Yeah, I’m Pro-Life. Quote Me.
Repost: Fordham Political Review. No one issue in politics today causes greater polarization than the issue of abortion. I remember sitting down with my mother...
no more celebrity candidates, please, we're Americans
Unfortunately, celebrity lends itself to mythology, and American ideologies are fascinated by fame and fashion. We haven’t yet turned that corner despite previous guy. Then again TMZ caught...
Newsom and Novelty: Caitlyn Jenner joins in the recall effort
GOP consultant Tim Miller weighs in on the Newsom recall effort in California. Someday the political status quo will be disrupted in the Golden State—politics...
NC-Sen: Disgraced Bathroom Bill Ex-Gov Jumps Into Senate GOP Primary
Some big news today out of North Carolina: Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s career in politics is not over. McCrory, a Republican who served...
Speech rights for me but not for she, because there'll be no wedding pizzas in that classroom
The 6th Circuit rules that Shawnee State University violated a professor's free speech and free expression rights by punishing him for refusing to use a trans student's...
Dr. Joey “Don't Say Gay” Hensley (TN Senate R) tries more mischief for KKK founder bust
A noted piece of work, State Senator Hensley, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, decided there were so many new ways to get a KKK founder’s statue...
Pope says the Catholic Church can't bless same-sex unions. Should we care?
I grew up Catholic. Went to Catholic grade school and high school, got confirmed, went to confession (at least twice!), received communion, ate ham and...
Boebert alarmed that gays, lesbians and sweet transvestites will reign supreme with the equality act
"There is nothing about equality in that act! If anything, it's, the, uh, it's supremacy of gays, lesbians, and transvestites. This is what this is about,...
PA-Sen: Fetterman (D) Keeps On Defying PA GOP “Banned Flags” Order With Bigger Weed, LGBTQ Flags
From The Hill: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1364601280161869824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democratic Senate candidate, has replaced the pro-weed and LGBTQ rights flags hanging from his office balcony...
Biden signs the most extensive and substantive EO on LGBT equality ever by a US President.
From the Human Rights Campaign, “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender identity ever issued by a...
“There is always light, if only we're brave enough to be it.”
"Being American is more than a pride we inherit. It's the past we step into." “A nation that isn’t broken but simplify unfinished” xWATCH: Amanda...
There can be no bipartisanship until:-
The Republicans admit 50 years of gaslighting. The Great Orange Snowflake only profited from their hateful agenda. Like many I learnt very early on that...
Teleminister and gay bigot who blamed COVID on the “sins of fornication” has died of the pathogen.
Irvin Baxter is the pentecostal minister and televangelist that hosted The End of the Age. He was the founder of End Time Ministries. He died of Coronavirus...
The Supreme Court has a secret docket where it hides major GOP and Trump victories from you.
The Supreme Court in June released a flurry of opinions some of which were applauded by myself and many others as we braced ourselves for...
The Supreme Court has a 'secret docket' where it hides major GOP and Trump victories from you.
The Supreme Court in June released a flurry of opinions some of which were applauded by myself and many others as we braced ourselves for...
‘What I thought was right’
In a meeting with a group of children and their parents, held more than nine years ago, a little girl asked Congressman John Lewis what...
Punk Plutocrat sprung a stooge, but like gaslight under a bushel, Stone cannot hide under a rock
“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.” — Mitt Romney...
KS-Sen: Turns Out That Kris Kobach (R) Is The Farthest Thing From A “Responsible Gun Owner”
From the Leavenworth Times editorial board today: Guns should be kept safely and securely. The news that U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach had four guns...
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...
NC-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps Cal Cunningham (D) End Moscow Mitch's Reign Of Terror
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: Cal Cunningham (D. NC)...
CORRECTED: Anti-LGBTQ Israeli health minister has COVID-19
Pink News has corrected its reporting on this story: An earlier version of this article referenced two inaccurate reports regarding Yaakov Litzman blaming the coronavirus...
COVID-19 roulette: RWNJs' chicken pox parties
Despite the stories of New Yorkers applauding medical professionals from their windows each evening, there will always be reactionaries desperate for attention. You can’t just...
Science—Smience
Well, over the weekend, the President of the United States did what he does best, confused us, lied to us and denied the science. On...
Buttigieg trashing Sanders “nostalgia” forgets about the Second Reconstruction and Stonewall
Buttigieg has since deleted this tweet: Yes we can. Especially since we now need a Third Reconstruction. xButtigieg said he's not looking forward to Bernie...
#VoteBlueWhateverYouDo … How valuable are the Low-Information Voters in 2020
The Iowa caucus was informative in terms of the current status of low information voting, no different than Rush LImbaugh expressing his horror at Buttigieg...
Dallas straight pride event attracts 3 proud straights
That’s not a typo. 3 Some reports said 2, but as we all know crowd estimation is a notoriously inexact science. Hey, even Donald Trump’s inauguration...
Don Jr: “How can Democrats beat Trump if they can't boot Sean Spicer from DWTS?”
For some Trumpers, not even the spawn is racist enough for some of its followers in 2020. Still early days, but Trumpism may be in...
A Maher-ed Message
Sometimes when your media heroes let you down it is hard to process. I had such an occurrence last Friday night. I am a huge...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Band aids for banned books
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
The best damn restaurant in Alabama closed today for the bravest reason possible
The Shu Shop in Birmingham, Alabama describes itself as a “relaxed, hip outpost offering Japanese ramen noodles & toppings alongside snacks & small plates.” But if...
NC-09: Bathroom Bill Author Compared Anti-LGBTQ Proposal To Saving Jews From Holocaust
Fuck this guy: The Republican candidate for an open House seat in North Carolina likened his efforts to undermine LGBTQ rights via religious exemptions to...
How DC Residents Should Respond to Trump's Parade for Himself
I am honored to say that I am a veteran and was part of the finest fighting force in all of human history. We knew...
Remembering Stonewall 🏳️🌈
photo: Stonewall Inn • Credit: Diana Davies© New York Public Library • CC-BY-SA-3.0 In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Debra, Mike F, Janis, Dan, Shayna,...
Yesterday, I came out as polysexual
A little less than 36 hours ago, I revealed my true colors. No, I didn’t go to Finland to betray my country in the presence...
Trump sits down for a crazy-as-fudge interview with Piers Morgan
Had I known Donald Trump was sitting down for an interview with Piers Morgan I would have been frightened out of my mind knowing they might spontaneously collapse...
Mayor of London: 'This is the sort of behavior I'd expect from an 11-year-old'
After Donald Trump described London Mayor Sadiq Khan as a “stone cold loser” in yet another petulant tweet on Monday, the mayor hit back — if you...
IL-03: DFA Fights Back Against THe DCCC's Efforts To Stop Marie Newman (D) From Unseating A Blue Dog
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of Marie Newman’s (D. IL-03) campaign: The DCCC is trying to push a progressive candidate...
Chamber Of Commerce Refuses To Endorse Anti-LGBT GOP Extremist In WI Supreme Court Election
Ouch: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce won't pour money into this year's state Supreme Court race, creating new challenges for conservative candidate Brian Hagedorn. The...
Two Republican, Yes, Republican, State Reps in Utah Introduce Bill to Ban Gay Conversion Therapy.
We rightly point out all too often when Republicans are out to perpetrate some evil upon us, so it is only right to praise them...
BREAKING: National Day of Action to #ShutDownTheWall, Open Government Announced for Jan. 29
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 CONTACT: press@moveon.org MoveOn, United We Dream, Indivisible, and other groups call for national action on Tuesday, the day Trump intends...
Progressive Items—Beat The Rate Increase
photo: Mike Fox in a HNW shirt—10 years on it’s still going strong!See the store for other photos and full descriptions of items Cheers, Debra...
Tulsi Gabbard Under Attack Driven By Sexism
By Donna Smith, Advisory Board Chair – Progressive Democrats of America It’s been just four short days since Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, HI-2, announced she will...
Mike Pence gives a World AIDS Day speech … without mentioning gay people
To begin with, asking Mike Pence to give a World AIDS Day speech is a joke. You might as well ask him to host the Tonys dressed...
Mike Pence's wife campaigns for nutty GOP candidate who thinks homosexuality should be illegal
Views on homosexuality differ widely in this country, but the percentage of Americans who think same-sex relations should be flat-out illegal is small and dropping...
Dozens of witches to put hex on Brett Kavanaugh
I don’t believe in magic, miracles, curses, hexes, horoscopes, Ouija boards, the power of prayer, or much of anything supernatural. I believe in technology and...
AZ-Sen: LGBTQ Victory Fund Helps Kyrsten Sinema (D) Defeat The Pence/McSally's (R) Anti-LGBTQ Agenda
Received this e-mail today from the LGBT Victory Fund in support of Rep. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D. AZ) U.S. Senate campaign: It’s our displeasure to (re)introduce...
Judicial fascism is coming to America…unless we convince the Senate to reject Kavanaugh!
President Trump has appointed Brett Michael Kavanaugh, a far-right federal appeals court judge, to the soon-to-be vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court currently occupied...
Burns Strider and the “Bosslady”: The work continued after the campaign was over.
Sorry for being rather late on this one; I don’t write here much anymore. The reaction was ever so predictable. After the New York Times’...
For the Party of Lincoln, everything is 'worse than Dred Scott'
On Dec. 12, Alabamans will go to the polls in a special election to determine the replacement for Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is now Donald Trump’s hatchet...
Dear Republicans Words Do Effing Matter. I Do Blame You.
I am tired of this, you have a stage, you have air time, you have a certain air of respectability, then all you do with...