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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
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The Weekly Readlines March 9: No Big Macs for Moscow, Drinking Shrinks Your Brain, and the Week in Headlines
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Saturday morning. You can view the archives here. And for your listening pleasure – the podcast edition!
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
First the good news: the West and our allies continue fierce opposition to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, including several corporations halting their presence in Russia. Will the end of Big Macs do what sanctions have yet to achieve?Florida students and their allies took a stand against the Don’t Say Gay bills proliferating across the country, while the Secretary of Education condemned the bills and said they may violate Title IX. Fight on, rainbow warriors, fight on.
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Fasten Your Headphones! The Weekly Readlines Podcast Edition Starts Now – Show #1
Call me a recovering news junkie who learned to digest the news in moderation. It is possible! These days I put out The Weekly Readlines (“rhymes with ‘headlines'”) every week as part of the LGBTSr.com landscape, and at my own website. I’ve long wanted to augment it with an audio edition, which in modern parlance means a podcast. I’m finally launching it with this very first episode. In it you’ll get a brief weekly introduction, followed by some headlines, commentary, and a few deeper dives into the news driving us all to distraction.
This week: Biden unites NATO and the West against Putin’s grotesque land grab of Ukraine; Florida students stage a walk out against the state’s sure-to-pass “Don’t Say Gay” bill; praise for SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson (surely no harder to pronounce that Reince Priebus); and a look at the headlines grabbing our attention this week.
Listen for a new Readlines podcast each week with the online edition. If you don’t want to miss either one, just subscribe to LGBTSr.com HERE. That’s the list that gets them every Saturday. Peace, everyone! The alternatives are worse.
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The Weekly Readlines March 4
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Saturday morning. You can view the archives here. And now you can listen to the podcast edition HERE! pleasure!
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: President Biden united NATO and the West against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and high school students across Florida staged a walk out over the ever-so-hateful Don’t Say Gay bill.
Texas unleashed the state against trans kids and their parents, while millions of children were plunged into poverty with the expiration of the expanded child tax credit killed by Joe Manchin. Not to be outdone in the race to the bottom, the Wyoming Senate defunded the Gender Studies program at the state university, since women belong in the kitchen and the maternity ward.