Advocate NL 8/17/26

Hello and Happy Monday! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox to share with you all Julia Curlee's story.Julia spent nearly two decades carrying the country’s secrets, Christopher Wiggins writes.She worked in war zones, traveled to 35 countries, briefed presidents, and boarded Air Force One with the President’s Daily Brief. She was trusted to decide what some of the world's most powerful people needed to know before beginning their days.But in a remarkable first-person account published Monday by The Atlantic, Curlee describes how the second Trump administration came to view something else as dangerously sensitive: the fact that one of its most experienced intelligence officials was a transgender woman.Christopher has the full story here -- and catch his latest on media giants uniting against Trump DOJ’s political prosecution of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.Thanks folks, we'll be back in your inbox tomorrow!The despair on the USS Abraham Lincoln exposes the deadly fraud of Pete Hegseth’s machismoRepublican Byron Donalds attacks Democrat David Jolly over trans rights in Florida governor’s race'Heroes' and 'Scream' star Hayden Panettiere dead at 36New Hampshire ex-congressional candidate says fellow Dem told her she 'stood no chance' because she's transTatted-up Nancy Mace turns to podcasting after political career flames outInside the Christian ministry accused of disguising conversion therapy as celibacyMassachusetts cop accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-girlfriend's car hundreds of timesMedia giants unite against Trump DOJ’s political prosecution of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia FortWhite House trusted a transgender CIA briefer with the most sensitive secrets until her identity went public