‘You can’t cancel Pride, no matter how hard you try’: GLAAD CEO on some GOP rebranding June

As I have posted before on this subject this is an attempt to push a fundamentalist Christianity on the entire rest of the public. It is an attempt to enshrine Christian nationalism and the doctrines of one sect into the laws we all must live by. The people doing these attacks want to make any and all LGBTQ+ content seem dangerous and harmful which would require warning labels. It is about demonizing the way other people live because the hyper religous don’t like it. The Christians are free to live as they wish and think as they want but they can not be allowed to oppress and require everyone to live as they do. They are a minority and the polls show the majority of the public doesn’t share these haters belief that LGBTQ+ people are dangerous or bad. The majority of people are live the way they want to and let others live the ways they want to. Republicans keep using attacks on trans and gay marriage to distract from real issues, to enrage their base to excite them to vote, and to demonize a minority group so that the status quo can go back to the 1950s cis straight white male hierarchy. Hugs

Some GOP lawmakers are attempting to rebrand June, which has been nationally recognized as Pride Month, as “Nuclear Family Month” in some states. GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis joins Laura Barrón-López to share her thoughts on this and a new poll around support for LGBTQIA+ communities.

A Right-Wing Legal Group’s Lawsuit Over a High School Wrestling Match Falls Apart on Video

This is another Riley Gaines person trying to say she lost only because her opponent was trans. They claim that the wrestler Kallie Keeler was sexually assaulted. The issue is that all the wrestlers asked and the experts say the moves were standard wrestling moves. Even the coach says that fingers often end up in places they don’t belong in normal activities in public. I was not a wrestler, but I know someone who did wrestle in high school. I had joked with him I couldn’t have done wrestling with all the hands on the crotch of the wrestlers touching each other’s cocks and balls or fingers in the butt. He told me it was very common and if you watched many boys got up from the floor during or after a match with hard ons or wet spots on their uniforms where their dicks are. The law suit is an over the top attempt to get wrestler Kallie Keeler a bunch of rewards that she did not earn and to punish all trans athletes. It also is so she can repeat Riley Gaines track of using her anti-trans hate to be on TV and make a lot of money she wouldn’t make if she was not pushing bigotry and hate. Plus if the opponent was a cis girl and accidentally did the same thing she wouldn’t have won either. This is a Christian family who feels entitled to award seh did not earn. Athe the end of the video he reads responses and comments from anti-trans people who said it was a commonly used move and sexual touching happens. Hugs

The right-wing legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a sweeping federal lawsuit on behalf of Washington high school wrestler Kallie Keeler, claiming she was sexually assaulted during a match against a transgender opponent.

The problem? There’s video of the match, and according to multiple wrestlers, coaches, and wrestling experts I spoke with, it shows nothing controversial. Just legal, routine wrestling techniques.

The lawsuit goes far beyond the match itself, targeting the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), school officials, coaches, and state authorities while demanding that Keeler’s losses to transgender athletes be erased from the record books and that trans athletes be barred from competing against her in the future.

Despite the dramatic allegations, Pierce County prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges, and even some conservatives who oppose transgender participation in sports have criticized ADF’s characterization of the match.

FED UP Graham Platner FINALLY SNAPS And COMPLETELY TORCHES Trump!!

Kyle kulinski breaks down the attacks on Platner on main stream media and the people pushing the attacks. Such as the woman who was on CNN claiming it was a shame for the party that Platner’s transgressions were being over looked and that it was a gender problem. Kyle points out that same woman was on the Edwards for president team and stayed on after it broke he was having an affair with another woman as his wife battled cancer. Edwards committed 8 felonies to cover it up. Womanizing did not seem to bother her then. Maines House Minority Leader described Platner as having deep and disturbing personal issues. That is the same person who threw a bucket of human feces (shit) at someone, sunk three boats, nearly killed his sternman with his fooling around on the water and claimed Jesus saved him when he capsized his boat. Kulinski goes on to explain that the reason so many horrible people are attacking Platner is his stance against the oligarchy, his anti Israeli genocide, and his antiiwar stance, and he is a threat to the established order. The worst thing is the DNC has removed Platner’s campaign from their list of candidates to run adverts supporting. He is against their continuing the status quo so they would rather have a republican take the seat to maintain the support for Israel, the establishment, and more money for the wealthy at the expense of the lower incomes. Worth a watch. Hugs

Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality

Dan McCellan again goes to great lengths to explain that the bible doesn’t talk about homosexuality. He first explains that the frame work of same sex attractions did not exist in the people’s worldview. The social frame work for sex was not desire but power / authority over others with the penetrative man being the top of the hierarchy with the receiving person the woman was lower in status because she received the man as he penetrated her. If a man penetrates another man the man doing the penatrator is emasculating and feminizing the man receiving the penetration, lowering that man’s status to the level of a woman. In the culture of the time of the bible status as a man was paramount so to show dominance over another man they would rape them. Simple. He explains why they did not do to Lot’s daughters what they did to the Levite’s concubine. He goes over the reasons that Genesis 19 is about males using dominance over the other. He explains it a lot better than I can. But the main thing to understand is it was not same sex orientation that was the issue it was one man dominating another by penetrating him, which caused a loss of status that was what they were trying to say was a sin. In other words men don’t ruin the good thing we have going by making some men have a lower status or women will see we are not really so much better than them. Hugs

Today and tonight. And I am sorry

It is 6:15 my time and I am in a lot of pain and struggling. I had my allergy shots this morning then when I got home, I started to work on the laptop Ron’s sister gave him. It is a cheap incerolron windows 11 with 6 GB of RAM. It was so frustrating to deal with. I spent nearly five hours on it before I gave up, put his old Windows 10 laptop back on his desk and hooked it to his monitor along with his USB devices. By this time my pain levels were hitting maximum.

So then I went to my office and started to make tomorrow’s cartoons / memes / news post I just wore out. I started too late and am in too much pain. So Ron made supper so I could go to bed. We had originally planned for a hamburger and salad each. But as he went to make supper I told him I just wanted the salad. After I ate I was glad I did I barely ate the entire salad he made for me.

But when I thanked him and said it was good he had not cooked the hamburgers he told me he had cooked them after I told him that as he figured I wouldn’t be able to eat a salad and a hamburger so he had always planned to eat both burgers himself, which he did. I guess good that it worked out for both of us but bad that he already knew I wouldn’t be able to eat.

By the way even though this bit of information is not needed or necessary the salad was the only thing I have eaten today. I don’t know what changed. I was making great improvement in staying up and in eating. I was up to eating two rather decent meals a day. Then suddenly I couldn’t, and I suddenly needed to go back to bed in the morning and to bed before 6 or 7 pm. Ron is again worried. I told him it probably was my pain levels as the pain clinic needed to cancel my in person visit to get my trigger point injections. But I am not sure if he is buying it. Anyway. I will try to get up by 4 or 5 to get the mentioned post out in the morning. But no guarantees on that. I can only say I enjoy doing them, I really love that people want and enjoy them, but my idea of doing them one day to post the next has not worked out since my relapse. Best wishes for all and hugs for those that want them. I am off to bed.

Interior Dept Declares Reflecting Pool Is “Crystal Clear” As Huge Chunks Of $14M Paint Job Float To Its Surface

The gaslighting is telling the public to disbelieve anything that doesn’t make the dear leader good is on max. The below post will show how badly tRump is at picking contractors, selecting the desired result, and that everything he does is a grift to gain him money. This last few years it has been at the expense of every person who pays any kind of taxes to the US government. All while cutting every social safety net to the people of the country to give even more wealth to the most wealthy that tRump desperatly wants him and his family to be a member of. Hugs

Interior Dept Declares Reflecting Pool Is “Crystal Clear” As Huge Chunks Of $14M Paint Job Float To Its Surface

The Huffington Post reports:

President Donald Trump positioned himself as a swimming pool expert as he touted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations he ordered this year, having put in “more than 100” over his career. But after spending $14 million, the reflecting pool now looks arguably worse than it did before. Aside from the green hue of the water, the product of what is reportedly one of the largest algae blooms in recent years, the “industrial-grade swimming pool topping” that Trump chose is already peeling off in sheets.

A man who gave his name as Sean told HuffPost that he had experience working on swimming pool coatings in the past, and did not seem surprised to see the peeling. “This is an epoxy,” he said of the coating. “This is something you would do on a concrete — on a shot concrete sort of pool where you have leaking. And then you spray this out. But in a pool, you’re dealing with a whole lot less square feet. So you can do special treatments on it … so it isn’t going to come back up.”

The Interior Department writes on X:

The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama’s reopening—since 1922.

The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool—just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

The vacuuming is the final maintenance step after refilling the pool, and it will be complete in a few days. Already, the section of the Reflecting Pool closest to the Lincoln Memorial has been vacuumed up, and the beautiful American Flag Blue coating on the bottom of the pool can be seen clearly.

Previous administrations—most notably under Obama—failed to maintain the Reflecting Pool, and after refilling the pool, the water would quickly become murky and thick with massive clumps of algae floating on the surface.

Video below already has over 4.3 million views.

The videos I can’t post because they are on the horror experience are called X. But below are a few comments from site viewers.

WaPo: Reflecting Pool Algae Is Now Worse Than Ever – Joe.My.God.

So I question the sudden need and ever escalating cost of this not needed in a time of austerity cuts to healthcare and food for lower incomes. It recently came out that tRump charges a contracting fee of 2.4% on all these projects he is pushing at taxpayer expense. This failed project costs went from 4 million up to over 13 million, and tRump got a cut of that even as the costs rose. Again with tRump is is just another scam to rake in money he did not deserve nor did any work to earn. tRump and crew are using the US federal treasury like their own unending horn of plenty slush fund to enrich themselves while starving the public. And it is all illegal as congress has not approved any of it and the president can not spend or authorize funds that congress doesn’t approve. We have to have the democrats gain control of the congress and put a stop to this lawless raiding of the public funds to enrich a crime family and their republican sycophants. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/wapo-reflecting-pool-algae-is-now-worse-than-ever/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

GOP Rep Reintroduces “Family Month” Resolution – Joe.My.God.

This is another attempt to push fundamentalist Christian nationalist way of life on the entire public / population. These people don’t seem to understand religious freedom of belief is for everyone not just them and most of the public don’t agree with them. While they are free to live as they wish and think how they want they are not allowed to oppress and dictate the way others live and think. Also my family is a loving nuclear family of two men and a son. The fact is the man woman only marriages can easily end up being a house of horror for many abused children. These people act like the only good families are one man / one woman only and all others are harmful. The implication is that only one man one woman relations are healthy for children and all others are horrific for kids. But the data shows that to be completely wrong. Peer reviewed studies have shown that the children of same sex couples normally do as well or even better than opposite couples. But facts, truth, and data don’t matter to the Noah Ark believing crowd.
I am at my allergist geting my shots. Lately meaning the last few days I have regressed to not eating and needed to sleep a lot. Ron and I plan to work on getting my food intake back to a more normal level. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/gop-rep-reintroduces-family-month-resolution/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-18-2026

The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced:Stevie WonderJohn LegendJennifer HudsonThe RootsBruce SpringsteenChristina AguileraMarsai MartinCommonU2’s Bono and The EdgeEddie VedderMarc AnthonyTems

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T20:35:04.613Z

“Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers: An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200m more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio…

— Nolan Hicks (@ndhapple.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T12:43:07.988Z

Good, and there needs to be more of this. Put people on notice that they will be held accountable because right now they think they can get away with anything. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u… Democrats Warn Trump Officials Not to Pursue Arch Project Without Congress

— Zak Williams (@zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T19:02:20.951Z

Judge Orders Kennedy Center to Make a Plan for Staying Open http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/a…

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T00:36:08.075Z

January 6 defendants pursue millions in claims through obscure federal processFederal Tort Claims Act, over which DoJ has total discretion, provides workaround to Trump’s $1.8bn slush fundwww.theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

— Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T11:54:03.985Z

US President Donald Trump told a roomful of global leaders 'I'm the boss,' as he and other G7 leaders acknowledged Ukraine's improved battlefield fortunes with a unified pledge of support and fresh sanctions against Russia. Follow our live coverage here: reut.rs/4aAYG0C

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2026-06-17T11:32:14.738Z

G7 day two: Trump enters late, declares he is the boss, then tries to offer photographers to remain in the room during the session.My 2 cents: this is the exact behavior style that then ultimately made him the center of concerns at the G7 last year.. on day two. Let’s see if the agenda stays as is

— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) 2026-06-17T10:51:34.187Z

Kash Patel ‘jumped the gun’ with announcement of UFC plot arrests, sources saySecret Service officials are angered by the FBI director's early morning social media post that was shared before some suspects were arrested. http://www.ms.now/news/kash-pa…

— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T20:28:25.363Z

Justin Smith, who has been representing the president in his E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case, also refused to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

— HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-06-16T17:31:23.302Z

Trump-endorsed MAGA election denier Mike Collins will face Ossoff in November.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-06-17T00:43:15.914Z

VoteHub projects Mark Tedford and Jackson Lahmeyer to advance to the Republican primary runoff for Oklahoma U.S. House District 1.

— VoteHub (@votehub.com) 2026-06-17T01:57:41.710Z

Jackson Lahmeyer, a Trump-endorsed pastor who has five kids and a wife, is accused of sexting a woman on his own campaign payroll.The screenshots are brutal.His white evangelical base probably won't care.His primary is today.www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trump-back…

— Hemant Mehta (@friendlyatheist.com) 2026-06-16T13:13:17.744Z

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern has won the Republican nomination in Oklahoma for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-17T01:09:28Z

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore has won the Republican primary runoff for an open Senate seat in Alabama. Moore defeated political newcomer Jared Hudson on Tuesday to advance to the November general election. bit.ly/4xxNhIH

— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-06-17T02:25:37Z

NEWS: Trump suffers a major Republican primary defeat in Georgia.Trump-backed Burt Jones has LOST the Georgia GOP gubernatorial runoff to Rick Jackson, per Decision Desk HQ.Jackson will now face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in November.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-06-17T01:09:37.346Z

NEW: A federal court dismissed a far-right group's lawsuit seeking to block Wisconsin from sharing voter data with ERIC, a data-sharing network helping states maintain accurate voter rolls.Red states began withdrawing from ERIC after far-right conspiracy theories about the program spread in 2022.

— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-06-15T15:09:26.051742767Z

White Christian Nationalists apply only. A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. http://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t…

— Carolyn Lyndy D. (@lyndybloomer.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T20:29:29.684Z

WOW! Stephen Miller and Trump considered suspending Habeas Corpus last year -that would mean they could arrest and hold you in jail for as long as they want–and you could not challenge it. This is how dangerous Trump is!! He MUST be REMOVED!! (Gift link below)www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u…

— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T11:28:38.624Z

A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

— WJTV 12 News (@wjtv.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T20:00:06.664Z

Pete Hegesth, "Obama begged Iran for a deal, we bombed Iran"Journalist, "The JCPOA (Iran deal) did that too"Hegseth, "We devastated their military"Imagine celebrating achieving the thing a previous president achieved without killing the 3,000+ Iranians dead since the US/Israel attacks

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) 2026-06-14T16:07:04.899Z

HEGSETH: We have controlled the straits this entire timeBRENNAN: You're negotiating with them to reopen it

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-14T14:42:22.201Z

D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against Musk xAI Data Center 😡😡😡😡 http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c…

— Moms Clean Air Force (@momscleanairforce.org) 2026-06-16T20:06:43.110Z