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The Weekly Readlines March 25: Ketanji Kills It, Putin’s War Crimes, and the Week in Headlines
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use once a week. You can view the archives here. And for your listening pleasure, this week’s podcast edition!
Quote for the Week: “Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.” ― Shannon L. Alder 
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson survived the avalanche of dog whistles as Republicans tried to smear her with their “woke” and “critical race theory” crayons, employing words and concepts as tired and useless as they are. Absent another Supreme Court seat theft, she will be confirmed.
Ukraine continued to turn Putin’s wet dream into a bowel blockage. The trucker convoy got stalled by a single bicyclist in D.C. And Disney employees staged a walk out against Florida’s contribution to the Don’t Say Gay hate craze.
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The Weekly Readlines March 19: Senate Saves Daylight, Most Americans Prefer Equality
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Saturday morning. You can view the archives here. The podcast edition will return in May when I retire!
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: The Senate voted unanimously to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. No more changing the clocks. Yes! Cherry on top: a new poll shows most Americans are opposed to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills trending among the theo-fascist crowd.
On the other hand, the onslaught of bills in GOP-led states targeting LGBTQ+ people and brutalizing trans kids and their families continues unabated, redefining cruelty for the post-equality era.
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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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The Twist Podcast #186: Biden Unites NATO, FL Students Say Gay, Chocolate Frogs, Weed Snacks and More!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we salute Biden’s wartime leadership, thank the Florida student walk out, check the latest weeds snacks and chocolate frogs, and scan the week in headlines! Twist Top picks, listicles, and video edition, too!
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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
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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.
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The Weekly Readlines February 22
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Wednesday morning. You can view the archives here. And coming this spring: an audio edition of the Readlines. Fasten your headphones!
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: the Trump crime family inched closer to indictment on racketeering charges, with the organization’s accounting firm cutting and running. That may be it for an otherwise bleak news cycle.
Vladimir Putin “recognized” two separatist regions of Ukraine, in preparation for what everyone assumes will be a full scale invasion of the sovereign nation.
Taking this week’s hate cake, Florida’s sure-to-pass Don’t Say Gay Bill includes an amendment requiring schools to out LGBTQ students to their parents, with a “harm exemption” removed. So much for saving the children.
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The Weekly Readlines Februrary 9
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 70 years on the throne!
Mike Pence said Trump was wrong to claim the VP can overturn an election (cue vicious attacks). And the national Republican Party declared beating Capitol police with flag poles and smearing excrement on the Senate walls is ‘legitimate political discourse.’ What a world!
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The Weekly Readlines February 2
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement. President Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, while conservatives began their smear campaign and accusations of quota-filling (having apparently never heard of Thurgood Marshall’s replacement).
Texas indulged its inner fire starter and began pulling LGBTQ and race-related book titles from school shelves in record numbers. Florida, neck-and-neck in the race to erase, readied a bill to prohibit schools and private corporations from telling White snowflakes that they may not be the most special people ever. So discomforting!
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The Weekly Readlines January 26
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: the Supreme Court, which doesn’t often make it into the ‘good news’ section, bit the hand that fed it and rejected former president Trump’s claim of executive privilege. Ingrates!
The stock market took its worst tumble since the pandemic began. Virginia lurched jarringly to the right under the sheep-clothed wolf named Governor Youngkin, while Florida made further inroads into simply erasing Black people. Putin made it clear he wants Ukraine for breakfast, and the world generally accelerated its handbasket ride to hell.
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The Weekly Readlines January 19
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: New Jersey codified marriage equality into law with the governor’s signature January 10, in the event Their Royal Highnesses on the Supreme Court overturn Obergfell.
Conservative gadfly Ann Coulter declared Trump over, she’s got a C-note on DeSantis in the Crazy Stakes. Putin moved forward with the Ukraine invasion everyone knows is coming. And Democratic woes increasingly spell doom for the road ahead. Don’t worry, be happy!
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The Weekly Readlines January 12
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BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIESFirst the good news: President Biden gave the most important speech of his political career on the anniversary of the January 6 attempted coup. And health experts say the COVID pandemic could soon become endemic and we could get on with our lives at last.
Speaking of COVID, millions of workers are calling out sick, straining the economic recovery. The Biden administration pivots to voting rights after Joe Manchin killed the Build Back Better Act in a fit of pique. And the Omicron variant sees hospitalizations at their highest levels yet. And it’s still January.