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Here’s how you can help Daily Kos get out the vote

Here’s how you can help Daily Kos get out the vote

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Here’s how you can help Daily Kos get out the vote

by Erin Tulley
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Get Out the Vote rally on June 18.AP

We just celebrated the 250th anniversary of the United States. Like many, I’m sure, I took the time to hang out with my family, eat some BBQ, and watch some fireworks. Typical, but a welcome distraction.

Now I’m back to work. Daily Kos not only provides the opportunity to spark and enact change, but to also reflect on what’s next for the betterment of our democracy. It allows me to think every day about how we protect and strengthen our democracy. And the answer that immediately came to me was “the midterm elections.” 

People cast their votes at the Upper Marlboro Community Center Tuesday,, June 23, 2026, in Upper Marlboro, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
People vote on June 23 in Maryland.AP

But that still felt too big—too abstract—against the backdrop of unaccountable authoritarians ripping apart everything that makes this country so great.

So instead I’m looking for the catalyst. So much feels out of our control, but it’s not. In fact, it’s ours to ignite—and that’s what this Fourth of July has been about for me. 

The 250th anniversary of the United States is not just a reflection of where the country has been, but also an indication of what kind of place it can become—a reminder that WE get to decide what comes next.

Our country can survive another 250 years with the practice and defense of our democracy. It is ours to do just that—and yes, that starts with the midterms this November.

Civic engagement and participation are our fundamental right and responsibility. We can’t get sleepy. We can’t allow their flood of hate, war, and destruction to cause us to give up. That’s just what they want!

Fuck them. Let’s take it all back. Let’s organize. Let’s outwork them. Let’s win.

That’s why I’m excited to share Daily Kos’ new Get Out the Vote hub, where you can find meaningful ways to help elect Democrats this November. 

Related | Will ‘shy voters’ boost Democrats in the midterms?

Whether you have five minutes or five hours, whether you want to volunteer in your community or from your couch, there are many opportunities to make a real difference.

Democratic turnout = Republican burnout.

If we’re serious about honoring the first 250 years of this country, let’s help shape the next 250. It starts with us, and it starts today.

Please join me. Sign up to get out the vote and celebrate our country—not our government—for what it is: OURS!

We'll get straight to the point: The financial hardships that Daily Kos is facing this year are tough.

We continue to be paywall-free. We continue to be supported by our readers, not billionaires or corporations. But we need to bring in more revenue. We are leaning on our community more than ever to help make ends meet.

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  1. Comment by bleeding blue.

    Myself and another Kossack participated in this site's effort in 2014, and we phone-banked in support of Gary Peters in Michigan during his first run for Senator...in conjunction with Move On from here in Seattle.

    I became a Democratic Precinct Committee Officer in January of 2006, it was my New Years resolution in reaction to Dubya's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...boy, those were simple days!

    I used to talk politics weekly with my mother, a raging liberal, but she had passed away at the beginning of 2005. Most of the people I worked with over the years were not into politics, or were RWNJs. My wife was never a political person either (until Bernie Sanders ran in 2015, now she's an MSNOW addict).

    I needed an outlet, and so I made an account here on Daily Kos in the Spring of 2005, I think this site prompted me to volunteer to be appointed PCO. It's an elected position on the Primary ballot every 2 years, and I've run for reelection every even-numbered year since.

    We are required at a minimum to walk our precincts before every year before each election, Primary and General. But many of us walk, and phone-bank beyond that for GOTV, and for specific candidates and initiatives.

    I became the Outreach and Visibility Chair for my Legislative District Democratic organization, and held other offices within that...I've spent 16 years on the Executive Board for our organization. I personally know my electeds (or have at least met) across the spectrum...from both US Senators, State Representatives, down to City Councilmembers for several cities.

    What started out as an outlet to discuss and to get to know other progressives has ended up as a way to get to know fellow progressives and to help elect Democrats...it's really filled a void in my life...so get out there, it's fun!

  2. Comment by Goodwhich.

    VoteRiders is an organization helping to ensure people have the correct ID they will need to vote at the polls in November. I joined them recently and have been participating in their text-banking and letter-writing campaigns targeting voters who may need this type of assistance. I've volunteered in the past with GOTV efforts and enjoy it a lot. I took some time yesterday, on the 4th, to send out some voter letters, and it felt like an appropriate way to celebrate America's 250th. We can't afford for people not to vote.

  3. Comment by dsb.

    It's great that Daily Kos is getting behind GOTV institutionally, but strange that the most effective means of getting the vote out isn't even a choice on the new Hub. Conversations with voters and prospective voters face to face is the most effective tactic of all to engage people and get their votes in. It turns out to be fun and fulfilling, especially to do it with friends. Talking with voters on the phone is next best, and for those in reliably blue areas, maybe the only option to reach people in swing districts. But if you're willing to travel to your nearest swing district, groups like Swing Left can help you get there, get trained, and get talking with voters. In the SF Bay Area, for instance, dozens of local groups are working together to canvass swing districts in the nearby Central Valley. Check out bayareacoalition.org!

  4. Comment by elenacarlena.

    This is excellent! For too much of the time, Kos has let the community lead GOTV and other involvement efforts. To put this on the front page and get the organisation behind it will make a positive difference. Bookmarking and passing along.

  5. Comment by JimB9999.

    A massive vote at the November midterms is crucial. But 66 million eligible Americans are NOT registered to vote. And 63% of these say they have never been asked to register by anyone! In the United States, 174 million people are registered to vote, but only about 40% bother to vote in midterm elections. And we wonder why so many of our elected officials are bozos. This coming election provides a real chance to rein in Don TOFU and his band of crooks. A presidential election-level turnout [sadly about 62%] would seal the deal.

    • Reply by doinaheckuvanutjob.

      Some states have done same day registration 😔 n election day. It really makes it easier for busy people, spacey peeps, and confused humans.

      Also, cozy & welcoming, to add in a cluster of sweet pet cats, and voting becomes a lot easier... Just kidding about the kittens ,& cats ...

    • Reply by doinaheckuvanutjob.

      Same day registration works well, as a solution that makes it easier to vote. You can register when you go to vote. Some states do this, and it's worked well...

    • Reply by JimB9999.

      We should change election days from Tuesdays to Saturdays and Sundays

  6. Comment by NevDem.

    GOTV (get out the vote) is a grand idea. Worked with this many times in the past.

    The problem with GOTV is motivation, not coercion.

    Finding our society gets used to their creature comforts, like an expectation of clean water that does not pass on nasty little things like; Cholera, Typhoid, Dysentery, and other nasty bugs that plague the rest of the world. Safer Cars, nicer Phones, paved streets, fast food, and the numerous things that make life more pleasurable. There comes a lack of motivation to exercise the Franchise (a common term that used to be taught in grade school).

    People no longer respect the Franchise granted them by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    Until threatened.

    Our Franchise is now under attack, by those who desire to be the new Dictators. They speak well, cloaking their goals under the False Flags of Patriot, Exceptionalism, and Loyalty.

    Their Real goal is to destroy the Franchise. The Truth: We do not recognize it.

    This Election is about Survival of the Franchise. Franchise = Your Right to Vote.

    One side is making it harder, trying to LIMIT the Franchise to Loyalists and Devotees.

    The other side is working hard to have ALL citizens Use the Franchise to express their inherited opinion in elections.

    Which is important to you?

    (A) Using your franchise to support Dictators (and Losing it in the long run)?

    (B) Using your Franchise to fight for your Rights?

    This Election: You decide.

    IMHO this message will motivate much more than simple GOTV? This round it is a survivor thing.

  7. Comment by pixxer.

    How about adding to the GOTV hub links to group with demonstrated effectiveness in GOTV. Especially the ones that don't work only in election years.

  8. Comment by ericfreedom.

    Getting out the vote is critical. I always rec diaries documenting this or that groups efforts, successes, and challenges doing the work to get out the vote, and also to providing information so people can be sure the money they donate will go to the kind of candidate they want to support.

    I chose to donate all the money I had budgeted for this years election late last year, but then when asked, I donated to the organization again this year.

    That is what I could do.

    Please do whatever you can do. Money was what I could do this election. In past elections I went door to do, phone banked, and sent postcards.

  9. Comment by rebel ga.

    There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Gandhi

    —–

    Нет войне! No To War! Love, Justice, Peace, For Our Troops, Veterans And All The Good People In The World! ga

    —–

    Voting, The Informed Way. “Knowledge, Is Power!” https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/15/2335620/community/Voting-The-Informed-Way-Knowledge-Is-Power/

    —–

    Voting-All The Info Needed To Vote. Effectively. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/22/800025949/community/first-diary-at/

    VOTE

    • Reply by lascostas.

      Thanks so much.

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Welcome to Gay USA. I'm Andy Hum. And despite the heat, we're still alive. And I'm still here. I'm Anne Northrup. How are you, Anne?
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I'm excellent. Uh, quick medical update for those waiting. Yes, I got the pathology report back. The mass in my
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No, [laughter] no, you 30 years is is quite enough.
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It is. And that was never the reason for my leaving. Yeah. Yes. Uh so all is well.
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Well, so uh what a week. Pride all over the world from Budapest to Toronto where
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the prime minister marched to across the USA. We will report on it after we get to the Supreme Court ruling that states can
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ban trans girls from girls sports uh which poses an existential threat to transgender identity.
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And as we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the
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Supreme Court, like our founders, backs racist policies to make America white again. This is without exaggeration. Uh,
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no. And not quite enough for Steven Miller, who's quite upset about it.
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We We'll discuss. Uh, the court leaves in place a $5 million judgment against Trump for sexual assault.
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Pete Buddhajge was the victim of a malicious swatting and was separated from his two kids
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overnight. Uh, a setback in Delaware, but advances in trans care in California, Illinois, and New York City.
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The EOC, EEOC, has dropped the case of a trans teacher who was alleging anti-trans discrimination.
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We're not doing that anymore.
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No, but here's another way you could do it.
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Uh, Texas is looking to ban LGBTQ people and it mandates Bible lessons.
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Didn't you have to read Bible parts when you were in school? Oh, Catholics are not into the Bible.
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[laughter]
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We're into tradition, not the Bible really.
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I I did have a Bible course in high school, but uh no, I mean, of course, they read parts of the Bible at the
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mass, you know, but but Bible study, we didn't come there with our books, you know, and I got it. None of that.
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We could do a whole show on that. uh a state representative in Utah lost his primary, but he's still proud of having
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his state having made his state more el anti-LGBTQ.
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Uh the killer of transman Sam Nordquist in upstate New York uh pleads guilty and faces life.
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And we'll remember Victoria Cruz, a great trans antiviolence advocate. and we'll give you an LGBTQ angle on the World Cup.
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Several. Yes. So, the Supreme Court. Yeah.
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So, I mean, some of this can be very confusing, uh, you know, based on the headlines, but essentially the Supreme
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Court ruled that states can ban trans girls from girls sports. I don't think they said anything about boys.
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They did not. And they held that Title N when when Title 9 was written, sex only referred to biological sex at birth.
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Yeah. And how much of the Constitution referred to airplanes when it was written? Oh, come on.
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Well, the my point is No, no. I mean, it goes on and on. Of course, you're right.
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The Constitution establishes principles and values which are to be inter used to interpret current issues. And that's why
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this whole talk of originalism is so obnoxious because it's not the originalism is in the values not in the details.
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And boy did katan, you know, the decision was was who was the main Justice Kavanaaugh was the ma main
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author of it. Uh justice um Clarence Thomas wrote wrote a disscent which was so
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offensive and a disscent or a concurrence. Concurrence.
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Yes. But Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote wrote a descent from that really going after him and saying uh well let's go let No, let's talk about that later.
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Okay. Sorry.
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All right. Well, let me let me just try to summarize this. So, uh bad the court says that uh you can discriminate
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against uh trans girls in sports. Uh good unanimous on that.
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Yeah. Uh good. You don't have to. Uh it's not a a ban on trans girls in sports. It's states can dec. It's like
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the abortion decision. You don't have to ban abortion. You can if you want except for the fact that there'll be a renewed push to do this in the Congress.
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That's fine.
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And and and some I don't think the states are necessarily going to give in on it, but Trump is going to say if you don't do it, you know, I'm g, you know, etc.
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I'm just trying to uh break down the actual decision. I think there
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[clears throat]
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uh yes uh there will be of course a push but you know we saw with abortion that in fact there are more abortions now
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than before the dos decision which is interesting because people become aware and they see the issues more clearly and
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so they fight back. But what concerns me is that establishing the principle of being able to ban trans girls from uh
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girls sports sets uh a value uh that may be applied more broadly to trans people
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in all sorts of other arenas. And that I think is also what we have to watch out for in addition to this sports business.
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And of course the sports business should have been decided. Absolutely the opposite because the situation is that
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if you want to question uh the validity of allowing trans girls to play sports
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uh with cis girls, it should be a case-byase basis, not a blanket ban on identity. And you should establish
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parameters and rules and standards and Yes. And I find I find the court uh the conservatives basically repeat
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Fox News talking points in their decisions. That's all they know about this. They act like it's this widespread thing and it's it's killing it's killing uh cisgendered girls.
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Excuse me. Brian Kavanaaugh is an expert because he has girls who play sports.
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[laughter]
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I'm telling you that's what they're saying. Well, Amara Jones of Trans Lash Media said this decision essentially erases trans identity and undermines she
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she says it undermines Ruth Bader Ginsburg holding that sex is h is how you are perceived. It also overturns the
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grim ruling, the uh uh trans guy who uh fought Virginia for years to be able to
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use the correct bathroom and and the court ignored the equal protection arguments in this
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for the they didn't even uh adjudicate them. So it's uh now of course Gorsuch
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who wrote the Bastto decision the Basttock decision says you can't discriminate against transgender people and employment that that's what it says
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and he in this in his what he wrote here is trying to torture and say no it's not going to affect that it's different
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blah blah blah today watch out for tomorrow uh can I run through a a few others decisions yeah well I just want to
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finish up on this because the right-wing battlecry on this is biology wins, you know, and of course they don't respect
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biology when it comes to homosexuality, which is part of biology. They don't respect that.
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They don't respect the biology of interex people either. Uh, you know, it's all about binary for them. And it's
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their definition of head of the family research council says now we can get rid of Oberfell because of this ridiculous.
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Well, okay. It's just his fantasy and uh but it's not going to affect states like New York uh where we where we protect them.
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Exactly. And that and that is the point.
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It is not a decision that mandates banning trans girls from girls sports.
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And before we get to the other decisions in terms of trans issues, uh, a lower federal court uh, certified the people
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suing for transgender people in the military as a class. That's a big breakthrough.
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That's a fantastic decision. There are a limited number of trans people in the
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military who had uh, managed to stop the order requiring discharge of all trans
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people from the [snorts] military. They stopped it temporarily and then they went back to court and said this should apply to all trans people in the
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military the stay and the court agreed to that. So now that stay is in but don't forget back to the Supreme Court they allowed the this uh exclusion
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to go into effect uh pending these cases.
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Well I think we're back to a stay as this is uh litigated.
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Yes, we should because the district court has just put that in. They have they have certified all transmilitary as a class and discharges are halted for the moment.
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All right, back to the Supreme Court. Uh great decision upholding uh the validity of mail and ballots. That was a terrific
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decision uh arriving uh after, you know, mailed by the election date but arriving
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a few days later. But in the spirit, as I said, of our racist founders of this country, uh they aided Trump's mission
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to make the USA more white and subject to gun violence. Uh they've said Hawaii can't enforce its gun laws where you can bring it into any public any place of
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public accommodation, of course, except their court. and uh they they want you
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it's okay to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians and anybody else from an country
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basically. And I love that Justice Kagan took on Alto and said you're not quoting the president-eleon.
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Are you kidding? Look at what he said about these people. The racist things that he said.
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Exactly. Uh but they upheld birthright citizenship barely. Barely and uh
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that is alarming very because the Republicans will go after that.
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Well, we had we had a solid 54 for saying the Constitution says what it says, but a solid 54. You change, you know,
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Sonia Sotomayor has to get off the court and you got a 54 the other way. Well, and the only reason was it Kavanaaugh?
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Yes. Who joined the majority was bas 63.
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He said, "Well, it just based on congressional law." Not what Trump did wrote was not unconstitutional.
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Nonsense.
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Uh, oh, and then go ahead.
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Well, uh, I was happy that they, uh, carved out Lisa Cook at the Fed and said he couldn't fire her, but
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for now, but he can fire everybody else in the government.
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We have all these independent commissions that have bridged administrations forever. Civil service protections gone.
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Gone. Absolutely gone. Unitary executive. This is one of John Roberts things that is killing this country. We
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we try to insulate these decision-making bodies from the whims of the executive
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gone. It is King uh Donald. He can do whatever he wants. He can, you know, this is what Doge was doing in the first
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few months of the uh administration. And now all that has been upheld and they can go completely crazy firing everyone
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they want. And if you can now uh parties, political parties can now coordinate with their candidates and
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spend all the money that they want uh for the candidates unlimited. This means that all the trillions and billions,
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excuse me, billions that are going to be coming into these campaigns uh can be spent with coordination. And that's what you're going to be hearing. Now, I will
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say that people power beats money almost every time. Mike Bloomberg tried to get involved in the Colorado race. He put a
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couple of million in there and he was rebuffed.
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He tried to get involved in the New York 12 race and lost. But uh no, wait, was he for Lasher? He was with
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Never mind. Uh the Republican party has hund00 million on hand. The Democratic party is in debt. But here's what I
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think is the this is just uh bringing out into the light uh the system that's
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been going on anyway. I have no no illusion that these parties were not coordinating with the candidates to begin with
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all these committees all these all these packs.
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So it uh it lifts the veil on that. It's it's horrible. But it does get money out of politics anyway. Uh, but speaking of
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money, Trump will have to pay $5 million to Eugene Carol for losing civil suits against him, for sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room.
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Supreme Court refused to hear it.
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There's Eugene Carol in the dark blue, out lesbian, Robbie Kaplan, her lawyer there in the middle. And of course on
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the left, our own Jackie uh Ruden who is holding up a sign that says pay up deadbeat with a picture of Trump.
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That was several years ago when the decision was first down. So sent down. So originally Eugene sues for
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sexual assault. She wins. Trump is ordered to pay her $5 million. Uh then he goes out and trash talks her all day,
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every day, everywhere. and he they go back to court and he is now ordered to pay $83 million for defamation. So that
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is still to be finally adjudicated, but he absolutely must pay the5 million and I think that's been sitting in escrow.
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So it's not like he and all we hear about are his billions of crypto. So uh
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it's not like it's supposedly going to bankrupt him. For those of you who voted for him, doesn't any of this bother you?
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Well, I I am hoping uh that this is a little harbinger. Lambda Legal Defense uh put together what they're calling a
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new five-year plan rising together to have a strategy for stopping bad
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laws, passing good laws, and changing public opinion. more than just the legal stuff they're doing. And they say
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they're going on offense. And Kevin Jennings, who runs Lambda Legal, is a
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very active, aggressive guy and uh is certainly capable of leading them to be more on the offense, and that would be great.
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Maybe maybe uh after you're gone. I I don't I just mean when you retire, uh I'll have Kenny Kevin Jennings in here.
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He can tell you he's been a good guest.
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He can tell you about the his new LGBTQ bill of rights.
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Okay, that's what they're doing.
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Can we talk about this was I know you're most of you of course are getting ready for the 250th anniversary of the country, but
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[laughter]
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uh we in the in our community had our pride celebrations around the world. Uh
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tens of thousands marched in Budapest, the first one since Victor Orban was gone. similar scene to last year where
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they did it illegally. Uh but anyway, and so it was and again they did this in a 100 degree heat
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but they did say it was a more relaxed march because of the change of administration. So they don't the
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tension was gone because they've won and Toronto had pride and the prime minister of Canada Mark Carney marched
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and it's such a joyous spectacle of of of what? No. Was that it? Yeah. Yeah.
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He's a little doused with uh water. You can see he got hit with water and he said I want more because it's hot, you know. And so
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I mean can you imagine uh president of the United States doing this? Of course not.
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You can't even You couldn't even walk down the street.
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No. So, thank you. Uh Mark Carney.
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Mark Carney. And And then uh that's enough. And then we had the Well, you were a gr you were a marshall at the drag march.
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I was uh for the second year. Show the pictures.
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Yeah. The drag march is Oh, look. You're with an actual That's supposed to be third.
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Well, show us the drag march banner. There it is.
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There it is. So the drag march is an annual event. It's just a casual stroll from the East Village to the Stonewall.
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We don't even advertise in heels.
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Not me. We don't advertise it because we want to keep it small and Chris Cooper and John and friends. Chris Cooper in the uh blonde wig.
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Yes.
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And a few others. And now you can show me and roll Arena. Uh we two legends. We strolled the entire route together.
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And you were wellreceived. Uh well, we were just chatting away and then uh the Dyke March once again
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took place without a permit in New York and it was also a joyous celebration. There's a little scene from there.
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They said there was a lot of youthful energy. The the Dyke March has gotten younger and younger every year, which is
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great. Now, some of you should be applying to come co-host this show. Okay. Write to me and get us.org.
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Yeah.
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But all right. And then let's get to the pride marches. I I'm always reminded by a viewer from Chicago that Chicago did
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the first one in 1970, the day before the New York one. And in in the Chicago march, there was Governor Pritsker.
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Good guy. More on him later. Yeah.
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And then in New York, our friends at Gays Against Guns were one of the grand marshals. There they are marching down Fifth Avenue
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with behind them the uh human beings as they call them uh people who march.
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That's a picture by the way of Donna Aceito.
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Uh the human beings marched silently dressed in white to represent the 47 or
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49 killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Right.
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Uh Chuck Schumer marched as he usually does and he he's always trying to exaggerate his record on things. He doesn't tell untruths.
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I have a lesbian daughter. She got married.
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I don't He doesn't tell untruths. I'm the first senator to march in this parade. Well, all right. But you also voted, you know, voted for the Defense
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of Marriage Act. So, he got booed quite a bit during the thing. I think people are done with him.
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Well, the that seems to be the general feeling. I'm not sure what exactly he's done to offend people, but everything's turned this year and uh he's become an
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object of derision and anger. We had our queer liberation march for the I guess that what is it? I mean we've been doing it a long time 2019. This would have been the eighth.
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Uh and we marched from Union Square to Foley Square. This only takes two hours and it's a nice brisk march. You get to
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eat in Chinatown afterwards. Uh it's a it was it was also a joyous occasion.
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Uh word is that Seattle had a huge huge pride march. I just want to I I got to note that there are 12 companies that
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did not back down from supporting Pride this year and I'm going to link in our email to a story by Daniel Daniel Villa
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Royale in the LGBTQ nation so you can read who who they are who are sticking by by us. Well, weren't we mad at them?
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What? Corporations for being in the march.
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Well, that's true. That's why we have the Well, we're not against them giving money.
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Of course not. But we are against them having contingents in the marches. Yeah.
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Or too many at least. In Eugene, Oregon, Pride was cancelled uh because uh there
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had been a hate attack on the march or the parade last year. [snorts] And so they decided they did not have enough
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protection from the local law enforcement this year and they canled.
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And law enforcement said, "Well, maybe if you applied for a permit." Really?
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What about the constitutional guarantees of freedom of assembly?
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And the committee there points out that they provided traffic control for at least four unpermitted marches in Eugene this year, including a Charlie Kirk rally and march.
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There you go. All right.
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In Boyisee, Idaho, well, there there's a ban on rainbow flags on government property. So, the residents of the city
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now are doing everything they can to show their pride. And they made these signs too great for hate. Uh ID Idaho is
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too great for hate. And they put them all over the place. They raised 10,000 bucks to do it. And that So all this is
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all these bands, it's like band in Boston. Uh all these bands are doing is getting more people to express their solidarity with us.
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Exactly. Uh in Missouri in St. Lewis.
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They started off the weekend, I guess, with a rainbow wreath ceremony honoring
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military LGBTQ people. Very moving. I saw a little video of it, but couldn't capture it.
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Speaking of Lambda Legal Defense, they did a video called Flying Our Flag: Protecting Our History. They helped win the case to get the rainbow flag back up
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at the Stonewall National Monument. And it's a round table that I'm going to link to with our own Kathy Marino Thomas
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and others. Uh and uh it'll be in our email. Go to gay usatv.org and sign up for it or go to lambda's website.
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I think [snorts] we have finished our pride list.
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Yes. Um, by the way, speaking of, you know, parks banning or federal parks banning us,
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there's a new analysis from the Center for American Progress showing how the Trump administration is rewriting American history.
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They have censored 82 parks with black history, 74 with indigenous, 55 with
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science, 20 with women's. Of course, we don't have many. Three parks with LGBT content. I'm going to link to that article, too. But they are relentless about this.
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Well, they've been ordered to restore all that stuff. Let's see if they do some. Yeah.
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Uh, and moving into politics. Uh, Trump has put his face on a special edition of the passport. I immediately checked mine
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to make sure it was not expiring too soon. 2031. With any luck, he'll be gone by then.
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By the way, even QAnon hates Trump now, but we don't want them.
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All right. Uh, Pete and Chaston Buddhajed. So, somebody somebody dropped a dime on Pete, somebody from Alabama
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who said, "I heard him say some he did something horrible to his children or something like that." This is called into the police in uh child protective services.
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So, they show up at his door and say, "Put the kids over there. You're over here. Send the kids somewhere else. We
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have to interview you all separately about this." and that they were he was separated from his children. They were brought to their grandparents' place,
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but it I mean they ultimately concluded, oh, I guess this was just something political. He'd never even been to this event. Uh he'd never been to the state, I think.
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Well, certainly not to that.
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He better be if he wants to be president, [laughter] but anyway, he obviously false report is justifiably outraged and
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is hoping they can find who did this swatting. Well, I'm uh outraged by the EEOC, which we know has stated that it
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is not doing any uh trans discrimination cases despite the fact that the federal the
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court has ruled that this is illegal discrimination in the workplace.
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This is a teacher in uh Southern California, Flint Del. You got a picture of Flint there? Yeah, there he is.
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Now, now you bring your case to the EEOC because you don't want to hire a private lawyer and you want it to be a case that is going to make an example. This is why people go to human rights commissions.
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Yeah.
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But he gets told it's coming from the top. Forget it. We're not doing it.
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Yeah. But uh the slight positive note, they did say to him, you can sue the school district on your own.
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You can take a private right of action.
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I would recommend doing it in state court these days.
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Yes. And uh it turns out that the uh Department of Homeland Security has not
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uh gone to sleep. They conducted more raids in Minnesota, arrested 15 more
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people they've branded as Antifa for conspiracy.
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Where did they grab a nun on our way to church?
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Oh, I saw that picture. I didn't see where they grabbed a nun. Uh but they grabbed these people because they were at a
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protest against ICE which is now illegal in this country. Uh they define that as
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they label it conspira conspiracy. They define it as domestic terrorism. Political violence.
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There's no such thing as domestic terrorism.
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No, there isn't. And political violence to go to a demonstration. That's what they're trying to do. They're trying to scare everybody.
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They went to a DSA meeting.
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Yeah. Well, that's a that's a that's a terrorist group.
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And of course, the uh the I mean, James Carville is saying, "Don't sit this woman from the DSA in the Congress. Don't even sit her." Yeah, exactly. Come on.
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Well, he's always he continues to be.
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But in better political news, [snorts] don't these people realize that, you know, they thought AOC was going to blow
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up the country and now they're talking about her as a candidate for president.
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Look at the actual facts of what happens on the ground. Uh mom, there are a lot of people who are scared of mom Don, but
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look how he's governing I think very reasonably and negotiating and uh you may not like everything he does, but
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he's doing some great stuff. And just give these people a chance for heaven's sake. Well, as I pointed out in my
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letter to the Daily News, which attacked these DSA candidates, what they stand for is the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt and Fierella
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LaGuardia, the most, you know, beloved mayor of New York, who was a Democratic socialist, which is, you know, fair wages, no child
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labor, women's rights, all those kinds of things. Yeah.
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All right. Uh, more political news. out on Long Island, the end of Long Island.
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They tend to elect Republicans out there and outgay Christopher Galant won the Democratic primary to face his
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Republican opponent out there in Suffach County. He looks like a credible candidate. He does.
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Although Nick Loa, who was the Republican, has been trying to hedge his stuff on all sides of the gay issues. Yeah. Not
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trying not trying not Oh, it's the Hamptons. You'd think we could It's the Hampton's and it's also Suffach County. Yes. Where in in the 1920s
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20% of the population belong to the Ku Klux Clan. Literally, I'm not exaggerating this. They belong to the
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clan. It's got a long bad history. And then in Utah, Representative uh Trevor
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Lee, a Republican, lost his primary uh incumbent and he was famous for having
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gotten uh pride flags banned in Utah in government space.
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In his concession speech, he said, "I'm proud to have moved this state meaningfully to the right." In New York
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is on track to have the gayest legislature up there in Albany. state legislature ever with at least 10 members of the assembly and senate part
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of our community. There's Brian Romero from Jackson Heights. Ulapa I'm not going to an outgay and
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non-binary child of Peruvian immigrants from the Lower East Side in David Orcin who beat the incumbent Jennifer Raj
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Mccor and Rojos.
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No, no, this is another one. Assembly member Jessica Gonzalez Rojos won the Queen State Senate primary over the
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incumbent Jessica Ramos who had dropped out of the mayoral primary and defected to Andrew Cuomo. And this is why uh Jessica got in the race.
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I'm going to have to learn so many new people. Uh but uh they're going to we expect 10 at least 10 out LGBTQ people in the new york state legislature.
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That's and credit to the people who do run.
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Oh my heavens. Yes. There's a new study from the LGBTQ Victory Institute and Loyola Marmont University which
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basically says one in three of these folks, twothirds have experienced in-person harassment while nearly eight
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and 10 faced online abuse. One in three received death threats online. One in seven received them in one and seven
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received the death threats in person uh for for running. So, our friend Marne von Wilpert has been experiencing that in California.
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Really? And what about San Francisco and Scott Weiner?
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Oh, Scott Weiner. Now, there's an interesting case. This video is all over the internet of him. He's a a sitting state senator, I think, in California.
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longtime uh well-known popular politician, but things have turned and he won the Cong
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for for California for and he's the favorite to become the next to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the Congress who is not supporting him. No,
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there's a woman running uh Chan who is the alternative favorite for people. But Scott Weiner is being attacked because
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he's considered insufficiently supportive of Palestinians by a handful of people.
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Yes. He I mean these were people who have been harassing him. Yes.
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And with virilence and uh it that's the kind of that's the kind of harassment. Look and he's he has said I
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believe that there's a genocide going on in Gaza and all that kind of stuff. So I don't know what else he's supposed to do at this point. I'm about to, you know, I think they've they're going after him
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because he has also supported Israel's right to exist. So there he is being sort of driven out of the trans event,
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trans march, uh because this handful of people just will not stop screaming at him. I'm a little surprised that no law
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enforcement, not that I'm their biggest fans, but didn't come along and try to stop the assault, which is really what it was. Well, was he actually physically?
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No, but there you see in the video he was threatened. He was screamed at relentlessly by at least half a dozen
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people who encircled him and were really I I would call it a violent attack. Uh
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now, uh should people be supporting uh people in Gaza against the genocide being
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committed against them? For me, I would say yes. Uh but uh it's become very ugly and complicated
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and it's and of course it is one of the issue I mean the whole issue has become a reason that a lot of Democratic
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incumbents are getting defeated but I mean this was absolutely this was an this was a a separate incident. Well,
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it is part of the DSA wave because the DSA people are very strong on supporting
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Palestinians who have been uh killed and uh bombed and everything else. Uh
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and the Israelis would say uh we've been under attack ever since we came here. All right. No easy answers.
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A loss. A loss in Delaware.
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There was a proposed amendment to enshrine same-sex and interracial marriage protections in the Delaware Constitution. It needed twothirds in each house and one of the houses, some
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of the Democrats even defected and it did not pass. Now, of course, samesex marriage is legal in Delaware and every [clears throat] state in the union. This
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is one of these proposals to protect it in case the right-wing succeeds in overturning Oberfell at the Supreme
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Court uh and to get rid of leftover state laws. And this one was about
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protecting not only same-sex marriage but interracial marriage. So, which is what the Congress did with the Respect for Marriage Act that passed with bipartisan support.
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And in Hadenfield, New Jersey, uh the mayor has condemned people who grabbed nine pride flags in the middle of daytime right smack in the open.
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Ed Cotch, when he was mayor, was doing a gay pride proclamation down at a government building and one of those right-wing nuts grabbed it and tore it
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up right in front of everybody. And then, you know, all right. And then Cotch said, "Oh, leave him alone." I
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mean, instead of like, "Lock him up." What do you think would have h happened if I did that?
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Well, at least Nancy Pelosi didn't get locked up for tearing up Trump's State of the Union address. [laughter] That's not an official government document.
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Well, it was a pretty official event.
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It was a great It was one of her great books.
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It was love her forever for that. Well, anyway, these guys in New Jersey got arrested and the mayor condemned them as thin skinned bro flakes.
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[laughter]
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All right. Uh, Republican governor of New Hampshire, Kelly Ayat, is had it for the third
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time. They passed some anti-trans bill and she keeps vetoing it. You keep giving me the same thing. I'm going to keep vetoing it.
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And good for her.
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Yeah. [snorts] Uh in Colorado, the Department of Education, the US Department of Education, uh it was
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investigating Jefferson County schools all in this uh pogram against uh trans
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kids. And the federal government said they found 61 boys on girls uh teams.
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And the Jefferson County said, "Yes, there are they're there. They're managers. They're mascots. None of them are players. What the hell are you
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talking about? But the federal government has not yet backed down from their assault.
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All right. Public officials tend to wait to pride events to announce good things that they're doing. And in Sacramento,
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Governor Nuomo uh with a lot of lobbying uh did sign protections for access to
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transition related care and strengthen the laws around that. Now, this is a $26 million investment. And so that's okay.
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And then but it took some convincing.
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And then in Illinois, I mentioned Governor Pritsker. He signed three trans rights bills into law.
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Uh and then mayors in New York City, Mayor Manny announced three major new
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initiatives to safeguard and expand gender affirming care for youth and adults.
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I think that's due to you blowing the whistle on him on the uh his supposed trans care thing that
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Well, here's the thing. There's the I'm a little still a little concerned about this because a a lot of the money is for
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like a a a helpline to refer you someplace. I still want to find out. I
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mean his his trans assistant says uh it's going to be in it's already being provided in health and hospitals. I just want to get that. Sure. For sure.
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It would be nice. By the way, the uh a deep study of the New York Times has found that their oh uh they went through
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a huge shift in their coverage of trans issues in about 2022 when AG Sberger
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took over uh as publisher and other It's a family business.
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Yes, it is. And other new executives were put in place. Uh trans voices were
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declined. They don't much interview trans people in stories about trans issues and the right-wing voices have
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increased uh geometrically at the New York Times.
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Okay. Texas. Well, first of all, the board of education went through with it and they are going to put Bible verses
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on the required reading list for all the grades. Uh most of the list focuses on what they call classic literature,
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including Night by Ellie Visel, where he speaks of uh God has abandoned me. I'm I bet you they didn't read it.
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And it includes Hamlet, which is by a bisexual playwright, William Shakespeare.
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It's true. I'm sure they just did it all by the titles. Uh also in Texas, uh justice of the peace announced that she
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would not marry uh same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs and she got disciplined by a state board.
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Heavens in Texas and uh she fought back and she is now receiving $640,000
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in damages. $630,000 is for her legal fees and she gets 10,000. That's those are some highric lawyers.
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Well, speaking of religion, I want to go back to Texas Board of Education for a second. Uh they the officials say the
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Bible is an essential piece of literature and as long as you label it fiction, it's fine with me.
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Okay.
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All right. And then there's the new Texas GOP platform. Now, for years, they've been doing the most extreme things. And now they're not just
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targeting transgender people. It targets el lgbtq people broadly. Um it
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homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice. On and on and on. Calls for nullifying Ober Burgerfell. It goes on and on and on. They But again, if
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they're in control of the legislature, they can do these things. Well, as long as we're on religion, uh let's look at
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uh some of the uh uh pastors who are going to prison in uh Ohio. A very
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homophobic Reverend Silas Shelton is going to prison for sex crimes with a
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child uh in spite of all his moral uh high ground.
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Have a picture of him. I think he's a good guy. Calling for it a little out of order.
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So, uh, that's why they're a little slow on it. Reverend Silas Shelton going to jail. There he is.
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15 years in prison for child sexual abuse. Pastor.
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Uh, and beyond that, in Texas, another ex pastor is been convicted of child sex
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trafficking. He's going to prison for 35 years.
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uh he showed because he showed no remorse for his uh crimes and blamed a
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the 14-year-old girl he had uh forced into sex for uh for what [snorts] he
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did. And in San Francisco, the arch dasis will pay $395 million
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for 70 years of child victims uh of sex abuse by priests.
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And yet people still give them their money.
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They do. They don't watch Gay USA and learn these things. In Oregon, the state board of licensed professional counselors and therapists withdrew its
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previously agreed remedies against a counselor who allegedly violated their code uh by refusing to validate a client's samesex relationship. They're
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doing this in light of some court decisions, but it's disturbing.
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Well, it it may be a fine line. I read this story and I thought, well, if he didn't it doesn't sound like he tried to
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talk her out of her lesbian relationship. he just wouldn't affirm it and was overt about that and said,
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"Well, I'm, you know, I'm a Catholic. I can't approve of that." But it doesn't sound like he rejected her. Now, you may
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say whatever. But I You want an LGBTQ angle on the World Cup? Of course, it all centers on
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Seattle where they're having the Egypt Iran match, but it was also like a pride pride week. So, the stadium was doing
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pride stuff when they first scheduled the World Cup in all the different cities. Uh, and Seattle was getting a couple of matches.
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They noticed that it was uh one of the matches was falling on Friday night of uh Pride weekend and they said, "All right, we're going to call this the
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Pride match. Uh, and we're going to decorate with flags and everything." And then after that, teams qualified. Teams
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were assigned to various cities. Then lo and behold, who should be assigned to Seattle for the pride match? But Iran and Egypt.
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Not very fond of gay people. Whoa.
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So Peter Tatchel went out there and protested in the stadium and he was approached by the officials. Uh but they
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actually didn't stop him. They said as long as he stayed in his seat.
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Well, FIFA was very overt about saying that pride flags are perfectly acceptable in the stadium. that is not a
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uh you know any human rights uh signs and flags are within our uh rules. It's
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okay. Uh and Iran and Egypt after threatening to you know blow up the place. I'm exaggerating. They played the
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game. They didn't protest it. Uh and life went on and outright international which is the international uh group from our
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community advocating for people around our people around the world. They went to the city and distributed thousands of flags all over town, rainbow flags.
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Meanwhile, the controversy continues over Mexican fans uh chanting puto at
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opposing goalenders uh puto meaning
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[clears throat]
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in Spanish. And they are notorious for this uh for years and years.
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Sometimes they've been uh forced to send the entire arena home as a punishment.
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Uh but FIFA seems unable to stop these fans from chanting that. And it happened
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again this week at uh at games in Mexico City. Uh where Mexico just beat I can't
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remember who. Uh but the the fans again were chanting Puto Mexico. Mexico won the game. So I'm sure we can look
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forward to more of those chants. Uh, good news. There are both male and female outgay broadcasters covering these games on Fox.
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[laughter]
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I kid you not.
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Well, in another crime story in upstate New York, we told you about this. In 2025,
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Sam Nordquist, a trans man from I forgot where where he was originally, Minnesota. He was lured uh to uh upstate
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New York by a group of people who then imprisoned him, tortured him relentlessly and he was killed really bad.
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It's awful. So this week, Precious Arzuaga, 40 years old, admitted to all this and so being the ring leader of the
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she is pleading guilty and faces life in prison without parole.
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Okay. Uh congratulations to Lynn Brown uh who's retiring from running the Washington Blade for many years. Uh and
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will be replaced by Brian Pittz there. Uh they're all been involved with the paper for a long time. It's an essential resource.
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It is. Let's uh let's speed it up a little. Yeah.
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Uh Victoria Cruz. Victoria Cruz there uh second from the left wearing the t-shirt
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saying we make a difference worked out trans activist worked at the New York City Antiviolence Project and was the
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subject of the movie made by David France uh the death and life of Marshia
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P. Johnson because she provoked a re-examination of what is believed to be
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the murder of Marshia P. Johnson and went after it uh relentlessly and never came up with a full answer. But it's a
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really interesting documentary and she was a great activist.
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She was a survivor of addiction and sexual violence. She lived through the criminalization of crossdressing herself. Uh just a a hero,
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79 years old. Uh and then uh there was a gay male couple from Chicago who were in
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Mexico and their bodies have been found in a mass grave in Mexico. Zafar Mani
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and GMO Hidalgo Ortiz uh and their families are just uh devastated by this.
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government of Malaysia is urging the public to stop using the term LGBT to avoid normalizing LGBTQ people in the
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broader community. You have to use a phrase that means perverted deviant culture and they go after you on the internet and try to replace things. It's just wow.
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Couple of other deaths. Uh Victor Willis, the leader of the village people has died at the age of 74.
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Not gay himself, but the village people.
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[laughter]
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the village people. Yes. Not gay himself. He was the cop. He was the lead singer. He was the co-writer of YMCA and
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In the Navy. You know who his first wife was? [snorts] Felicia Rashad. Wow.
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Yes. Exactly. Uh he uh fought to have he fought for his own copyright uh rights.
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He was part of the movement by the Village People not to let Trump use the songs, but eventually he joined a
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performance with the Village People for Trump's uh second inauguration.
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Gay Games 12 got underway in Valencia, Spain with 9,000 athletes in great heat.
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Uh it's uh but controversial. local leftists uh were boycotting the opening of the gay
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games because when they were awarded to Valencia, Spain, the progressive leftist government was in power. And then a
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couple of years later, the government changed to a right-wing government and now that government is in charge when the gay games open. And
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so they're calling it pinkwashing by the conservatives, but it's not like they're stopping the games from going forward.
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No, but they're taking down pride flags all over the city. Oh, okay.
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And doing other things. They're terrible. One more death. Karen Clark in Minnesota, 80 years old. She was the first out person in the Minnesota
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legislature in 1980. She said coming out as the most important political act. She
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worked on non-discrimination legislation and marriage. She was a real trailblazer.
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Somebody we talked about many times over the years.
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Yes. All right. Uh, other international news. Uh I don't go ahead.
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Well, in Russia, a club owner and two assistants have been uh assigned to prison uh for organizing LGBTQ events.
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Uh and in Turkey that once again they held the pride parade under great uh controversy. 50 plus people were arrested at the pride parade.
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Very brave.
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Yeah. And in the UK, uh, they published a draft of a ban on conversion therapy finally.
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Well, let's let's let it happen.
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[clears throat]
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Yeah. Okay.
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Like Lucy in the football or Charlie Brown in the football.
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People still are dying of AIDS. And one of them is a an actress Dave Chase uh who was 35. She starred in the ring as a
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child actress and voiced the character Lilo in Lilo and Stitch. But in recent years, she had we have a picture of her somewhere there.
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Yeah. She had become a victim of drug abuse. She was living on the streets and
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she contracted HIV and she died at age 35.
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She stepped away from the spotlight back in 2013. Entertainment news.
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She had an accident and got hooked on uh pain.
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All right. Entertainment news. I saw on Netflix the documentary Chris and Martina, the final set. It's a
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tremendously moving documentary about Chris Ever, Chris Ever and Martina Natalovva. It's a great sports documentary and it's very full of heart
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as they each battle their respective cancers, ovarian cancer for Chris and throat and previously breast cancer for
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Martina. Um, it fully explores how Martina's being reported to be bisexual gay before she was ready to come out
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affected her life and performance and endorsements, but it's ultimately a portrait of an amazing bond. These were
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the two biggest the greatest tennis players of their time and uh, you know, in some I mean, they they were such
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rivals and yet now they were friends, they were not friends and and now they're friends.
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Yes. Yes. Exactly. They went back and forth. Uh this weekend at the IFC Center Theater here in New York on Sunday and
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Monday, they're screening Rated X, a film from 1986 that's been restored.
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We've had these filmmakers on here before Lucy Wer and Paula Dennisburg.
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This is a terrific documentary about uh sexism and culture in America.
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They go around talking to men all over the country about [laughter] their sexist points of view. The filmmakers
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will be at the screenings for a Q&A afterwards. Uh so that's at the IFC Center rated X uh Sunday and Monday. Uh
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I watched this isn't particularly gay the way everyone was dressed may have been the BET Awards.
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Black Entertainment Television.
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Exactly. I actually I've never seen an audience at an award show better dressed. It was just spectacular. But they were giving a special award to
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Lauren Hill uh who I whose work I love, especially the first album, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill. There she is uh performing.
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This tribute went on so long that they took two commercial breaks in the middle
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of the tribute. It went on for like half an hour in the last half hour of the show and they had just every artist you
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could think of getting up and singing her song and songs and and paying tribute to her and all decked out in
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this these fantastic clothes. And finally she got up and said, you know, I wasn't planning to sing, but they didn't
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do this song and I want to do it, so I'm going to sing that now. [laughter] It was fantastic. So, uh, I recommend watching a rerun of the BET Awards.
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Uh, the documentary we've told you about, Bang My Box, The Robin Bird Story, one of our fellow public access, uh, hosts on, uh, New York television.
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Quite the legend. Um, it's now running on HBO and HBO Max. I started to watch it. Yeah.
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Yeah. Uh, Lum Mleta is in it. He is there because he and Robin our founder.
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Yes. He and Robin and Al Goldstein all pornographers of one level or another uh had been [clears throat] on this least access channel where you buy time.
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That's where we were originally. Uh, and the government came in and said, "Well, we're going to censor this where it's
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not good for children and we're going to, uh, cover up stuff and and bleep stuff and we're going to censor it." And they said, "Hey, uh, this is not right.
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We have the right of free speech on this channel. We're not doing anything over the line." And they sued and they went
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through this long court case and they won. Something unimaginable these days, I would say. I remember when we had an
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unfortunate uh health commissioner named Woody Meyers, a Republican, brought in by David, my friend from the Midwest and
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we were at a reception. We were trying to get along with him because AIDS was so important we were working on and channel 35 came up and the conversation
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he goes, [snorts] "Oo, I'm sitting there watching TV in New York and this stuff [laughter] kind of stuff." I mean, because there was a tremendous amount of
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nudity. Uh, you weren't allowed to I don't want to get too f but you weren't allowed to show insertion, but you could be totally naked and certainly they were on these on these shows.
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Uh, yes. Uh, there were some rules about uh you couldn't touch couldn't touch a
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penis or a vagina. You could you but you you you couldn't close and you weren't supposed to show an erection. No, we don't do anything
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like that here and [laughter] here on here on M&N and here on free speech TV.
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Well, there's a distinction between least access where you buy the time and have more freedom and uh public access
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which has some rules about language and uh images and whatever. But this
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documentary uh Bang My Box uh the Robin Bird story is an explanation of all that
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and of Robin who really is the most charming sweet person. And I think people don't expect her to be but when I
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remember first meeting her years ago and realizing that she was just this really nice human being.
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So sexual liberation continues. Does it?
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We'll see. I I am I'm of course disturbed by a lot of these uh Supreme Court decisions. They're
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disturbed. I mean, it here we are on the verge of the 250th anniversary of the Republic. And it's they're basically saying it's over.
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Well, yes, they are. And the thing that scares me and we're going to run things and our money people are going to run things and you can pound sand
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and I am concerned that we're going to lose a liberal justice and that's really going to be the end of it.
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Well, of course the rumors are that Alito and Thomas may retire.
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Well, Nina Totenberg said Al had announced his retirement and then had to retract it. So I expect him to retire before the end of
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this term so that Trump Well, it is the end of this term.
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No, no, no. I mean, you don't retire by the end by the end of the year.
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Republicans only need a week to stick somebody in if they are determined to do so.
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You know, they're they may want to wait till after the election. Yes. Because because otherwise Susan Collins is going to be on the spot again.
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Yes.

 

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