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Mike Braun declared June "Nuclear Family Month" in Indiana.
Katie Blair, who helped lead the fight for marriage equality in this state, wrote about what that proclamation actually costs her. Before Obergefell, if her wife got sick, she could have been turned away at the hospital door. They couldn't file taxes together. They couldn't share insurance as spouses. Those weren't symbolic injuries. They were specific, documented legal harms that fell on real Indiana families.
Blair makes a point Braun apparently missed: the "nuclear family" ideal he's enshrining in a state proclamation is a mid-20th century suburban invention, not an ancient institution. It emerged when Americans left multigenerational rural households to work corporate jobs in postwar cities. The self-contained mom-dad-two-kids unit was a product of the 1950s economy, not millennia of human family structure. The extended networks of grandparents, aunts, cousins, and chosen family that raised children across human history don't qualify under the governor's gold standard either.
Braun's proclamation doesn't just exclude LGBTQ+ Hoosier families. It leaves out single parents. Non-biological parents. Grandparents raising grandchildren. Couples who choose not to have kids. Families that look like most of Indiana but don't match a postwar magazine spread. What exactly is being celebrated here - and who is the government telling, again, that they don't measure up?
The idea that anyone owes Russia anything is absurd.
Russia is the one holding a massive debt for broken promises, deceit, and genocide on European soil.
They do not get a say in how this ends.
The only acceptable path forward is dictating demands directly to Moscow
I’m going to be honest, the last 4 times I’ve filled up my gas tank, I thought about many things. None of those things were sharing a bathroom with a trans person, a mom buying soda with her SNAP or whether the guy in front of me in line was documented.
Why do you spread such dishonest bullshit @joerogan? Hillary publicly conceded & congratulated Trump the morning after Election Day. She then didn’t say a word about the 2016 election for 3yrs. And Trump didn’t just “question” the election. He refused to accept the result. He lied about it. And still does. And then he committed crimes trying to overthrow the election. He’s the only president in American history to do ANY of that. And he’s trying to fuck with the elections this year. And he again won’t accept the election results this year. So yeah Rogan, you attack our elections process like that, you ARE a threat to democracy.
This is a horrible, exploitative idea. Those tapes will be informed by a moment in time. Who knows how her opinions would have changed, evolved, moved on had she lived. The only thing to come from it is further unnecessary pain.
This hits hard too.
Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman murdered by MAGA. MAGA blamed Walz.