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This week, Texas Gov. Abbot and other Texas Republicans are talking about banning trans and gender nonconforming people from teaching. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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I do not listen to BBC news anymore. It is almost impossible to listen Sky News as well, but periodically they let a tiny amount of criticism of this government and its policies to sneak in. So, when the government passes something which is in...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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It’s hard to imagine a Republican Party candidate being even more offensive than Donald Trump, but North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is pulling out all the stops.�
Over the years, the so-...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
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Welcome to what is the 1287th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Leo Benjamin, who was a failed candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District in 2023,...
by republicinsanity
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 11:06 PM PST
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I must start off by saying that the Alaska VA Healthcare System itself is extremely supportive and affirming of the LGBTQ+ veteran community, with its facilities displaying pride flags and prominently placed pride posters and very positive posts on its...
by ChrisRodda
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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On this date in 2016 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , as well ...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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Reposted from My Substack The 2nd American Civil War won’t be fought between opposing armies on a grand battlefield. It will be fought in the streets, in the theaters, churches, synagogues, Walmarts and grocery stores. It won’t be a battle between...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Rob Smith is a black, openly gay man who happens to be a veteran of the Iraq War. He is attending the Turning Point USA's AmericaFest get-together hosted in Phoenix, Arizona, by Charlie Kirk, with Maga luminaries such as Rosanne Barr and Glenn Beck...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 06:56 AM PST
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Cynthia Reyes-Revilla and Mario Castillo are in a runoff to represent Houston’s District H, which encompasses a fair portion of Houston’s northside. Either Reyes-Revilla or Castillo will succeed Karla Cisneros, who is term-limited. Although Houston’s...
by OK Dodo
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 09:10 PM PST
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Grown men — at least the ones I know — do not talk about sex or sexual orientation as much as the stereotype would have you believe. This relative silence on the subject has been my experience with both my straight and gay friends, except for one of my...
by TheCriticalMind
411 comments
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 03:42 PM PST
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It was on this date in both 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Glenn Gruenhagen, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who first came onto the scene back in, you...
by republicinsanity
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 01:04 PM PST
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It’s that time of year: Fox News has begun its “War on Christmas” dispatches! Riley Gaines was on bigot host Jesse Watters’ show to do culture-warrior bullshit. If you don’t know who Gaines is—well, look at you, you lucky duck! She is a former swimmer...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 10:05 AM PST
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I am an elderly white male. My wife claims that I am on the spectrum. “They/ them” pronouns feel wrong. I am enough of a prude that I don’t want to hear/think about gay sex. My first wife was a medical student, and I shudder that anyone would want to...
by Styracosaurus
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 08:15 PM PST
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Thursday night on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg addressed newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s vitriolic homophobia. It kicked off ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 10:21 AM PDT
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The caption at the top of this post is the headline from Thomas B. Edsall’s latest column in The NY Times. (The link should allow passage through the pay wall.) See the update below as well. I don’t normally have a lot of regard for Edsall’s columns....
by xaxnar
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 09:06 AM PDT
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When I heard about this the first time, I went back and forth about whether I should write up a story/blog/diary entry about this incident. I had decided not to, based on my limited time available, but since Keith Olbermann featured it on his Countdown...
by Proginoskes
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 11:40 PM PDT
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“All cruelty springs from weakness” ― Seneca Many American atheists are ex-Christians. They moved on from belief and religion because they found no evidence for God’s existence — and being told to have faith without proof was unsatisfactory. In some...
by TheCriticalMind
418 comments
on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 04:40 PM PDT
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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
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by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 07:57 PM PDT
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California governor Gavin Newsom, at odds with his fellow Democrats, has vetoed AB957, a bill that had been passed with overwhelming support in the state legislature. The bill was written to protect the health, safety, and welfare of transgender and...
by VPSReports
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 05:05 AM PDT
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An article from CNN is detailing the rise of queerphobia in Ghana: If someone suspects that you, or someone you’re with, is gay — either from your gait, the way you dress, or who you may be holding hands with —you could be attacked, kidnapped or even...
by m1i9k8t3j
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 02:33 AM PDT
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