I got to have a longer conversation with him later on when he was traveling with Chris Bell's gubernatorial campaign. I'll never forget how kind he was to me.
I was a closeted high school student in rural East Texas when I first read about an openly gay legislator from Austin named Glen Maxey.
In 2006, I saw him at a Texas Democratic Convention. I couldn't speak. Just started crying. I didn’t have to say anything. He just hugged me.
Regardless of whether you agree with his policies or not, have to admit that we have not seen a politician interact with constitutes like this in a very long time
This is exactly why he continues to garner popular support
Mayor Zohran Mamdani greeted Panama vs. England fans, helped with wristbands, and joined volunteers guiding matchgoers toward NJ Transit before they headed to MetLife Stadium. Have you ever seen any politician like him????
Buttigieg said this happened shortly after his family shared Father's Day photos on social media. He noted it occurred during Pride month. He was careful not to assign it to a specific source. He was not careful about naming what it was: a deliberate use of child protection systems as a political weapon, timed to cause maximum harm to a family, designed to drag four-year-old children into a process they could not understand as a way of getting to their father.
CPS workers and forensic interviewers doing their jobs are the mechanism that was abused here. They did their jobs correctly. The abuse was upstream of them - someone filed a false report, knowing exactly what procedure would follow, knowing exactly what it would do to a family, knowing exactly what it would do to two small children. That person committed a crime. Buttigieg is right that it cannot be allowed to normalize. It is not part of the cost of public service. It is an attack on children.
There have been no MAGA politicians who have been forcibly separated from their children as a result of a swat hoax.
Just stop the whataboutisms and act like fucking human beings with souls.
Pete is my political hero. Following his work for seven years, all I've seen him do is try to help people and spread goodness in this world. And he does it with kindness, humility, and joy.
Someone has to be really broken inside to try to hurt him and his family.
The first SENTENCE of the 1st Amendment states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
Our hero journalist Katie Phang is about to break the Trump pedophilia case of a 13-year-old raped by him.
The judge sided with Katie, demanding that Todd Blanche release the remaining FBI files on Trump’s rape allegation by July 2nd.
This may be Trump’s worst 4th of July.
BREAKING: Trump has released photographic proof that his American State Fair is absolutely packed. Some are calling it the largest crowd ever assembled.
#SharpieGate
Pete and Chasten Buttigieg were "swatted" by an anonymous person who called CPS and fabricated a story about Pete was committing violent crimes against his children.
The police eventually concluded the report was completely false and politically motivated, but not before the Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins were separated from their dads for a full day and put through a forensic interview.
This is exactly why the right-wing demonization of LGBTQ+ people and their families is so dangerous. This political attack weaponized the child welfare system against a family and traumatize two little kids in the process.
Whatever your politics are, targeting little children because you don't like their parents is evil. And Christians, of all people, should be the first to say so.