Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia has submitted a bill that would change the name of Greenland to "Red, White, and Blueland"βand he's dead serious.
We've all heard Republicans trying to label Kamala Harris "a DEI hire." The racist dog whistles are blaring loudly in these latest attacks. In The Big Picture's newest piece, writer Amelia Christnot explores what DEI really means and why Trump and his allies want so desperately to undermine its value.
In case it wasnβt clear what kind of person the new Speaker Mike Johnson is, here is an OpEd he wrote advising that states should βdiscriminateβ against βhomosexual conductβ and suggesting they pass laws around βsexual conduct outside marriage.β He is a Christo-Nationalist zealot. Of βThe Handmaidβs Taleβ variety.
This is for the young progressives out there. When I was a bit younger, I was terribly disappointed with then President Bill Clinton, who signed the hateful DOMA and Donβt Ask, Donβt Tell into law. It seemed he had betrayed all of his values and the LGBTQ community that had helped get him elected. There was a part of me that said I would stand on principle and never vote for him again.
But then I remembered, voting isnβt about loving everything about your candidate. /1