Let’s talk about the new Trump-GOP DC gerrymander plan….

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The tasteless, classless, orange clown is destroying our capital.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T22:58:06.268Z

 

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Most of us on the left would much prefer a conservative committed to liberal democracy and the rule of law than a rightwing autocrat committed to neither. This is really not difficult to understand. https://t.co/4WIHfOKvXX

โ€” Darren Johnson (@DarrenJohnson66) April 16, 2026

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Leavitt Claims Charlottesville Nazi Rally Was A “Hoax”

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On bad apologetics about homosexuality & the Bible

This is a very well researched and scholarly man.ย  He knows far more than the dogma of the bible he knows how to read the Hebrew and the nuances of the time.ย Hugs

 

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Well, This Has Happened

Person in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondentsโ€™ dinner

Event ended suddenly with loud gunshots and immediate commotion, and will be rescheduled

Donald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondentsโ€™ dinner on Saturday evening after the event was interrupted by loud gunshots.

A suspect was in custody, the FBI said, after the annual black tie dinner honoring the White House press corps was suddenly interrupted by confusion and chaos. Journalists ducked under tables as authorities rushed the president and members of his cabinet out of the room.

There were reports that the US Secret Service had guns drawn as White House pool reporters were rushed out of the room and Secret Service agents yelled โ€œshots firedโ€.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised the Secret Service and law enforcement and said the shooter had been apprehended.

The FBI confirmed later on Saturday that a suspect was apprehended.

The Secret Service said in a statement that the shooting incident occurred near the main magnetometer screening area at the hotel.

Weijia Jang, president of the White House correspondentsโ€™ dinner, told the room that the president is planning a press conference from the White House later Saturday and that he wants to reschedule the dinner in the next 30 days.

โ€œThank God everyone is safe, and thank you for coming together tonight,โ€ she said. โ€œWe will do this again.โ€

Guardian reporters in the room said there were initially mixed messages about whether press and guests should stay in the room. Many people who stayed in the ballroom said the program was scheduled to resume, although the presidential seal was removed from the podium.

CNNโ€™s Wolf Blitzer reported that he saw someone with a gun at the event.

โ€œI did see the gunman on the ground after he started shooting,โ€ he said. โ€œPolice officers threw him to the ground.โ€

Guests had just started eating dinner when the commotion began. The atmosphere in the room was tense as journalists waited to hear what happened and what to do next.

Jamie Raskin, a Democratic congressman from Maryland, who was attending the dinner said he never saw a shooter, but โ€œI think a Secret Service agent threw me to the ground and on top of some other people and people were screaming and yellingโ€.

โ€œI heard some loud noises but I donโ€™t know if that was people reacting or if that was something outside, it was hard to know, but people very quickly were saying that was a shot, that was the gunshot,โ€ he added. โ€œPeople were terrified; people seem to be relieved now.โ€

Outside the hotel, helicopters circled overhead.

This yearโ€™s dinner was already tense given the presence of Trump and top members of his cabinet, including Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. Trump agreed to attend this yearโ€™s dinner after refusing to attend last year and during his first term. The correspondentsโ€™ dinner tradition began in 1921, though the tradition of a presidential guest started in 1924, when Calvin Coolidge attended.

Gov. Tate Reeves Proclaims April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi

I don’t know if all republicans are racist bigots but they certainly do tolerate them in their midst.ย  Pride month, pride flags, and black history month, MLK, and other non-white persons of note are too political, divisive, and too morally offensive to be displayed or talked about.ย  ย No month to celebrate the oppressed minorities yet one to celebrate the oppressors?ย  No pride flags on government buildings or school classrooms but confederate battle flags are OK to be displayed everywhere.ย  Some how the people calling for the end of DEI as racist along with those saying the pride symbols and history months are divisive and too political, think displays of people wanting to own / deny rights to a group based on skin color are not divisive or political.ย  Hugs


Gov. Tate Reeves Proclaims April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi

Ashton Pittman

Two men in casual clothes carry large confederate flags on poles over their shoulders across a green lawn
Two Confederate flag bearers walk across the lawn of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, July 6, 2015. A group of about 50 people participated in the rally sponsored by the Magnolia State Heritage Campaign as they opposed efforts to remove Mississippiโ€™s 1894 Confederate-themed state flag. Five years later, in 2020, Gov. Tate Reeves would sign a bill retiring the old state flag, even as he continued declaring Confederate Heritage Month annually. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Nearly six years after signing the bill that removed the Confederate symbol from Mississippiโ€™s state flag, Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month, continuing a tradition that began 33 years ago.

Though the governor does not publish the Confederate Heritage Month proclamations on any official government websites, the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans posted a copy of the latest proclamation on its Facebook page. The proclamation shows that the governor signed it on April 17.

Confederate Heritage Month Proclamation
Tap or click the preview image to read Mississippi Gov. Tate Reevesโ€™ April 17, 2026, Confederate Heritage Month proclamation. Courtesy Mississippi Division Sons of Confederate Veterans

As in past years, Reevesโ€™ proclamation does not mention the central role of slavery and white supremacy in the Confederacyโ€™s birth, instead speaking only vaguely about how April โ€œis the month when, in 1861, the American Civil War began between the Confederate and Union armies, reportedly the deadliest war ever fought on American soil.โ€

โ€œWHEREAS, as we honor all who lost their lives in this war, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nationโ€™s past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us,โ€ says the governorโ€™s proclamation. โ€œNOW, THEREFORE, I, Tate Reeves, as Governor of the State of Mississippi, do hereby proclaim the month of April 2026 as CONFEDERATE HERITAGE MONTH in the State of Mississippi.โ€

Kevin M. Levin, a Boston-based historian whose work has focused heavily on the Civil War-era,ย wrote on his Substack, Civil War Memory, on April 18 that Reeves issued the document โ€œwith the quiet, almost regularity of a bureaucratic obligation.โ€

โ€œThere is no mention of what the Confederacy stood for, no celebration of Southern martial valor, no invocation of statesโ€™ rights, andโ€”most conspicuouslyโ€”no mention of slavery, even though it was theย explicit cause Mississippi namedย when it seceded from the Union in 1861,โ€ Levin wrote. โ€œWhat the proclamation most resembles is a permission slip signed reluctantly, just legible enough to satisfy the requester and vague enough to require no defense.โ€

Slavery Defined the Confederacy

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses โ€œLost Causeโ€ ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of the Civil War that whitewashes the Confederacyโ€™s white supremacist history andย downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. SCV owns and operates Beauvoir, the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, located in Biloxi, Mississippi; the organizationย annually receives $100,000ย from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.

Confederate History and Heritage Month Proclamation
The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans issued this Confederate History and Heritage Month proclamation on April 1, 2026. Courtesy Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans

The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans issued its own 2026 โ€œConfederate History and Heritage Monthโ€ proclamation on April 1, saying that โ€œstates of the South, including Mississippi, did legally declare their independence from the United States in 1861, and โ€ฆ these states did form a Confederation to protect and defend themselves from an invading army.โ€

What the SCV proclamation left out was the defining issue that led Mississippi and other Southern states to secede from the Unionโ€”the โ€œcauseโ€ the Confederacy fought for.

โ€œOur position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slaveryโ€”the greatest material interest of the world,โ€ย Mississippiโ€™s 1861 Declaration of Secessionย declared. โ€œIts labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth.โ€

The 2026 SCV proclamation, signed by Mississippi Division Commander Forrest S. Daws, says that the people of the Confederacy spent โ€œfour long years fighting and sacrificing for their independenceโ€ as part of โ€œtheir commitment to defend the rights secured under the United States Constitution.โ€

But the historical record shows that that, too, is a revisionist view of history.ย 

 

In hisย 1861 Cornerstone Speechย announcing the Confederate Constitution, Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens said that it made โ€œgreat improvements upon the old constitution.โ€

โ€œThe new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution,โ€ Stephens said. โ€œ(Thomas) Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the โ€˜rock upon which the old Union would split.โ€™ He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted.

โ€œThe prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.โ€

โ€œThis idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. โ€ฆ Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong,โ€ Stephens continued. โ€œThey rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the โ€˜storm came and the wind blew.โ€™ Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.โ€

In the decades after the Civil War ended, Confederate veterans, such asย Mississippi State Universityโ€™s inaugural president, Stephen D. Lee, and groups like SCV and the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the work of remaking history in a way that shone a more favorable light on the Southโ€”muddying the waters over the cause of the war and falsely describing it as a โ€œwar of northern aggression.โ€

After the Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction, Mississippiโ€™s white leaders worked to enshrine white supremacy in state law,ย adopting a Jim Crow state constitution in 1890ย (including a racist felony voter-disenfranchisement provision that remains in state law andย continues to disproportionately disenfranchise Black voters).

White-supremacist leaders in Mississippi renewed efforts to enshrine Confederate heritage in the 1950s and 1960s in reaction to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

Mississippiโ€™sย Confederate-themed 1894 state flagย flew over state buildings until 2020, whenย state lawmakers voted to retire and replace itย following decades ofย efforts from Black Mississippiansย and in the wake ofย young Black Mississippians leading protestsย after the murder of George Floyd.

Despite his campaign pledge to supporters of the old Confederate-themed flag not to use his power to change the flag, Gov. Reeves signed the bill retiring it, calling it โ€œa law to turn a page in Mississippi today.โ€

โ€œIt is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind. I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our historyโ€”north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans,โ€ the governor said in 2020,ย criticizing Black Lives Matter protestersย from across the country even as he signed the bill with several Mississippi civil rights icons behind him. โ€œI reject the chaos and lawlessness, and I am proud it has not happened in our state.โ€

โ€˜An Ideology Reduced to a Form Letterโ€™

The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veteransโ€™ 2026 Confederate Heritage proclamation notes that โ€œin 1993 Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, understanding the importance of remembering and preserving all history, did declare the first Confederate History Month.โ€

After Kirk Fordice became Mississippiโ€™s first Republican governor in a century whileย courting the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizensย andย criticizing efforts to atone for the stateโ€™s racist past, he issued the inaugural Confederate Heritage Month proclamation at the request of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1993.

Since then, one Democratic governor and three Republican governors have followed Fordiceโ€™s lead.

Starting in 2016, Donna Ladd, then the editor of the Jackson Free Press and now the executive editor of the Mississippi Free Press, first reported on then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryantโ€™s Confederate Heritage Month proclamations. Despite issuing Confederate Heritage Month proclamations annually for his first seven years in office between 2011 and 2018, former Gov. Phil Bryant did not issue one in 2019, his last year in office; heย opted instead for a โ€œMonth of Unityโ€ proclamationย on behalf of a Christian religious organization.

The Mississippi Free Press has since reported on each of Reevesโ€™ annual proclamations, including inย 2020,ย 2021,ย 2022,ย 2023,ย 2024ย andย 2025.

Reevesโ€™ ties to the Sons of Confederate Veterans stretch back long before his time as governor. In 2013,ย he spoke to the SCVโ€™s national gathering in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in front of a massive Confederate battle flag and in a room decorated with smaller Confederate flags and cotton plants. After then-Lt. Gov. Reeves congratulated the organization for โ€œkeeping history for our youth,โ€ speakers defended the Confederate โ€œcauseโ€ and compared โ€œYankeesโ€ to German โ€œNazisโ€ in World War II.

Long before entering politics, Reeves was part of a Millsaps College fraternity known for lionizing Confederate General Robert E. Lee and forย Confederate-themed parties where members wore blackface. When it became an issue in his 2019 campaign for governor, though, he said he never participated in blackface during his time in the fraternity.

Reevesโ€™ Democratic opponent at the time,ย then-Attorney General Jim Hood, was also in a fraternity at the University of Mississippi, where members wore blackface; he similarly denied ever participating.

Reeves defended issuing the proclamations in 2021.

โ€œFor the last 30 years, five Mississippi governorsโ€”Republicans and Democrats alikeโ€”have signed a proclamation recognizing the statutory state holiday and identifying April as Confederate Heritage Month,โ€ the governorโ€™s officeย said in a statement to WAPTย at the time. โ€œGov. Reeves also signed the proclamation because he believes we can all learn from our history.โ€

The governorโ€™s annual proclamation routinely notes that state law designates the last Monday in April asย Confederate Memorial Day. However, state law does not require governors to issue Confederate Heritage Month proclamations.

The language in Reevesโ€™ Confederate Heritage Month proclamations uses much of the same language as the one that former Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, who served from 2000 to 2004,ย issued in April 2000.

In 2023, Musgrove told the Mississippi Free Press that Confederate Heritage Month is โ€œsomething that should not continue in todayโ€™s world.โ€

โ€œI cannot say why the practice started, but it was one that should never have been started,โ€ the former governor said. โ€œIt was one that I should not have signed, and it should have ended a long time ago.โ€

Former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour also signed Confederate Heritage Month proclamations every year between 2004 and 2016.

Inย his Substack post, Kevin M. Levin wrote that the earlier proclamations that began with Fordice โ€œwere issued with more ideological confidenceโ€ and as โ€œinstruments of the Lost Cause.โ€ Now, instead, the historian wrote, they appear on Sons of Confederate Veterans Facebook groupsโ€”a sign of the Lost Causeโ€™s โ€œcrumbling infrastructureโ€ and that it is now โ€œan ideology reduced to a form letter.โ€

โ€œA celebration conducted in secret, or at least in silence, is not really a celebration. It is a favor done for a diminishing constituency that the issuer would prefer the broader public not notice,โ€ he wrote.

Levin called it โ€œthe political logic of a cause in retreat.โ€

โ€œThe Lost Cause did not die in a single moment, not with the removal of Confederate statues afterย Charleston in 2015, not with Mississippiโ€™s replacement of its Confederate-emblem state flag in 2020, and not with any particular court ruling or protest march. It has died the slower death of a story that fewer and fewer people believe, or are willing to say publicly that they believe,โ€ the Boston historian continued. โ€œWhat remains is a three-paragraph proclamation, quietly signed, quietly announced in a Facebook group, saying as little as possible about a cause its issuer is no longer willing to name.โ€

For more on the Sons of Confederate Veterans, โ€œredemptionโ€ schemes, and the censorship campaign to romanticize and sanitize the Confederacy in southern and U.S. textbooks, read thisย in-depth piece about inaugural Mississippi State University President Stephen D. Leeโ€™s successful effortsย to rewrite the Confederate narrative.

Disclosure: Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove has donated to the Mississippi Free Press. This does not affect our coverage.

 

Some Toons: Clay Jones, Open Windows

The WH Correspondents’ Dinner

Unethical and tone deaf

Ann Telnaes

Never a good idea for journalists to become chummy with politicians and people in power but this year particularly, itโ€™s allowing an autocrat to continue his attack against the free press.


Tucker Treason

Tucker’s breaking MAGAt hearts

Clay Jones

Right-wing commentator, white nationalist, Vladimir Putin fan, former Fox News host, and former bowtie aficionado, Tucker Carlson, is now sorry that he helped elect Donald Trump to the presidency.

Tucker, who was often at Trump’s side during the presidential campaign in 2024 and who was a huge lobbyist to get JD Vance on the ticket, now says he will long be โ€œtormentedโ€ for helping Donald Trump get to the White House and start a war with Iran.

Tucker is just one of several right-wing goons who have gone from being full-fledged MAGAts to personal enemies of Donald Trump. They include not just Tucker, but Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens. (snip-MORE)


Prediction Markets

Are you betting on a Crystal ball?

Clay Jones

I was surprised a year or so ago when I learned that people were betting on professional wrestling. As you are probably aware, professional wrestling matches are pre-determined, as in, they are fake. I guess the only thing that prevents a writer of the matches from cleaning up is that the stakes are very low.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that people could not bet on who shot JR from the TV show Dallas because one of the writers could go to Vegas and place a large wager on it. That would have been insider trading. That’s not allowed, right?

Yesterday, a U.S. Army special forces soldier involved in the capture of President Nicolรกs Maduro of Venezuelaย was chargedย with using classified information to bet on events related to the mission. The soldier made more than $400,000 by betting on the prediction markets that the capture would happen. (snip-MORE)

A Morning Read:

Congressional Republicans, You Are Running out of Time

Tick-tock motherfuckers!

Ali Davis Apr 24, 2026

Ali Davis invited us to reprint this post from The Camelopard. As always, we said yes.

Hello, Goopers!

Wow, things are getting wild, huh? Did you ever think, during all those long years when you boosted him and covered for him, that the Trump Train would be plowing through so many guardrails? Rumor has it โ€” or at least a Gateway Pundit writer has it โ€” he tried to use nukes last Saturday!

I would write something about you being the last hope and your duty to your country, but thatโ€™s clearly no incentive, so hereโ€™s something that will hit.

You have a very small window to act before your name is on the Bad Guys list forever.

You must remove Trump before a) he goes undeniably off the rails or dies or b) another countryโ€™s investigation turns up his full involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and child sex trafficking. If you donโ€™t, you, personally, go down in history as a willing toady to evil. Your name and your failure to act will be preserved forever. Family members will change their last names or claim no relation. Corporations will find hiring you too big a risk. No more political career, no cushy lobbying job, no lucrative TV punditry. Just burned relationships and strangers asking why the hell you didnโ€™t stop it when you had the chance, right before they spit on you.

You see how Tucker is scrambling to position himself as A Guy Who Sees the Light and Wants to Stop Trump? Do you think he had a deep change of heart, or do you think he noticed the way the wind is blowing and is doing everything he could to save his own ass and future? You should study those instincts.

Tucker knows that he will need to be able to point, however ludicrously, however tenuously, to how he saw that Trump was dangerous and spoke up.

You need to do more than that. You must remove Trump from office before his own body removes him or you go on the Forever Trumpers list.

If you donโ€™t have real moral fortitude, try to develop the sense and eyes that God gave a potato and read a few polls while youโ€™re at it. Trump is losing, so you need to act like him one more time: Switch to the winning team and pretend you were always wearing that jersey.

Do it fast if you ever want to keep seeing your grandchildren after theyโ€™re old enough to understand this moment in history and what you failed to do.

Oh, thereโ€™s no evidence that Mr. Trump ever โ€”

Look into your soul and be real for a moment. At best โ€” at best โ€” he knew exactly what Epstein was up to and winked at it. The birthday card. The famous quote where he said โ€œHeโ€™s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.โ€ The constantly changing stories about when and why Epstein was removed (was he?) from Mar-a-Lago.

Trump knew. He at least knew.

Now factor in the purchase of a teen beauty pageant and the founding of a model management company, two perfect ways to move underage girls across international lines. His own on-air brag that he liked to burst into the changing rooms of teenage pageant contestants. The time he speculated on his dating prospects with a child on an escalator.

We may never know everything, but we will know more. You can be one of the heroes who bravely stood up to stop Trump, or you can be one of the craven sleazebags who went all out to shield an aspiring dictator and bunch of wealthy child molesters. Every moment you donโ€™t choose the first one will itself be a black mark against your name, so you might want to hurry up and flip a coin or something.

But Iโ€™m being blackmailed.

I have news for you: There has never been a better time to get out from under being blackmailed. The crimes in the Epstein Files are so heinous that even Swalwell and Gonzalesโ€™s horrifying conduct barely made a blip. Make your peace with your family, take some responsibility, and hope that whatever the regime has on you isnโ€™t as hilarious as what someone had on Kristy Noemโ€™s husband.

Need a little more incentive? Not that I am diagnosing anyone, but people who become disinhibited as a part of their cognitive decline have an increasing tendency to just โ€ฆ blurt things out. Do you want to have a nice, preplanned statement to the press about respecting your privacy during this challenging time, or do you want the most personal thing you can imagine barfed out randomly during an official statement on the soybean trade?

I will also mention that people with some types of dementia have a tendency to fill in memory gaps with invented details. Do you really want to explain to the nation that yes, the thing about the carnival is overall true, just not the part about the plate spinner and the Tilt-a-Whirl?

Besides, if enough of you move quickly and work together, you might just get off scot-free.

Surely youโ€™ve heard the broad hints about Congressional Republicans being physically threatened.

I have news for you, Sparky: We are all being physically threatened. A man who has never in his life experienced a consequence has access to nuclear weapons and is eager to use them.

Move quickly. Get your family somewhere safe, choose a Democrat as a point person โ€” do not trust your fellow Republicans, you know full well how craven they can be โ€” and let the opposition party count up the votes. Move together, publicly report the threats, and save yourself by bravely impeaching the sumbitch.

But what if no one believes us? What if reporting gets us ridiculed or puts us more at risk?

Well, now you know what itโ€™s like to be a victim of a powerful serial sex offender. Please use that perspective wisely in the future if you have any shreds of a political career left.

For real though โ€” a lot of Trumpโ€™s power comes from the perception that he is powerful. Puncture that and the whole thing deflates.

You want to save your own tail? Help the Democrats start prosecuting him and his cronies immediately after impeachment. No professional courtesy, no putting this all behind us so we can move forward, no honoring the frantic pardons of a rogue President. Everything comes out and everyone gets real consequences. Seize and freeze assets, put Trumpโ€™s thugs and cronies on the no-fly list, and start the trials. Nobody squeaks by, not even the very wealthy ones.

Once you find some rudimentary bits of calcium spinning around your spinal nerve, you may even discover that you like using them in the service of something good.

But you must act immediately.

Trump is spinning out and trying to take the world with him. You can help put a stop to it, or you can forever be on the list of people who had the power but were too evil or craven to do anything about it.

You can choose the story that other people will tell about you.

But youโ€™d better make it quick. (snip)

From Erin: Dems +13 On Non-Binary Issues-

Fox News Poll: Democrats +13 On Transgender Issues

For the second time in 2026, Fox News’s own poll finds voters trust Democrats over Republicans on transgender issues by 13 points.

Erin Reed

The Trump administration has made attacking transgender people one of its signature priorities. It has issued a orders threatening to defund hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, targeted childrenโ€™s television through the FCC for including transgender characters, and spent millions in taxpayer resources pursuing anti-trans executive orders across the federal government. But according to the latest Fox News poll, released this week, the American public is not on board. Voters say Democrats would do a better job on transgender issues by a 13-point margin, 56 to 43 percentโ€”the second consecutive Fox News poll this year to show a significant Democratic advantage on the issue.

The finding is consistent with the January Fox News poll, which showed Democrats with a 22 point advantage on transgender issues. While the margin has narrowed somewhat, the direction has not changed: voters across nearly every demographic subgroup continue to say they trust Democrats more than Republicans on this issue.

The demographic breakdown is significant. Black voters backed Democrats on transgender issues by a 54-point margin, 77 to 23 percent. Hispanic voters favored Democrats 59 to 40 percent. White votersโ€”a group Republicans depend on for their electoral coalitionโ€”sided with Democrats 53 to 46 percent. Every age group favored Democrats, with the strongest support coming from voters under 35, who backed the Democratic approach 61 to 39 percent. But the finding was not limited to young voters: Americans 65 and older also preferred Democrats on the issue, 58 to 38 percentโ€”a 20-point margin among seniors.

Self-identified moderates backed Democrats 60 to 38 percentโ€”a 22-point margin that suggests anti-trans messaging continues to backfire outside the Republican base. Liberals preferred Democrats 86 to 13 percent. Even among self-identified conservatives, nearly a thirdโ€”31 percentโ€”said Democrats would do a better job. And among 2024 Trump voters, 27 percent crossed over to say they trusted Democrats more on the issueโ€”more than one in four of the presidentโ€™s own supporters.

The geographic breakdown was equally striking. Urban voters backed Democrats 68 to 31 percent and suburban votersโ€”the decisive battleground in American politicsโ€”preferred Democrats 57 to 43 percent. Rural voters were the only geographic group to favor Republicans, 52 to 46 percent, but even that margin was narrow. Democrats also led among Catholics (54-45), white Catholics (51-48), Protestants (50-48), and military voters (54-44). White evangelicals were the only religious group to side with Republicans.

(snip-MORE, with more charts)

SCOTUS to hear religious freedom case about Roman Catholic preschools refusing LGBTQ+ families

I had my allergy shots this morning.ย  Ron and Diane have gone to see if they can find the casino in the next county over.ย  I am trying to stay awake.ย  I want to see if I can reply to a few comments before going back to bed.ย  Fof those that don’t know I am not eating.ย  I have one meal in the morning and spend most of my time in bed these days.ย  My blood tests showed my red and white blood cells were all messed up.ย  Animia?ย  Cancer?ย  Depression?ย  My body breaks down under stress, and I have been stressed since November of last year.ย  It is a lot less right now with Ron home but he still has little time for stuff at home because of the need to spend so much time with his sister.ย  Plus he is having health issues as well.ย  The real issue is I am tired.ย  Just so tired I am unable to think, eat, or even engage with Ron.ย  I find I am easily irritated, and when he reached out to touch me in bed I snaped at him for it.ย  I have not reacted that way in a long time.ย  I like his touch.ย  ย I have lost between 8 to 10 pounds because I am not eating.ย  I keep this up and I could get from my normal 170 t the goal of 150 pounds I want. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Ž.ย  Ron is concerned and says if we don’t see improvement next week I have to contact my primary care doctor.ย  It all seems like too much work, I just want to go back to bed.ย  The pain is less there.ย  My right leg becomes so painful after five minutes of use I can’t really walk and I have to do the dishes with a rolling very high adjustable stool.ย ย 

Anyway the video below is a great example of why real Christians are not bigots.ย  I wish I felt up to posting more videos, it is all I seem able to do right now, just watch videos.ย  ย Be well, and enjoy the Rev. explain why bigotry is a really bad thing for the Christian church.ย  Hugs