Opinion | What if her name were “Buffy” Griner
Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle are an American love story. Let us try a thought experiment. Instead of being a 6’9” basketball player and black lesbian, Brittney Griner is … Read More
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I Have a (Olympic) Dream
Women and people of color had a unique experience that ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The controversial Summer Olympics closed with America at the top of the medal leader board … Read More
like a homecoming queen election, Ron DeSantis slays it
How Trumpian… x The event, which featured a cheering crowd behind DeSantis as he spoke on Fox & Friends, was billed as a rally “for the best governor in the … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience
We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize or condescend about how superfluous their grievances have been and continue to be. Now that … Read More
It is all Biden's fault.
Look, say Republican Senators. “Biden wants respect and bipartisanship, so all we are asking for is that his nominees show us the respect we so rightly deserve.” We therefore demand. … Read More
ME-Sen: Susan Collins (R) Is “Truly Grateful” For Endorsement From Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Group
From The Huffington Post: Though Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has lost several key endorsements to Democratic challenger Sara Gideon this election cycle, she received the full support last week of … Read More
ME-Sen: NYT, “Sara Gideon (D) Is Running Strong Against Susan Collins (R) in Maine”
The New York Times has a piece out about the U.S. Senate race about how Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D. ME) is running a strong campaign to unseat the … Read More
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”
This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is populated by women), decolonizing the … Read More
Florida Republicans still encourage LGBTQ hatred four years after Pulse
A few blocks from my home is the site of the Pulse massacre. We just passed the 4-year anniversary. In the six months that led up to the massacre, Florida … Read More
SCOTUS rules that LGBTQ can sue for workplace bias
Title VII protections now includes LGBTQ in a single watershed decision. Happy Pride month. x .@business: The ruling came in one of two LGBT workplace-bias cases the court has been considering. … Read More
Hallmark Channel removes gay-friendly ads after conservative group complains
One day we’ll be well past this kind of thing, but for now … The Hallmark Channel has pulled four gay-friendly ads featuring lesbian women getting married and kissing at … Read More
I wrote a lesbian sports fiction eBook!
I haven’t written a full story here on DailyKos in a while, and that’s because I’ve been busy writing an eBook under my full legal name, Aaron Apollo Camp. I … Read More
Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Souza Calls Greta Thunberg a Nazi, Twitter Responds.
Let’s see… Nordic — Check. Heathy glow — Check. Pigtails — Check. Gotta be a Nazi.… x Children—notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks—were often used in Nazi propaganda. … Read More
The most hateful thing I've read this week reminds us of our country's biggest failure
Callie June was adopted by two loving parents, who immediately had to put her in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to deal with her stage four cancer. Her parents, already working multiple jobs, … Read More
The Trump Campaign Tipped Their Mitts. And Nobody Noticed.
For the last 22 months, Robert S Mueller III’s trump-Russia investigation has been a political total eclipse. It has spent that time blotting the sun out from pretty much everything … Read More
The GOP 2020 conundrum
My, my, my. What a mess. Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive Things like this pop up in politics occasionally, although not all that often. Shit happens, or as a coworker … Read More
A Democratic trifecta in Virginia for 2019?? You've come a long way, baby.
The throwback cheesy ads for Virginia Slims had a point. I grew up in the Tidewater area 40 years ago. Race mixing was seriously looked down upon, the confederate flag … Read More
Reid Insulted Gays a Decade Ago & Apologized. Trump Just Insulted the Disabled TODAY–AGAIN!
Let’s all remember that Trump has never apologized for doing this, and he never will: x x YouTube Video In fact, he doubled down on it and criticized the reporter … Read More
Trump administration unveils the 'Fetal 14th Amendment'
Campaign Action While most eyes this week were on the carnage in Las Vegas, the catastrophe in Puerto Rico, or the dangerous provocations towards Pyongyang and Tehran, the Trump administration … Read More
GoFundMe: Michigan couple seeks to prove that pizza lovers support marriage equality, not bigotry
Originally posted at Eclectablog. When the owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana recently told reporters that she would refuse to bake pies for wedding receptions if the couple were gay … Read More
