Why far-right groups are increasingly targeting the LGBTQ community

There have been several recent incidents where far-right, white supremacist groups have targeted LGBTQ people, including last weekend at a pride event in Idaho and a during a drag story hour at a library in California. J.M. Berger, a writer and researcher who focuses on extremist ideologies and has written four books on the topic, joins William Brangham to discuss.

Some Pride month events across the country, like Drag Queen Story Hours, have been targeted by far-right protestors.

Check out our Pride Store: https://professorpride.com/ 55 Years ago today was the Stonewall Riots, leading to LGBTQ freedom and Pride Month so we wanted to check in to see how this Pride month went

What Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ settlement changes and what restrictions remain

Students and teachers in Florida can now discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms, as long as it’s not part of formal instruction. It’s an important change after a new settlement between state education officials and civil rights attorneys who challenged the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. WMFE education reporter Danielle Prieur joins Stephanie Sy to discuss.

A lawsuit settlement in Florida over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law will allow students and teachers to openly discuss gender identity and sexual orientation as long as it’s not part of classroom instruction. Jim DeFede from CBS News Miami has more.

How a second Trump presidency could impact the LGBTQ+ community

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has been outlining what he plans to do if elected in November. That includes rolling back the rights of millions of LGBTQ+ people. It’s part of a wider playbook to undo many modern civil rights advances for minority groups. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports.

His ‘Refutiation’ Is As Real As His Tan, Bigly (Project 2025)

His ‘Refutiation’ Is As Real As His Tan, Bigly (Project 2025)

While a lot of the people that follow Mock Paper Sissors follow me, I still loved this post so much and the way TG wrote it, I am reposting it here. Hugs. Scottie

Jon Stewart Debunks GOP’s City Crime Narrative | The Daily Show

Trump called the RNC host city of Milwaukee a horrible place and is now trying to pass the insult off as a concern about crime. Jon Stewart digs into the Right’s fearmongering obsession: crime in big cities. Republicans want you to believe that “lawless” Democrats are to blame, but when it comes to Democrat-run city crime, it turns out the guns are coming from red states. #DailyShow #Crime #FoxNews #NYC

Biden Campaign: The Heritage Foundation Threatens Violence In Their Attempt To Make Trump Into A King

Biden Campaign: The Heritage Foundation Threatens Violence In Their Attempt To Make Trump Into A King

July 4, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

The New York Times reports:

The president of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has developed a prominent series of policy plans to overhaul the federal government under a Republican president, said on Tuesday that the country was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Allies of Mr. Trump, and Mr. Trump himself, have long used extreme rhetoric and suggestions of violence against his political opponents and against the left in general. Actual violence has occurred on multiple occasions, most notably during the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, and in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Trump has said that shoplifters should be shot; implied that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be executed for treason; urged his supporters to “go after” the New York attorney general,and refused to rule out political violence if he were to lose in November.

Read the full article. Yesterday the Biden/Harris campaign released the statement below.

Biden-Harris campaign statement on Trump’s Project 2025 leader threatening violence https://t.co/0FQ27YLdxo pic.twitter.com/prBP65jIXs
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 3, 2024

Yes. https://t.co/Fu0mpwHHqU
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 3, 2024

As more and more Americans have rallied against corrupt elites in recent years, the groundswell of support has had an unmistakable historical parallel to the decades before 1776.

There’s no doubt that we’re living at the dawn of the Second American Revolution.
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) July 3, 2024

Over decades, they have substituted a growing network of institutions (public & private) that allow them to exert control w/o accountability, leaching away power from our constitutional order and installing it in the Deep State, in woke corporations, massive foundations & more.
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) July 3, 2024

The Dream Scenario

The Dream Scenario

If we want to prevent the authoritarian take over of the country we must do every thing possible to promote Joe Biden, the Democrats, and fight against the totalitarian right. And I love the goat picture. Hugs. Scottie.