Dave Chappelle Broke the Mirror
I was recently asked; what do you think about the Dave Chappelle controversy? Without explanation, I knew the questioner was referring to his recent Netflix...
The question needs to be asked, repeatedly: Why do Republicans want to inspect children's genitals?
It’s sick. So, so sick. But that’s what Republicans are all about these days: inspecting children’s genitals. It’s pretty much all they talk about—when they’re...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
VA-Gov: Trump's Candidate For Governor Kind Of, Sort Of Admits That Biden Legitimately Won
From The Washington Post: Before securing the GOP nomination for Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin sidestepped questions about whether President Biden had legitimately won the White...
Bamboo, Watermelons, and Rainbows
Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based? The latest is that voter ballots in Arizona were smuggled...
CA-Gov: Mother Jones Exposes Caitlyn Jenner's (R) Hypocritical Flip Flop On Trans Athletes
Can’t say that I’m surprised by this: Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for governor in California, said she...
CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson
Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was about 24 hours into the rollout of her California gubernatorial...
CA-Gov: Buckle Up Buckaroos! The Recall Election Is Peak Trump/GOP “Own The Libs” Culture
Here’s the latest news today out of California: At a time when transgender rights have become the new culture war in American politics, Republican Olympian-turned-celebrity...
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...
Brave trans girl scolds 'bullying' Texas legislators who want to make her life harder
You’d think Texas would want to fix its electrical grid or do everything in its power to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, but you’d be wrong. Nothing...
Minerva @ Midnight: today in GOP foolishness
Previous guy and the GQP continue to be weird and entirely predictable. https://twitter.com/KimMangone/status/1378529746154254337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Mike Huckabee doubled down on the usual RW hate, timing it for...
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...
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...
Remaking the Culture
Senator Ron Johnson said the blatant part out loud, that he fears black people and not white people. When confronted about his remarks, surprise, surprise,...
M T Greene is Seriously in Trouble – with Republicans
Marjorie Taylor Greene (I refuse to dignify her with an affectionate abbreviation) has not exactly followed Speaker Sam Rayburn's classic advice: “to get along, go...
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,...
Florida man, desperate to retain ‘right’ to discriminate, defies separation of church and state
Republicans continued to invoke the Bible in their speeches in support of discrimination against the LGBTQ community Thursday. When I hear people make appeals to scripture...
GOP Rep: Equality Act 'goes directly against … scripture.' Good thing we're not a theocracy then
Republicans continued to invoke the Bible in their speeches in support of discrimination against the LGBTQ community Thursday. When I hear people make appeals to scripture...
Negotiating with ‘Errorist’
This morning in his latest batch of rescinded Executive Orders issued by his predecessor, President Joe Biden reinstated the rights of transgender men and women...
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...
A “kraken of biblical proportions” ain't happening as Trump hopes his turkey pardon spreads
Trump celebrated a month and 26 days of asshat amateurism left by having a one minute briefing and taking no questions at the White House, but...
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...
NC-Sen: Monmouth Poll Has Cunningham (D) Beating Tillis (R) 48-44, Biden Beating Trump 49-46
Here’s the latest news today out of North Carolina courtesy of Monmouth University’s latest poll: The Monmouth University Poll finds North Carolina’s U.S. Senate election...
GA-Sen B: “Ultra-Rich Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R) Family Has Taken In $3 Million in Farm Subsidies”
From The American Prospect: Meanwhile, the Loeffler family farm continues to operate, and several of Loeffler’s family members continue to pull in significant sums of...
Trump meltdown 55+ tweets. And Michelle Bachmann says, 'commies gonna collapse the US economy!'
We in big trouble. Trump says there’ll be more “pro-crime judges”. Michele Bachmann claims that Transgender Marxists Want To Elect Biden, Turn US Communist, And Create...
Lawn Order: in New Jersey it's wet, in DC it's golf
xPhotos of Trump today - from @tru62. pic.twitter.com/dVVHvwUG9q — Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 27, 2020 xIn white polo shirt and red cap, Pres Trump returns...
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...
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...
ME-Sen: Collins' (R) Brett Kavanaugh Problem Just Got A Whole Lot Worse For Her Re-Election Bid
From The Washington Post: xJudge Kavanaugh voted against banning companies from firing employees for being gay or transgender.It's clear that Senator Collins will continue to...
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...
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 159)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever...
Elizabeth Warren: A Great Public School Education for Every Student
I attended public school growing up in Oklahoma. After I graduated from the University of Houston, a public university where tuition cost only $50 a...
PCCC Doubles Down To Flip Virginia's General Assembly From Red To Blue Tomorrow
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: When Republicans swept state legislatures in 2010, they used their power to redraw the entire...
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...
Slow them down…?
We are in the 21st Century, not the fourteenth, nor is it the 1860s. Yet, we have a President who, in the span of one...
Signposts at the Intersection of Gender and Neurodiversity: Survey Results on the Autism Gender Rate
Short Summary A large majority of respondents believed current diagnosis rates are under-diagnosing women relative to men Respondents tended to cite social expectations and biased...
The Superlative(s) President
Biggest, best, greatest in history. We have heard ad nauseam those words from the mouth of the self-professed greatest President, if you do not believe...
NC-09: People For The American Way Helps Dan McCready (D) Defeat This Trump Endorsed GOPer
Received this e-mail today from the People For The American Way: Dan McCready (D. NC-09) The latest poll has the NC special election race TIED!!!...
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...
ME-Sen: DFA Wastes No Time Helping Betsy Sweet (D) Kick Off Her Campaign To Defeat Susan Collins (R)
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of Progressive champ, Bety Sweet’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Remember when so-called “moderate” Senator...
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...
Milo Yiannopoulos named grand marshal for 'straight pride' parade
No, Milo Yiannopoulos is not straight, but this parade is really more about being proud of being an asshole, and he definitely qualifies on that...
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...
NC-09: NC GOP Nominate “Bathroom Bill” Author, Time To Help Dan McCready (D) Get Ready To Defeat Him
Well, we now know which GOPer we will be going up against: North Carolina state Sen. Dan Bishop (R) will face veteran and business executive...
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 110)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever...
There goes Coulter, there go low-information voters, there goes a chunk of his base. What's left?
I could post the entire transcript of Donald Trump’s Rose Garden address, but what’s the point? It all boils down to this: “We’re ending the...
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 105)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever...
The ACLU Claims the Transgender Ban Stay Is Still in Effect.
The ACLU says the nationwide injunction against the Transgender Ban imposed in their lawsuit, Stone v Trump, was not overturned today. xThere are multiple lawsuits...
Court Overturns Ban on Trump's Transgender Ban.
We know that the Trump and the GOP have and are continuing to fill judicial vacancies with conservative cuckoos. This decision is thus just a...
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...
