And even more bigotry due to the republican right, old news before I clean the computer.

Twin brothers Blake Krenzer, 19, and Brandon Krenzer, 19, of Gambrills have been charged for alleged involvement in the vandalism of the Black Lives Matter and Pride signs at the Ark & Dove Presbyterian Church. Officers responded to the Odenton church on the morning of June 14, where they found the vandalized signs. An investigation revealed the vandalism had happened around 10 p.m. the previous evening. Police said the Krenzers were identified with the help of the public.

You Again? Gregory In Seattle2 days ago

In the same vein…

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While the Court’s decision only addresses expressive original designs, I’m deeply concerned that the decision could invite more discrimination against LGBTQI+ Americans. More broadly, today’s decision weakens long-standing laws that protect all Americans against discrimination in public accommodations – including people of color, people with disabilities, people of faith, and women.

S_E_P Chucktech2 days ago

Christianity is merely the religious arm of the white heterosexual male patriarchy. The current SCOTUS is its legal arm.

Chucktech S_E_P2 days ago edited

American Christianity isn’t “merely” anything. It’s a foul pestilence that should be righteously and vociferously mocked and shunned as the anti science, anti logic and reasoning millstone dragging society down to stupidity that it is.

If you want context that this is a made up political issue watch this

If Republicans are truly worried about members of the first family improperly benefitting from their name, Mehdi says there are two people besides Hunter Biden that they should be looking at: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

DJ Joe in NM2 days ago

Yeah. just like this bigot did at Barneys Beanery in the heart of West Hollywood back in the day.

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paganheart Bungee2 days ago

Because that was the price for the top-secret intelligence documents Kushy obtained from his FIL’s top-secret stash at Mar-A-Shitto and passed on to Saudi intelligence….

At least that’s what I believe. I fear that someday, we will discover that Kushy did more damage to the US than every other convicted spy combined. No wonder Skanky is trying to distance herself from Daddy…..

Bungee2 days ago

Impeach him over allegations from an apparently non-existent “whistleblower”?

Do you have ANY idea how ridiculous you sound? WTF

DevilDog2 days ago edited

Nikki Haley says Congressional Republicans “absolutely should” impeach President Biden over whistleblower allegations.

No proof. No facts. Not even a congressional hearing. Mere allegations are enough for today’s GOP to demand impeachment.

So much for “both sides are the same.”

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad2 days ago

Be outraged!!
OMG – “interference” that resulted in a guilty plea?
Impeach over claims from a ‘whistleblower’ who has never testified under oath?

Go to hell Nimrata – and no I won’t use the name you “prefer” to be called, since you and your part spit on all of us.

paganheart UpNorth2 days ago

I wonder if any of her GOP opponents in the upcoming debates are going to have the guts to call her “Nimrata” and ask her why she insists on trying to pass as White…and oh by the way, why hasn’t she released her “long form birth certificate” to prove that she was really born in the USA and not India?

Todd200362 days ago

It was never about zygotes. It’s about oppressing women

And it’s succeeding

Gustav2 Todd200362 days ago

It goes back to Aristotle and Aquinas plus back to Old Testament where a man “plants his seed.” The DNA for the complete human being is in the man’s seed, just like a plant. The woman is just the furrow where the seed is planted.

You are destroying the man’s hard work.

Stultus Gustav22 days ago

Today, the Catholic Church bases their sexual ethics on Tommy. So 21st sexuality is based on 13th? century science.

Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo Gustav22 days ago

That’s also why masturbation was deemed especially evil or even butt sex. Dropping all those human beings on the ground or in someone’s ass.

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another_steve Todd200362 days ago

Women who have autonomy over their bodies might not consent to 24/7 sex on demand. Theofascist men don’t like that idea.

Abortion bans are designed to eliminate female body autonomy for that reason.

Bungee2 days ago

#4). Keep’em Pregnant

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Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️2 days ago

I’m reminded of the Comstock Act, especially as it pertained to mailing birth control or abortifacients in the 1870s. It was expressed that one of the underlying reasons for this was In reaction to the influx of the Irish Catholics (especially in NYC), and the need to insure that English Protestants didn’t become a minority.

Sam_Handwich 5 days ago edited
In my very blue neck of the woods a “controversy” has arisen after the local zoo posted pictures on FB of Pride decorations in some of the animal enclosures. Not sure this would even be an issue were it not for the right’s renewed tantrum that gay people exist. I have mixed feelings about zoos as a thing, haven’t been there in years, but might visit today or tomorrow.

jefe5084 Sam_Handwich5 days ago

righties can’t comprehend that even some animals can be “gay.”

Wintercat jefe50845 days ago

The coverage of the two dads raising a penguin chick infuriated them.

Sam_Handwich Wintercat5 days ago

How will that poor baby penguin ever learn to do dishes or dress like a whore???

TnCTampa5 days ago

This is about the only paper in the state that will say anything bad about Desantis. Thanks Orlando Sentinel

Richard B5 days ago

DeSanctimonious is a dangerous religious maniac, craven for power, and there is nothing he won’t say or do to achieve his goals.
It is a relief to see the Orlando Sentinel has stood up to this fascist bigoted governor.
More leaders need to stand up and do the same thing.

KarenAtFOH5 days ago

Floridians are not ready for a new fight to begin. They overwhelmingly reelected a fascist governor who hates us. Down here in SWFL, there is a practical news blackout on the the horrible new laws taking effect in a couple of days. Nobody seems to care. It feels like what 1930’s Germany must have felt like to live there.

Dennis5 days ago
They spent billions to indoctrinate Republican voters to become far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists and now they are trying to stop someone who is representing such views..

Rambie Dennis5 days ago

They want them to worship a new golden calf that has less of an orange tint.

Todd20036 Dennis5 days ago edited

This is all because trump lost in 2020 and his picks (mostly) lost in 2022

That’s the only reason Koch is turning against trump

Nic Peterson Dennis5 days ago

They never liked trump, they thought they could control him. That went badly. Now they see a nazi that they don’t need to babysit and they are rightly afraid the orange shit stain is gonna rain on their parade.

Elagabalus Bruno5 days ago

The only reason they want to stop Trump is because they can read the polls which say he will lose to Biden in 2024.

Yves R. Mektin 5 days ago
So they plan on doing absolute zilch nada zip for the American people or their constituents. Nothing but performative obstruction.

Darreth Nico El Azul Gato Proud & Blue5 days ago

The US House is dominated by Dominionists. So, it’s a church, too.

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ5 days ago

I’d ask on what grounds, but it’s just petty political vindictiveness that will only serve to waste time and taxpayer money; in other words, business as usual for the GQP

Jack Frost Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ5 days ago

It’s the same thing with DeSantis in Florida. He’s used the word woke so many times. It has no meaning anymore.

GOP just keep attacking Biden cabinet officials who are technically Republicans. This is going to backfire amazingly for them.

Todd20036 6 days ago
Elections matter. Nearly all republicans want to keep this torture

Dark Qiviut6 days ago

Conversion therapy is complete and utter quackery, and it’s a crime that it’s not outlawed federally. This practice should be outlawed regardless of age, not just for minors.

At least a large chunk of states are picking up the slack.

Houndentenor Dark Qiviut6 days ago

Exactly.

1) It doesn’t work.
2) It causes harm.

We’ve been far too tolerant for all manner of quackery (Dr Oz for example) for far too long. Frauds and scammers should be put out of business. This isn’t a first amendment issue. This is an issue of lying to people (or their parents) and inflicting harm on them.

Jurgen Dark Qiviut6 days ago

It is psychological terrorism. The pray away “movement” coincided with APA’s declassification of same sex orientation as illness. Evangelicals were pissed not to have a “sick” scapegoat.

ErnestMc6 days ago

Great news. Once again, if it weren’t already obvious, LGBT rights expand under Democrats and contract under Republicans. The folks who are always saying the Dem’s do nothing aren’t paying attention.

mythictom 6 days ago
Humiliate every single Republican that tries this crap!

Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! mythictom6 days ago

Especially Tommy Tuberville, who did the same thing!

Joe in NM6 days ago

They know their voters are too stupid to know.

crewman Joe in NM6 days ago

They know their voters are captured assets. They only listen to propaganda and have inoculations in place to keep any outside information of getting in.

thatotherjean  Richard Ryan6 days ago
As Mr. Rogers told his child audience, “Look for the helpers.”
Read the full article. There’s much more. Gift link here.
This same developer has given DeSantis and wife rides on his private jet and was in the news just last week for an unreported $27,000 golf simulator he had installed at Florida’s governor’s mansion.
Read the full article.
Hunt last appeared on JMG in February 2023 when she responded to an anti-drag bill with a troll amendment that would bar parents from enrolling their children in “religious indoctrination camps.” The final April 1st tweet below is pinned to the top of the hate group’s feed.

DmR 4 days ago
I live near her district, which is in a blue pocket in an otherwise bright crimson state.
She is making quite the name for herself and the Wingers do not like the attention and support she is getting.

leathersmith3 days ago

children did not design that

Professor Barnhardt leathersmitha day ago

It does look suspiciously too well done.

Statistics Palin3 days ago

Fuck that’s tacky. If the Baptists had built the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling would be covered with vinyl siding.

Mark3 days ago

“All people, of all faiths, are welcome in our state.”

That ain’t what your driveway says.

Anastasia Beaverhousen Mark3 days ago

“All people, Except those trans people, and those dirty gays, and the lesbians, oh, I forgot the MuseLambs, and the Jews. Everyone else, come on in.”

Ohbehr in Minnesota Anastasia Beaverhousen3 days ago

Don’t think the Catholics, Unitarians, United Church of Christ, Methodists, Lutherans would be welcome either. They are not southern KKK Baptists.

Elagabalus3 days ago

Arkansas has officially become a theo-fascist state. Full Stop.

MyCityisNotaSwamp3 days ago

I’m not as disturbed by the picture at the Governor’s mansion as I am concerned for her children. The height of their creativity is a brainwashed image of a picture of torture?
Where are the flowers, magic fairies, animals?

Darreth3 days ago

This deliberate violation of church/state can’t be prosecuted either.

Evangelicals now have their required threshold majority in key places. Once they are the solid majority wherever they are they are the de facto standard and NOTHING can remove them. That’s why we’re becoming a failed nation. Once a nation is ruled by Bronze Age religious mythology it collapses.

Brian Green Serene Pumpkin3 days ago

Something tells me in coming years the entire LGBTQ community will be required to march and fight for our rights all across this country…. Even us quiet, middle aged suburban gays are needed to get more involved.

BartmanLA3 days ago

If they want to play hardball, then lets get businesses to do this!

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GayOldLady3 days ago
Peanuts 🥜 DeSantis trying to prove his manhood by leaning into the Pulse massacre! This bastard is a danger to our community and we ignore him at our own peril. We must proactively stand against him. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈

GayOldLady GayOldLady3 days ago edited

We will fight him in the orchards, we will fight him in the mangroves, we will fight him on the beaches, we wll fight him in the cornfields, we will fight him any fuckin place he challenges our Civil and Human rights

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TexasBoy3 days ago

Well, at least DeSantis has finally shown his true colors. His ridiculaous campaign has NOTHING to do with “Protect the Children” and everything to do with “Hate the Gays.” Which we knew all along.

GladysKravitz3 days ago

This is not only deranged and idiotic, it’s a not so subtle call for violence against LGBT people. The subtext is that DeFascist will get rid of these people once and for all. And of course the Log Cabin quislings are surprised the leopards are eating their faces.

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️4 days ago
With Supreme Court LGBTQ decision, marriage equality is at risk
The court’s decision demeans our nation’s aspirations to equality and inclusion and thereby diminishes us all.
By Laurence H. Tribe and Jeffrey B. Abramson
Until this week, under long-standing state public accommodations laws, if a business wanted all the benefits that came from being generally open to the public, then it had to serve all customers equally. Since 1964, this principle has applied to a motel in the heart of Atlanta, Ollie’s barbeque joint in Birmingham, Ala., and social clubs and private schools that advertised to the general public. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted about the historic case involving Ollie’s, it would not do for the owner to have said, “I’ll serve Blacks but only on a takeout window, not inside my restaurant because that sends a message that I endorse integration.”

By twisting free speech into a license to discriminate, the court has now carved out an exception from public accommodations law for businesses that recast their services in ways that highlight their expressive features. But the court offers no workable principle to cabin that exception in any meaningful way.

Todd20036  Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️4 days ago
Sodomy laws are next
Hiv meds could be no longer covered by insurance
We could be arrested for holding hands in public or kissing in public
Don’t think that’s impossible

Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️4 days ago edited

One would think that the court would find for the nation’s best interests to encourage a fair, equitable, and cohesive society, not to promote the very toxicity that tears society apart, no matter whether it’s disguised in “free speech” or “religion.”

Ore Carmi Jonathan Smith4 days ago

I guess the conservatives on the Supreme Court don’t care about the legitimacy of a case, if they get the opportunity to gut rights they don’t like!

Houndentenor Ore Carmi4 days ago

I knew the night RBG died that we were fucked and would be fucked for longer than I’ll likely be alive. Right wingers have made no secret that they hated anything that gave rights to minorities. They like to frame it in a libertarian argument so it sounds like freedom, but the freedom they want is the freedom to be bigots. Everything is going to be ruled unconstitutional and that’s going to affect the blue states, not just the red. And especially the blue islands in red states! So very fucked and not in the good way.

m.d.Blakely4 days ago
According to the WaPo article, MTG racked up $15,500 in fines. Remember when she complained about her measly congressional pay?

jharp4 days ago

What a terrific use of taxpayers money.

Tie up the courts, the judges, and waste lawyers time along with the time of Congress…. …for not wanting to put on a CDC recommended mask when in the company of others.

Spending other people’s money. Grandstanding.

It’s all republicans have.

Houndentenor4 days ago

It’s all very interesting that after years of these fascists whining that they couldn’t breathe when wearing a mask, so many of them now show up at protests…WEARING MASKS!

Makoto4 days ago

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)

The other names weren’t a surprise, but I have to admit, Ralphie didn’t ring a bell for me. Had to look him up, and wow, shocker, real estate mogul old white guy. Jokes about sexual assault. Negligent with firearms. Used the supposedly MAGA hated remote voting to skip town to get to CPAC. Hates student loan forgiveness, but got some $300k+ of PPP loans forgiven. Wanted Steve King back after his boot for white nationalist comments. Wants to impeach Biden.

Weird, he hits all the same marks as the MTGs and Boeberts and such, but I had absolutely no recollection of him. Wonder if he’ll join the GOP presidential clown car next…

JoeMyGodMod JCF4 days ago

I think the fines were deducted from their salaries. MTG once boasted that she’d racked up so many fines that she was working for “free.”

northalabama  Gene Perry4 days ago
standing, schmanding! it’s 2023, you just have to invent a plaintiff out of thin air, then have enough billionaires lined up to pay your expenses for years until you win, easy peasy.

JackFknTwist4 days ago

It amazes me that these decisions so blatantly favour the rich and privileged.
Striking down Affirmative Action can only harm the less privileged.
Student loans are used by those who need them and don’t have their own resources.
and the LGBT community can now be refused services by public commercial operations.
Nothing here for the poor or the minorities can take any comfort in.
It looks like the Supreme Court has found their own ‘protected class’ of wealthy privileged bourgeoisie.

carswell JackFknTwist4 days ago

The majority judges are members of the elite working in the interest of the elite.
And for them, elite is rich, white, male, Christian and corporate.

What Paxton and his office did not say: The law firm that produced the report, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, has been paid more than $500,000 in public money to defend him against whistleblowers who sued the agency for wrongful termination because they went to the FBI with allegations of corruption.

TrollopeReadera day ago

but of course!

“The outside firm never interviewed Paxton or key agency leaders….

does the report say “After thorough investigation, we determined that all is fine, move along, nothing to see here”?

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