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Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore broke his silence about the 2024 election on Wednesday, lashing out at Americans as “not a good people” for electing Donald Trump to a second term by a wide margin. By contrast, the progressive director and activist offered total confidence before the election, predicting Trump was “toast” against Vice President Kamala Harris.“If you stop and think about it, we’ve come up with a lot of doozies in our history,” he wrote in a post on MichaelMoore.com.

Valley News about a listening tour he launched visiting all ten of New Hampshire’s counties, a step that usually precedes an official campaign announcement. “We’re getting out there and having lots of conversations with folks in all corners of the Granite State about what the path forward should look like, and I really trust and value the feedback of this state,” Pappas told the paper.

The Center Square.The bill directs school boards to enact penalties for students who act in such a manner, including suspension or expulsion.Additionally, the measure allows the Texas Attorney General to impose a fine of $10,000 for a first offense — and $25,000 for subsequent offenses — if teachers and administrators fail to stop students from behaving like animals.Gerdes’ measure would also amend the Texas Family Code to redefine mental or emotional injury to a child as including “allowing or encouraging the child to develop a dependence on or belief that non-human behaviors are societally acceptable.”Under the code, allowing such behavior would be considered tantamount to subjecting a child to harm, including sexual abuse, human trafficking, prostitution, child pornography, child marriage, and use of controlled substances.Gerdes filed the bill in response to feedback from constituents, and a furry-related incident that allegedly occurred at the Smithville Independent School District.He did not elaborate on what the incident entailed or when it occurred — although he claimed that the superintendent confirmed the incident had taken place — and no known news reports in recent years have covered any such alleged incident.Gerdes’ obsession with furries relies on a common right-wing trope that has been repeated by Republicans who have sought political office.

Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court struck down all existing state-level same-sex marriage bans.

a Los Angeles fundraiser in June, Clooney said, “I saw him for hours a year earlier at the Kennedy Center, and I saw someone much less sharp.”Dowd wrote that the experience left Clooney “gobsmacked.”“I’ve always liked Joe Biden, and I like him still,” he added.Clooney also reflected on why President Donald Trump won the election, pointing to Biden’s messaging. “The Biden administration was terrible at explaining that we’re a world economy, where we were actually doing better than all the other G7 countries.

Pete Buttigieg is reportedly “taking a serious look” at running for one of Michigan’s U.S. Senate seats in 2026.“Pete is exploring all of his options on how he can be helpful and continue to serve,” a person close to the former Transportation Secretary told Axios. “He’s honored to be mentioned for this and he’s taking a serious look.”The seat is currently held by Democratic U.S.

Jason Riddle, a Naval veteran from Keene, New Hampshire, was a Trump supporter and a frequent attendee of Trump campaign rallies during the 2020 campaign season. He attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, to see the president one last time before Trump left office following his 2020 defeat.“I didn’t really believe the ‘big lie,’” Riddle told Vermont Public Radio of Trump’s contention that Democrats stole the 2020 election. But he noted that he “more than likely perpetuated” the conspiracy theory on social media.

Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper) claimed that the measure should be defeated because it does not address the ability of religious clergy to decline to perform marriages.However, last year, the House and Senate passed a law, signed into effect by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, that protects the right of same-sex couples to marry and allows any religious clergy or organizations to refuse to perform or participate in a same-sex wedding.

writing, “Make gay marriage illegal again. This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme.”Make gay marriage illegal again.This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme.— Rep.

Defining Male and Female Act of 2024” seeks to enshrine gender-specific definitions of various words into law, including the terms “girl,” “boy,” “father,” “mother,” “female,” and “male.”The bill defines sex as fixed at birth and binary, and defines gender, in certain contexts, as a synonym for sex, while expressly not including gender identity or gender expression.Under the bill, “male” and “female” are defined as individuals who naturally have — or would have, but for a congenital anomaly — a reproductive system that produces, respectively, sperm or eggs for fertilization.The bill states that “rare disorders of sexual development are not exceptions to the binary nature of sex,” and that “in no case is an individual’s sex determined by stipulation or self-identification.”Marshall, an OB/GYN by trade, argues that due to recent “confusion” surrounding the definition of sex — which he defines as a “biological truth” — the bill is needed to codify those meanings permanently into law.The bill also states that maintaining sex-segregated facilities or sports leagues based on physical differences between the sexes shall not be considered “unequal treatment under the law,” which appears to be an effort to protect against lawsuits brought by transgender advocates.Marshall said in a news release that the bill would push back against the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology,” would ban transgender athletes from female sports, and would ensure that restrooms, locker and dorm rooms, prisons, and shelters for victims of sexual assault continue to be separated by sex.“As a physician who has delivered over 5,000 babies, I can confidently say that politicizing children’s gender

Cavuto: Coast to Coast.”“But you know, [we’ll] get past it.”Germanotta agreed with FOX Business’ David Asman that he considers himself an “open-minded Republican,” often aligning with liberal-leaning social issues.“What really needs to happen is, people need to understand that even though I’m a Republican and I have Republican conservative attitudes, that doesn’t mean I don’t support the LGBTQ community, or drag as a form of artistry,” he expanded.“And that’s why we use the restaurant as a venue for them to come in, the drag artists,” Germanotta said, “and perform once a week.”The Joanne Trattoria owner officially endorsed Trump for president in September, but more recently, his Grammy Award-winning daughter made a public appearance in support of Vice President Kamala Harris on the last day of campaigning.Lady Gaga gave a heartfelt performance alongside a star-studded lineup for Harris, which included Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry, James Taylor and Ricky Martin.The father-daughter duo do not entirely agree politically, as Germanotta has been outspoken about New York City’s demise under Democratic leadership.If Harris had won, “I think it would have killed a lot of businesses in New York City,” Germanotta said while claiming he had plans to move to Wyoming.“Between the immigration and the crime and the economy, it’s a cascading effect,” he said.Trump’s win, however, felt like “a hat trick,” and Germanotta is “of course” happy with the final result.“As soon as we start getting the economy straightened out, and they ‘drill, baby, drill,’ and the price of gas comes down, that producer price index is going to go down, which means consumers are going to get a better deal. I’ll be able to lower prices.

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have some salience among voters.Both men have been attacked for supporting the Equality Act, a sweeping bill to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, public accommodations, credit, lending, jury service, and other aspects of life — though it is decidedly silent on athletic participation.Republicans have claimed that prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity will ultimately spread to the world of sports, allowing transgender females to compete on female-designated teams.Additionally, the bill’s provisions for public accommodations would pertain to instances where transgender individuals are barred from accessing facilities like restrooms or locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Allred has also been attacked for voting against the so-called “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” which passed the House of Representatives on a party-line 219-203 vote.

♬ original sound – 5280BasedHomo There’s no solid evidence — other than Guggenheim’s claims — that the bar only charged conservatives $40 to enter.Phil Newland of Buddies disputed Guggenheim, noting that “considerable misinformation” has been spread regarding the incident.Newland told Metro Weekly in an email that the bar was holding a small fundraiser supporting the Harris-Walz campaign from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Trump’s Truth Social post, said she was criticized after posting a TikTok video about the Swifties for Trump movement, which she is now the face of. “I got literally thousands of comments telling me Taylor would hate me, telling me I’m a betrayer, I’m a traitor,” she told The Post.“But I also got some backlash from conservatives as well. Because they know Taylor Swift is liberal and a lot of them don’t like the message that she gives to young girls.” Piwowarczyk, 19, whose TikTok post got 216,000 views, said the Swifties for Trump movement gained momentum after Trump’s post, which garnered 10,100 likes from some of his 7.63 million followers.“He posted two pictures of me wearing my Swifties for Trump shirt,” said the political science major at Concordia University in Mequon, WI.

today’s Republican Party is nothing like the one in “The West Wing.”Sorkin, who created the ’90s political drama series, spoke at a Los Angeles event for his upcoming book on Saturday and addressed what he thinks the show would look like if made in the present day.“What would be different would be this, and I don’t want to get a rumble started over anything. I’m afraid to say that right now — and maybe things will be different a year from now or two years from now, but right now — it would be implausible that the opposition party, that the Republican Party, was reasonable,” the 63-year-old TV writer said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“People would watch that and it would be unfamiliar to them as the country that they live in,” added Sorkin.

pic.twitter.com/KMvcMMoM39— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 16, 2024Walsh attacked the party’s decision-making, noting that there have been multiple examples of celebrities who have backed Donald Trump, only to be revealed as not being sufficiently ideologically conservative in his view.Walsh attacked Rose over an interview in which she praised the Satanic Temple, a non-theistic organization and religious movement that promotes civil rights, for “helping a lot of people” get abortions.“If it is outrageous and offensive to suggest that a person such as [Rose] is perhaps not fit to be a prime time Republican speaker, then conservatism as a movement is in even worse shape than I thought,” Walsh wrote on X. “In conclusion: come on, guys.

transgender participation in women’s sports, which has become a rallying cry in recent years as various Republican-led legislatures have passed laws barring trans participation, and as various sporting bodies have sought to adopt restrictions prohibiting transgender or intersex athletes from competing as women. James accused Democrats of wanting “to take your dollars…take your voice…take your control, and give it back to D.C.

Business Insider.Only 46% of Republicans now support allowing same-sex couples to marry, and only 40% believe such relationships are morally acceptable.According to Gallup’s Values and Beliefs poll, 69% of Americans support allowing same-sex nuptials, just slightly below the record high of 71% in 2022 and 2023. Support has declined slightly among Democrats and political independents, dropping from 87% to 84% among the first group and from 77% to 74% in the latter group.The poll, conducted from May 1-23, 2024, finds that almost two-thirds of Americans believe same-sex relations are morally acceptable — a drop from 2022, when 71% responded in the affirmative.Two years ago, 85% of Democrats and 72% of independents felt same-sex relations were morally acceptable.

50-page platform, which delegates approved during the party’s annual state convention in San Antonio on May 25, contains several planks meant to cater to social conservatives. While party platforms are not binding, they generally provide voters with an idea of the issues that will be prioritized by party leadership should they take power and a statement of a party’s values.Among the Texas GOP’s various planks are opposition to marriage equality, including a full repeal of the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that overturned various state bans on same-sex marriage, denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and the refusal to recognize same-sex marriages that were legally performed in other states as valid.The party also espouses the right of business owners or state and county employees to refuse to participate in, provide goods and services for, or be forced to recognize the validity of, marriages between two people of the same gender.The party also opposes criminal or civil penalties, including lawsuits or fines, against those who oppose “nontraditional sexual behavior or same-sex relationships due to their religious convictions.”“We affirm God’s biblical design for marriage and family between one biological man and one biological woman, which has proven to be the foundation for all great nations in Western Civilization,” the platform reads.

refuses to recognize transgender identity as valid and restricts access to single-sex spaces based on a person’s assigned sex at birth.The Little Rock-based InTRANSitive has seen repeated acts of vandalism against its community center since opening in December 2021. The vandalism appears to have increased as the organization has become more visible, with its members and staffers speaking out against proposed laws targeting transgender people.Beginning last year, someone damaged the pipes outside of the building at least four times, according to Rumba Yambú, founder and executive director of InTRANSitive.Solar-powered security cameras have disappeared, and plants in the yard have been damaged.