How is this being treated as normal?
A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
Conservatives are terrified of education.
They don’t want sex ed because it makes it harder for them to groom children.
They hate LGBTQ+ representation and education because they want to enforce a cishet normative that oppresses everyone.
Education destroys their propaganda.
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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BREAKING:
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was just found under the rubble in Al-Tiri, South Lebanon.
Israel hunted her down, and dropped bombs on the house where she had taken refuge — assassinating her.
This was deliberate.
This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
This Supreme Court decision puts our kids in danger. "Conversion therapy" is abuse—it's an unsafe, discredited practice that inflicts lasting trauma on LGBTQ+ youth.
We need to ban this reprehensible practice nationwide.
Do not compromise on supporting trans women. Give no ground. Do not give nuance, because in the face of genocide, there is no nuance to give. The state is trying to make it uncomfortable to support trans women. We must make it more uncomfortable not to.
Today, I signed an executive order establishing the first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appointing the brilliant Taylor Brown as Director.
Queer New Yorkers deserve to be not just protected, but celebrated in this city. Together, we will fight for their right to live a life of dignity, safety, and unabashed pride.
BREAKING
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:
“No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression.
Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan.
And it will not happen in Iran either.
They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”