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Saw This Near Seattle Today

 

Off-Color

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Utah has become the first state in the nation to ban Pride flags from all public schools and all government property.

Idaho has a new flag law, too, but it applies only to schools. If a red state gets outpaced in its bigotry, does it become green with envy?

May the Farce Be With You

 

There Go the Clydesdales

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Anheuser-Busch, headquartered in St. Louis, has been a major supporter of that city's Pride celebrations for 30 years.

Apparently that was long enough. Pride St. Louis announced this week that the brewer has declined to renew its sponsorship.

Funny. Decades ago alcohol companies were among the first to support Prides around the nation. They wanted queer people to drink more—as if such a thing was possible.

Now, in this political climate, Anheuser-Busch is cutting and running. It seems to me, Pride St. Louis, that after a 30-year relationship, you're due alimony.

This Week's Quote

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The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne.

Tara Copp

Source:  The Associated Press

Agreed

 

War Whoops

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It's come to light that recently top Trump officials, when discussing details of imminent plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen, included a journalist in their Signal group chat.

But her emails.

The Challenge

 

Trying to Figure It Out

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Five Republican state senators in Minnesota sponsored a bill earlier this week labeling Trump Derangement Syndrome as a mental illness. Hours later, one of the five was arrested for soliciting a minor.

Sen. Justin Eichorn, a 40-year-old married man with four children, thought he was meeting a 17-year-old girl for paid sex, but it was the cops who awaited him.

Help me here. I'm really trying to understand.

Do you think Eichorn's snarky attempt to own the libs gave him a hard-on that wouldn't quit? Did it make him feel invincible? Superior? Above the law? Like a frat boy again?

Or does he know he has issues and he backed the bill so he could deflect by accusing others of having issues? 

Or is he just another hypocrite in the long line of family-values types who have the moral fiber of a jelly bean?

Just Maybe

 

This Week's Quote

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"Plaintiffs face a violation of their constitutional rights, which constitutes irreparable harm. Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them," Reyes wrote, adding that "avoiding constitutional violations is always in the public interest."

Reporter Casey Parks on Judge Ana C. Reyes' decision blocking the Trump administration from banning transgender troops

Source:  The Washington Post

Homecoming

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Over the weekend, a friend of mine here in Seattle returned home to a small city in Missouri for a family event.

She texted upon arrival, apoplectic that there was a "Trump Store" in town.

If she were staying longer, I'd mail her a care package of sage smudge sticks, The Nation, and Trump toilet paper.

Plain Perplexed

 

Poor Little Lamb

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In a campaign-like speech that broke all norms at the Justice Department yesterday, Donald Trump made it plain:  He's the most innocent victim since Anne Frank.

Expert Advice

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At the Justice Department today, Donald Trump will give a law-and-order speech.

I assume his message will be how to wiggle out of both.

Affirmative

 

This Week's Quote

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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Pete Buttigieg

Source: X

Pushers

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As if we don't have enough to worry about these days from Trump and Vance and Musk, there's now another obvious threat to our national well-being.

Shamelessly loitering in front of grocery stores all across America, these brazen dealers wear green sashes and bring extra muscle along, more commonly known as their parents.

They traffic Thin Mints and Samoas, and few can say no to them, even though they stand four feet six inches tall.

The Time of Year

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The U.S. sprang forward last night. To 1948.

International Women's Day 2025

 

Beat Me to It

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Get this.

In its efforts to purge DEI content lickety-split, the Defense Department has flagged over 26,000 images for deletion across every military branch. Women and minorities are the main targets of the directive to obliterate photos and online posts that highlight diversity efforts.

Here's the incredible bit. The AP reports that some photos seem to have been flagged because their file included the word "gay." The result? An image of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, is on the chopping block.

If I'd had a little more time, I would've predicted this as the slapstick outcome of the DEI witch hunt. I would've been kidding.

But Pete Hegseth has his people working so hard on this mission-critical task that they made the farce real before I could make it a joke. And I resent that.

The Little Lady

 

This Week's Quote

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During his painfully long remarks before a joint session of Congress, Trump peddled so many brazen falsehoods that it was difficult to keep up with them all.

Steve Benen

Source:  MSNBC

Cisgender Identity Crisis

 

Guess I Wasn't Really Awake

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This morning I received an email from eBay whose subject line read "Your closet is calling, Leslie."

It turned out the company wants me to buy clothes. But it's a sign of the times that I first thought eBay was sending emergency instructions to queer people.

The "Meeting"

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Ukrainians have spent three terrifying and bloody years holding off invading Russian forces.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if some war-weary Ukrainians are clamoring today to open a second front:  against us. That's one possible result of  their president's humiliation in the Oval Office yesterday by a pair of tag-team wrestlers, Donald "The Impotent" Trump and Lambykins Vance.