The Weekly Readlines May 24

From the Editor’s Desk: As the world, or at least America, loses its collective mind (quite willingly, considering the results of the last election), I am less inclined to lose mine with it. I see and read so much awfulness, from a regime that is hellbent on destroying whatever it was I thought we were as Americans, to the relentless reminders from The Left that THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT IS OVER! Democracy hangs by a thread. They’re coming for each and every one one of us. Frankly, it’s exhausting. It’s kind of like being on death row and having the guards tell us the preacher’s on his way to offer a last prayer and we’ll all be killed by lethal injection any day … just not today.

I’m aware of all of it. And I’m tired of letting it whip me around emotionally like some button on a string, round and round and round. If America is in hospice care, that’s the way it is. I hope not. I believe we will outlive all this, although so much damage will be irreversible. But goddamnit, I’ll be 67 this year, and I’m not giving my good days, or my bad days, or any other days to this manufactured fear and doom and terror. Oh. Hell. No.

BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S STOP STORIES

President Biden Announces Cancer Diagnosis

GOP House Passes Reconciliation Bill, Stripping Healthcare from Millions

Trump Holds Private Memecoin Dinner, Taking Bribes from the Highest Bidders

LGBTQ

Trump Agenda Bill Would Block Medicaid From Covering Gender-Affirming Care – The Hill

100 Years Ago, The Pioneering LGBTQ+ Rights Leader Frank Kameny Was Born

Paris Unveils A Memorial To LGBTQ Victims Of Nazi Regime And Other Persecutions

U.S. AND BEYOND

‘I’m Staying’: Serbia’s Second-City LGBT Pride Week Sends Defiant Message

Global LGBTQ Rights Crackdown Overshadows This Year’s Idahobit – Washington Blade

Where Pope Leo Stands on LGBTQ+ Rights, Women, and Climate | TIME