Frankly (and Shirley) this surprised me too. It gave me hope that people will not be erased. It gives me hope that the 19th amendment will stand. It gives me hope that Black Americans will be energized and engaged in fighting the good fight. Weβre all in this together.
My guess is because while SC repugs may be evil, they arenβt stupid. And given the overall national pushback against partisan AND racial gerrymandering, they see that this might bite them in the ass. No Princess Points awarded.
Now that Texas Republicans have nominated notoriously corrupt Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, the MAGA religious right is sure to refocus its fire on James Talarico and his faith
Right-Wing Christian Nationalists Fear Christian James Talarico, So They Attack His Faith
Religious-right leaders have been spent decades trying to get more Christians engaged in politics. So are they excited about a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate who is a Christian and a seminarian who speaks fluently about how his faith informs his politics? Hell no.
From the moment that Texas state legislator and former public school teacher James Talarico won the March 3 Democratic primaryβand even beforeβright-wing Christian nationalists have been attacking Talarico. Itβs not hard to understand why. Talarico is an effective speaker who is comfortable talking about his faith while promoting LGBTQ equality and reproductive choice and challenging his Republican colleagues. When Talarico appeared on Joe Roganβs podcast last summer, the host who endorsed Trump in 2024 encouraged him to run for president.
Polls show that Talarico is currently running neck-and-neck with either of the two Republicans who are battling each other in a runoff that will be held in May. That means he is drawing support from millions of Christian Democrats and Independents.
That is unacceptable to Christian-right leaders who have tried to make supporting Donald Trump and voting for Republicans an article of faith. To undermine Talaricoβs appeal, they are attacking his faith as well as his politics.
In other words, the same people who are quick to cry βreligious persecutionβ when their political goals or tactics are criticized have no problem denouncing the faith of a fellow Christian who disagrees with their political positions.
Indeed, they take it on themselves to decide who counts as a βreal Christianβ based on whether a person is aligned with their religious and political worldview. And they viciously smear anyone who isnβt part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
The attacks on Talarico are adding to the evidence that Christian nationalistsβ religious bigotry and intolerance does not only extend to non-Christians.
Here are just some of the examples weβve seen in the past month:
Brooks Potteiger, pastor of the church that Christian nationalist Doug Wilson planted in DC to take advantage of his relationship with Pete Hegseth and boost his influence among Christians in the Trump administration, and Joshua Haymes made news in March when they called Talaricoβs theology demonic and deceitful. They said they hoped that God would βcrucify himβ in Christβa metaphor for a spiritual overhaul. But Haynes added that if that wasnβt part of the plan God should βstop him by any means necessary.β
Wilson, whose vision for a Christian republic includes legal discrimination against non-Christians and liberal Christians, denounced Talarico as βa death angel from Texas,β explaining that βA death cult is any manner of life conducted outside Jesus Christ.β
One of the most Talarico-obsessed Christian-right figures is Gary Bauer, who has been pushing toxic right-wing politics since the days when he urged Ronald Reagan not to let any gay people serve on the first AIDS commission because it would insult conservative Christians. Bauer publishes a daily email newsletter that he has used to repeatedly go after Talarico.
In one of his diatribes, Bauer called Talarico the βposter boyβ for βthe concerted effort by the Democrat Party to steal the Gospel of Jesus to sell Marxism and moral depravity.β Bauer has called Talarico βfar-leftβ and flat-out lied about Talaricoβs position on border security, falsely claiming that he wants βopen borders.β Bearing false witness, anyone?
Thereβs more.
Dominionist James Garlowβs Well Versed newsletter urged people to βbewareβ of the βhereticalβ Talarico. The Blazeβs far-right Steve Deace declared βJames Talarico is going to be Legionβ and called him βan object and a vessel of malevolence.β Anti-Islam author Michael Youssef denounced Talarico and progressive Christianity as βfalse gospels.β
Texas pastor Daniel Hayworth used the platform of the right-wing Human Events to call Talarico a wicked wolf in sheepβs clothing. Heyworth is married to the daughter of the notoriously corrupt GOP attorney general and is promoting his Senate candidacy.
Even Trump himself couldnβt resist getting in on the Talarico-bashing, charging on social media that Talarico was insulting Jesus. Talarico responded, βYou want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war.β
MAGA podcaster Eric Metaxas declared Talarico βdiabolicalβ and a βfake Christianβ during a conversation with right-wing author Megan Basham. Basham declared that Talarico is βnot a Christian,β claiming that it wasnβt enough that Talarico affirms the historic Nicene Creed, saying βSatan could affirm the Nicene creed.β She claimed that Talarico is a βrank hereticβ who has βantichrist viewsβ and that βscripture commands usβ not to treat him as a Christian brother. Metaxas and Masham bashed Christian journalists and publications that have treated Talarico and his Christian witness respectfully, going so far as to question their Christianity. βAny true Christian,β she claimed would denounce Talarico as a non-Christian heretic.
"Why isnβt South Carolina moving ahead? The reason shocked us:"
I'd say the answer is 85-year-old Jim Clyburn. They don't want to deal with the fallout over someone that popular who won't be around for very long anyway. They'll do it after he retires/dies. Like, the day after.
βHow old was Mary?β: How dozens of Oklahoma Republicans fought a bill banning child marriage
36 GOP lawmakers cited everything from the Bible to Socialism to oppose a bill preventing minors from getting married
The good news is that Oklahoma recently became the 17th state (along with Washington, D.C.) to ban child marriage.
The bad news? It wasnβt unanimous. In fact, 36 Republicans in the State House voted against the legislation, reminding everyone that theyβre perfectly fine with adults forcing themselves upon children who arenβt legally old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Their excuses were downright embarrassing.
Senate Bill 504 shouldnβt have been controversial. All it did was remove the underage exceptions to the law about how marriage can only occur between legal adults. From now on, it wonβt matter if your parents (or other authorities) agree to it or if youβre pregnant. No marriage until youβre 18. Simple. Thatβs a big deal because children are sometimes pressured by their parents to marry early or they feel forced into marriage because of teenage pregnancy. Plenty of adults enter into marriages that donβt pan out, but itβs perfectly rational to say a decision that important should only be made by adults.
Taking an impregnated middle- or high-schooler and pressuring her into getting married to her classmateβat an age when both of them barely understand how their own bodies workβisnβt a love story. Itβs Purity Culture run amok. They didnβt have much of a childhood. They barely had time to develop crushes. They probably havenβt gone through a break-up. Why should we assume they have the maturity to understand their options as wedded adults?
Letβs not pretend they can easily end the marriage either. The sort of Christians who advocate for child marriage also condemn divorce regardless of the reason. So child marriage is very much about trapping people into relationships before theyβre old enough to know any better.
Thatβs why this wasnβt merely symbolic legislation. According to the advocacy group Unchained At Last, βnearly 315,000 children as young as 10 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021βmostly girls wed to adult men.β
But that didnβt stop a number of Republican legislators from making a series of bizarre arguments against the bill...
"But you think that you know better than parents? Do you think the government should make decisions for parents over family? You think we have that authority?"
YES, GODDAMN IT! You are no "expert" on children b/c you squirted or squeezed out a kid. PERIOD! That confers ZERO MAGICAL FUCKING KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO YES! WE DO HAVE THAT AUTHORITY YOU BACKWOODS FUCKING KIDDIE FUCKER!
Dame Fate is indeed a fickle mistress. It turns out that after getting fired Pam Bondi has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Being able to devote her time to treatment without the stresses of trying to cover for Trump's sizable ass might be the best thing to happen to her.
I wish her nothing but success in beating it, and as always, fuck cancer!
There have been reports of a dishevelled woman pushing a shopping cart filled with her belongings under abandoned bridges in South Florida and her eerie wail echos off the cracking concrete:
Thyroid cancer is a bitch, but caught early is very treatable. I hope coming up against this difficulty affords Bondi some time to reflect on the world and other people, and brings some compassion to her outlook.
Sleazy E's favorite You Tuber is a very very sick freak
Over the last year, Elon Musk has developed a fascination with a 24-year-old podcaster and YouTuber from Pennsylvania who claimed he communicated βwith God about what he believes the future of the right, philosophically, should be.β
Rudyard Lynch, addressing his 737,000 subscribers on YouTube, has also envisioned a violent βincel revolutionβ engulfing the US in the very near future. βI have been betting my money for years that America will have a rape crisis,β he said in a 2024 video in which he rebuked women for treating βincels as if theyβre subhuman vermin.β
βWomen,β he added, had placed themselves in a βprecarious positionβ by alienating βmen who could protect them.β
Since May of last year, Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, two of the worldβs most valuable companies, has shared podcasts recorded by Lynch on more than 10 occasions, most recently in March. βThoughtfulβ and βworth listening toβ are two ways the centibillionaire has described Lynch and his material.
"βThe genetic differences in men and women, between races and classes have all been completely proven,β said Lynch. βI know five PhDs in genetics, who all say that biological race and class has been irrefutably proven at this point.β"
Class is genetic now? And sorry, fuckalump, but THERE IS MORE GENETIC VARIATION AMONG BLACK PEOPLE THAN EXISTS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE.
So there goes your precious GAWD given "theory" you disgusting subhuman animal.
Fuck these assholes. Tear them apart with machines. Save the world before this nonsense can take over the soft minds of these little boys and manlets they want to convert.
So six fuckers lied their way through senate confirmation, collected a whole bunch of gullible ass senator's votes, and now rule us by decree like fucking plantation overseer's. But I actually admire the Federalist Society for their focus and tenacity over 40 years in understanding the true power of the USSC and then capturing it. There is nothing equivalent on the left, no realpolitik thinking, no understanding of how to capture power and then what to do with it. FDR understood, and LBJ understood and since then, nada.
**Woman fired by Ball State University over Charlie Kirk post to get $225,000 in settlement**
<A woman fired by an Indiana university over her Facebook post criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was killed will receive $225,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused her former employer of violating her free-speech rights, the woman's attorneys said Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced the settlement in a federal lawsuit it filed last year on behalf of Suzanne Swierc against Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns.
Swierc worked as director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State's campus in Muncie, Indiana, before she was fired last September. Ball State cited Swierc's private Facebook post about Kirk as the sole reason for her termination, saying it caused βsignificant disruptionβ to the campus.
In her Facebook post, Swierc referred to Kirk's killing as a βtragedy.β But she also called it a βreflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed.β She wrote: βIf you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends.β>
This is one of our only bulwarks, the justice system. And perhaps Maladministration 2.0 and Taney Court 2.0 have a phalanx of clownshoes lolyers on their side, but we have the truth on ours.
Don't forget folks, make sure you are an ACTIVE voter, voting in primaries. The only semblance of a check on the efforts of the unreconstructed to bring us back to the social order of the 1850s? A Democratic impeachment+removal-sized majority.
Frankly (and Shirley) this surprised me too. It gave me hope that people will not be erased. It gives me hope that the 19th amendment will stand. It gives me hope that Black Americans will be energized and engaged in fighting the good fight. Weβre all in this together.
Elon is about as open with his racism as a person can be, and still, every fucking day, people give him their money and buy his products.
This deleted comment was meant for an insane RFK Jr story.
Lol. "Tube Steak Boogie" ... an ode to Hot Dogs.
βWhy isnβt South Carolina moving ahead?β
My guess is because while SC repugs may be evil, they arenβt stupid. And given the overall national pushback against partisan AND racial gerrymandering, they see that this might bite them in the ass. No Princess Points awarded.
Now that Texas Republicans have nominated notoriously corrupt Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, the MAGA religious right is sure to refocus its fire on James Talarico and his faith
Right-Wing Christian Nationalists Fear Christian James Talarico, So They Attack His Faith
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/right-wing-christian-nationalists-fear-christian-james-talarico-so-they-attack-his-0
Religious-right leaders have been spent decades trying to get more Christians engaged in politics. So are they excited about a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate who is a Christian and a seminarian who speaks fluently about how his faith informs his politics? Hell no.
From the moment that Texas state legislator and former public school teacher James Talarico won the March 3 Democratic primaryβand even beforeβright-wing Christian nationalists have been attacking Talarico. Itβs not hard to understand why. Talarico is an effective speaker who is comfortable talking about his faith while promoting LGBTQ equality and reproductive choice and challenging his Republican colleagues. When Talarico appeared on Joe Roganβs podcast last summer, the host who endorsed Trump in 2024 encouraged him to run for president.
Polls show that Talarico is currently running neck-and-neck with either of the two Republicans who are battling each other in a runoff that will be held in May. That means he is drawing support from millions of Christian Democrats and Independents.
That is unacceptable to Christian-right leaders who have tried to make supporting Donald Trump and voting for Republicans an article of faith. To undermine Talaricoβs appeal, they are attacking his faith as well as his politics.
In other words, the same people who are quick to cry βreligious persecutionβ when their political goals or tactics are criticized have no problem denouncing the faith of a fellow Christian who disagrees with their political positions.
Indeed, they take it on themselves to decide who counts as a βreal Christianβ based on whether a person is aligned with their religious and political worldview. And they viciously smear anyone who isnβt part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
The attacks on Talarico are adding to the evidence that Christian nationalistsβ religious bigotry and intolerance does not only extend to non-Christians.
Here are just some of the examples weβve seen in the past month:
Brooks Potteiger, pastor of the church that Christian nationalist Doug Wilson planted in DC to take advantage of his relationship with Pete Hegseth and boost his influence among Christians in the Trump administration, and Joshua Haymes made news in March when they called Talaricoβs theology demonic and deceitful. They said they hoped that God would βcrucify himβ in Christβa metaphor for a spiritual overhaul. But Haynes added that if that wasnβt part of the plan God should βstop him by any means necessary.β
Wilson, whose vision for a Christian republic includes legal discrimination against non-Christians and liberal Christians, denounced Talarico as βa death angel from Texas,β explaining that βA death cult is any manner of life conducted outside Jesus Christ.β
One of the most Talarico-obsessed Christian-right figures is Gary Bauer, who has been pushing toxic right-wing politics since the days when he urged Ronald Reagan not to let any gay people serve on the first AIDS commission because it would insult conservative Christians. Bauer publishes a daily email newsletter that he has used to repeatedly go after Talarico.
In one of his diatribes, Bauer called Talarico the βposter boyβ for βthe concerted effort by the Democrat Party to steal the Gospel of Jesus to sell Marxism and moral depravity.β Bauer has called Talarico βfar-leftβ and flat-out lied about Talaricoβs position on border security, falsely claiming that he wants βopen borders.β Bearing false witness, anyone?
Thereβs more.
Dominionist James Garlowβs Well Versed newsletter urged people to βbewareβ of the βhereticalβ Talarico. The Blazeβs far-right Steve Deace declared βJames Talarico is going to be Legionβ and called him βan object and a vessel of malevolence.β Anti-Islam author Michael Youssef denounced Talarico and progressive Christianity as βfalse gospels.β
Texas pastor Daniel Hayworth used the platform of the right-wing Human Events to call Talarico a wicked wolf in sheepβs clothing. Heyworth is married to the daughter of the notoriously corrupt GOP attorney general and is promoting his Senate candidacy.
Even Trump himself couldnβt resist getting in on the Talarico-bashing, charging on social media that Talarico was insulting Jesus. Talarico responded, βYou want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war.β
MAGA podcaster Eric Metaxas declared Talarico βdiabolicalβ and a βfake Christianβ during a conversation with right-wing author Megan Basham. Basham declared that Talarico is βnot a Christian,β claiming that it wasnβt enough that Talarico affirms the historic Nicene Creed, saying βSatan could affirm the Nicene creed.β She claimed that Talarico is a βrank hereticβ who has βantichrist viewsβ and that βscripture commands usβ not to treat him as a Christian brother. Metaxas and Masham bashed Christian journalists and publications that have treated Talarico and his Christian witness respectfully, going so far as to question their Christianity. βAny true Christian,β she claimed would denounce Talarico as a non-Christian heretic.
Well, I guess it would be nice if I could win with policy
I know not policy will work with fascists like us
But I gotta think twice before we let you get away
And I know all the Jeebus games you play because I played them too
Oh, but I need some cash to 2nd that emotion
Time to pick my claws up off the floor
Oh, when my hate comes down about your devotion
Well it takes a Repubican, kiddo
But I'm showin' you the door
'Cause I gotta' hit your faith
I gotta hit your faith
Because I'm hitting your faith, faith, faith
I got to hit your faith, faith, faith
A reverse-true-scotsman?
OT: New article says talking to yourself out loud and swearing are signs of superior intelligence. Girl, I'm fucking GOLDEN!!!
I swear at myself out loud so therefore: SOOPER JENIUS!
Me, too, LOL!!!!!!!
Fucking hell. If that's true, I'm a goddamn genius.
"Why isnβt South Carolina moving ahead? The reason shocked us:"
I'd say the answer is 85-year-old Jim Clyburn. They don't want to deal with the fallout over someone that popular who won't be around for very long anyway. They'll do it after he retires/dies. Like, the day after.
βHow old was Mary?β: How dozens of Oklahoma Republicans fought a bill banning child marriage
36 GOP lawmakers cited everything from the Bible to Socialism to oppose a bill preventing minors from getting married
The good news is that Oklahoma recently became the 17th state (along with Washington, D.C.) to ban child marriage.
The bad news? It wasnβt unanimous. In fact, 36 Republicans in the State House voted against the legislation, reminding everyone that theyβre perfectly fine with adults forcing themselves upon children who arenβt legally old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Their excuses were downright embarrassing.
Senate Bill 504 shouldnβt have been controversial. All it did was remove the underage exceptions to the law about how marriage can only occur between legal adults. From now on, it wonβt matter if your parents (or other authorities) agree to it or if youβre pregnant. No marriage until youβre 18. Simple. Thatβs a big deal because children are sometimes pressured by their parents to marry early or they feel forced into marriage because of teenage pregnancy. Plenty of adults enter into marriages that donβt pan out, but itβs perfectly rational to say a decision that important should only be made by adults.
Taking an impregnated middle- or high-schooler and pressuring her into getting married to her classmateβat an age when both of them barely understand how their own bodies workβisnβt a love story. Itβs Purity Culture run amok. They didnβt have much of a childhood. They barely had time to develop crushes. They probably havenβt gone through a break-up. Why should we assume they have the maturity to understand their options as wedded adults?
Letβs not pretend they can easily end the marriage either. The sort of Christians who advocate for child marriage also condemn divorce regardless of the reason. So child marriage is very much about trapping people into relationships before theyβre old enough to know any better.
Thatβs why this wasnβt merely symbolic legislation. According to the advocacy group Unchained At Last, βnearly 315,000 children as young as 10 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021βmostly girls wed to adult men.β
But that didnβt stop a number of Republican legislators from making a series of bizarre arguments against the bill...
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/how-old-was-mary-how-dozens-of-oklahoma
Marriage is a contract. Minors cannot legally enter contracts. Case closed.
But their parents "know their children" and should be able to make that decision for them.
*gags* *breaks shit*
but parents aren't allowed to make a decision to terminate a fetus... it has rights!!!
The disconnect is wild.
"But you think that you know better than parents? Do you think the government should make decisions for parents over family? You think we have that authority?"
YES, GODDAMN IT! You are no "expert" on children b/c you squirted or squeezed out a kid. PERIOD! That confers ZERO MAGICAL FUCKING KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO YES! WE DO HAVE THAT AUTHORITY YOU BACKWOODS FUCKING KIDDIE FUCKER!
FUCK THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY WANT TO FUCK CHILDREN!
Dame Fate is indeed a fickle mistress. It turns out that after getting fired Pam Bondi has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Being able to devote her time to treatment without the stresses of trying to cover for Trump's sizable ass might be the best thing to happen to her.
I wish her nothing but success in beating it, and as always, fuck cancer!
There have been reports of a dishevelled woman pushing a shopping cart filled with her belongings under abandoned bridges in South Florida and her eerie wail echos off the cracking concrete:
'The DOW is over $ 50000!'
Thyroid cancer is a bitch, but caught early is very treatable. I hope coming up against this difficulty affords Bondi some time to reflect on the world and other people, and brings some compassion to her outlook.
It probably won't, but a girl can dream.
I hope she beats or and has a long life in obscurity.
"something karma something something..."
Fortunately, that's one with a high survival rate.
I have thyroid issues and get nodules and am always afraid of that but was told that it is one of those that people usually survive.
She'll probably have to have a "Chernobyl choker", though.
Aw, but Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas really want to bring back Separate, but Equal.
If Alito had his way Slappy T would only be able to cast 3/5 of a vote when it comes to Supreme Court decisions.
As so with Jesus and as so with the South, HEE HAW shall rise again. Amen.
Yay!!!! Buck Owens and Roy Clark!
Iβm a-pickinβ!
-And Iβm a-grinninβ!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Sleazy E's favorite You Tuber is a very very sick freak
Over the last year, Elon Musk has developed a fascination with a 24-year-old podcaster and YouTuber from Pennsylvania who claimed he communicated βwith God about what he believes the future of the right, philosophically, should be.β
Rudyard Lynch, addressing his 737,000 subscribers on YouTube, has also envisioned a violent βincel revolutionβ engulfing the US in the very near future. βI have been betting my money for years that America will have a rape crisis,β he said in a 2024 video in which he rebuked women for treating βincels as if theyβre subhuman vermin.β
βWomen,β he added, had placed themselves in a βprecarious positionβ by alienating βmen who could protect them.β
Since May of last year, Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, two of the worldβs most valuable companies, has shared podcasts recorded by Lynch on more than 10 occasions, most recently in March. βThoughtfulβ and βworth listening toβ are two ways the centibillionaire has described Lynch and his material.
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/inside-the-twisted-mind-of-elon-musks
My money says he cheers on the incel revolution from the shelter of his Momβs basement.
RUDYARD? Rudyard LYNCH? Are you fucking kidding me?
The simulation isn't even trying now.
"βThe genetic differences in men and women, between races and classes have all been completely proven,β said Lynch. βI know five PhDs in genetics, who all say that biological race and class has been irrefutably proven at this point.β"
Class is genetic now? And sorry, fuckalump, but THERE IS MORE GENETIC VARIATION AMONG BLACK PEOPLE THAN EXISTS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE.
So there goes your precious GAWD given "theory" you disgusting subhuman animal.
Fuck these assholes. Tear them apart with machines. Save the world before this nonsense can take over the soft minds of these little boys and manlets they want to convert.
And look at that lump of shit. Just look at him!
Has he tried getting to know a woman and treating her like an actual human being or just a collection of warm, wet holes?
Elon Musk needs to be *redacted* by machines.
And let an incel step to me. I'd really love to see that.
So six fuckers lied their way through senate confirmation, collected a whole bunch of gullible ass senator's votes, and now rule us by decree like fucking plantation overseer's. But I actually admire the Federalist Society for their focus and tenacity over 40 years in understanding the true power of the USSC and then capturing it. There is nothing equivalent on the left, no realpolitik thinking, no understanding of how to capture power and then what to do with it. FDR understood, and LBJ understood and since then, nada.
I would substitute "recognize" for "admire."
Donβt try to blackmail me with the Supreme Court!
Fucking lefty dipshits.
Yay!
**Woman fired by Ball State University over Charlie Kirk post to get $225,000 in settlement**
<A woman fired by an Indiana university over her Facebook post criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was killed will receive $225,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused her former employer of violating her free-speech rights, the woman's attorneys said Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced the settlement in a federal lawsuit it filed last year on behalf of Suzanne Swierc against Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns.
Swierc worked as director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State's campus in Muncie, Indiana, before she was fired last September. Ball State cited Swierc's private Facebook post about Kirk as the sole reason for her termination, saying it caused βsignificant disruptionβ to the campus.
In her Facebook post, Swierc referred to Kirk's killing as a βtragedy.β But she also called it a βreflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed.β She wrote: βIf you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends.β>
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/woman-fired-ball-state-university-charlie-kirk-post-settlement/3955739/
I don't approve of what happened to Charlie Kirk but Charlie Kirk approved of what happened to Charlie Kirk
RADICAL!
This is one of our only bulwarks, the justice system. And perhaps Maladministration 2.0 and Taney Court 2.0 have a phalanx of clownshoes lolyers on their side, but we have the truth on ours.
Don't forget folks, make sure you are an ACTIVE voter, voting in primaries. The only semblance of a check on the efforts of the unreconstructed to bring us back to the social order of the 1850s? A Democratic impeachment+removal-sized majority.
Mount up!
And Don't Give Up The Ship!
Here's something you don't see everyday. The Pope in an all-electric Ferrari;
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mmtqfg5rvs2l
Is this the new Popemobile?
They made it a hatchback. π’
What is the Catholic position on suicide... doors?
there are no Ferraris in Heaven anyway so why not?
Only $640,000. Think of the gasoline savings!