Dana For the Win

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Speaking at the Democratic National Convention yesterday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel turned a line made famous by former NRA president Charlton Heston on its ear.

She declared, "By the way, I've got a message for the Republicans and the justices of the United States Supreme Court: You can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hand."

I'm not worthy.

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My husband and I, sadly, know a little something about this. For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. See, his limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who happen to be Black.

Wait, I want to know: Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those “Black jobs”?

Michelle Obama

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Santos Sings a New Tune

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For the first time in memory, George Santos told the truth.

After pleading guilty yesterday to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud charges, the gay former Republican congressman from New York acknowledged to reporters that he had "allowed ambition to cloud my judgment."

That's also a vast understatement, since Santos appears to have broken practically every campaign law, on top of creating an entirely fictional biography.

When he gets to prison, he'll have ample time to review his efforts to achieve grandiosity. Santos could've saved New York and the nation a lot of pain and expense if, instead of entering politics, he'd simply claimed to be the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas ll.

Modern Meaning

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I receive a word-of-the-day email, and today's word is "unbosom."

It's a verb defined as to disclose one's thoughts or secrets. But in this era, I'm picturing a giddy trans man being wheeled into top surgery while yelling, "Time to unbosom myself!"

Cashmere, On the Other Hand

 

Faster, Higher, Gayer

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Progress marches on. And surfs. And dives. And dribbles.

The 2024 Paris Olympics were the gayest Games yet, according to Outsports, which counted 199 out gay, lesbian. bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary athletes.

By contrast, the 2012 London Summer Games had 23 openly gay and lesbian athletes, and we thought that was darn good at the time.

In Paris, Team LGBTQ captured 43 medals, placing it seventh in the total medal count. (Maybe Team LGBTQ should compete as a nation. Heaven knows we already have a flag. Depending on the nature of our anthem, every medal ceremony could turn into a dance party.)

What particularly pleases me is that Team LGBTQ's medal haul bested every single country that criminalizes being gay. That's a big rainbow raspberry to all of them.

There were so many stories at the Games, ranging from the misinformation-fueled furor over an Algerian boxer's gender to the fact that more than half of the champion U.S. women's basketball team was openly LGBTQ.

But the story I want to highlight, before these Games fade into my iffy memory, is that of 25-year-old boxer Cindy Ngamba. Born in Cameroon, she moved to the United Kingdom at age 11. She was granted refugee status in 2021, because in Cameroon she could go to prison for being gay. Ngamba won a bronze in Paris, making her the first ever athlete competing as a refugee to clinch a medal.

Ngamba was the flag bearer for the Refugee Olympic Team. Obviously that team made a good choice. Obviously Cameroon didn't.

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Based on the recent force and velocity with which Donald is lying, it seems he’s trying to break the land-speed record for mendacity. It turns out women are as disgusted by JD Vance as he is by them. And don’t get me started on how cats feel about him.

Mary Trump

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