"My #Husband and his #Family #Voted for #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump — so I’m #Canceling #Thanksgiving and #Christmas.

I won’t accept #gifts from #people who #support a #PoliticalParty planning #InternmentCamps and #MassDeportations

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Xenophobia ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

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My Husband And His Family Voted For Trump — So I'm Canceling Thanksgiving And Christmas

"I will not unwrap gifts given to me by people who voted for a party that has talked about building internment camps and mass deportation."

^{Andrea Tate (HuffPost)}

From Justin Miller: Colin Allred's post-Dobbs strategy fell flat here—and for #Democrats all across the country–in the face of the visceral reactionary forces around the economy and immigration summoned by #Trump. texasobserver.org/texas-red-te…

#ColinAllred #TedCruz #politics #USpol #news #Texas #election2024 #Republicans #immigration #abortion #extremism

Texas Goes All Red for Ted

Maybe Dems need to recover the lessons of Beto 2018. Or maybe the sun will die before the state turns blue.

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}

New today: Arvin West speaks forcefully about being a local sheriff in a border county that’s always been home and where Latinos (including those in his own family) are not enemies but voters who’ve kept him in office—most recently in an unusually tough primary election campaign earlier this year. texasobserver.org/a-lawmans-ch…

#politics #USpol #police #border #racism #extremism #Republicans #Trump #immigration #WestTexas

A Lawman’s Change of Heart?

Iconic Texas Sheriff Arvin West was a leading voice against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. But West says his perspective is aligned with what he sees as the reality of the border.

^{Alfredo Corchado (The Texas Observer)}

“Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.”

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#Facebook #Meta #extremism #militia #RightWingNutJobs #DOMTERR #trump #zuckerberg

#LGBTQ+ #voters in these 4 #states could swing the 2024 #presidential #election.

LGBTQ+ voters strongly #vote for #democrats

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Election #Representation #Culture #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread

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LGBTQ+ voters in these 4 states could swing the 2024 presidential election

LGBTQ+ voters make up a relatively small percentage of the American electorate. But they’re poised to play an outsize role in the ‘tipping-point’ states most likely to decide the election.

^{The Conversation}

“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that #Trump is proposing would be devastating for our economy and dangerous for American Latinos.”
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#politics #USpol #immigration #news #fascism #extremism #racism #election2024 #economy

How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas

The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}

#BigBrother #edits #episode to remove #lesbian #contestant's pro #Palestine #Tshirt.

The Big Brother #episode was removed from #ITVX and subsequently re-uploaded with the pro-Palestine T-shirt edited out.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Censorship #MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide

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Big Brother edits episode to remove lesbian contestant's pro-Palestine T-shirt • GCN

A Big Brother episode was removed from ITVX and subsequently re-uploaded with the pro-Palestine T-shirt edited out.

^{bea@gcn.ie (GCN)}