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Queer kids need to have access to books that value their existence. Queer kids need to have access to books that celebrate their lives. Queer kids need to know that these books exist. Banning books is not about books. Banning books is about the erasure of identities.

Book banning and censorship is about power and control. It's about limiting access and limiting knowledge. It’s a well-coordinated and well-funded campaign that is ruthless, relentless, and cruel. It’s an orchestrated and insidious campaign to erase identities, to erase kids.

This is the chair of the GOP in my county. Largest Republican urban county in America. And this is their strategy & approach to politics. It makes me sad to raise my children in a community full of people that consider this man a leader. This is just gross & cruel.

When they defend their book banning and calls for censorship by saying it’s about parental rights or about protecting kids, they’re lying to you. Either knowingly or with willful ignorance, they are sharing scripted talking points, looking you in the eye, and lying to you.

If this is the playbook, then we need to be playing: Hey, Trump voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan: I heard there are very fine people on both sides who say a vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. counts as a vote for Trump! So Trump voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania, vote for RFK!

In 2025, the cost of our health insurance will be $30,328.32.

This feels so much worse than 2016. I have no words for all my friends with young children. I have no words for all my trans friends. I have no words for all those in my life who lead with truth, empathy, and hope. I have no words for so many. This is much worse than 2016.

This is U.S.

I still don’t think journalists, creatives, thought leaders, and everyone who’s been part of the *resistence* are prepared for what’s coming our way. For one thing, to restrict movement and coordination, there is no doubt in my mind many of us will soon be added to no-fly lists.

Democracy Died in Darkness

Make no mistake, they will move to expand the Supreme Court from nine Justices to thirteen Justices.

Do Not Obey In Advance.

My last, my very last, twix? In a little while, these early weeks of our rapid descent into fascism and societal discord will be viewed as the quaint, good old days. This is the beginning. Musk and Trump and their programmed followers are engineering a coup in plain site.

Trump is our Hitler. DOGE is our Gestapo. We need more and more people to acknowledge this. We need more and more people to acknowledge this reality, our reality. This is existential.

Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. The broligarchy of evildoers are a clear and present danger.

Dear New York Mets: You’re my all-time favorite team. I watch games on SNY Mets sitting in my old Shea seats. When (not if) you win the World Series this year, don’t visit him. Don’t kiss his ring. It will be the end of my fandom. Set the example. For all humanity. Resist. Phil

Dear New York Mets: When — not if — when you win the World Series this year, don’t visit him. Don’t kiss his ring. It will be the end of my fandom. I will be crushed. It will be the worst. He is awful and cruel. Evil. Be the example. Set the standard. Resist. Phil, a fan since ‘74

Dear New York Mets and Steven Cohen: When — not if — when you win the World Series this year, don’t visit him. It will be the end of my fandom. I will be crushed. It will be the worst. He is awful and cruel. Evil. Be the example. Set the standard. Resist. Phil, a fan since ‘74

Hey, MAGA, dear leader and false god now says he doesn't want your support anymore because you dare to question him over sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. I quote, "I don’t want their support anymore!" He thinks you're "weaklings" and says you're “PAST supporters.” Oh, dear.