Kazakhstan likely to pass “LGBTQ propaganda” law that mimics Russia’s

What amazes me is how frightened straight cis hegemony is over anything that is different from how they live / perceive the world.   They can’t seem to be able to live in a society with people who are different from them or how they live.   It scares them to their core and makes them think the world is ending.  They reject anything that moves from their past comfort zones.   The idea of coexistence with others is emotionally shattering to them.   They are so fragile.   So small in their thinking.   They need to make sure anything different is not seen as if removing all evidence of it makes it not exist anymore.  That is so stupid I shouldn’t have to address it.   But OK let me explain, in the 1950s the only representation of homosexuality was negative and strongly biased toward hating, yet gay kids were born to straight parents, the entire LGBTQ+ had no representation yet all existed.   Hugs


 

 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/kazakhstan-likely-to-pass-lgbtq-propaganda-law-that-mimics-russias/

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Greg OwenNovember 12, 2025, 4:00 pm EST
Russia, gay propaganda law, Twitter, Meta, Facebook, InstagramRussian President Vladimir Putin | Shutterstock

Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are following the lead of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a bill to ban so-called “LGBTQ propaganda” in the former Soviet republic.

The lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament on Wednesday approved the measure outlawing “LGBT propaganda” online and in the media, with fines mandated for violators, and up to 10 days in jail for repeat offenders, Reuters reports.

The legislation now moves to the Kazakh senate, where it’s likely to pass.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has expressed support for the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which, like similar laws passed in RussiaGeorgia and, Hungary, has been promoted as a bulwark against “degenerate” values imported from the West.

“Children and teenagers are exposed to information online every day that can negatively impact their ideas about family, morality, and the future,” Kazakh Education Minister Gani Beisembayev told lawmakers before the vote.

Deputy Irina Smirnova cited library books and cartoons featuring same-sex relationships as examples of the “propaganda” addressed by the bill.

“I saw books in the library that promote LGBT, where a prince falls in love with a prince, two boys,” she told lawmakers. “There are cartoons that allow this to be shown, there are magazines and comics where all this is promoted.” 

For months, President Tokayev has lobbied hard for passage of the bill — which is essentially copycat legislation of Russia’s own “anti-LGBTQ propaganda” measure — stressing the need to uphold what he and Putin call their countries’ “traditional values”.

Parties loyal to Tokayev dominate the lower house and voted unanimously in favor of the ban.

With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Kazakhstan legalized homosexuality as it drew politically closer to Europe and the West.

But while the Muslim-majority nation is officially secular, it remains deeply conservative when it comes to social issues. With Putin‘s prodding, far-right politicians have exploited those social fissures to push the country back into Russia’s sphere of influence.

“We live in an independent and sovereign republic. Or are we already a colony of the Russian Federation?” Zhanar Sekerbayeva, co-founder of the feminist initiative, Feminita, asked at a recent LGBTQ+ rights roundtable in the country.  

Arj Tursynkan, an activist with the NGO Education Community, explained that language in the legislation was sweeping.

“Because of these amendments, people can be punished for anything – jokes, drawings, hugs,” he said.

The activist argued that the legislation is not just a legal text, but a test of Kazakhstan’s commitment to international norms of dignity and freedom.

Ahead of the vote, Belgium-based group International Partnership for Human Rights condemned the measure, saying it would “blatantly violate Kazakhstan’s international human rights commitments.”

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Greg Owen writes about politics and culture for LGBTQ Nation. An award-winning writer, producer and journalist, he was recently recognized for Excellence in Online Journalism by NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ Journalists for his coverage of the 2024 election. He’s written for Q Digital since 2015 and for LGBTQ Nation since 2022.

Italy investigates claims of tourists paying to shoot civilians in Bosnia in 1990s

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3epygq5272o

12 November 2025

Sarah Rainsford,Eastern and Southern Europe correspondentand
Guy Delauney,Balkans correspondent
AP Photo/Jerome Delay A French U.N. soldier stands alongside a group of Sarajevans seeking shelter behind a French U.N. armoured personnel carrier from sniper-fire after being rescued from their van by French U.N. peacekeepers at a dangerous Sarajevo intersection Thursday June 8, 1995. AP Photo/Jerome Delay
Civilians risked their lives to cross Sarajevo’s main boulevard during the Bosnian war

The public prosecutor’s office in Milan has opened an investigation into claims that Italian citizens travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on “sniper safaris” during the war in the early 1990s.

Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to shoot at civilians in the besieged city of Sarajevo.

The Milan complaint was filed by journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni, who describes a “manhunt” by “very wealthy people” with a passion for weapons who “paid to be able to kill defenceless civilians” from Serb positions in the hills around Sarajevo.

Different rates were charged to kill men, women or children, according to some reports.

More than 11,000 people died during the brutal four-year siege of Sarejevo.

Yugoslavia was torn apart by war and the city was surrounded by Serb forces and subjected to constant shelling and sniper fire.

Similar allegations about “human hunters” from abroad have been made several times over the years, but the evidence gathered by Gavazzeni, which includes the testimony of a Bosnian military intelligence officer, is now being examined by Italian counter terrorism prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis.

The charge is murder.

CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP Sarajevo residents run through an intersection known for sniper activity after a shell fell in the center of the city on June 20, 1992CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP
More than 11,000 civilians died in the siege of Sarajevo

The Bosnian officer apparently revealed that his Bosnian colleagues found out about the so-called safaris in late 1993 and then passed on the information to Italy’s Sismi military intelligence in early 1994.

The response from Sismi came a couple of months later, he said. They found out that “safari” tourists would fly from the northern Italian border city of Trieste and then travel to the hills above Sarajevo.

“We’ve put a stop to it and there won’t be any more safaris,” the officer was told, according to Ansa news agency. Within two to three months the trips had stopped.

Ezio Gavazzeni, who usually writes about terrorism and the mafia, first read about the sniper tours to Sarajevo three decades ago when Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported the story, but without firm evidence.

He returned to the topic after seeing “Sarajevo Safari”, a documentary film from 2022 by Slovenian director Miran Zupanic which alleges that those involved in the killings came from several countries, including the US and Russia as well as Italy.

Gavazzeni began to dig further and in February handed prosecutors his findings, said to amount to a 17-page file including a report by former Sarajevo mayor Benjamina Karic.

MICHAEL EVSTAFIEV/AFP A Bosnian woman runs in the street through an area usually targeted by Serbian snipers in downtown Sarajevo on August 4, 1993MICHAEL EVSTAFIEV/AFP
Snipers would shoot at civilians from areas controlled by the Bosnian Serbs overlooking Sarajevo

An investigation in Bosnia itself appears to have stalled.

Speaking to Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, Gavazzeni alleges that “many” took part in the practice, “at least a hundred” in all, with Italians paying “a lot of money” to do so, up to €100,000 (£88,000) in today’s terms.

In 1992, late Russian nationalist writer and politician Eduard Limonov was filmed firing multiple rounds into Sarajevo from a heavy machine gun.

He was being given a tour of hillside positions by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was later convicted of genocide by an international tribunal in the Hague.

Limonov didn’t pay for his war tourism, though. He was there as an admirer of Karadzic, telling him: “We Russians should take example from you.”

Italian prosecutors and police are said to have identified a list of witnesses as they try to establish who might have been involved.

However, members of the British forces who served in Sarajevo in the 1990s have told the BBC that they never heard of any so-called “sniper tourism” during the Bosnian conflict.

They indicated that any attempts to bring in people from third countries who had paid to shoot at civilians in Sarajevo would have been “logistically difficult to accomplish”, due to the proliferation of checkpoints.

British forces served both inside Sarajevo and in the areas surrounding the city, where Serb forces were stationed and they saw nothing at the time to suggest that “sniper tourism” was taking place.

One soldier described the allegations that foreigners had paid to shoot at civilians as an “urban myth”.

U.S. will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day for first time since 1988

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/u-s-will-no-longer-commemorate-world-aids-day-for-first-time-since-1988/

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Participants in a World AIDS Day event light candles along a red ribbon.Participants in a World AIDS Day event light candles along a red ribbon. | Shutterstock

The U.S. government will no longer commemorate December 1 as World AIDS Day, the State Department recently notified its workers. The U.S. has commemorated the international observance annually since 1988, including every year of the current president’s first term.

An email to State Department workers notified employees and grant recipients not to publicly promote the day “through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging” nor to use U.S. government funds towards any World AIDS Day observances, The New York Times reported.

The email said employees and grantees could still mention various anti-HIV programs and attend World AIDS Day events.

The email also reportedly said that the current U.S. government’s policy is “to refrain from messaging on any commemorative days, including World AIDS Day.” However, the current president has signed proclamations for various awareness days and other commemorative observances.

World AIDS Day is an international day for raising awareness about HIV/AIDS, remembering those who have died from it, and celebrating progress in prevention, treatment, and care. Two World Health Organization (WHO) public information officers started World AIDS Day in 1988 as a way to raise awareness about the global health challenge.

The current administration has drastically cut federal funding for HIV prevention worldwide. An estimated 127,073 adult and 13,527 infant deaths have been caused by the effects of HIV/AIDS due to the current president’s cuts in funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved an estimated 25 to 26 million lives since its inception in 2003.

The State Department usually issues an annual PEPFAR report on World AIDS Day. It’s unclear if the department will do so this year.

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Whistleblower accuses Rutherford County Library Board Chair of instructing her to secretly remove books, gather patrons’ personal data

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/rcls-chair-accused-secret-book-removal/

Whistleblower Rutherford County Library Systems Director Luanne James claims the RCLS Board Chair, Cody York, instructed her to remove multiple books from the public library system without following the rules to do so.

James claimed York had checked out books he wanted banned and kept the books for so long they were marked as lost and then removed from the system. James also said York asked her to gather a list of library patrons’ personal information, including which books they checked out.

“Names of the patrons, their addresses, their ZIP codes, their barcodes, how many children and how many adults were in each household and what they were checking out,” James told the RCLS Board Monday night.

According to RCLS, James was appointed as the new Library Director, which went into effect on July 28. James claimed she was at her job for only two days before she was instructed to remove books.

During Monday’s meeting, York denied all James’ allegations and denied any wrongdoing, saying he requested patrons’ ZIP codes to see which patrons lived outside the county so they could pay an additional $25 fee to hold a library card. With regard to the missing books, York shifted the blame back to James.

“Does policy allow one board member or the chair to remove books?” York asked James during the board meeting.

“No,” James replied.

“So why did you do it [remove books]?” York said. “…I’m not denying that I told you these books should not be in the library, but I can’t make a decision to remove them — that’s your decision.”

A local advocacy group called the Rutherford County Library Alliance believes the following books listed are missing and had been removed from the library:

  • “Forever” by Judy Blume
  • “Over the River and Through the Wood: A Holiday Adventure” by Lisa Marie Francis Child
  • “The Antiracist Kid” by Tiffany Jewel
  • “Making a Baby” by Rachel Greener

News 2 hasn’t been able to independently confirm these specific titles are missing.

“If a librarian has put a book in our library, it’s because our community needs it, so by bypassing all of the professionals and saying, ‘Well, I don’t like it, so it should go because I don’t want my kid reading it,’ that goes against the First Amendment,” Keri Lambert, Vice President of the Rutherford County Library Alliance, told News 2.

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“I believe it’s all driven by one motive only: to basically eliminate a certain class of people from the library collection as if they didn’t exist … To figuratively put them back in the closet, if you will,” Frank Lambert, a Library and Information Science Associate Professor at Middle Tennessee State University, told News 2.

News 2 reached out to Chair York, who responded with a statement:

“I categorically deny the allegations made against me last night.

The Rutherford County Library System has only two approved methods by which a title may be removed from the collection under our policies. Library staff may remove a title if it no longer meets the collection standard, such as relevance, condition, accuracy, or other established criteria, through the normal weeding process. A title may be removed by a vote of the Library Board, but only after the formal reconsideration process is completed. This process includes a written request, staff review, and a vote in an open public meeting.

Those are the only mechanisms permitted. No board member can direct the Executive Director to bypass either process. Raising questions about whether books in the collection meet our collection standards is not inappropriate.”

When News 2 reached out to the whistleblower, Luanne James, we received an Out of Office email, indicating she may still be employed by the library system.

Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia’s view

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/kremlin-says-new-us-security-strategy-accords-largely-with-russias-view-2025-12-07/

The Russian flag flies on the dome of the Kremlin Senate building behind Spasskaya Tower in Moscow
[2/2] The Russian flag flies on the dome of the Kremlin Senate building behind Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
  • Kremlin praises US National Security Strategy
  • Kremlin says NATO statements are encouraging
  • Kremlin cautions that some in US will see it differently
MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia’s own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
The U.S. National Security Strategy described Trump’s vision as one of “flexible realism” and argued that the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington’s zone of influence.

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The strategy, signed by Trump, also warned that Europe faces “civilizational erasure”, that it was a “core” U.S. interest to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, and that Washington wanted to reestablish strategic stability with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television reporter Pavel Zarubin when asked about the new U.S. strategy.
Such fulsome public agreement between Moscow and Washington on the tectonic plates of global politics is rare, though they did cooperate closely after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union on returning nuclear weapons from former Soviet republics to Russia, and after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

TRUMP’S STRATEGY LARGELY ACCORDS TO RUSSIA’S VIEW

During the Cold War, Moscow portrayed the United States as a decadent capitalist empire doomed by the historical certainties of Marxism, while U.S. Ronald Reagan in 1983 called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and the “focus of evil in the modern world.”
After the Soviet collapse, Moscow expressed hopes for a partnership with the West but as Washington moved to support the enlargement of the NATO alliance, as outlined in President Bill Clinton’s 1994 strategy, tensions began to mount. They were pushed to breaking point under President Vladimir Putin, who rose to the top Kremlin job on the last day of 1999.
Asked about the pledge in the U.S. document to end “the perception, and preventing the reality, of the NATO military alliance as a perpetually expanding alliance”, the Kremlin’s Peskov said it was encouraging.
But Peskov also cautioned that what he said was the U.S. “deep state” saw the world differently to Trump, who has used the term to refer to an allegedly entrenched network of U.S. officials who seek to undermine those who challenge the status quo, including Trump himself.
Critics of Trump say there is no such thing as a “deep state,” and that Trump and his allies are trafficking in a conspiracy theory to justify an executive-branch power grab.

WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW LOOK TO CHINA

Since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, U.S. strategies have designated Moscow as an aggressor or a threat that was trying to destabilise the post-Cold War order by force.
In comments to the state-run TASS news agency, Peskov said calling for cooperation with Moscow on strategic stability issues rather than describing Russia as a direct threat was a positive step.
The Trump strategy describes what it calls the Indo-Pacific as one of the “key economic and geopolitical battlegrounds”, saying it would build up U.S. and allied military power to prevent a conflict with China over Taiwan.
Russia pivoted to Asia – and China in particular – after the West imposed sanctions on Russia for the war in Ukraine and Europe sought to wean itself off Russian oil and gas.
Trump in March told Fox News that “as a student of history, which I am — and I’ve watched it all — the first thing you learn is you don’t want Russia and China to get together.”

Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Philippa Fletcher

Some news articles I wanted to get to but did not have time. Now I am caught up to today

So Ron and his sister arrived two days ago.   Lucky for me she is a doer who jumps in to do stuff and doesn’t wait for others to do for her.  She has really helped Ron get a lot of stuff done.  She helps when my back goes out.  She is doing supper right now so I can catch up on the last few days of news.   I really hope she finds a place to her tastes here as she is a good influence for Ron.   Hugs, loves to all, and best wishes to all who wish them.   Scottie

Thanks to Ron’s sister jumping in and doing all the extra stuff I have been trying to do I can rest my back while doing my posting.   I could get used to this.   Hugs


Affordability and costs of things in the US

Scott Bessent Claims Without Evidence That “Rents Are Coming Down Substantially” Due To Mass Deportations

 

Judge Declines To Halt Liberace’s Ballroom (For Now)

 

President Liberace Raises Ballroom Cost To $400 Million

 

 

 


tRump’s illegal war for profit to please the corporations he told to give him a billion dollars for his campaign and he would do what ever they asked.  Wow US military young adults sold for tRump’s profit.   Hugs

 

Trump Announces “Complete Blockade” Of Venezuela

 

Trump: I’m Getting Our Stolen Oil Back From Venezuela

 

Trump Asks Big Oil If They Want To Return To Venezuela

 

WaPo: Voldemort Secretly Behind “Drug Boat” Strikes

 

Politico: Trump Lied About “Warrior Bonus” For Troops

The $1,776 per person bonuses, unveiled by Trump in his nationwide address Wednesday night, will be covered with funding approved in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed in July, according to the congressional officials and later confirmed by the Pentagon. The payouts — which will cost roughly $2.6 billion — will be a “one-time basic allowance for housing supplement to all eligible service members,” said the official.

 

Trump Says He Will Not Rule Out War With Venezuela

 

Two “Drug Boat” Strikes Bring Murder Count To 104

 

 

 


DEI / Hate / Bigotry / Racism / White Supremacy.  

Coast Guard Enacts Downgraded Policy On Swastikas

 

Christian Nationalist/J6 Flag Posted In Education Dept

 

DHS Funneled $1 Billion Contract To Trump Donor

 

ICE Leader Jailed With ICE Detainees After Federal Charge For Strangling Decades-Younger Girlfriend

 

Trump Judge Threatens Contempt Over ICE Conditions: “Putrid, Cramped, Filthy, Unheated, Lights Blaring 24/7”

 

 

Hegseth: “I’m Making Military Chaplains Great Again”

 

White House To Ramp Up Stripping Of Citizenships

 

EEOC Solicits Lawsuits For “Anti-White Male” Bias

 

Trump Endorses Maine Racist Paul LePage For US House

 

 

Ryan Walters Melts Down: “The Left-Wing OK Supreme Court Has Attacked Christianity, The Bible, And Trump”

 

Tennessee High Schools To Get Turning Point Clubs

 

 

CBS News To Air Town Halls About God And Feminism

 

Franklin Graham At Pentagon Xmas Worship Service: “God Hates And God Is Also A God Of War” [VIDEO]

 

 

House Passes Bill Criminalizing Trans Youth Healthcare

 

Mehmet Oz: “The Creation Of A Penis Costs $150,000 Per Child, If You Add Testicles, That’s Extra” [VIDEO]

The Trump administration announced several moves Thursday that will have the effect of essentially banning gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal.   

The second would block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care.

 

 

 


Really stupid things say and blame democrats for just because they think it sounds good not realizing how dumb it seems.   

 

Beetleboob Blames Dems For Colorado Power Outage

Wiles: Trump Lied About Clinton Visiting Epstein’s Island

DAMAGE CONTROL: White House Has Entire Cabinet Post Defenses Of WH Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles On X

 

Trump Installs WH Plaques Ridiculing Former Presidents

 

DOJ Launches Crackdown On Left Wing Activism

 

DOJ Offers States Secret Deal For Role In Elections

As Democracy Docket previously reported, in his previous role as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, Neff was put on leave after bringing charges against an election software executive based on information from conspiracy-driven election denier group True the Vote. The saga ultimately cost taxpayers $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the flawed prosecution.

Neff is also affiliated with True The Vote, the far-right QAnon group featured in Dinesh D’Souza’s debunked “2000 Mules” film.

 

 


tRump’s many crimes

Jack Smith: I Have Proof Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt Trump Criminally Conspired To Overturn 2020 Election

 

 

 

 


Boosting the fascist state and the dear leader.

 

Vance: Those Who Privately Trash Trump Are “Traitors”

 

Trump Again Dozes Off During White House Meeting

Slumped over in his chair at the Resolute desk, Trump’s face slackened—eyes drooping, the corners of his mouth sagging—as he fought off sleep. The elderly president has now been caught appearing to doze off at four official events in six weeks.

 

Dem Rep: I Was Muted During Kennedy Renaming Vote

 

Dear Leader’s Name Added To Kennedy Center Signage

 

DOJ Is Racing To Redact Thousands Of Epstein Pages

 

Blanche: DOJ Won’t Release Full Epstein Files Today

 

Trump Administration Now Targeting Wildlife Refuges

 

 


Positive news / Good things / Pro-LGBTQ+ Stuff

 

Palm Springs Neighbor City Of Palm Desert Rejects Anti-Pride Resolution After Impassioned Speeches By Locals

 

Study: COVID Vax Lowered Death Risk For All Causes

 

Australia To Buy Back Guns After Bondi Mass Shooting

 

Romney Calls For Higher Taxes On Wealthy “Like Me”

 

 

THE GUARDIAN: ICE meets snow as midwesterners fight back against Trump immigration raids

ICE meets snow as midwesterners fight back against Trump immigration raids
Videos show people in Minnesota and Illinois throwing snowballs at federal agents trying to arrest residents

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/A_Vgc9f4OQEaVEuY6XedQSA

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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

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:

WSJ tweet: Designing for a couple is tricky enough, but add a third partner, and it is like a high-stakes game of design Tetris. How one Chicago throuple pulled off a renovation that blended the trio’s three distinct design tastes.
screengrab, WSJ tweet 12/17/25

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:

Josh Manning: So this is what the Wall Street Journal has come to? Legitimization of three-way sodomy?

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.

Jordan Gabriel on Twitter: The more "conservative" Wall Street Journal normalizing a homosexual "throuple".  Shameful.  In case you were looking for the latest sign of cultural decay.  This type of thing should be rebuked, not celebrated.

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:

The WSJ has sunk to a new depth showcasing a deviant lifestyle and presenting it as normal. The editorial staff has no moral grounding. Disgusting.

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!

Bluesky? I’m there! Insta! I’m there too! You can even follow me on the old Facebook.

Thank you, love you all!

-Evan

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