also, Disney retreats from the culture war. New York City pledges to start getting violent crazy people off the streets. Will Smith begins his redemption tour, just in time for his new movie. And the US men's team wins a big cash prize for its recent victory at the World Cup. And now they have to split it with the women's team, all in the name of equality.

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Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at The Argument about Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bill and the broader wave of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation, spurred by the political right, that is spreading across the country. According to the Human Rights Campaign, this year alone, more than 300 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. bills have been introduced in state legislatures. 

Why has this issue become a major focus of the Republican Party? And how is the way society treats individuals who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. changing? Jane Coaston speaks to her Times Opinion colleagues Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg about these questions and brings a deeply personal perspective to the table.

Mentioned:

“How to Make Sense of the New L.G.B.T.Q. Culture War” by Ross Douthat in The New York Times

“Gender Unicorn” from Trans Student Educational Resources

Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.