No longer even a pretense of nonpartisanship, given that Sen. Collins is even a leading sponsor of the HRC’s beloved, and dreadful, Equality Act, which would roll back federal protections under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that Bill Clinton signed into law.
a liberal LGBT organization
had to apologize
for saying it was nice to see a lesbian woman of color
Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal urge Congress to protect and strengthen (more money, more money, more money) the U.S. postal service because….orange man bad! https://t.co/zyDqTPU1bB
Robby Soave looks at the controversy over Alex Morse, the 31-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Mass., who is in hot water for sexual intimacy with men as young as 18. Legally, all involved seem to be adults, and no one was anyone’s supervisor or professor, but as long as there’s a power differential these relationships are problematic.
In a Democratic primary race, Morse is running for Congress against incumbent Rep. Richard Neal, chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
With the allegations short of details or any student claiming to be a victim, the focus has shifted to the origin of the letter. The man serving as chief strategist for the UMass Amherst College Democrats, Timothy Ennis, recently completed a class with Neal, who teaches a journalism course. Ennis, according to two members of the College Democrats chapter, was open about his hopes of working for Neal in the future.
Clare Sheedy, a rising sophomore and a Morse supporter, was active in the College Democrats chapter and knew Ennis through their joint work on behalf of the Pete Buttigieg campaign for president….“He spoke very highly of Mr. Neal,” Sheedy said. “What he said to me was he wanted Neal to be his ‘in’ to politics and work his way up from there.” …
Ennis was president of the UMass College Democrats from April 2019 until April 2020, at which point he transitioned to chief strategist. That same month, Morse said, College Democrats requested a donation from his campaign. He declined, saying that his war chest wasn’t large enough. A number of other Massachusetts politicians, including Neal, did make such donations. The president of the state chapter of the College Democrats later took to Twitter to applaud Neal for donating $1,000 to the Amherst chapter.
And this:
Congratulations to everyone who fell for an entrapment scheme straight out of Veep https://t.co/f4nzeeCGLL
My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.
“And this discrimination also extends to transphobic preferences in the dating world: from cisgender gay men not wanting to date trans men….”. What? Gay men like men. That is sexual orientation. Calling it “discrimination” is homophobic. #SexNotGenderhttps://t.co/Y2W9EuC4cJ
In the very first sentence a TOTAL LIE. It is just NOT TRUE that trans women led the Stonewall riot. This is not in dispute. Except in the paper of record. Because ideology. https://t.co/HPiEHLPURJ
BREAKING: Rep. Denver Riggleman, who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention https://t.co/oVezKLetG2
VA GOP: Our state has turned blue. Let’s put a tiny number of hardcore right-wing activists in charge of selecting our candidates. This will allow us to fulfill cartoonish stereotypes by purging an incumbent, without a primary, because he officiated friends’ same-sex wedding.? https://t.co/YSNlhCLIXQ
Rowling has never made an ‘anti-trans’ tweet. This is ridiculous hyperbole and people are starting to wake up to the mass hysteria of “I saw Goody JK with the devil!” https://t.co/XkttxPe54M
The children’s book industry is witnessing the most horrific onslaught of abuse towards a much-loved, measured, brave & generous woman author. The overwhelming silence from other authors, publishers, book organisations etc is disgraceful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves
Job well done @RichardGrenell around the clock, as US Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence. THANK YOU for your exceptional service! ? ??
Yes, I’m blogging far less these days. But this article struck me as well-reasoned. Eventually, the limits and cultural contradictions of “LBGTQ” will put asunder this construct.