A list of the senators who just voted for a bill nobody’d had a chance to read yet (that they were scribbling amendments in the margins up to the moment of the vote) that will do significant damage to the working and middle class (and their children), in order to benefit the ultra-wealthy.
Make their names a hissing, and their legacy one of shame, that their children and grandchildren choose to go by another surname and vote Blue in penance.
And call your Representatives, because the bill’s up in the House next.
It was never about religion in any fucking way, just gaining the social power to let you make like hell for anyone who isn’t white, straight, cis, male, Christian, and right-wing. Conservative American Christianity is a godless, heartless, rotten farce
Remember when Jesus specifically said, in no uncertain terms, “you shall know them by their fruits?” Oh wait, these people don’t care what Jesus said.
Danica Roem refusing to shit talk Bob Marshall, the self-proclaimed Chief Homophobe bathroom bill author incumbent she defeated, by saying “I don’t do that to constituents” is simultaneously impressively gracious and the sickest fucking burn I’ve seen in a while.
“I don’t attack my constituents. Bob is my constituent now.”
I hope her remark is prominently displayed in history books for the next hundred years.
Syria announced during United Nations climate talks on Tuesday that it would sign the Paris agreement on climate change. The move, which comes on the heels of Nicaragua signing the accord last month, will leave the United States as the only country that has rejected the global pact.
According to several people who were in a plenary session at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, a Syrian delegate announced that the country was poised to send its ratification of the Paris agreement to the United Nations.
“This is the very last country that actually announced, so everyone has joined and the U.S. is now so isolated,” said Safa Al Jayoussi, executive director of IndyAct, an environmental organization based in Lebanon that works with Arab countries on climate change.
Dale Hansen is a fucking treasure. He admitted he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse in the hopes that it would encourage others to come forward and seek help. He has been an ardent supporter of scholar-athletes and of gay players in the NFL and of trans athletes.
“I’m not always comfortable when a man tells me he is gay; I don’t understand his world. But I do understand that he is part of mine.”
Oh nothing, just trying to deal with the current US-American political situation
Oh, nothing, we just have this pesky thing called freedom of speech, and honestly? If we tried to limit what groups could speak, on a federal level, I can guarantee we wouldn’t like the results. Because, hint, it wouldn’t be the alt-right Nazis they’d go after first. Free speech is the only thing saving minorities right now.
At a scheduled appearance from Trump Tower in New York City, Trump went off-script to defend right-wing demonstrators and rebuke what he termed “alt-left” for its role in the violence in Charlottesville.
“What about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right?” Trump said of the counter-protesters with “black outfits and baseball bats” at the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
“What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands? Do they have a problem? I think they do.”
Trump defended the Unite the Right rally’s decision to gather in protest of the removal of Confederate monuments, suggesting that this was a slippery slope to toppling statues of founding fathers and slave owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Read more (8/15/17 4:45 PM
On Tuesday, David Duke, the one-time leader of the Ku Klux Klan, tweeted his support for President Donald Trump’s statements on the “alt-left” during an off-the-rails Trump Tower press conference.
“Thank you President Trump for your honesty and courage to tell the truth about Charlottesville,” Duke tweeted, adding his praise for what he saw as the president’s bravery in condemning the “the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa.” Read more (8/15/17 6 PM)
I have zero problems with taking down Thomas Jefferson statues
public statuary serves a different purpose from artistic and – idk what to call it, event-recording? – statuary.
i do have a problem with taking down statues of historically influential figures because they were problematic. that’s the same mindset that leads to the taliban dynamiting stone buddhas. statues of the founding fathers are put up because those people were causative agents for the existence of the country, not because they were behavioral role models. this is like wanting to take lead off the periodic table because it’s poisonous.
however, taking down statues of a defeated enemy is pretty standard, and it’s very weird that the united states had them up in the first place, considering the confederacy started a civil war and lost. they belong in museums, as historical record, rather than in public spaces as influential figures.
as for ‘right to protest’ and violence from antifa – both true, both completely irrelevant to the necessity of denouncing fascism. they had the right, under US law, to gather and talk smack; everyone had an equal right to counter-protest. none of that has a damn thing to do with whether it was a good idea for the goddamn president to ostentatiously refuse to denounce literal fucking nazis. repeatedly.
don’t let those smokescreen tactics fool you into shooting yourself in the foot, my darlings – the fascists would LOVE for your reaction to be restricting the right to protest, because they could use it against you. they’d LOVE for you to attack the constitution because several slaveowners were involved in writing it, because that constitution protects rights they want to take away from you. they’d LOVE for you to try to erase the national founders, because then you’ll look like crazy people to mainstream voters, instead of the sane alternative to fascist madness.
don’t let them confuse you into doing their job for them.
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