Worker: I can't live on $7.25/hr
GOP: So go to college
W: I can't afford $100K tuition
GOP: Take out loans
W: I can't afford to pay these at 8% interest
GOP: No one forced you to go to college
W: But you just said—
Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!
GOP: Here's a $2T Tax Cut
A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her. https://t.co/vKj4uiv4zy
TODAY IN HISTORY
2023—Supreme Court rules businesses can deny service to LGBTQ.
But wait... this case may have been based on a lie.
Not only is the man listed in court documents straight & married to a woman, he had never even heard of the case!
Link: https://t.co/jtwP9ayWQO
“I wouldn’t want anybody to … make me a wedding website?” he continued, sounding a bit puzzled but good-natured about the whole thing.
“I’m married, I have a child—I’m not really sure where that came from? But somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.”
Yes, that was his name, phone number, email address, and website on the inquiry form. But he never sent this form, he said, and at the time it was sent, he was married to a woman.
“If somebody’s pulled my information, as some kind of supporting information or documentation, somebody’s falsified that,” Stewart explained.
Here is what we know—though, to be frank, I do not know what we have learned from this yearslong mystery, other than it looks like Smith and her attorneys have, perhaps unwittingly, invented a gay couple in need of a wedding website in a case in which they argue that same-sex marriages are “false.”
A little weird tho that a private business CAN choose to DENY a customer because he/she is a member of a protected class, but a private university CANNOT choose to ACCEPT a customer because he/she is a member of a protected class.
Countless members of the LGBTQ+ community have served our nation in uniform, and swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution.
It's a sad day when an extreme SCOTUS rules it is legal for businesses to refuse Troops and Veterans who happen to be gay.
Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion
Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
In less than a year, the Supreme Court has ripped away the right to privacy and bodily autonomy, student loan forgiveness, and laws that protect people from being discriminated against.
All because Republicans won a single presidential election. Stop voting for Republicans.
Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness.
After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.
I want everyone to keep in mind that this ruling comes from a situation that never happened. Yup, a hypothetical story from a bigoted lady’s mind was used to now decide that businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks.
If you have student debt, you should know this: Biden just said he is redoubling his efforts to bring you relief.
While the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is ripping AWAY your relief, Democrats are trying to help you. It’s really that simple. Every election matters.