Tag: LGBTQ

Ohio Republicans Force Through Cruel Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

“Now, if you’re doing your job as president,” Graham said, a defense substantially at odds with the account documented in Isikoff and Klaidman’s book, “and January the sixth, he was still president trying to find out if the election, you know, was on the up and up—I think his immunity claim, I don’t know how […]

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“Libs of TikTok” Creator Now Advising School Libraries After Fueling Bomb Threats to Schools

“And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.… They’ve only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. OK. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom,” he added. The former president provides an elaborate description of missile defense technology: Ding ding ding ding boom whoosh boom pic.twitter.com/PgWRVJh8xI — Acyn (@Acyn) January […]

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“Libs of TikTok” Creator Gets a Real Job: Advising School Libraries

“And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.… They’ve only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. OK. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom,” he added. The former president provides an elaborate description of missile defense technology: Ding ding ding ding boom whoosh boom pic.twitter.com/PgWRVJh8xI — Acyn (@Acyn) January […]

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DeSantis Will Now Return to What He Does Best: Terrorizing LGBTQ People in Florida

The country as a whole may have been spared that kind of power, but Florida is for now stuck with him. And nationally, too, there may be  no coming back from what his campaign has normalized. 88 percent or Republican voters now say they want a candidate who would “ban surgeries that change a child’s […]

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The GOP Doesn’t Want to Punish Trans People—It Wants to Eradicate Them

Then there’s the laughable notion that these sorts of bills will fail to pass. Once Heritage and ADF have made it unthinkable to oppose such bills, legislative hearings become a kangaroo court. During the last hearings to ban health care for trans youth in South Carolina, the ADF couldn’t even be bothered to send anyone […]

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Now Florida Is Banning Flags—and You Can Probably Guess Which Ones

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Now Florida Wants to Ban Flags—and You Can Probably Guess Which Ones

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Florida Republicans Want to Ban More Than Just the Pride Flag

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Idaho Republicans’ War on Books Has an Unbelievable New Target

As of this weekend, at least 24,100 Palestinians, including more than 9,600 children, have been killed since the war began, along with some 61,000 Palestinians injured, according to Palestine’s mission to the United Nations. Gazans are also suffering from the complete bombardment of war as well as deliberate intervention by Israel to restrict humanitarian aid […]

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West Virginia Bill Could Ban All Transgender People From Schools

South Africa has recognized the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people through Israel’s colonization since 1948, which has systematically and forcibly dispossessed, displaced and fragmented the Palestinian people, deliberately denying them the internationally recognized inalienable right to self determination and their internationally recognized rights of return as refugees to their towns and villages in what […]

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Mike DeWine Is Following the Right’s Vicious Abortion Playbook on Trans Health Care

“In many ways, this outcome is even worse than the lack of a veto,” wrote Zinnia Jones, a researcher and writer of Gender Analysis, about DeWine’s new strategy. Jones has been analyzing and reporting on similar efforts at using administrative rules to limit access to gender-affirming care, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted in 2022. […]

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You Could Soon Be Fined For Defamation for Calling Someone Racist in Florida

As the situation grew worse, Scavino said he printed out potential tweets Trump could post to urge the rioters not to get violent. At 2:38 p.m., after many protesters had already breached the Capitol, Trump finally let Scavino post a message on Trump’s Twitter (now called X) account telling the mob to “stay peaceful.” Minutes […]

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Ohio’s GOP Governor Vetoed an Anti-Trans Bill. Then, He Made It Worse.

That has Republican leaders running scared. State Attorney General Ashley Moody, a DeSantis ally, has asked the Florida Supreme Court to disqualify the amendment. She argues the language is misleading, claiming that the use of the word “viability” could have multiple meanings. The state’s high court will hear arguments on February 7. In November, state […]

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Florida Republicans Introduce Most Terrifying Assault on Trans Rights Yet

“We’re one of the worst in the nation, and that’s been true for a while now,” Bernard said. “Parents are going to skip meals, or you’re going to stretch meals farther. The charitable side will try and fill that gap. But there are going to be some struggles.” Although Oklahoma has rejected the summer program, […]

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Florida Republicans Introduce the Most Terrifying Assault on Trans Rights Yet

“We’re one of the worst in the nation, and that’s been true for a while now,” Bernard said. “Parents are going to skip meals, or you’re going to stretch meals farther. The charitable side will try and fill that gap. But there are going to be some struggles.” Although Oklahoma has rejected the summer program, […]

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Ohio’s Republican Governor Vetoes Bill Blocking Care for Trans Minors

Still, while state Democrats celebrated Boebert’s decision, it’s unclear whether the Democratic candidate for the 3rd district, Adam Frisch, can win without Boebert as his foil. The last time the district elected a Democrat was in 2008; Frisch came close in 2022 largely because Boebert has stoked so much antipathy among voters. When Frisch ran […]

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Lindsey Graham Seems Unfamiliar With the Republican Party

“There will be the inevitable political punditry about a decision to remove Trump from the ballot, but it is not a matter of political gamesmanship. This is a dire matter that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and our democracy,” she concluded. Kounalakis’s call will likely incense some of the state’s voters, more […]

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Someone Called the Cops to a Massachusetts School … Over a Book

“There will be the inevitable political punditry about a decision to remove Trump from the ballot, but it is not a matter of political gamesmanship. This is a dire matter that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and our democracy,” she concluded. Kounalakis’s call will likely incense some of the state’s voters, more […]

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s Right-Wing Ties Keep Getting Stranger and Scarier

Santos did, however, lie about his professional, academic, and athletic background. He has falsely claimed that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors, his mother died in the 9/11 attacks, and four of his employees were killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting. He also lied about founding an animal rescue charity and producing the disastrous Broadway musical […]

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s Right-Wing Ties Keep Getting Stranger and Scarier

Santos did, however, lie about his professional, academic, and athletic background. He has falsely claimed that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors, his mother died in the 9/11 attacks, and four of his employees were killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting. He also lied about founding an animal rescue charity and producing the disastrous Broadway musical […]

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An Iconic Queer Nightclub’s Staff Unionized. Then, It Closed Forever.

Image Credit: Peter Dazeley via Getty Images A historic LGBTQ+ nightclub in Chicago permanently closed this month after its employees unionized and organized a boycott in response to the club’s alleged refusal to bargain with them. One worker who spoke with Motherboard called the decision “senseless.” “​The party ended at 5 a.m., November 19, 2023—nearly […]

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Tennessee City Walks Back Ban on Public Homosexuality … Kind Of

Confusing his financial history was also a part of the plan, the report contests. To cover his tracks, Santos crafted a “fictional” financial narrative surrounding what he called his “family’s firm,” the Devolder Organization. Yet that group turned out not to be a financial institution but an LLC that almost exclusively received bank deposits and […]

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First Jewish Member of Congress Calls for Cease-Fire—And No It’s Not Bernie

Confusing his financial history was also a part of the plan, the report contests. To cover his tracks, Santos crafted a “fictional” financial narrative surrounding what he called his “family’s firm,” the Devolder Organization. Yet that group turned out not to be a financial institution but an LLC that almost exclusively received bank deposits and […]

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First Jewish Member of Congress Joins Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza

Confusing his financial history was also a part of the plan, the report contests. To cover his tracks, Santos crafted a “fictional” financial narrative surrounding what he called his “family’s firm,” the Devolder Organization. Yet that group turned out not to be a financial institution but an LLC that almost exclusively received bank deposits and […]

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Mike Johnson’s New Chief of Staff May Be More Extreme Than He Is

“We look forward to working with her and Speaker Johnson in the days ahead to advance social conservative values in this Congress,” FPA President Craig DeRoche said. The FPA actively promotes conversion therapy, which it describes as “basic talk therapy to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.” The organization insists that conversion therapy is “nothing more than […]

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Mike Johnson’s New Chief of Staff Has Ties to a Dangerous Far-Right Group

“We look forward to working with her and Speaker Johnson in the days ahead to advance social conservative values in this Congress,” FPA President Craig DeRoche said. The FPA actively promotes conversion therapy, which it describes as “basic talk therapy to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.” The organization insists that conversion therapy is “nothing more than […]

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A City in Tennessee Banned Public Homosexuality—and We All Missed It

Last month, Cohen testified in Trump’s $250 million New York bank fraud trial that Trump made up numbers and then told Cohen to artificially inflate the real estate mogul’s net worth, sometimes by as much as billions of dollars, in order to broker better deals with banks and insurance companies. “I was confused on how […]

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How to Keep Wingnuts Off the School Board

Among these liberal groups are the Campaign for Our Shared Future Action Fund, who have backed several dozen candidates, including in races in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in 2023. In 2022, they spent around $100,000 on school board campaigns and endorsed 38 school board “liberal-leaning” candidates, as reported by Education Week. “We are looking at […]

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Moms for Liberty Falls Flat on Its Face in School Board Races

While introducing the new censure resolution, McCormick railed against Tlaib for describing the chant “from the river to the sea” as an “aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence,” and lambasted her for allegedly promoting the destruction of Israel. McCormick’s effort has faced more support from the Republican caucus than Greene’s, winning over […]

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