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Politics
North Carolina Lt. Governor compares LGBTQ people to cow dung & says straights are “superior”
The GOP politician claims to be a Christian pastor, but all he teaches is hate. Locals describe him as “a weak and small man” with “nothing constructive to offer.”
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Commentary
Virginia’s governor race is being fought on the backs of transgender people
Glenn Youngkin has made attacking LGBTQ people the center piece of his campaign. If you believe the polls, it might just be working, too.
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Commentary
Republicans are poising themselves to win regardless of the outcome in California’s recall
The California recall election may offer another opportunity for Republicans to reject the fundamental premise of democracy: fair elections. That’s a bad sign for future election cycles to come.
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Commentary
Republicans now want you to get the vaccine. But they also keep lying about it.
Some conservatives are now promoting the vaccine because of Donald Trump’s tepid recommendation. The right’s commitment to furthering conspiracy theories around it are a lot louder, though.
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Commentary
Several churches are worshipping the gospel of Trump just as much as Christianity
Evangelicals and nondenominational Christians are still fighting for Trump’s mission to “Make America Great Again,” seeking to make the country into a theocracy.
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Politics
A GOP congressman has close ties to a white supremacist group. The party doesn’t care.
Paul Gosar was tied to a fundraiser for America First, an anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic hate group. The Republican party has done nothing to punish him for it.
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Commentary
Donald Trump put his (allegedly backwards) pants back on & returns to his usual nonsense
The man who would destroy American democracy can’t help but appearing like a clown. So it’s understandable that people believed he was dressed like one.
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Commentary
How much more will it take for Democrats to recognize that bipartisanship is dead?
The trap that Democrats keep falling into is thinking of the Republican Party as a normal political entity. It is not.
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Commentary
Here’s just some of the nonsense that conservatives blame Joe Biden for. So far.
From banning burgers to “altering the jet stream,” conservatives are willing to blame Biden for everything that they don’t like, even if it’s not real.
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Commentary
Liz Cheney’s likely successor in Republican leadership shows everything that’s wrong with the GOP
Elise Stefanik has proven she has zero principles or policy ideas, other than a willingness to embrace authoritarianism to gain personal power.
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Commentary
The GOP is going to throw Liz Cheney under the bus for trying to support democracy
And it’s karmic payback for the time she threw her own sister under the bus by coming out against marriage equality.
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Commentary
The seats opening in the Senate for 2022 are already attracting terrible Trump wannabes
Would-be Senators are trying to outdo each other in the race to prove themselves as the most Trumpiest candidate of them all.
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News (USA)
South Dakota’s Republican governor refuses to sign bill banning trans athletes from sports
It’s surprising and sounds like good news, until you find out her reasoning and what will likely happen next.
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Commentary
Can the Texas weather debacle cause the Lone Star State to finally turn blue?
Democrats have long hoped to break the GOP stranglehold on the state. Republican incompetence at governing may finally give them the break they need.
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Commentary
Rush Limbaugh is dead & leaves behind a GOP reshaped in his repulsive image
The radio host made white racial grievance, conspiracy theories, cruelty, and hatred of LGBTQ people the hallmark of today’s Republican party.
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Commentary
Senate Republicans confirmed their allegiance to Trump over all else by acquitting him
The GOP may hope to move past Trump, but the vote to acquit him for his role in the Capitol insurrection will only embolden him.
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Commentary
One cheer for the few Republicans willing to stand up to Trump. Three cheers would be too many.
They often have ugly anti-LGBTQ records, but at least they are fighting the extremist cancer that is consuming the Republican party.
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Commentary
The GOP leader in the House is pretending that the party isn’t at war with itself
The Republican Party can’t be both the party of reality and unreality. Yet, current House Leader Kevin McCarthy is pretending it can be.
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Commentary
Republicans are fleeing the GOP because of Trump but the rot started long before he was president
George W. Bush was politicizing science, empowering the religious right, and torturing brown people years before Trump ever took office.
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Commentary
The GOP is using the impeachment to try to wash away the stench of Trump. It won’t work.
Ten Republicans voted in favor of impeachment, but it’s far too late to disavow four years of doing his bidding.