Demi Flanigan

All aboard the hot mess express 🚂
gay af

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

It's not even June, and companies are already acquiescing to the far right and dropping support of LGBTQ+ people.

Rainbow "support" that vanishes at the first gust of fascist wind was never there to begin with.

Subscribe to support my work.

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[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I’ve never paid more than $10 for birth control and as a college student, I got them for free from Planned Parenthood.

Meanwhile the average cost to raise a child to 18 is close to $300k.

No wonder she’s a grandmother at 36.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

As a reminder, she’s a 36-year-old grandmother who’s currently divorcing her sex pest husband, voted against the right to contraception without government interference and is trying to defund Planned Parenthood, which gives low- and no-cost birth control to the uninsured

[Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith @CarlosGSmith]

The Governor told us on the site of Pulse nightclub, that he wouldn’t leave the LGBTQ community behind.

He not only failed to follow thru— he betrayed us, vetoed funding for shooting survivors and endlessly attacked demonized us with impunity.

Ron DeSantis is a two-faced fraud.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

The way that Bud Light and Target are reacting to the far right angry at including LGBTQ+ people is EXACTLY why many of us have railed against corporate pride.

If your advocacy consists merely of rainbows that disappear at the first gust of fascist wind, it amounts to net harm.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

George Santos lied about where he went to high school, where he went to college & about working on Wall Street. He lied about an animal charity. He lied to collect unemployment benefits. He lied about his marriage(s), how his mother died (and how many times). He lied about his grandmother surviving the Holocaust. He lied about having employees who died at Pulse nightclub. He lied about being a drag queen, a Broadway producer and a journalist in Brazil.
He lied to Congress. He lied to his donors & to the voters.
He even swindled a disabled veteran with a dying dog!!
He’s been indicted on seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
He’s a pathologically lying criminal conman.
And yet today, every single Republican in the House of Representatives voted to protect him from expulsion.
Because of course they did.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Republicans keep blaming mass shootings on mental health, but then defend the killing of the mentally ill too.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

MAGA Rep Bryan Slaton—who intro’d a bill mandating death for women seeking abortion because his Biblical morals apparently command it—has resigned after investigators found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teen staffer after getting her drunk😑

This is the GOP.

[Larry Huynh @larryhuynh]

BREAKING: The Raise The Age bill just passed 8-5 out of committee in Texas!!

Survivors of Uvalde and Moms Demand Action pushed hard to make 21 the minimum age to buy an AR-style rifle. Today was the LAST DAY to get it done. And they did!

The NRA knows this is huge because, if sane gun reform can be done in Texas, it can be done ANYWHERE in America.

But the NRA is hoping people will forget about this victory. They want us to be shocked into silence, feeling hopeless.

That's why it's CRITICAL to get the good news out, and make sure it does NOT end here.

House Bill 2744 not only raises the age to 21, it also prohibits selling guns to someone who's intoxicated or has an active protective order. Finally.

Change is coming to my home state of Texas. We will win.

[Demi Flanigan @thisIrishgtswag]

Being this pro gun is basically a cult

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Reminder that Republicans have been wearing AR-15 pins, often in place of where their American flag pins would normally go.

[Demi Flanigan @thisIrishgtswag]

Not the fucking drag queens

[Demi Flanigan @thisIrishgtswag]

There are too many headlines similar to this, when will something actually be done

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

58 year-old shot because he saw a shadow outside his home. It was a 14 year-old girl playing hide-and-seek.

He stood his ground. https://t.co/dJ0JjEc4l6

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: A video still of the shooters gun in the Texas mall shooting appears to be an AR-15-style rifle.

The SAME gun more than 30 law enforcement officers were AFRAID to confront in Uvalde that left 19 children dead.

The SAME gun that’s been
the weapon of choice in many of the most horrific mass shootings in recent memory, including the Covenant school shooting in Nashville just two weeks ago.

The SAME gun brandished by Republican radicals like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.

The SAME gun worn as a pin on the lapels of disgusting GOP lawmakers.

This is what we need to scream everywhere:

If 30 armed officers wearing full tactical gear with ballistic shields are too afraid to confront a single gunman with an AR-15, they SHOULD NOT be in the hands of civilians.

We have the answer. It’s the guns.

BAN ASSAULT RIFLES NOW.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

As a parent I’m not worried that my 9 and 13 year olds are going to be “indoctrinated” with “wokeness” at school.
I’m not worried that they’re going to ‘feel guilty about their whiteness’ because they’re learning accurate history.
I’m not worried that they’re going to be “groomed” to become furries and to make their pees pees in litter boxes.
Those things aren’t real.
Wanna know what is real?
My worry that they’re going to get shot. That someone with an AR-15 is going to go into their school and shoot them.
So, while the same gun fetishizing, AR-15 lapel pin wearing, locked and loaded family Christmas card posing Republicans fear monger & manufacture crises under the guise of “parents rights”, I say this:
It is my right as a parent to send my kids to school without worrying that they will get shot.
It ain’t the drag queens, the African American history, the books with two moms or two seahorse dads which threaten our kids.
It’s the fucking guns.

[Demi Flanigan @thisIrishgtswag]

Every day

[Adore Delano @AdoreDelano]

Have you drank water today?

[Allen Kessler @AllenKessler]

From @CyndyViolette.

My daughter Shannon
has been missing since Saturday night.
No one has seen her or heard from her at all and her phone just goes straight to voicemail. I’m very worried about her.
If anyone has had any contact with her since Saturday, please let me know.

[WDBJ7 @WDBJ7]

The teenager was last seen wearing black leggings, a blue and white sweater and black and white converse shoes in the Fries area. https://t.co/Tmxda2rGWA

[Demi Flanigan @thisIrishgtswag]

Thanks @dojacat for spending 2,281 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to Need to Know. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/kqgoAGTHBU