No politics, all funny!
Happy Bonus Josh Day-mas!
No politics, all funny!
Category: Love
Here’s To A Peaceful Day To All
along with some positive news.
The City That Protected Trans People’s Rights in 1975
Fifty years ago this month, Minneapolis passed an anti-discrimination law so forward-thinking that much of the U.S. is still catching up.
By: Kate Sosin December 22, 2025
This article was originally reported by Kate Sosin of The 19th. Meet Kate and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Gay Pride Day on June 28, 1975 in downtown Minneapolis. Credit: Minnesota Historical Society/John Hustad Papers/Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies/University of Minnesota
It was likely one of the last pieces of city policy passed that winter, just before the New Year, a parting gift from a progressive city council.
On December 30, 1975, Minneapolis became the first city to adopt a trans-inclusive LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ordinance. Fifty years later, the United States still lacks similar protections on a federal level.
Minneapolis was special in that the right people were there at the right time, said Seth Goodspeed, director of development and communications at OutFront Minnesota, the state’s largest LGBTQ+ rights organization.
“Minneapolis, since the early ’70s, has really been a leader in the gay rights movement,” he said. “That comes out of a lot of the student organizing at the University of Minnesota in the late ’60s.”
It was home to Jack Baker and Michael McConnell, two men who, in 1971, figured out how to legally marry, the first recorded same-sex marriage in history. It was also the stomping ground of Steve Endean, who founded the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign.
Endean started lobbying a city alderman, Earl Netwal, in 1973 to pass a gay rights ordinance. His timing was just right. In 1974 progressives won the mayoral race and the city council. That year they voted 10-0 to ban discrimination on the basis of “sexual preference.”
The next year, Tim Campbell, a local activist and publisher of the GLC Voice in Minneapolis, penned a trans-inclusive policy.
The council passed the ordinance on December 30, right before their term ended and a more conservative council was sworn in — one that would unsuccessfully threaten the ordinance later.
“I think it was a pendulum,” Goodspeed said. “The pendulum was sort of swinging back toward a more conservative mayor and a conservative city council.” (snip)
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“You’re able to say, ‘We passed this two years ago, last year, in the past five years, and nothing’s really changed, there is no boogeyman under the bed,’” he said. “We’ve had these protections since the 1970s and all these fears that they might have … just never came to fruition.”
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The French City Striving to Stamp Out Sexism
From urban design to ‘gender-sensitive budgeting,’ Nantes is determined to create a safer, more equal place for women to call home.
By: Peter Yeung December 18, 2025
The public spaces in Nantes, a city along the Loire River in the west of France, might at first glance seem just like those in any other part of Europe. Across the city, there are numerous bike lanes, bustling fresh produce markets and pretty, historic squares.
But on closer inspection, there are signs of a profound attempt to make the city, its facilities and its built environment a more equitable place for women.
Hundreds of streets now bear the names of women, including Joséphine Baker, Frida Kahlo and Clémence Lefeuvre — the little-known creator of local specialty beurre blanc sauce. School yards, once dominated by soccer pitches, have been remodeled to incorporate spaces for calm and creativity. Stations for breastfeeding have been built in the city center to improve maternal comfort and visibly counter stigma. Free tampon dispensers have been installed in libraries, gyms and all kinds of other municipal buildings.
These initiatives form part of mayor Johanna Rolland’s bold plan to make Nantes, which is home to around 700,000 people and is the sixth largest city in France, a ville non-sexiste, or non-sexist city. From redesigning public areas to reallocating spending and inaugurating France’s leading center to counter gender-based violence, Nantes is trailblazing the way to safer, less discriminatory urban life.
“We couldn’t wait for change anymore, we had to take action,” says Mahaut Bertu, the deputy mayor of Nantes in charge of equality, the fight against discrimination and the non-sexist city project. “Femicides continue every year. Women suffer harassment every day. [To make change], we had to take a hold of the problem ourselves.”
Shortly after taking power in 2014, Rolland and her team set about carrying out research and compiling statistics on the extent of inequality in Nantes, since at that point limited information existed.
The findings of the research, which included income, violence and public spaces, were striking. Analysis found, for example, that of the 3,000 streets in Nantes, fewer than four percent of them were named after women compared with more than 36 percent bearing men’s names. More broadly, it found that, in 2014, 58 percent of women aged 15 to 64 were employed, compared to 63 percent of men. And women represented 70 percent of the so-called “working poor” — those in employment but below the poverty line.
From that understanding, city authorities went about introducing women-centered policy and ramping up investment. One of the most pressing issues was responding to gender-based violence.
In France, 99 percent of women have been victims of a sexist comment or act at least once in their lives, according to the French High Council for Equality, an independent advisory body. “Far from declining, sexism is becoming entrenched, even increasing,” its 2024 report concluded.
In November 2019, following years of consultation with residents, women’s rights groups and nonprofits, the city opened Citad’elles, a shelter for women victims of violence that provides free, centralized support 24/7 — something that to this day does not exist anywhere else in France. (snip)
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This year, a pilot study is taking place in four of the schools to assess the impact of the new playgrounds. Fischer’s team is also working with school employees to help promote fairer use of the spaces.
At the same time, Nantes has an initiative to fight “period poverty” and to help reduce the costly burden of women’s sanitary products.
Josh Day Next Day
And, I saw a comment on the YT page under the video that leads me to believe he will drop another set tonight (Wed., 12/24.) So, there may be a Merry Josh Johnson post on Christmas morning!
A Steve Hofstetter Short
It’s pretty funny!
The Moral High Ground
A little tougher than much of what I usually post, though I always enjoy Evan Hurst’s work personally, and highly recommend everyone to do so, as well. Anyway, this is share worthy.
‘This Is What The Wall Street Journal Has Come To? Legitimization Of Three-Way Sodomy?!’
ANOTHER Christmas miracle from the comedy gods.
Evan Hurst Dec 19, 2025
I had a whole other thing to finish writing for y’all this week, a Christmas/holiday post about the kinds of awful conservative Christians whose faith is based on God building a wall around heaven to keep out those they view as irredeemable sinners — you know, LGBTQ+ people, women who think freely, people who aren’t Nazis. I’ll finish writing it next week, or something.
But right now I am too busy laughing at this story Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal published and promoted on its socials this week:
I did not know what I wanted for Christmas — you know, besides for every ICE agent in the country to stub their toe — but now I know that what my heart desires most is to witness a Religious Right meltdown over RUPERT MURDOCH’S WALL STREET JOURNAL publishing the story of “Chad, Brad and Thad couldn’t figure out how to make Chad’s mid-century modern go with Thad’s medieval sex swing and Brad’s collection of giant English settees. But they did it, and it’s FABULOUS.”
And praise Jesus, for Santa has brought it to me!
Y’all, sometimes the Moral High Ground is a very serious newsletter about serious subjects. Other times it is just about laughing at these motherfuckers and their small, sad brains and fears and prejudices and general status as the planet’s biggest losers. On December 19, 2025, as we head into the heaviest part of the holiday week, the Moral High Ground is the second thing.
The article is super fun, if you like real estate/interior design features, especially ones that are super-gay. Chad, Brad and Thad are actually David Gobberdiel, Ryan Tungate, and Michael Cowell, and they have a fabulous 4,000-square-foot duplex in Northalsted in Chicago. The Wall Street Journal helpfully explains terms for its readers who might not know:
The throuple, which is a committed romantic or sexual relationship between three people, took things slow at first.
David and Ryan didn’t live with Michael at first. (They were the original couple, as is often the case with throuples, two become three.) But then blah blah blah pandemic Michael didn’t leave, etc.
But $1.71 million later, they had a house, all three of ‘em!
The end result really is gorgeous, and despite how the WSJ helpfully explains certain things for people, it treats all of it is completely jejune, which is AS IT SHOULD BE. If Chad, Brad and Thad are happy, who the fuck should care?
For instance:
Real-estate agents are noticing more throuples and polycules buying homes together, often with everyone’s name on the deed. “Monogamy in this economy?” says Kathy “Kiki” Sloan, an employing broker with Property Dominator in Denver.
A polycule is bigger than a throuple, it’s more like a rhombus on top of a Venn diagram on top of a buncha wingdings. See? I am helpful like the Wall Street Journal, which explains it like this:
Designers are taking note, creating homes that balance privacy and togetherness for throuples and polycules, a group of people involved in consensual, interconnected, non-monogamous relationships.
Just as I said.
Anyway, the WSJ explains how Dane, Blaine and Shane spent $405,000 — must be nice, guys — to interior design their place up all-fancy-like and in a way that incorporated all their styles. “Designing for a couple is tricky enough. Add a third partner, and it is like a high-stakes game of design Tetris.” Did WSJ have to go with that exact visual? Oh hell yeah they did, and I recommend them for a Pulitzer, or at the very least a FIFA Pulitzer.
Also they have a 96” x 96” mattress. For all the Tetris.
So as I was saying, the article is great, but what I really wanted to see was the religious right meltdown. While there’s not much yet in the way of organized hate groups or right-wing podcasters bitching, there’s some good clean fun from Twitter, like this weenus who writes for the right-wing Western Journal, who provided the headline for today’s newsletter:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, I am so happy right now.
That tweet has one reply, which simply says:
AT@j2tiger
@Josh_Manning@WSJ Three people can’t sodomize each other simultaneously. Someone’s gotta be at the end of the train. Learn math.
4:43 PM · Dec 18, 2025
LEARN MATH.
I am dying laughing.
Queerty found some loser on Facebook whining that “Why do publications like the WSJ prominently run stories about fringe subjects?” and “How many of your readers actually have a problem with their design tastes conflicting in their ‘throuple’?” As we are always discussing here, the Main Character Syndrome of these assholes is immense, the way they think their totally boring lives should be the center of attention in every story.
They found another who bellyached, “Everybody understands that this post is about promoting the far-left agenda, not about design tastes, right?” And here they thought Trump had made that illegal!
And it just gets more fun from there.
Oh no, not a rebuke!
Poor Jordan also whined in the comments that “It is shameful to normalize and celebrate what is degeneracy in the eyes of God. You should repent.” Boo hoo.
Now meet “Butthurt,” who is, well, butthurt:
Sorry, “Butthurt,” but there’s just not as much demand in the interior design journalism space for full-length features on Southern Baptist Becky who found the cutest “As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” wallpaper to go with their “Bless this mess!” dish towels.
Oh, the fundamentalists and Nazis of Twitter are losing it.
“It’s way past pride month for this crap,” whined “Grover Dill.” So … he wouldn’t bitch had they published this in June? Please advise.
This person writes about with about as much fluency as the president:
Catronwalk@catalewalk
@WSJ a “throuple”!!!?! This is “immorality” “blasphemy” personified as stated in scripture! Trash. Makes you feel magnanimous WSJ!?!?!?
1:54 PM · Dec 17, 2025
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MAKES YOU FEEL MAGNANIMOUS WSJ!?!?!?
(By the way, not gonna go down a theological rabbithole here, but there is no Bible verse that says throuples are bad. In fact — IN FUCKING FACT — the Bible is absolutely full of polygamous arrangements. It’s just that most of them involve men having multiple wives and concubines. I’d argue that today’s throuples and polycules are far more nurturing, loving and egalitarian. Of course, the religious right hates things that are nurturing, loving and egalitarian.)
This jerkoff either asked AI or a thesaurus to write their comment:
A flagship paper treating interior design friction by a socially marginal polyamorous throuple ‘feature-worthy’ reveals metastatic cultural rot, and an abdication of moral and editorial restraint.
Forsooth and herewith!
This person is very upset because WHAT ABOUT TRADITIONAL-HETEROSEXUAL-PENIS-IN-VAGINA-THROUPLINGS?
Leonardo Danger@300aacblackout
@WSJ Now do a feel-good story about two women and one guy. Oh wait, you would never do that because gay is best.
4:30 PM · Dec 17, 2025
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Would Leonardo cry so much if WSJ had written an article about a white fundamentalist Christian man with a bunch of underage sister-wives? Just curious.
Finally, this guy is just repulsed, I tell you, repulsed, with British spellings!
John DiCarlo@JohnDicarlo20
@WSJ This article is a new low for the WSJ. Promoting deviant sexual behaviour. Welcome to the bottom of the slippery slope. I am repulsed, and I can see why you turned off the comments on your digital paper. I am disgusted.
1:17 PM · Dec 17, 2025
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Oh, bless their hearts.
What’s fun about this is that these people are genuinely upset, and they think they’re upset about something that matters. They think there’s a God in the sky who actually is as small-minded as they are, a God who would truly be upset about Kevin, Devin and Tevin living in whatever kind of joyful matrimony they all choose to as consenting adults.
As usual, these people are creating God in their own tiny, hateful loser image, and you can tell, because of how God has all the same fears and insecurities they have.
Let’s not forget jealousy either.
Because again, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’s house is faaaaabulous.
Ain’t ONE heterosexually-yoked fundamentalist Christian couple on earth whose tacky-ass McMansion in the suburbs looks that good.
And they know it.
What if these guys are also happier than every heterosexually-yoked fundamentalist Christian couple on earth?
Oh fuuuuuuuck.
Hope all your weeks are merry merry, whatever you are or are not celebrating at the moment!
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Bluesky? I’m there! Insta! I’m there too! You can even follow me on the old Facebook.
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Thank you, love you all!
-Evan
Josh Day Next Day
Earlier (yesterday by now,) I told Scottie I’m taking some time off posting because it’s become busy at my place, but I can’t not post Josh Day! Enjoy, and all keyboard protection protocols should be in place. 🤣
And now to more recent news. Yes! I finally caught up. Oh wow
This is incredible and the best I have felt in 5 months. I have had so much old news, many hundreds of back logged news I wanted to share. I recently found out that the mail stuff I would share was stuck on my phone so did not post. I cleared that. Today right now all old news mail articles are posted, the stuff I want to share is posted. I still have to do the video on what happened because I got long term Covid. Sadly I was able to do this because Ron was gone to Texas to help his sister and now they are on their way home. More pressure to do as much as I can with my pain and disability. So I have two more rooms to work on before they get here later this week. I want to do a video on the entire thing but may not. My goal was to clear all these tabs and then do videos …. but we will see, Hugs
Prices / affordability /
tRump Admin trying to hurt workers and lower incomes
Grifting / Cons / tRump family scams / tRump family news
DAMAGE CONTROL: White House Has Entire Cabinet Post Defenses Of WH Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles On X
Hate / DEI / Racism / ICE
Mr. Bessent opted instead for the more general, and much whiter.
The city, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States, has recently become a repeated target for out-of-state activists who falsely claim it operates under “Sharia law.” The tensions began when Jake Lang, a Jan. 6 rioter who has described himself as a political prisoner, arrived on Michigan Avenue attempting to burn a Quran.
Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so. Bovino recently lied in court about being hit with a rock by anti-ICE protesters, despite video showing that never happened. According to reports, some Border officials privately refer to Bovino a “Little Napoleon” due to his height and volatile temper.
Things that are just wrong on too many levels / Medical Misinformation / tRump’s illegal war to steal oil / Rule by decree
The only one making concessions here is Ukraine
The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.
so fuking stupid, it’s an fda approved drug
It would reduce in prominence the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command. Those familiar with the plan said it aligns with the Trump administration’s national security strategy, released this month, that declares that the “days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.”
Their way to rid themselves of officers who will refuse to follow an illegal order and put command in the hands of those who will. All of this is to reduce the number of Admirals and Generals who could credibly disobey the illegal orders that will be coming soon.
This past September, the Trump administration terminated these agreements. The center’s former head, James Rubin, called this decision “a unilateral act of disarmament,” and no wonder: In effect, the United States was declaring that it would no longer oppose Russian influence campaigns, Chinese manipulation of local politics, or Iranian extremist recruitment drives. Nor would the American government use any resources to help anyone else do so either.
Things that are good and need to be mentioned.
Sunday Night Viewing
Well, I think there’s a football game on, but thanks to a commenter in this Wonkette piece, I just learned there is a Star Wars Holiday Special. I had no idea. Did not see it in ’78, don’t recall ads for it, or anything, but there are many movie/TV stars in it, and here it is:
December 14th
blundersonword mentioned “Imagine” the other day in a post, and here we are on the morning of Dec. 14th. There are several items in Peace&Justice History for 12/14, including mourning the loss to the world and the effort for peace across the world, with the murder of John Lennon. 14 years later, the US acknowledged and honored New Zealand’s nuclear weapons ban, and 15 years later, the Dayton Accords were achieved, which guided the cessation of conflict between Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Progress happens.
| December 14, 1917 U.S. peace activist and suffragist Kate Richards O’Hare was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for a speech denouncing World War I. Occupying a neighboring jail cell was Emma Goldman, the well-known anarchist organizer, feminist, writer and anti-war critic was imprisoned for obstructing the draft. O’Hare was one of a number of prisoners Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs cited in his “Canton Speech” for which he in turn was imprisoned. More about activist Kate Richards O’Hare Read the speech |
| December 14, 1961 In a public exchange of letters with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, U.S. President John F. Kennedy formally announced the United States would increase aid to South Vietnam, including the expansion of the U.S. troop commitment. Kennedy, concerned with recent advances made by the communist insurgency movement in South Vietnam, wrote: “We shall promptly increase our assistance to your defense effort.”  President Ngo Dinh Diem  President Kennedy and Secretary of Defense McNamara Kennedy – Diem letter exchange |
December 14, 1980 At Yoko Ono’s request, John Lennon fans around the world mourned him with 10 minutes of silent prayer. In New York over 100,000 people converged on Central Park in tribute, and in Liverpool, England, his hometown, a crowd of 30,000 gathered outside of St. George’s Hall on Lime Street. johnlennon.com >“You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.” Time capsules to mark John Lennon’s legacy |
| December 14, 1985 Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe when she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.  Wilma Mankiller on the day in 1985 when her election as chief of the Cherokee Nation was announced |
| December 14, 1994 After eight years of negotiations, the United States finally agreed to honor New Zealand’s ban on nuclear weapons in its territory. U.S. Navy ships armed with nuclear weapons no longer visited New Zealand’s ports. |
| December 14, 1995 Leaders of the states that were parts of the former Yugoslavia signed the Bosnia peace treaty, formally ending four years of bloody and vicious ethnic/religious conflict. The Dayton Accords, as they are known, committed the Balkan states of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina to accept a division of territory, a process to deal with the more than 2 million refugees, and the introduction of 60,000 NATO peacekeeping forces. The negotiations were led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, and held principally at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton Accords |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december141980
Baking with Trae-
He’s fully mastered puff pastry!
Fancy Fixins: Hillbilly Makes Cream Horns
