Why is still so shockg to see gay people mastream ads? At a time when every other mographic is practilly shoehorned to marketg for the sake of diversy, gays and lbians are still all but visible the TV advertisg landspe. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are fely out there. To close out Gay Pri Month, we tracked down 50 of them om around the world and anized them to seven tegori that seem to keep poppg up ("Lbians Are Hot," "Don't Tell Mom," etc.). Check out the llectn after the jump.
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- A LOT OF BEARD DUS ARE HILARLY MAD OVER BUD LIGHT AD FEATURG TRANS ACTIVISTTHEY’RE EXPRSG THEIR OUTRAGE BY DUMPG PERFECTLY DRKABLE BEER DOWN THE DRA.MICHAEL HICKEY/GETTY IMAGKID ROCK PERFORMG 2016PEOPLE ARE SO MAD ABOUT BUD LIGHT’S LATT AD MPAIGN WH A TRANSGENR ACTIVIST THAT THEY ARE THROWG THEIR MONEY—AND BEER—AWAY.TRANS FLUENCER DYLAN MULVANEY SHARED AN INSTAGRAM POST SPONSORED BY BUD LIGHT ON SUNDAY TO PROMOTE THE BEER’S MARCH MADNS MPAIGN AND TO MARK HER ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TRANSNG. VIEW THIS POST ON INSTAGRAM A POST SHARED BY DYLAN MULVANEY (@DYLANMULVANEY) TRANSPHOBIC BACKLASH PICKED UP SPEED OVER THE URSE OF THE WEEK AND BY THURSDAY HAD GAED TWO CELEBRY BOYTTERS.MICIAN KID ROCK POSTED A VIO OF HIM SHOOTG SEVERAL S OF BUD LIGHT WH AN TOMATIC RIFLE, A MOVE NMNED THE WAKE OF THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG. AND UNTRY MICIAN TRAVIS TRT ANNOUNCED HE WOULD NO LONGER CLU ANY PRODUCTS MA BY ANHSER-BCH, BUD LIGHT’S PARENT PANY (WHICH, TURN, IS OWNED BY TERNATNAL NGLOMERATE AB INBEV), ON HIS TOUR REHMENT REQUT LISTS. HE ALSO PLAED ABOUT JACK DANIELS’S PRI MONTH MPAIGN—OM 2021.THE TER IS AWASH WH VIOS OF (PRIMARILY WHE, PRIMARILY MALE, PRIMARILY BEARD) PEOPLE EXPRSG OUTRAGE OVER BUD LIGHT’S MPAIGN WH MULVANEY BY POURG PERFECTLY FE—ALBE WATERY AND MASS-PRODUCED—BEER DOWN THE DRA.#2 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 #7 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 #8 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 NONE OF THE BOYTTERS APPEAR TO HAVE EVER HEARD OF RABOW PALISM, WHICH IS WHEN PANI E LGBTQ BRANDG TO MARKET PRODUCTS WHOUT ACTUALLY DOG ANYTHG TO SUPPORT LGBTQ . BUD LIGHT HASN’T NECSARILY GONE “WOKE”; THE PANY JT WANTS TO REACH A DIFFERENT SAL MOGRAPHIC. IN FACT, 2021 WAS THE STONEWALL INN, THE HISTORIC LGBTQ BAR NEW YORK CY, THAT WAS POURG BUD LIGHT DOWN THE DRA—TO PROTT ANHSER-BCH’S POLIL NTRIBUTNS TO ANTI-LGBTQ LAWMAKERS.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON BEARDSTHE SUM OF ALL BEARDSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 6, 2023/4:57 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYA SEND CRACKPOT DEMOCRAT JOS THE RACE TO LOSE TO BIN 2024SELF-HELP THOR MARIANNE WILLIAMSON IS NO LONGER ALONE ON THE LIST OF GE NDIDAT FOR THE PARTY’S NOMATN.JOHN LAMPARSKI/GETTY IMAGROBERT KENNEDY JR. 2019LEADG ANTI-VACCE ACTIVIST ROBERT KENNEDY JR. HAS ANNOUNCED HE IS NNG FOR PRINT AS A DEMOCRAT.KENNEDY FILED HIS STATEMENT OF NDIDACY ON WEDNDAY. HE IS THE SEND PERSON TO CLARE A DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL N, AFTER SELF-HELP THOR MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. PRINT JOE BIN HAS YET TO FORMALLY CLARE HIS NDIDACY, ALTHOUGH HE HAS REPEATEDLY SAID HE TENDS TO N FOR REELECTN.KENNEDY, AN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER, IS THE NEPHEW OF FORMER PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE SON OF FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY. HE HAS WORKED ON SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE S THROUGHOUT HIS REER, CLUDG DEWAYNE JOHNSON V. MONSANTO, WHICH FOUND THAT AGROCHEMIL GIANT MONSANTO FAILED TO WARN PEOPLE ABOUT THE NCER RISKS POSED BY S HERBICI ROUNDUP.BUT KENNEDY IS ALSO A PROMENT ANTI-VAXXER. HE HAS PROMOTED THE SCIENTIFILLY DISCREDED LK BETWEEN VACC AND TISM SCE 2005, AND 2011 HE FOUND THE ANTI-VAX GROUP CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE.PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS AND EVEN HIS OWN FAY MEMBERS HAVE SCRIBED HIS ANTI-VAX WORK AS MISLEADG AND DANGERO.AT THE START OF THE PANMIC, KENNEDY CRICIZED PUBLIC HEALTH RTRICTNS AIMED AT SLOWG THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, SUCH AS FACE MASKS AND THE NEWLY VELOPED VACC. HE REPEATEDLY PARED THE RTRICTNS TO THE NAZIS AND THE HOLOT, GOG SO FAR 2022 AS TO IMPLY THAT AMERINS HAD WORSE THAN ANNE FRANK DID.HE ALSO ACCED ANTHONY FCI, WHO LED THE WHE HOE COVID RPONSE, OF “FASCISM.”CBS NEWS JOURNALIST ROBERT COSTA REPORTED THAT WHE NATNALIST AND FORMER DONALD TMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON HAD BEEN PHG KENNEDY FOR MONTHS TO N. ACRDG TO CBS, BANNON THOUGHT KENNEDY WOULD BE “A EFUL CHAOS AGENT THE 2024 RACE AND A BIG NAME WHO ULD HELP STOKE ANTI-VACCE SENTIMENT AROUND THE UNTRY.”ALTHOUGH HE IS NNG AS A DEMOCRAT, KENNEDY ALSO HAS TI TO THE FAR RIGHT. A PHOTO POSTED ON INSTAGRAM (AND SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED) SHOWED HIM BACKSTAGE AT A REAWAKEN AMERI EVENT JULY 2021. NPR HAS SCRIBED REAWAKEN AMERI AS “PART NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN REVIVAL, PART QANON EXPO, AND PART POLIL RALLY.”IN THE PHOTO, KENNEDY IS POSG WH TMP ALLY ROGER STONE, FORMER TMP NATNAL SECURY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN, AND ANTI-VAX MPAIGNER CHARLENE BOLLGER.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON 2024TMP’S 2024 RIVALS ARE TOO SRED TO CRICIZE HIM POST-INDICTMENTMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 6, 2023/3:18 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCLARENCE THOMAS’S LUXURY VATNS ARE PAID FOR BY A REPUBLIN MEGADONORTHE SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD ON SUPERYACHTS AND PRIVATE JETS URTY OF HARLAN CROW.ERIC LEE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGSUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS HAS SPENT S SECRETLY ENJOYG LAVISH ISLAND-HOPPG EXCURSNS ON SUPERYACHTS AND ON-MAND PRIVATE JET RIS URTY OF A BILLNAIRE REPUBLIN MEGADONOR, PROPUBLI HAS REVEALED.HARLAN CROW, A REAL TATE TYON, REPORTEDLY HAS GIFTED THOMAS AN ARRAY OF LUXUR TRIPS “VIRTUALLY EVERY YEAR” FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, CLUDG A NE-DAY ADVENTURE INDONIA ON A YACHT STAFFED WH ATTENDANTS AND A PRIVATE CHEF, AS WELL AS VISS TO CROW’S EXCLIVE “ALL-MALE” RETREAT CALIFORNIA, HIS TEXAS RANCH, AND HIS PRIVATE RORT THE ADIRONDACKS.AND THOMAS DISCLOSED NONE OF . WHILE THE GIFTS THEMSELV ARE PERMISSIBLE, SHOCKGLY, PROPUBLI NOT THAT THOMAS’S FAILURE TO DISCLOSE THEM VLAT A LAW PASSED AFTER WATERGATE THAT APPLI TO JTIC, JUDG, MEMBERS OF CONGRS, AND OTHER FERAL OFFICIALS.THE WARM RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THOMAS AND CROW BEGAN SOME THREE S AGO, AND CROW WASTED NO TIME SHOWERG THOMAS WH GIFTS. ONE OF THE FIRST, WHICH THOMAS DID KDLY DISCLOSE, WAS A $19,000 BIBLE ORIGALLY OWNED BY FRERICK DOUGLASS. THE GIFT GIVG HAS NTUED EVER SCE—AND NOT JT TO THE JTICE. THOMAS’S WIFE, GNI, JOED MANY OF THE TRIPS—SUCH AS THE INDONIAN JNT—AND AS POLI REVEALED 2011, CROW HAS GIVEN AT LEAST $500,000 TO A TEA PARTY GROUP SHE FOUND (AND WHICH LATER SHUT DOWN).THIS IS HARDLY THE FIRST OF THE UPLE’S ETHIL ENTANGLEMENTS. GNI THOMAS WAS TIMATELY VOLVED ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTN, AS REVEALED TEXTS WH NUMERO OFFICIALS, CLUDG TMP CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS. IN JANUARY 2022, HER HBAND WAS THE ONLY JTICE TO VOTE AGAST ORRG THE RELEASE OF THE PAPER TRAIL OF SUCH MUNITNS. THE NEW YORKER’S JANE MAYER REPORTED THAT SAME MONTH THAT GNI THOMAS “HAS HELD LEARSHIP POSNS AT NSERVATIVE PRSURE GROUPS THAT HAVE EHER BEEN VOLVED S BEFORE THE COURT OR HAVE HAD MEMBERS ENGAGED SUCH S.” THE FOLLOWG MONTH, THE NEW YORK TIM MAGAZE SCRIBED “THE EXTENT TO WHICH JTICE THOMAS FLOUTED JUDICIAL-ETHICS GUIDANCE BY PARTICIPATG EVENTS HOSTED BY NSERVATIVE ANIZATNS WH MATTERS BEFORE THE URT.”THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR TNR TO CROWN THE UPLE “SUNDRELS OF THE YEAR.” AS EDOR MICHAEL TOMASKY WROTE LAST DECEMBER, “NO ONE HAS DAMAGED THE SUPREME COURT’S REPUTATN MORE THAN THE THOMAS. IT’S ONE THG TO HAVE A HARD-RIGHT IOLOGY.… BUT TO IMPOSE THAT VISN ON THE MOCRACY WHILE FLOUTG S L, WHICH LERALLY EVERY OTHER SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS FOLLOWED? THAT SHOWS NTEMPT FOR THE MOCRACY THEY TELL THEMSELV THEY ARE SAVG, AND ANNOUNC TO THE RT OF THAT NOTHG IS MORE IMPORTANT TO CLARENCE THOMAS THAN G HIS REMAG TIME ON THE URT, AND THIS EARTH, TO DO AS MUCH AS HE N—WH GNI SURELY EGGG HIM ON—TO FORCE HIS EXTREMIST AGENDA ON .”SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON THOMASCLARENCE AND GNI THOMAS ARE THE NEW REPUBLIC’S 2022 SUNDRELS OF THE YEARMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 6, 2023/1:29 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYIDAHO BE THE FIRST STATE TO BAN HELPG PEOPLE GET AN ABORTNTHE NEW LAW AGAST “ABORTN TRAFFICKG” RRI A PENALTY OF UP TO FIVE YEARS PRISON.LEV RAD/PACIFIC PRS/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGIDAHO GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS YEARIDAHO’S REPUBLIN ERNOR, BRAD LTLE, HAS SIGNED A LAW BANNG PEOPLE OM HELPG OTHERS ACCS ABORTNS.THE BILL, WHICH BEME LAW WEDNDAY, WOULD BAN ANY ADULT OM TAKG A MOR OUT OF STATE TO GET AN ABORTN OR ABORTN MEDITN WHOUT THEIR PARENTS’ NSENT. THE MEASURE ORIGALLY SAID THIS WOULD NSTUTE HUMAN TRAFFICKG BUT WAS LATER AMEND TO E THE PHRASE “ABORTN TRAFFICKG.” ANYONE WHO HELPS A MOR OBTA AN ABORTN OUT OF STATE ULD FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS PRISON. THE BILL ALSO CHANGED EXISTG LAW TO SAY THAT THE PERSON WHO IMPREGNATED THE MOR, EVEN IF THE PREGNANCY IS THE RULT OF RAPE OR CT, N SUE OVER THE ABORTN. THE NEW LAW MAK NO EXCEPTNS FOR MORS WHO ARE ABIVE HOEHOLDS, AND DO NOT CLARIFY WHETHER BOTH PARENTS NEED TO NSENT TO THE ABORTN OR JT ONE.IF A LOL PROSECUTOR CL TO TAKE THE SE, THE LAW SAYS, THE REPUBLIN STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL N TAKE THE SE STEAD.IDAHO SENATE MORY LEAR MELISSA WTROW, A DEMOCRAT, WARNED LAST WEEK THAT THE BILL IS “UNNECSARY AND UNNEED AND FURTHER SHACKL YOUNG GIRLS WHO ARE TROUBLE, AND THEN HARMS THE PARENTS’ IENDS, THE RELATIV, ETC., WHO ARE TRYG TO HELP HER.”ABORTN HAS BEEN BANNED IDAHO SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED, WH EXCEPTNS TO SAVE THE PREGNANT PERSON’S LIFE OR FOR RAPE OR CT. BUT RAPE AND CT SURVIVORS MT FIRST REPORT THE CRIME TO LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE THEY N GET AN ABORTN. NEIGHBORG STAT CLUDG CALIFORNIA, WASHGTON, AND OREGON HAVE TOUTED THEMSELV AS SAFE PLAC TO GET AN ABORTN, BUT IDAHO’S NEW LAW WILL MAKE ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT TO ACCS THOSE SERVIC.IDAHO IS NOT THE FIRST REPUBLIN-LED STATE TO TRY TO CRIMALIZE TRAVELG OUT OF STATE FOR AN ABORTN, ALTHOUGH IS THE FIRST TO DIFY TO LAW.IN MARCH, BEFORE THE DOBBS DRAFT OPN HAD EVEN BEEN LEAKED, REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKERS MISSOURI TRODUCED A BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW DIVIDUALS TO SUE ANYONE WHO HELPED A STATE RINT GET AN ABORTN, CLUDG AN OUT-OF-STATE HEALTH RE PROVIR OR ANYONE PROVIDG TRANSPORTATN ACROSS STATE L. STATE HOE LAWMAKERS BLOCKED THE BILL A FEW WEEKS LATER.DEMOCRATS THE U.S. HOE OF REPRENTATIV RETRODUCED A BILL FEBARY THAT WOULD PROTECT ANYONE SEEKG AN ABORTN OUT OF THEIR HOME STATE, AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO HELPS THEM. BUT THE BILL HAS YET TO EVEN MAKE TO MTEE AND IS UNLIKELY TO PASS THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED CHAMBER.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON IDAHO GOP EXTREMISMA NEW IDAHO BILL WOULD BAN DRAG PERFORMANC AND TARGET PRI CELEBRATNSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/9:43 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCHIGO VOTERS DO CARE ABOUT CRIME. THAT’S WHY THEY VOTED FOR BRANDON JOHNSON.BRANDON JOHNSON OFFERED VOTERS A NEW WAY TO THK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY. ALEX WROBLEWSKI/GETTY IMAGEVER SCE BRANDON JOHNSON BEGAN TO ASCEND THE CHIGO MAYORAL ELECTN, ARMCHAIR EXPERTS HAMMERED AWAY AT THE NOTN THAT HIS MPAIGN WAS “DOGGED” BY ISSU SURROUNDG CRIME. THE THKG WAS THAT A NDIDATE WHO HAS LLED FOR A REIMAGATN OF PUBLIC SAFETY IS HERENTLY SIGNG UP FOR AN UPHILL BATTLE, AND NNOT W WHOUT CHANGG THAT VISN.CHIGO VOTERS PROVED THOSE NATNAL PUNDS WRONG ON TUDAY WHEN THEY ELECTED JOHNSON TO SERVE AS THEIR NEXT MAYOR. PRUMABLY, AS THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVG CHIGO, THEY CHOSE SOMEONE WHO THEY THOUGHT WOULD KEEP THEM SAFE. SO ’S WORTH REVISG THOSE MEDIA NARRATIV ON CRIME AND THE BAKED- ASSUMPTNS BENEATH THEM— THE HOP THAT FEWER PEOPLE THE MEDIA WILL PARTICIPATE THE NARRATIV, OR THAT THEY’LL EVEN JT LET THEM SLI.THE MA ARGUMENT SEEMS TO BE ENPSULATED A NEW YORK TIM HEADLE ON JOHNSON’S VICTORY: “BRANDON JOHNSON ELECTED CHIGO MAYOR, TURNG BACK TOUGH-ON-CRIME OPPONENT.”OTHER STORI PERPETUATED THE IA THAT ONLY ONE OF THE TWO NDIDAT WOULD BE “TOUGH” ON CRIME.IN MARCH, A POLI STORY READ THAT “SOME THE [DEMOCRATIC] PARTY” BELIEVED THAT NEHER VALLAS AND JOHNSON WERE “PARTICULARLY PELLG.” BUT THE STORY WENT ON TO QUOTE PL VALLAS ADVISER JOE TRIPP, WHO SAID, “YOU DO HAVE SOMEONE WHO HAS TALKED ABOUT FUNDG AND I JT DON’T KNOW WHY ANY NATNAL PEOPLE WOULD GET TO THAT BATE.”ANOTHER NEW YORK POST STORY POSTURED VALLAS AS THE ONLY ANTI-CRIME NDIDATE—WHICH WOULD, OF URSE, IMPLY THAT JOHNSON IS SOMEHOW “PRO-CRIME,” RATHER THAN SOMEONE PROPOSG A DIFFERENT VISN OF HOW TO BE “TOUGH” ON CRIME.“LOOK WHAT HAPPENED CHIGO,” DEMOCRATIC NSULTANT JAM CARVILLE TOLD NBC NEWS EARLY MARCH, ARGUG WHY CRIME WAS THE “ONT AND CENTER ISSUE” THAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TACKLG. CARVILLE SEEMED TO BE REFERRG TO THE OTG OF CUMBENT MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT AND SUCCS OF VALLAS, AS IF JOHNSON WASN’T ALSO STILL THE NNG FOR MAYOR. YET ANOTHER AXS STORY BOLDLY PROCLAIMED, “‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ DOGS CHIGO MAYORAL NDIDATE BRANDON JOHNSON.” THE STORY, WHICH DID NOT CLU THOUGHTS OM VOTERS ACTUALLY TERTED JOHNSON’S NDIDACY, FOCED ON MENTS HE MA 2020 EXPRSG SUPPORT TO “REDIRECT AND FUND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT IS SPENT POLICG.” THE STORY WAS PUBLISHED A DAY AFTER JOHNSON HAD MODULATED HIS EARLIER MENTS, SAYG A BATE THAT HE WOULD NOT FUND THE POLICE.BUT JOHNSON STILL MATAED THE BROAR SPIR OF HIS VISN, ONE THAT HE HAS SPENT MONTHS PROPOSG TO THE PUBLIC. IN JANUARY, HE TOLD TNR THAT THE BT WAY FORWARD FOR CHIGO IS TO VT MORE MENTAL HEALTH, HOG, YEAR-ROUND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNI, AND THE LIKE. HE ENVISNS EPER CRIME PREVENTN, RATHER THAN JT RCERAL CRIME RPONSE.YOU WOULDN’T HAVE PICKED UP ON THAT OM ALL THE STORI PUBLISHED ON JOHNSON’S SUPPOSEDLY UPHILL MPAIGN, ALL THE RULT OF ASSUMPTNS—NSTCTED AND AFFIRMED, YEAR AFTER YEAR—ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO STOP CRIME.WE ARE QUICK TO EM THROWG SH HAPHAZARDLY AT THE POLICE OR BUILDG MORE JAILS AS SOLUTNS; WE ARE LS NDNED TO IMAGE PREVENTG CRIME AS MEANG TO ENSURE PEOPLE FEEL ENOMILLY SECURE, MENTALLY HEALTHY, OR ABLE TO PURSUE A SOLID TN. THE FLT MDSET PERSISTS EVEN AS OUR POLIL AND MEDIA APPARAT ARCHETYPILLY AME A “CRIMAL” AS POOR, OR MENTALLY UNSTABLE, OR UNTED.BUT AGA, CHIGO VOTERS—LIKE ALL VOTERS—RE ABOUT PREVENTG CRIME AND CULTIVATG SAFE AND HEALTHY MUNI. THEY JT HAPPENED TO LOOK PAST THE MEDIA NARRATIV THAT SUGGTED THAT SUCH A VISN ULD ONLY BE ACPLISHED ONE WAY (A WAY THAT HAS NOT SEEMED TO WORK SPE S PRIMACY THE LAST FEW S). AND LOOKG PAST SUCH LAZY NARRATIV, AND HOLDG ONTO THEIR SCERE HOP FOR A STRONGER CHIGO, THE PEOPLE ELECTED BRANDON JOHNSON.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE KEY LSON FOR DEMOCRATS THIS WEEK’S ELECTNSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/8:41 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTWO STAT HAVE BANNED HEALTH CARE FOR TRANS KIDS LS THAN 24 HOURSANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN IS PICKG UP SPEED ACROSS THE UNTRY. IS ANYONE PAYG ATTENTN?JEREMY HOGAN/SOPA IMAG/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGA PROTTER OUTSI THE INDIANA STATEHOE ON FEBARY 20INDIANA AND IDAHO BANNED GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANSGENR MORS LS THAN 24 HOURS, AS A REPUBLIN-LED NATNWI ASSLT ON TRANS RIGHTS APPEARS TO BE RAMPG UP.INDIANA GOVERNOR ERIC HOLB SIGNED SENATE BILL 480 TO LAW WEDNDAY, SPE PROTTS OM HUNDREDS OF MEDIL PROFSNALS AND TRANS KIDS AND THEIR FAI. THE LAW BANS ALL GENR-AFFIRMG RE, CLUDG HORMONE THERAPY AND PUBERTY BLOCKERS, FOR PEOPLE UNR 18. IT ALSO BANS SURGIL TERVENTNS, SPE REPEATED TTIMONY THAT NO SUCH SURGERI WERE PERFORMED ON MORS THE STATE.MORS CURRENTLY RECEIVG GENR-AFFIRMG RE N NTUE TO DO SO UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR. HEALTH RE PROVIRS WHO BREAK THIS LAW WILL BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLE BY THEIR REGULATORY BOARD.LS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE, IDAHO GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE SIGNED A SIAR BILL TO LAW. HOE BILL 71 BANS ALL GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANS KIDS, AND MAK A FELONY FOR A MEDIL PROFSNAL TO HELP A MOR SEEK SUCH TREATMENT. THOSE RE PROVIRS ULD FACE A $5,000 FE.THE ACLU ANNOUNCED WEDNDAY THAT HAS FILED LAWSUS AGAST BOTH LAWS, LLG THE INDIANA MEASURE “CEL AND UNNSTUTNAL” AND THE IDAHO ONE “CLEAR ERNMENT OVERREACH AND … UNACCEPTABLE” SEPARATE STATEMENTS.THE TWO LAWS ARE THE LATT A REPUBLIN-LED ONSLGHT OF ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN THAT ONLY SEEMS TO BE PICKG UP SPEED. JT LAST WEEK, KENTUCKY LAWMAKERS OVERRO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ANDY BHEAR’S VETO OF ONE OF THE MOST EXTREME ANTI-TRANS MEASUR THE UNTRY, FORCG THE LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE TO LAW.BHEAR HAD WARNED THE MEASURE WOULD E AN “CREASE SUICI AMONG KENTUCKY’S YOUTH.”REPUBLINS TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND KANSAS HAVE PHED ANTI-TRANS MEASUR THE LAST FEW DAYS. NORTH DAKOTA’S REPUBLIN-LED LEGISLATURE AND REPUBLIN ERNOR ARE A STANDOFF ABOUT YET ANOTHER.THE BILLS’ BACKERS ARGUE THAT THEY ARE PROTECTG CHILDREN BY BARRG THEM OM GENR-AFFIRMG RE. BUT MAJOR MEDIL ANIZATNS, CLUDG THE AMERIN AMY OF PEDIATRICS, SUPPORT GIVG GENR-NFIRMG RE TO CHILDREN, EMG MEDILLY NECSARY AND EVEN LIFAVG.GENR-AFFIRMG RE ACTUALLY CREAS THE AMOUNT OF PRSN AND ANXIETY THAT TRANS AND NONBARY TEENAGERS FEEL. IT ALSO MAK THEM LS LIKELY TO NSIR SUICI. BUT TARGETG LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGH LEGISLATN ONLY MONIZ THEM AND PUTS THE MUNY AT HIGHER RISK OF VLENT ATTACKS.SHARE THIS STORYMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/6:41 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA’S ANTI-DRAG BILL IS SO EXTREME IT WOULD BAN THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND HAIR THE MIL FLORIDA REPUBLINS ADMTED AS MUCH.STEVE WILKIE/FOX/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK“THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGA” FILM OM 2016FLORIDA REPUBLINS ARE PHG FORWARD A BILL THAT SEEKS TO BAN DRAG SHOWS OM ALLOWG SOMEONE UNR THE AGE OF 18 TO BE ATTENDANCE. BUT THE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD, G THE TERM “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” THAT EVEN REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS HAVE ADMTED WOULD PREVENT A HIGH SCHOOL KID OM WATCHG THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW OR EVEN THE MIL HAIR.FLORIDA IS CURRENTLY BATG SB 1438, A BILL BANNG DRAG SHOWS. SENATOR YARBOROUGH, THE CHIEF SPONSOR OF THE BILL ADMS THAT THE BILL WOULD APPLY TO LIVE PERFORMANC OF ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. — ALEJANDRA CARABALLO (@ESQUEER_) APRIL 4, 2023 NOT NTENT WH BANNG ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, SENATOR YARBOROUGH WANTS TO BAN THE MIL HAIR AS WELL. — ALEJANDRA CARABALLO (@ESQUEER_) APRIL 4, 2023 THE BILL ALSO EXPLICLY TARGETS PRI PARAS AND CELEBRATNS, BY PREVENTG A ERNMENT ENTY OM ISSUG PERMS TO AN ANIZATN THAT MAY PUT ON SUCH A PERFORMANCE. IF A VLATN OCCURS, SAY A CY LIKE ST. PETERSBURG, WHICH HOSTS THE LARGT PRI CELEBRATN THE STATE, THE PERSON WHO ISSUED THE PERM ULD BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.IN ADDN, ANY TABLISHMENT THAT VLAT THE LAW WOULD BE SUBJECT TO LICENSE SPENSN OR REVOTN AND LIABLE TO LARGE F AND A MISMEANOR CHARGE. ONE VLATN WOULD SPUR A $5,000 FE; SUBSEQUENT CINTS WOULD SPUR $10,000 F.THE BILL F “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE” TO CLU “ANY SHOW, EXHIBN OR OTHER PRENTATN ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE,” THAT ANY FORM “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI,” SUCH AS “LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.”THE BILL IS NCERNED PECIALLY WH ANY SUCH NDUCT THAT IS EMED “PATENTLY OFFENSIVE TO PREVAILG STANDARDS THE ADULT MUNY OF THIS STATE AS A WHOLE WH RPECT TO WHAT IS SUABLE MATERIAL OR NDUCT FOR THE AGE OF THE CHILD PRENT.” IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT THOSE STANDARDS ARE, AND AT WHICH ADULT COMMUNY CONFERENCE THEY WERE HASHED OUT.“POLICIANS ARE IMPOSG THEIR PERSONAL BELIEFS ON FLORIDIANS BY PUNISHG BS THAT SUPPORT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY,” SAID THE FLORIDA ACLU. “THIS IS A FAR CRY OM THE ‘FREE STATE OF FLORIDA’ THAT GOVERNOR DESANTIS IS CLAIMG TO PROMOTE.”WHILE FLORIDA REPUBLINS ADVANCE THIS BILL, THEY AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BEEN BY JT THIS WEEK PHG FORTH OTHER ANTI–CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATN THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY. IDAHO AND INDIANA BOTH STUTED BANS ON GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANS PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18. FLORIDA AND TEXAS ADVANCED THEIR OWN SIAR BILLS BANNG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, AND KANSAS ADVANCED LEGISLATN BANNG TRANSGENR PEOPLE OM G PUBLIC BATHROOMS OR EVEN BEG ABLE TO UPDATE THEIR NAME OR GENR ON THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE. FLORIDA SENATE REPUBLINS ALSO PASSED AN EXTREME SIX-WEEK ABORTN BAN. ALL ALL, THE REPUBLINS ARE DOUBLG DOWN ON GG UPON PEOPLE’S CIVIL RIGHTS UNR THE GUISE OF “PROTECTG THE CHILDREN,” WHILE THOANDS OF STUNTS MAND ACTUAL PROTECTN THE FORM OF TAKG ACTN ON MASS SHOOTGS AND GUN VLENCE. BUT NO MATTER FOR FLORIDA REPUBLINS; JT LAST WEEK, THEY MA LEGAL TO RRY NCEALED WEAPONS THE STATE WHOUT A PERM, TRAG, OR BACKGROUND CHECKS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE WEIRD RELIG FERVOR OF THE TMP FAHFULMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/4:24 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYDON’T LET THE MEDIA’S TMP FIXATN DISTRACT YOU FROM THE LOL THREATS TO DEMOCRACYBILLS ATTACKG CIVIL RIGHTS ARE WORKG THEIR WAY THROUGH STATE LEGISLATUR TENNSEE, TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND MORE.SETH HERALD/GETTY IMAGPROTTERS MAND GUN NTROL AT THE TENNSEE STATE CAPOL ON APRIL 3, FOLLOWG A MASS SHOOTG NASHVILLE.AMID A NEWS CYCLE CLOSELY MONORG EVERY ONE OF DONALD TMP’S MOV—OM THE LOR OF THE SUVS HIS MOTOR TO THE POST-ARRT MERCH HE WAS SELLG— WAS EASY TO MISS THE SER, LOL THREATS TO MOCRACY HAPPENG ACROSS THE UNTRY THIS WEEK. ON TUDAY, THE TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT OFFICIALLY SURRENRED TO ARRT FOR A HH-MONEY PAYMENT TO A PORN ACTRS WH WHOM HE ALLEGEDLY HAD AN EXTRAMARAL AFFAIR. AND WHILE THIS IS A MAJOR NEWS STORY, MASTREAM MEDIA’S LIVE FEEDS WERE SO FOCED ON TMP WOULD’VE BEEN DIFFICULT TO NOT KNOW WHEN HE WAS GOG TO THE BATHROOM. MEANWHILE, ACROSS THE UNTRY, REPUBLINS STATE LEGISLATUR HAVE NTUED THEIR MARCH AGAST CIVIL RIGHTS.IN TENNSEE, THE REPUBLIN-LED STATE HOE IS PHG TO EXPEL THREE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY BROKE “M” BY TERPTG PROCEEDGS TO ADVOTE FOR STUNTS PROTTG GUN VLENCE. THOANDS OF STUNTS, PARENTS, AND RINTS HAVE BEEN PROTTG THE STATE THE WAKE OF A MASS SCHOOL SHOOTG NASHVILLE THAT LEFT THREE CHILDREN AND THREE ADULTS AD.ON MONDAY, AS PROTTERS ENTERED THE HOE CHAMBER AND CHANTED OM THE GALLERY, MANDG LAWMAKERS’ ATTENTN, A MUCH MORE REAL BREACH OF “M” OCCURRED ON THE HOE FLOOR. REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE JT LAFFERTY—KNOWN FOR FENDG THE THREE-FIFTHS PROMISE—REPORTEDLY SHOVED REPRENTATIVE JT JON, ONE OF THE LAWMAKERS FACG THREAT OF EXPULSN.JON AND HIS FELLOW UNR-ATTACK REPRENTATIV HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRIPPED OF MTEE ASSIGNMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP ID ACCS FOR MTG THE HIGH CRIME OF RG ABOUT KIDS BEG SHOT AD AT SCHOOL. THE VOTE TO EXPEL THEM OM THE LEGISLATURE THURSDAY.MEANWHILE, ATTACKS AGAST WOMEN, TRANS PEOPLE, AND THE LGBTQ MUNY GENERALLY HAVE NTUED TO LATE.IN FLORIDA, THE STATE SENATE PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW THE STATE TO TAKE CHILDREN AWAY OM THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS IF THEY RECEIVE GENR-AFFIRMG RE. HEALTH RE PROVIRS WHO PROVI THAT TREATMENT TO PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18 WOULD LOSE THEIR LICENSE AND ULD FACE FELONY CRIMAL PENALTI. THE BILL ALSO FORBIDS ANY PUBLIC MONEY OM VERG GENR-AFFIRMG RE. THE BILL’S PASSAGE JT ONE DAY AFTER THE FLORIDA SENATE PASSED AN EXTREME SIX-WEEK ABORTN BAN THAT ULD CUT OFF ABORTN ACCS FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH. TOP DEMOCRATIC LEARS WERE ARRTED HOURS LATER DURG A PROTT FOR ABORTN RIGHTS.IN IDAHO, GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE SIGNED A BILL THAT BANS TRANS KIDS UNR THE AGE OF 18 OM ACCSG GENR-AFFIRMG RE. DOCTORS WHO PROVI SUCH CCIAL RE ULD BE CHARGED WH A FELONY AND FACE UP TO 10 YEARS PRISON.IN TEXAS, STATE SENATORS ALSO PASSED A BILL TO BAN GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR PATIENTS UNR THE AGE OF 18, SIARLY LLG TO REVOKE THE LICENS OF DOCTORS WHO DO PROVI THE RE, AND BARRG PUBLIC MONEY OM ANY ENTI THAT PROVI THE TREATMENTS. THEY ALSO ADVANCED TWO BILLS TARGETG DRAG SHOWS, ONE OF WHICH WOULD GO SO FAR AS TO FUND PUBLIC LIBRARI WHERE DRAG QUEENS ARE ALLOWED TO READ TO CHILDREN.DURG THE BATE ON THOSE BILLS, LITENANT GOVERNOR DAN PATRICK THREATENED TO SILENCE DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR ROLAND GUTIERREZ FOR NTUG TO SPEAK ABOUT HOW GUN LEGISLATN, NOT BANNG DRAG SHOWS, SHOULD BE A PRRY IF THEY WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN. GUTIERREZ REPRENTS UVAL, WHERE 19 KIDS AND TWO TEACHERS AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE SHOT AD LAST MAY. IN KANSAS, THE REPUBLIN-LED LEGISLATURE PASSED A BILL TO BAN TRANSGENR PEOPLE OM G PUBLIC BATHROOMS OR EVEN BEG ABLE TO UPDATE THEIR NAME OR GENR ON THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE.AND FALLY, NORTH CAROLA, DEMOCRATIC STATE LAWMAKER TRICIA COTHAM FLIPPED HER PARTY AFFILIATN, GIVG REPUBLINS A VETO-PROOF MAJORY AGAST DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ROY COOPER. COTHAM HAS PREVLY ATTACKED REPUBLINS ON ABORTN, SAYG, “MY WOMB AND MY UTES IS NOT UP FOR YOUR POLIL GRAB.” SHE HERSELF HAS HAD AN ABORTN, BUT SCE FLIPPG PARTI ON TUDAY, COTHAM HAS SAID SHE IS OPEN TO SUPPORTG RTRICTNS ON THE PROCRE.AS NSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS NTUED THEIR ASSLT ON CIVIL RIGHTS ACROSS THE UNTRY, VOTERS THEMSELV SHOWED HOW DIFFERENTLY THEY SEE THGS. IN CHIGO, VOTERS ELECTED BRANDON JOHNSON—AN UNAPOLOGETIC PROGRSIVE, LABOR ANIZER, AND FORMER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER—AS MAYOR. IN WISNS, VOTERS OVERWHELMGLY ELECTED DEMOCRAT JA PROTASIEWICZ, FLIPPG THE STATE SUPREME COURT FOR THE FIRST TIME 15 YEARS. SUCH AN OCSN IS ALL THE MORE NOTABLE GIVEN THAT THE URT IS SET TO ADDRS MAJOR S ON WISNS’S ABORTN BAN AND THE HEAVILY GERRYMANRED MAPS THAT HAVE KEPT NSERVATIV NTROL OF THE SWG STATE SCE 2010. BUT HOW N THE MASTREAM MEDIA VER ANY OF THIS WHEN IS SO OBSSED WH VERG THE MUTE-BY-MUTE MOVEMENTS OF A MAN WHO HAS BEEN IMPEACHED TWICE, LOST THE ELECTN, AND HAS SCE BEEN ARRTED? THE LOL BATTL SERVE THE GRANULAR TELEVISN PLAY-BY-PLAYS, NOT THE ANGRY MAN WHOSE POLICS KEEPS LOSG AT THE BALLOT BOX, WHO’S UNR AN ARRAY OF CRIMAL VTIGATNS, AND WHOSE RAMBLG SPEECH ARE SO BORG EVEN SOME MAJOR NEWS WORKS ARE FALLY CHOOSG TO CUT AWAY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF TMP’S INDICTMENT WAS DUMB, DPERATE, AND A REALLY BAD SIGN FOR 2024MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/3:58 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTEXAS SENATE VOT TO DEFUND PUBLIC LIBRARI THAT HOST DRAG STORYTIMTWO BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE WOULD FURTHER RTRICT DRAG PERFORMANC THE STATE.BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGDRAG QUEEN ONA LOUISE READS A BOOK DURG A STORY TIME READG AT THE CHEER UP CHARLI DIVE BAR ON MARCH 11 AT, TEXAS.THE TEXAS SENATE PASSED A DOUBLE-WHAMMY OF BILLS ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC AND THE BS THAT HOST THEM, THE LATT ATTEMPT BY REPUBLINS TO CRIMALIZE DRAG.SENATE BILL 12, WHICH PASSED TUDAY BY A VOTE OF 21-10, WOULD CRIMALIZE DRAG PERFORMANC THAT OCCUR OR ULD OCCUR ONT OF A MOR IF THEY APPEAL TO “PRIENT TERT” OR OF A SEXUAL NATURE. PERFORMERS ULD BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR, WHILE ANY BS THAT HOSTS THE SHOW WOULD FACE A $10,000 FE. TWO DEMOCRATS JOED REPUBLINS VOTG FOR THE BILL, ALTHOUGH ONE LATER SWCHED HIS VOTE.SENATE BILL 1601 PASSED BY A VOTE OF 20-9, WH THE SAME TWO DEMOCRATS JOG REPUBLINS. THE MEASURE WOULD FUND PUBLIC LIBRARI THAT HOST DRAG STORYTIM (EVENTS WHERE DRAG PERFORMERS READ TO CHILDREN). THE BILL DO NOT MENTN “PRIENT TERT” AND SO WOULD APPLY TO ANY EVENT WHERE “THE PERSON BEG DRSED AS THE OPPOSE GENR IS A PRIMARY PONENT OF THE ENTERTAMENT.” THIS MEANS THAT A FEMALE LIBRARIAN DRSED AS THE WIZARD GANDALF, FOR EXAMPLE, ULD BE BANNED.DEMOCRATS SLAMMED THE BILL FOR BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD RULT UNTEND NSEQUENC. SENATOR ROLAND GUTIERREZ POTED OUT THAT POP STAR MILEY CYS HAS DRSED “AS A MAN” AND DANCED SEXUALLY DURG HER PERFORMANCE. UNR THE BILL, HER SHOWS ULD BE BANNED.GUTIERREZ, WHO REPRENTS UVAL, WHERE 19 CHILDREN AND TWO ADULTS WERE KILLED A SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST SUMMER, POTED OUT THAT REPUBLINS ULD PROTECT CHILDREN BY PASSG STRICTER GUN LAWS STEAD OF DRAG BANS.HIS REMARK PROMPTED CHEERS OM PEOPLE WATCHG THE GALLERY, BUT THE REPUBLIN SENATE PRINT WARNED GUTIERREZ THAT IF HE DIDN’T STICK TO THE TOPIC OF THE DRAG BILLS, HE WOULDN’T BE REGNIZED TO SPEAK AGA.THE BILLS NOW MOVE TO THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV. THEY ARE JT THE LATT MEASUR THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMERS, WHO HAVE CREASGLY BEE A TARGET FOR RIGHT-WG BILE, WH ATTACKS RANGG OM DRAG STORYTIM AT PUBLIC LIBRARI TO POLICE VTIGATNS. TENNSEE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, ALTHOUGH THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A FERAL JUDGE AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR. FLORIDA’S SENATE MTE HAVE APPROVED A BILL THAT WOULD BAN DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, CLUDG AT PRI CELEBRATNS, AND PUNISH BS THAT HOST SUCH SHOWS. AND MONTANA’S SENATE JUDICIARY COMMTEE HEARD A BILL TUDAY THAT WOULD BAN DRAG PUBLIC AND LABEL ANY BS THAT HOSTS A DRAG SHOW AS A “SEXUALLY ORIENTED BS.” SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKINSI THE RIGHT’S ANTI-TRANS DOG AND PONY SHOW MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/2:44 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYWISNS REPUBLINS ARE ALREADY TALKG ABOUT IMPEACHG THE NEWLY ELECTED LIBERAL JUDGE
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A LOT OF BEARD DUS ARE HILARLY MAD OVER BUD LIGHT AD FEATURG TRANS ACTIVISTTHEY’RE EXPRSG THEIR OUTRAGE BY DUMPG PERFECTLY DRKABLE BEER DOWN THE DRA.MICHAEL HICKEY/GETTY IMAGKID ROCK PERFORMG 2016PEOPLE ARE SO MAD ABOUT BUD LIGHT’S LATT AD MPAIGN WH A TRANSGENR ACTIVIST THAT THEY ARE THROWG THEIR MONEY—AND BEER—AWAY.TRANS FLUENCER DYLAN MULVANEY SHARED AN INSTAGRAM POST SPONSORED BY BUD LIGHT ON SUNDAY TO PROMOTE THE BEER’S MARCH MADNS MPAIGN AND TO MARK HER ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TRANSNG. VIEW THIS POST ON INSTAGRAM A POST SHARED BY DYLAN MULVANEY (@DYLANMULVANEY) TRANSPHOBIC BACKLASH PICKED UP SPEED OVER THE URSE OF THE WEEK AND BY THURSDAY HAD GAED TWO CELEBRY BOYTTERS.MICIAN KID ROCK POSTED A VIO OF HIM SHOOTG SEVERAL S OF BUD LIGHT WH AN TOMATIC RIFLE, A MOVE NMNED THE WAKE OF THE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTG. AND UNTRY MICIAN TRAVIS TRT ANNOUNCED HE WOULD NO LONGER CLU ANY PRODUCTS MA BY ANHSER-BCH, BUD LIGHT’S PARENT PANY (WHICH, TURN, IS OWNED BY TERNATNAL NGLOMERATE AB INBEV), ON HIS TOUR REHMENT REQUT LISTS. HE ALSO PLAED ABOUT JACK DANIELS’S PRI MONTH MPAIGN—OM 2021.THE TER IS AWASH WH VIOS OF (PRIMARILY WHE, PRIMARILY MALE, PRIMARILY BEARD) PEOPLE EXPRSG OUTRAGE OVER BUD LIGHT’S MPAIGN WH MULVANEY BY POURG PERFECTLY FE—ALBE WATERY AND MASS-PRODUCED—BEER DOWN THE DRA.#2 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 #7 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 #8 — CHUDSOFTIKTOK (@CHUDSOFTIKTOK) APRIL 5, 2023 NONE OF THE BOYTTERS APPEAR TO HAVE EVER HEARD OF RABOW PALISM, WHICH IS WHEN PANI E LGBTQ BRANDG TO MARKET PRODUCTS WHOUT ACTUALLY DOG ANYTHG TO SUPPORT LGBTQ . BUD LIGHT HASN’T NECSARILY GONE “WOKE”; THE PANY JT WANTS TO REACH A DIFFERENT SAL MOGRAPHIC. IN FACT, 2021 WAS THE STONEWALL INN, THE HISTORIC LGBTQ BAR NEW YORK CY, THAT WAS POURG BUD LIGHT DOWN THE DRA—TO PROTT ANHSER-BCH’S POLIL NTRIBUTNS TO ANTI-LGBTQ LAWMAKERS.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON BEARDSTHE SUM OF ALL BEARDSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 6, 2023/4:57 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYA SEND CRACKPOT DEMOCRAT JOS THE RACE TO LOSE TO BIN 2024SELF-HELP THOR MARIANNE WILLIAMSON IS NO LONGER ALONE ON THE LIST OF GE NDIDAT FOR THE PARTY’S NOMATN.JOHN LAMPARSKI/GETTY IMAGROBERT KENNEDY JR. 2019LEADG ANTI-VACCE ACTIVIST ROBERT KENNEDY JR. HAS ANNOUNCED HE IS NNG FOR PRINT AS A DEMOCRAT.KENNEDY FILED HIS STATEMENT OF NDIDACY ON WEDNDAY. HE IS THE SEND PERSON TO CLARE A DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL N, AFTER SELF-HELP THOR MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. PRINT JOE BIN HAS YET TO FORMALLY CLARE HIS NDIDACY, ALTHOUGH HE HAS REPEATEDLY SAID HE TENDS TO N FOR REELECTN.KENNEDY, AN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER, IS THE NEPHEW OF FORMER PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE SON OF FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY. HE HAS WORKED ON SEVERAL HIGH-PROFILE S THROUGHOUT HIS REER, CLUDG DEWAYNE JOHNSON V. MONSANTO, WHICH FOUND THAT AGROCHEMIL GIANT MONSANTO FAILED TO WARN PEOPLE ABOUT THE NCER RISKS POSED BY S HERBICI ROUNDUP.BUT KENNEDY IS ALSO A PROMENT ANTI-VAXXER. HE HAS PROMOTED THE SCIENTIFILLY DISCREDED LK BETWEEN VACC AND TISM SCE 2005, AND 2011 HE FOUND THE ANTI-VAX GROUP CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE.PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS AND EVEN HIS OWN FAY MEMBERS HAVE SCRIBED HIS ANTI-VAX WORK AS MISLEADG AND DANGERO.AT THE START OF THE PANMIC, KENNEDY CRICIZED PUBLIC HEALTH RTRICTNS AIMED AT SLOWG THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, SUCH AS FACE MASKS AND THE NEWLY VELOPED VACC. HE REPEATEDLY PARED THE RTRICTNS TO THE NAZIS AND THE HOLOT, GOG SO FAR 2022 AS TO IMPLY THAT AMERINS HAD WORSE THAN ANNE FRANK DID.HE ALSO ACCED ANTHONY FCI, WHO LED THE WHE HOE COVID RPONSE, OF “FASCISM.”CBS NEWS JOURNALIST ROBERT COSTA REPORTED THAT WHE NATNALIST AND FORMER DONALD TMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON HAD BEEN PHG KENNEDY FOR MONTHS TO N. ACRDG TO CBS, BANNON THOUGHT KENNEDY WOULD BE “A EFUL CHAOS AGENT THE 2024 RACE AND A BIG NAME WHO ULD HELP STOKE ANTI-VACCE SENTIMENT AROUND THE UNTRY.”ALTHOUGH HE IS NNG AS A DEMOCRAT, KENNEDY ALSO HAS TI TO THE FAR RIGHT. A PHOTO POSTED ON INSTAGRAM (AND SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED) SHOWED HIM BACKSTAGE AT A REAWAKEN AMERI EVENT JULY 2021. NPR HAS SCRIBED REAWAKEN AMERI AS “PART NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN REVIVAL, PART QANON EXPO, AND PART POLIL RALLY.”IN THE PHOTO, KENNEDY IS POSG WH TMP ALLY ROGER STONE, FORMER TMP NATNAL SECURY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN, AND ANTI-VAX MPAIGNER CHARLENE BOLLGER.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON 2024TMP’S 2024 RIVALS ARE TOO SRED TO CRICIZE HIM POST-INDICTMENTMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 6, 2023/3:18 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCLARENCE THOMAS’S LUXURY VATNS ARE PAID FOR BY A REPUBLIN MEGADONORTHE SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD ON SUPERYACHTS AND PRIVATE JETS URTY OF HARLAN CROW.ERIC LEE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGSUPREME COURT JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS HAS SPENT S SECRETLY ENJOYG LAVISH ISLAND-HOPPG EXCURSNS ON SUPERYACHTS AND ON-MAND PRIVATE JET RIS URTY OF A BILLNAIRE REPUBLIN MEGADONOR, PROPUBLI HAS REVEALED.HARLAN CROW, A REAL TATE TYON, REPORTEDLY HAS GIFTED THOMAS AN ARRAY OF LUXUR TRIPS “VIRTUALLY EVERY YEAR” FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, CLUDG A NE-DAY ADVENTURE INDONIA ON A YACHT STAFFED WH ATTENDANTS AND A PRIVATE CHEF, AS WELL AS VISS TO CROW’S EXCLIVE “ALL-MALE” RETREAT CALIFORNIA, HIS TEXAS RANCH, AND HIS PRIVATE RORT THE ADIRONDACKS.AND THOMAS DISCLOSED NONE OF . WHILE THE GIFTS THEMSELV ARE PERMISSIBLE, SHOCKGLY, PROPUBLI NOT THAT THOMAS’S FAILURE TO DISCLOSE THEM VLAT A LAW PASSED AFTER WATERGATE THAT APPLI TO JTIC, JUDG, MEMBERS OF CONGRS, AND OTHER FERAL OFFICIALS.THE WARM RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THOMAS AND CROW BEGAN SOME THREE S AGO, AND CROW WASTED NO TIME SHOWERG THOMAS WH GIFTS. ONE OF THE FIRST, WHICH THOMAS DID KDLY DISCLOSE, WAS A $19,000 BIBLE ORIGALLY OWNED BY FRERICK DOUGLASS. THE GIFT GIVG HAS NTUED EVER SCE—AND NOT JT TO THE JTICE. THOMAS’S WIFE, GNI, JOED MANY OF THE TRIPS—SUCH AS THE INDONIAN JNT—AND AS POLI REVEALED 2011, CROW HAS GIVEN AT LEAST $500,000 TO A TEA PARTY GROUP SHE FOUND (AND WHICH LATER SHUT DOWN).THIS IS HARDLY THE FIRST OF THE UPLE’S ETHIL ENTANGLEMENTS. GNI THOMAS WAS TIMATELY VOLVED ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTN, AS REVEALED TEXTS WH NUMERO OFFICIALS, CLUDG TMP CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS. IN JANUARY 2022, HER HBAND WAS THE ONLY JTICE TO VOTE AGAST ORRG THE RELEASE OF THE PAPER TRAIL OF SUCH MUNITNS. THE NEW YORKER’S JANE MAYER REPORTED THAT SAME MONTH THAT GNI THOMAS “HAS HELD LEARSHIP POSNS AT NSERVATIVE PRSURE GROUPS THAT HAVE EHER BEEN VOLVED S BEFORE THE COURT OR HAVE HAD MEMBERS ENGAGED SUCH S.” THE FOLLOWG MONTH, THE NEW YORK TIM MAGAZE SCRIBED “THE EXTENT TO WHICH JTICE THOMAS FLOUTED JUDICIAL-ETHICS GUIDANCE BY PARTICIPATG EVENTS HOSTED BY NSERVATIVE ANIZATNS WH MATTERS BEFORE THE URT.”THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR TNR TO CROWN THE UPLE “SUNDRELS OF THE YEAR.” AS EDOR MICHAEL TOMASKY WROTE LAST DECEMBER, “NO ONE HAS DAMAGED THE SUPREME COURT’S REPUTATN MORE THAN THE THOMAS. IT’S ONE THG TO HAVE A HARD-RIGHT IOLOGY.… BUT TO IMPOSE THAT VISN ON THE MOCRACY WHILE FLOUTG S L, WHICH LERALLY EVERY OTHER SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS FOLLOWED? THAT SHOWS NTEMPT FOR THE MOCRACY THEY TELL THEMSELV THEY ARE SAVG, AND ANNOUNC TO THE RT OF THAT NOTHG IS MORE IMPORTANT TO CLARENCE THOMAS THAN G HIS REMAG TIME ON THE URT, AND THIS EARTH, TO DO AS MUCH AS HE N—WH GNI SURELY EGGG HIM ON—TO FORCE HIS EXTREMIST AGENDA ON .”SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON THOMASCLARENCE AND GNI THOMAS ARE THE NEW REPUBLIC’S 2022 SUNDRELS OF THE YEARMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 6, 2023/1:29 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYIDAHO BE THE FIRST STATE TO BAN HELPG PEOPLE GET AN ABORTNTHE NEW LAW AGAST “ABORTN TRAFFICKG” RRI A PENALTY OF UP TO FIVE YEARS PRISON.LEV RAD/PACIFIC PRS/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGIDAHO GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS YEARIDAHO’S REPUBLIN ERNOR, BRAD LTLE, HAS SIGNED A LAW BANNG PEOPLE OM HELPG OTHERS ACCS ABORTNS.THE BILL, WHICH BEME LAW WEDNDAY, WOULD BAN ANY ADULT OM TAKG A MOR OUT OF STATE TO GET AN ABORTN OR ABORTN MEDITN WHOUT THEIR PARENTS’ NSENT. THE MEASURE ORIGALLY SAID THIS WOULD NSTUTE HUMAN TRAFFICKG BUT WAS LATER AMEND TO E THE PHRASE “ABORTN TRAFFICKG.” ANYONE WHO HELPS A MOR OBTA AN ABORTN OUT OF STATE ULD FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS PRISON. THE BILL ALSO CHANGED EXISTG LAW TO SAY THAT THE PERSON WHO IMPREGNATED THE MOR, EVEN IF THE PREGNANCY IS THE RULT OF RAPE OR CT, N SUE OVER THE ABORTN. THE NEW LAW MAK NO EXCEPTNS FOR MORS WHO ARE ABIVE HOEHOLDS, AND DO NOT CLARIFY WHETHER BOTH PARENTS NEED TO NSENT TO THE ABORTN OR JT ONE.IF A LOL PROSECUTOR CL TO TAKE THE SE, THE LAW SAYS, THE REPUBLIN STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL N TAKE THE SE STEAD.IDAHO SENATE MORY LEAR MELISSA WTROW, A DEMOCRAT, WARNED LAST WEEK THAT THE BILL IS “UNNECSARY AND UNNEED AND FURTHER SHACKL YOUNG GIRLS WHO ARE TROUBLE, AND THEN HARMS THE PARENTS’ IENDS, THE RELATIV, ETC., WHO ARE TRYG TO HELP HER.”ABORTN HAS BEEN BANNED IDAHO SCE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED, WH EXCEPTNS TO SAVE THE PREGNANT PERSON’S LIFE OR FOR RAPE OR CT. BUT RAPE AND CT SURVIVORS MT FIRST REPORT THE CRIME TO LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE THEY N GET AN ABORTN. NEIGHBORG STAT CLUDG CALIFORNIA, WASHGTON, AND OREGON HAVE TOUTED THEMSELV AS SAFE PLAC TO GET AN ABORTN, BUT IDAHO’S NEW LAW WILL MAKE ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT TO ACCS THOSE SERVIC.IDAHO IS NOT THE FIRST REPUBLIN-LED STATE TO TRY TO CRIMALIZE TRAVELG OUT OF STATE FOR AN ABORTN, ALTHOUGH IS THE FIRST TO DIFY TO LAW.IN MARCH, BEFORE THE DOBBS DRAFT OPN HAD EVEN BEEN LEAKED, REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKERS MISSOURI TRODUCED A BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW DIVIDUALS TO SUE ANYONE WHO HELPED A STATE RINT GET AN ABORTN, CLUDG AN OUT-OF-STATE HEALTH RE PROVIR OR ANYONE PROVIDG TRANSPORTATN ACROSS STATE L. STATE HOE LAWMAKERS BLOCKED THE BILL A FEW WEEKS LATER.DEMOCRATS THE U.S. HOE OF REPRENTATIV RETRODUCED A BILL FEBARY THAT WOULD PROTECT ANYONE SEEKG AN ABORTN OUT OF THEIR HOME STATE, AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO HELPS THEM. BUT THE BILL HAS YET TO EVEN MAKE TO MTEE AND IS UNLIKELY TO PASS THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED CHAMBER.SHARE THIS STORYMORE ON IDAHO GOP EXTREMISMA NEW IDAHO BILL WOULD BAN DRAG PERFORMANC AND TARGET PRI CELEBRATNSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/9:43 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYCHIGO VOTERS DO CARE ABOUT CRIME. THAT’S WHY THEY VOTED FOR BRANDON JOHNSON.BRANDON JOHNSON OFFERED VOTERS A NEW WAY TO THK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY. ALEX WROBLEWSKI/GETTY IMAGEVER SCE BRANDON JOHNSON BEGAN TO ASCEND THE CHIGO MAYORAL ELECTN, ARMCHAIR EXPERTS HAMMERED AWAY AT THE NOTN THAT HIS MPAIGN WAS “DOGGED” BY ISSU SURROUNDG CRIME. THE THKG WAS THAT A NDIDATE WHO HAS LLED FOR A REIMAGATN OF PUBLIC SAFETY IS HERENTLY SIGNG UP FOR AN UPHILL BATTLE, AND NNOT W WHOUT CHANGG THAT VISN.CHIGO VOTERS PROVED THOSE NATNAL PUNDS WRONG ON TUDAY WHEN THEY ELECTED JOHNSON TO SERVE AS THEIR NEXT MAYOR. PRUMABLY, AS THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVG CHIGO, THEY CHOSE SOMEONE WHO THEY THOUGHT WOULD KEEP THEM SAFE. SO ’S WORTH REVISG THOSE MEDIA NARRATIV ON CRIME AND THE BAKED- ASSUMPTNS BENEATH THEM— THE HOP THAT FEWER PEOPLE THE MEDIA WILL PARTICIPATE THE NARRATIV, OR THAT THEY’LL EVEN JT LET THEM SLI.THE MA ARGUMENT SEEMS TO BE ENPSULATED A NEW YORK TIM HEADLE ON JOHNSON’S VICTORY: “BRANDON JOHNSON ELECTED CHIGO MAYOR, TURNG BACK TOUGH-ON-CRIME OPPONENT.”OTHER STORI PERPETUATED THE IA THAT ONLY ONE OF THE TWO NDIDAT WOULD BE “TOUGH” ON CRIME.IN MARCH, A POLI STORY READ THAT “SOME THE [DEMOCRATIC] PARTY” BELIEVED THAT NEHER VALLAS AND JOHNSON WERE “PARTICULARLY PELLG.” BUT THE STORY WENT ON TO QUOTE PL VALLAS ADVISER JOE TRIPP, WHO SAID, “YOU DO HAVE SOMEONE WHO HAS TALKED ABOUT FUNDG AND I JT DON’T KNOW WHY ANY NATNAL PEOPLE WOULD GET TO THAT BATE.”ANOTHER NEW YORK POST STORY POSTURED VALLAS AS THE ONLY ANTI-CRIME NDIDATE—WHICH WOULD, OF URSE, IMPLY THAT JOHNSON IS SOMEHOW “PRO-CRIME,” RATHER THAN SOMEONE PROPOSG A DIFFERENT VISN OF HOW TO BE “TOUGH” ON CRIME.“LOOK WHAT HAPPENED CHIGO,” DEMOCRATIC NSULTANT JAM CARVILLE TOLD NBC NEWS EARLY MARCH, ARGUG WHY CRIME WAS THE “ONT AND CENTER ISSUE” THAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TACKLG. CARVILLE SEEMED TO BE REFERRG TO THE OTG OF CUMBENT MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT AND SUCCS OF VALLAS, AS IF JOHNSON WASN’T ALSO STILL THE NNG FOR MAYOR. YET ANOTHER AXS STORY BOLDLY PROCLAIMED, “‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ DOGS CHIGO MAYORAL NDIDATE BRANDON JOHNSON.” THE STORY, WHICH DID NOT CLU THOUGHTS OM VOTERS ACTUALLY TERTED JOHNSON’S NDIDACY, FOCED ON MENTS HE MA 2020 EXPRSG SUPPORT TO “REDIRECT AND FUND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT IS SPENT POLICG.” THE STORY WAS PUBLISHED A DAY AFTER JOHNSON HAD MODULATED HIS EARLIER MENTS, SAYG A BATE THAT HE WOULD NOT FUND THE POLICE.BUT JOHNSON STILL MATAED THE BROAR SPIR OF HIS VISN, ONE THAT HE HAS SPENT MONTHS PROPOSG TO THE PUBLIC. IN JANUARY, HE TOLD TNR THAT THE BT WAY FORWARD FOR CHIGO IS TO VT MORE MENTAL HEALTH, HOG, YEAR-ROUND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNI, AND THE LIKE. HE ENVISNS EPER CRIME PREVENTN, RATHER THAN JT RCERAL CRIME RPONSE.YOU WOULDN’T HAVE PICKED UP ON THAT OM ALL THE STORI PUBLISHED ON JOHNSON’S SUPPOSEDLY UPHILL MPAIGN, ALL THE RULT OF ASSUMPTNS—NSTCTED AND AFFIRMED, YEAR AFTER YEAR—ABOUT WHAT MEANS TO STOP CRIME.WE ARE QUICK TO EM THROWG SH HAPHAZARDLY AT THE POLICE OR BUILDG MORE JAILS AS SOLUTNS; WE ARE LS NDNED TO IMAGE PREVENTG CRIME AS MEANG TO ENSURE PEOPLE FEEL ENOMILLY SECURE, MENTALLY HEALTHY, OR ABLE TO PURSUE A SOLID TN. THE FLT MDSET PERSISTS EVEN AS OUR POLIL AND MEDIA APPARAT ARCHETYPILLY AME A “CRIMAL” AS POOR, OR MENTALLY UNSTABLE, OR UNTED.BUT AGA, CHIGO VOTERS—LIKE ALL VOTERS—RE ABOUT PREVENTG CRIME AND CULTIVATG SAFE AND HEALTHY MUNI. THEY JT HAPPENED TO LOOK PAST THE MEDIA NARRATIV THAT SUGGTED THAT SUCH A VISN ULD ONLY BE ACPLISHED ONE WAY (A WAY THAT HAS NOT SEEMED TO WORK SPE S PRIMACY THE LAST FEW S). AND LOOKG PAST SUCH LAZY NARRATIV, AND HOLDG ONTO THEIR SCERE HOP FOR A STRONGER CHIGO, THE PEOPLE ELECTED BRANDON JOHNSON.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE KEY LSON FOR DEMOCRATS THIS WEEK’S ELECTNSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/8:41 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTWO STAT HAVE BANNED HEALTH CARE FOR TRANS KIDS LS THAN 24 HOURSANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN IS PICKG UP SPEED ACROSS THE UNTRY. IS ANYONE PAYG ATTENTN?JEREMY HOGAN/SOPA IMAG/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGA PROTTER OUTSI THE INDIANA STATEHOE ON FEBARY 20INDIANA AND IDAHO BANNED GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANSGENR MORS LS THAN 24 HOURS, AS A REPUBLIN-LED NATNWI ASSLT ON TRANS RIGHTS APPEARS TO BE RAMPG UP.INDIANA GOVERNOR ERIC HOLB SIGNED SENATE BILL 480 TO LAW WEDNDAY, SPE PROTTS OM HUNDREDS OF MEDIL PROFSNALS AND TRANS KIDS AND THEIR FAI. THE LAW BANS ALL GENR-AFFIRMG RE, CLUDG HORMONE THERAPY AND PUBERTY BLOCKERS, FOR PEOPLE UNR 18. IT ALSO BANS SURGIL TERVENTNS, SPE REPEATED TTIMONY THAT NO SUCH SURGERI WERE PERFORMED ON MORS THE STATE.MORS CURRENTLY RECEIVG GENR-AFFIRMG RE N NTUE TO DO SO UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR. HEALTH RE PROVIRS WHO BREAK THIS LAW WILL BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLE BY THEIR REGULATORY BOARD.LS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE, IDAHO GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE SIGNED A SIAR BILL TO LAW. HOE BILL 71 BANS ALL GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANS KIDS, AND MAK A FELONY FOR A MEDIL PROFSNAL TO HELP A MOR SEEK SUCH TREATMENT. THOSE RE PROVIRS ULD FACE A $5,000 FE.THE ACLU ANNOUNCED WEDNDAY THAT HAS FILED LAWSUS AGAST BOTH LAWS, LLG THE INDIANA MEASURE “CEL AND UNNSTUTNAL” AND THE IDAHO ONE “CLEAR ERNMENT OVERREACH AND … UNACCEPTABLE” SEPARATE STATEMENTS.THE TWO LAWS ARE THE LATT A REPUBLIN-LED ONSLGHT OF ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN THAT ONLY SEEMS TO BE PICKG UP SPEED. JT LAST WEEK, KENTUCKY LAWMAKERS OVERRO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ANDY BHEAR’S VETO OF ONE OF THE MOST EXTREME ANTI-TRANS MEASUR THE UNTRY, FORCG THE LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE TO LAW.BHEAR HAD WARNED THE MEASURE WOULD E AN “CREASE SUICI AMONG KENTUCKY’S YOUTH.”REPUBLINS TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND KANSAS HAVE PHED ANTI-TRANS MEASUR THE LAST FEW DAYS. NORTH DAKOTA’S REPUBLIN-LED LEGISLATURE AND REPUBLIN ERNOR ARE A STANDOFF ABOUT YET ANOTHER.THE BILLS’ BACKERS ARGUE THAT THEY ARE PROTECTG CHILDREN BY BARRG THEM OM GENR-AFFIRMG RE. BUT MAJOR MEDIL ANIZATNS, CLUDG THE AMERIN AMY OF PEDIATRICS, SUPPORT GIVG GENR-NFIRMG RE TO CHILDREN, EMG MEDILLY NECSARY AND EVEN LIFAVG.GENR-AFFIRMG RE ACTUALLY CREAS THE AMOUNT OF PRSN AND ANXIETY THAT TRANS AND NONBARY TEENAGERS FEEL. IT ALSO MAK THEM LS LIKELY TO NSIR SUICI. BUT TARGETG LGBTQ PEOPLE THROUGH LEGISLATN ONLY MONIZ THEM AND PUTS THE MUNY AT HIGHER RISK OF VLENT ATTACKS.SHARE THIS STORYMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/6:41 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYFLORIDA’S ANTI-DRAG BILL IS SO EXTREME IT WOULD BAN THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AND HAIR THE MIL FLORIDA REPUBLINS ADMTED AS MUCH.STEVE WILKIE/FOX/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK“THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGA” FILM OM 2016FLORIDA REPUBLINS ARE PHG FORWARD A BILL THAT SEEKS TO BAN DRAG SHOWS OM ALLOWG SOMEONE UNR THE AGE OF 18 TO BE ATTENDANCE. BUT THE BILL IS SO VAGUELY WORD, G THE TERM “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE,” THAT EVEN REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS HAVE ADMTED WOULD PREVENT A HIGH SCHOOL KID OM WATCHG THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW OR EVEN THE MIL HAIR.FLORIDA IS CURRENTLY BATG SB 1438, A BILL BANNG DRAG SHOWS. SENATOR YARBOROUGH, THE CHIEF SPONSOR OF THE BILL ADMS THAT THE BILL WOULD APPLY TO LIVE PERFORMANC OF ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. — ALEJANDRA CARABALLO (@ESQUEER_) APRIL 4, 2023 NOT NTENT WH BANNG ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, SENATOR YARBOROUGH WANTS TO BAN THE MIL HAIR AS WELL. — ALEJANDRA CARABALLO (@ESQUEER_) APRIL 4, 2023 THE BILL ALSO EXPLICLY TARGETS PRI PARAS AND CELEBRATNS, BY PREVENTG A ERNMENT ENTY OM ISSUG PERMS TO AN ANIZATN THAT MAY PUT ON SUCH A PERFORMANCE. IF A VLATN OCCURS, SAY A CY LIKE ST. PETERSBURG, WHICH HOSTS THE LARGT PRI CELEBRATN THE STATE, THE PERSON WHO ISSUED THE PERM ULD BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR.IN ADDN, ANY TABLISHMENT THAT VLAT THE LAW WOULD BE SUBJECT TO LICENSE SPENSN OR REVOTN AND LIABLE TO LARGE F AND A MISMEANOR CHARGE. ONE VLATN WOULD SPUR A $5,000 FE; SUBSEQUENT CINTS WOULD SPUR $10,000 F.THE BILL F “ADULT LIVE PERFORMANCE” TO CLU “ANY SHOW, EXHIBN OR OTHER PRENTATN ONT OF A LIVE DIENCE,” THAT ANY FORM “PICTS OR SIMULAT NUDY, SEXUAL NDUCT, SEXUAL EXCEMENT, OR SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTIVI,” SUCH AS “LEWD NDUCT, OR THE LEWD EXPOSURE OF PROSTHETIC OR IMATN GENALS OR BREASTS.”THE BILL IS NCERNED PECIALLY WH ANY SUCH NDUCT THAT IS EMED “PATENTLY OFFENSIVE TO PREVAILG STANDARDS THE ADULT MUNY OF THIS STATE AS A WHOLE WH RPECT TO WHAT IS SUABLE MATERIAL OR NDUCT FOR THE AGE OF THE CHILD PRENT.” IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT THOSE STANDARDS ARE, AND AT WHICH ADULT COMMUNY CONFERENCE THEY WERE HASHED OUT.“POLICIANS ARE IMPOSG THEIR PERSONAL BELIEFS ON FLORIDIANS BY PUNISHG BS THAT SUPPORT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY,” SAID THE FLORIDA ACLU. “THIS IS A FAR CRY OM THE ‘FREE STATE OF FLORIDA’ THAT GOVERNOR DESANTIS IS CLAIMG TO PROMOTE.”WHILE FLORIDA REPUBLINS ADVANCE THIS BILL, THEY AND OTHER REPUBLINS HAVE BEEN BY JT THIS WEEK PHG FORTH OTHER ANTI–CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATN THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY. IDAHO AND INDIANA BOTH STUTED BANS ON GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR TRANS PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18. FLORIDA AND TEXAS ADVANCED THEIR OWN SIAR BILLS BANNG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, AND KANSAS ADVANCED LEGISLATN BANNG TRANSGENR PEOPLE OM G PUBLIC BATHROOMS OR EVEN BEG ABLE TO UPDATE THEIR NAME OR GENR ON THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE. FLORIDA SENATE REPUBLINS ALSO PASSED AN EXTREME SIX-WEEK ABORTN BAN. ALL ALL, THE REPUBLINS ARE DOUBLG DOWN ON GG UPON PEOPLE’S CIVIL RIGHTS UNR THE GUISE OF “PROTECTG THE CHILDREN,” WHILE THOANDS OF STUNTS MAND ACTUAL PROTECTN THE FORM OF TAKG ACTN ON MASS SHOOTGS AND GUN VLENCE. BUT NO MATTER FOR FLORIDA REPUBLINS; JT LAST WEEK, THEY MA LEGAL TO RRY NCEALED WEAPONS THE STATE WHOUT A PERM, TRAG, OR BACKGROUND CHECKS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE WEIRD RELIG FERVOR OF THE TMP FAHFULMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/APRIL 5, 2023/4:24 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYDON’T LET THE MEDIA’S TMP FIXATN DISTRACT YOU FROM THE LOL THREATS TO DEMOCRACYBILLS ATTACKG CIVIL RIGHTS ARE WORKG THEIR WAY THROUGH STATE LEGISLATUR TENNSEE, TEXAS, FLORIDA, AND MORE.SETH HERALD/GETTY IMAGPROTTERS MAND GUN NTROL AT THE TENNSEE STATE CAPOL ON APRIL 3, FOLLOWG A MASS SHOOTG NASHVILLE.AMID A NEWS CYCLE CLOSELY MONORG EVERY ONE OF DONALD TMP’S MOV—OM THE LOR OF THE SUVS HIS MOTOR TO THE POST-ARRT MERCH HE WAS SELLG— WAS EASY TO MISS THE SER, LOL THREATS TO MOCRACY HAPPENG ACROSS THE UNTRY THIS WEEK. ON TUDAY, THE TWICE-IMPEACHED FORMER PRINT OFFICIALLY SURRENRED TO ARRT FOR A HH-MONEY PAYMENT TO A PORN ACTRS WH WHOM HE ALLEGEDLY HAD AN EXTRAMARAL AFFAIR. AND WHILE THIS IS A MAJOR NEWS STORY, MASTREAM MEDIA’S LIVE FEEDS WERE SO FOCED ON TMP WOULD’VE BEEN DIFFICULT TO NOT KNOW WHEN HE WAS GOG TO THE BATHROOM. MEANWHILE, ACROSS THE UNTRY, REPUBLINS STATE LEGISLATUR HAVE NTUED THEIR MARCH AGAST CIVIL RIGHTS.IN TENNSEE, THE REPUBLIN-LED STATE HOE IS PHG TO EXPEL THREE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY BROKE “M” BY TERPTG PROCEEDGS TO ADVOTE FOR STUNTS PROTTG GUN VLENCE. THOANDS OF STUNTS, PARENTS, AND RINTS HAVE BEEN PROTTG THE STATE THE WAKE OF A MASS SCHOOL SHOOTG NASHVILLE THAT LEFT THREE CHILDREN AND THREE ADULTS AD.ON MONDAY, AS PROTTERS ENTERED THE HOE CHAMBER AND CHANTED OM THE GALLERY, MANDG LAWMAKERS’ ATTENTN, A MUCH MORE REAL BREACH OF “M” OCCURRED ON THE HOE FLOOR. REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE JT LAFFERTY—KNOWN FOR FENDG THE THREE-FIFTHS PROMISE—REPORTEDLY SHOVED REPRENTATIVE JT JON, ONE OF THE LAWMAKERS FACG THREAT OF EXPULSN.JON AND HIS FELLOW UNR-ATTACK REPRENTATIV HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRIPPED OF MTEE ASSIGNMENTS AND MEMBERSHIP ID ACCS FOR MTG THE HIGH CRIME OF RG ABOUT KIDS BEG SHOT AD AT SCHOOL. THE VOTE TO EXPEL THEM OM THE LEGISLATURE THURSDAY.MEANWHILE, ATTACKS AGAST WOMEN, TRANS PEOPLE, AND THE LGBTQ MUNY GENERALLY HAVE NTUED TO LATE.IN FLORIDA, THE STATE SENATE PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW THE STATE TO TAKE CHILDREN AWAY OM THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS IF THEY RECEIVE GENR-AFFIRMG RE. HEALTH RE PROVIRS WHO PROVI THAT TREATMENT TO PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18 WOULD LOSE THEIR LICENSE AND ULD FACE FELONY CRIMAL PENALTI. THE BILL ALSO FORBIDS ANY PUBLIC MONEY OM VERG GENR-AFFIRMG RE. THE BILL’S PASSAGE JT ONE DAY AFTER THE FLORIDA SENATE PASSED AN EXTREME SIX-WEEK ABORTN BAN THAT ULD CUT OFF ABORTN ACCS FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH. TOP DEMOCRATIC LEARS WERE ARRTED HOURS LATER DURG A PROTT FOR ABORTN RIGHTS.IN IDAHO, GOVERNOR BRAD LTLE SIGNED A BILL THAT BANS TRANS KIDS UNR THE AGE OF 18 OM ACCSG GENR-AFFIRMG RE. DOCTORS WHO PROVI SUCH CCIAL RE ULD BE CHARGED WH A FELONY AND FACE UP TO 10 YEARS PRISON.IN TEXAS, STATE SENATORS ALSO PASSED A BILL TO BAN GENR-AFFIRMG RE FOR PATIENTS UNR THE AGE OF 18, SIARLY LLG TO REVOKE THE LICENS OF DOCTORS WHO DO PROVI THE RE, AND BARRG PUBLIC MONEY OM ANY ENTI THAT PROVI THE TREATMENTS. THEY ALSO ADVANCED TWO BILLS TARGETG DRAG SHOWS, ONE OF WHICH WOULD GO SO FAR AS TO FUND PUBLIC LIBRARI WHERE DRAG QUEENS ARE ALLOWED TO READ TO CHILDREN.DURG THE BATE ON THOSE BILLS, LITENANT GOVERNOR DAN PATRICK THREATENED TO SILENCE DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR ROLAND GUTIERREZ FOR NTUG TO SPEAK ABOUT HOW GUN LEGISLATN, NOT BANNG DRAG SHOWS, SHOULD BE A PRRY IF THEY WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN. GUTIERREZ REPRENTS UVAL, WHERE 19 KIDS AND TWO TEACHERS AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE SHOT AD LAST MAY. IN KANSAS, THE REPUBLIN-LED LEGISLATURE PASSED A BILL TO BAN TRANSGENR PEOPLE OM G PUBLIC BATHROOMS OR EVEN BEG ABLE TO UPDATE THEIR NAME OR GENR ON THEIR DRIVER’S LICENSE.AND FALLY, NORTH CAROLA, DEMOCRATIC STATE LAWMAKER TRICIA COTHAM FLIPPED HER PARTY AFFILIATN, GIVG REPUBLINS A VETO-PROOF MAJORY AGAST DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ROY COOPER. COTHAM HAS PREVLY ATTACKED REPUBLINS ON ABORTN, SAYG, “MY WOMB AND MY UTES IS NOT UP FOR YOUR POLIL GRAB.” SHE HERSELF HAS HAD AN ABORTN, BUT SCE FLIPPG PARTI ON TUDAY, COTHAM HAS SAID SHE IS OPEN TO SUPPORTG RTRICTNS ON THE PROCRE.AS NSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS NTUED THEIR ASSLT ON CIVIL RIGHTS ACROSS THE UNTRY, VOTERS THEMSELV SHOWED HOW DIFFERENTLY THEY SEE THGS. IN CHIGO, VOTERS ELECTED BRANDON JOHNSON—AN UNAPOLOGETIC PROGRSIVE, LABOR ANIZER, AND FORMER PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER—AS MAYOR. IN WISNS, VOTERS OVERWHELMGLY ELECTED DEMOCRAT JA PROTASIEWICZ, FLIPPG THE STATE SUPREME COURT FOR THE FIRST TIME 15 YEARS. SUCH AN OCSN IS ALL THE MORE NOTABLE GIVEN THAT THE URT IS SET TO ADDRS MAJOR S ON WISNS’S ABORTN BAN AND THE HEAVILY GERRYMANRED MAPS THAT HAVE KEPT NSERVATIV NTROL OF THE SWG STATE SCE 2010. BUT HOW N THE MASTREAM MEDIA VER ANY OF THIS WHEN IS SO OBSSED WH VERG THE MUTE-BY-MUTE MOVEMENTS OF A MAN WHO HAS BEEN IMPEACHED TWICE, LOST THE ELECTN, AND HAS SCE BEEN ARRTED? THE LOL BATTL SERVE THE GRANULAR TELEVISN PLAY-BY-PLAYS, NOT THE ANGRY MAN WHOSE POLICS KEEPS LOSG AT THE BALLOT BOX, WHO’S UNR AN ARRAY OF CRIMAL VTIGATNS, AND WHOSE RAMBLG SPEECH ARE SO BORG EVEN SOME MAJOR NEWS WORKS ARE FALLY CHOOSG TO CUT AWAY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF TMP’S INDICTMENT WAS DUMB, DPERATE, AND A REALLY BAD SIGN FOR 2024MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/3:58 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTEXAS SENATE VOT TO DEFUND PUBLIC LIBRARI THAT HOST DRAG STORYTIMTWO BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE WOULD FURTHER RTRICT DRAG PERFORMANC THE STATE.BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGDRAG QUEEN ONA LOUISE READS A BOOK DURG A STORY TIME READG AT THE CHEER UP CHARLI DIVE BAR ON MARCH 11 AT, TEXAS.THE TEXAS SENATE PASSED A DOUBLE-WHAMMY OF BILLS ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMANC AND THE BS THAT HOST THEM, THE LATT ATTEMPT BY REPUBLINS TO CRIMALIZE DRAG.SENATE BILL 12, WHICH PASSED TUDAY BY A VOTE OF 21-10, WOULD CRIMALIZE DRAG PERFORMANC THAT OCCUR OR ULD OCCUR ONT OF A MOR IF THEY APPEAL TO “PRIENT TERT” OR OF A SEXUAL NATURE. PERFORMERS ULD BE CHARGED WH A MISMEANOR, WHILE ANY BS THAT HOSTS THE SHOW WOULD FACE A $10,000 FE. TWO DEMOCRATS JOED REPUBLINS VOTG FOR THE BILL, ALTHOUGH ONE LATER SWCHED HIS VOTE.SENATE BILL 1601 PASSED BY A VOTE OF 20-9, WH THE SAME TWO DEMOCRATS JOG REPUBLINS. THE MEASURE WOULD FUND PUBLIC LIBRARI THAT HOST DRAG STORYTIM (EVENTS WHERE DRAG PERFORMERS READ TO CHILDREN). THE BILL DO NOT MENTN “PRIENT TERT” AND SO WOULD APPLY TO ANY EVENT WHERE “THE PERSON BEG DRSED AS THE OPPOSE GENR IS A PRIMARY PONENT OF THE ENTERTAMENT.” THIS MEANS THAT A FEMALE LIBRARIAN DRSED AS THE WIZARD GANDALF, FOR EXAMPLE, ULD BE BANNED.DEMOCRATS SLAMMED THE BILL FOR BEG OVERLY BROAD, WHICH ULD RULT UNTEND NSEQUENC. SENATOR ROLAND GUTIERREZ POTED OUT THAT POP STAR MILEY CYS HAS DRSED “AS A MAN” AND DANCED SEXUALLY DURG HER PERFORMANCE. UNR THE BILL, HER SHOWS ULD BE BANNED.GUTIERREZ, WHO REPRENTS UVAL, WHERE 19 CHILDREN AND TWO ADULTS WERE KILLED A SCHOOL SHOOTG LAST SUMMER, POTED OUT THAT REPUBLINS ULD PROTECT CHILDREN BY PASSG STRICTER GUN LAWS STEAD OF DRAG BANS.HIS REMARK PROMPTED CHEERS OM PEOPLE WATCHG THE GALLERY, BUT THE REPUBLIN SENATE PRINT WARNED GUTIERREZ THAT IF HE DIDN’T STICK TO THE TOPIC OF THE DRAG BILLS, HE WOULDN’T BE REGNIZED TO SPEAK AGA.THE BILLS NOW MOVE TO THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV. THEY ARE JT THE LATT MEASUR THROUGHOUT THE UNTRY ATTACKG DRAG PERFORMERS, WHO HAVE CREASGLY BEE A TARGET FOR RIGHT-WG BILE, WH ATTACKS RANGG OM DRAG STORYTIM AT PUBLIC LIBRARI TO POLICE VTIGATNS. TENNSEE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO PASS A LAW BANNG DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, ALTHOUGH THE MEASURE WAS BLOCKED BY A FERAL JUDGE AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR. FLORIDA’S SENATE MTE HAVE APPROVED A BILL THAT WOULD BAN DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, CLUDG AT PRI CELEBRATNS, AND PUNISH BS THAT HOST SUCH SHOWS. AND MONTANA’S SENATE JUDICIARY COMMTEE HEARD A BILL TUDAY THAT WOULD BAN DRAG PUBLIC AND LABEL ANY BS THAT HOSTS A DRAG SHOW AS A “SEXUALLY ORIENTED BS.” SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKINSI THE RIGHT’S ANTI-TRANS DOG AND PONY SHOW MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/APRIL 5, 2023/2:44 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYWISNS REPUBLINS ARE ALREADY TALKG ABOUT IMPEACHG THE NEWLY ELECTED LIBERAL JUDGE
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HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
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