D'Anne Witkowski
Turning Point USA Will Show You Into Heaven by Making Your Life Hell
It's hard to believe that Charlie Kirk died only eight months ago. Honestly, it feels like years ago. It feels like yesterday. It feels like time is a cruel trick, a series of absolutely insane events perpetuated by a continually gaslighting U.S. [...]
Eight Dems Join Republicans in Effort to Give Trump More Power to Hurt Trans People
I’m writing this on June 1, 2026, the first day of Pride. Pride Month is a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ people and history and to demand full protection of LGBTQ+ people under the law. It’s also a great time for allies to be even more vocal [...]
Wait Until You Hear What This Billionaire in California Said About Trans Rights
I don’t like billionaires. I think having that much money while so many people suffer for lack of resources is immoral.That said, there’s one billionaire with whom I agree on at least one issue: trans athletes participating in high school [...]
Conservatives Interfering with the College Mission to Make Everyone Gay
My teenage son has been watching the show “Ted” lately. A couple of years ago I watched the first “Ted” movie with him at his request. It was, um, not to my taste. I’m not a huge fan of blue humor, especially when it [...]
Democrats Who Participate in Trans Oppression Are a Disgrace
If you are a Democrat who participates in the scapegoating and dehumanizing of transgender people, you are a disgrace, you should be ashamed of yourself, you should take all of the seats and shut all of the fucks up. Leave transgender people [...]
Toxic Masculinity: It’s What’s For Dinner. Choke On It.
Fuck Ron DeSantis. I mean, not literally. But yeah, fuck that guy.While signing anti-DEI legislation that would let “individuals sue local governments that implement DEI programs,” Florida Gov. DeSantis said, “I would think [...]
Judge Uses Legal Terms to Protect Trans Kids, Tell RFK Jr. to Eat Shit
“It’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit.” That’s the first thing I saw when I opened Bluesky today. It was posted by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. Darnielle was responding to an article by Erin Reed [...]
Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Pope Leo, Dismisses Him as Weak
I have a song stuck in my head. You know, by Mötley Crüe, big hit in 1989. At the end of the video a rich criminal's life literally goes up in flames."He's the one they call Dr. Jesus, he's the one that makes you feel all right."Those [...]
Happy Easter? Trump Finds the Reason for the Season
Did everyone have a happy Easter? Pretty important day for people who like hard boiled and/or chocolate eggs. Also Christians, I understand. No doubt our very authentically Christian president observed the day in a reflectful and respectful way.Or [...]
The Conversion Therapy Buck Does Not Stop With the Supreme Court
It’s a windy day here in Michigan. As I write this, a transgender pride flag is whipping around wildly on my front porch. The flag keeps getting tangled up and so I periodically go out to unwind it because it’s Transgender Day of [...]
America Needs Saving from Republicans, not Transgender People
There are plenty of things that America needs saving from. Things like fascism, war (currently with Iran, but who knows where the whims of our dear leader will have us bombing next), skyrocketing health care costs, environmental pollutants, gun [...]
Trump Says Gays Should Be Grateful They’re Not Being Thrown Off of Buildings in the U.S.
A message to blood-thirsty, death-loving, human rights-hating conservatives: Stop using the gays to justify the war in Iran. Stop acting like we should be grateful or something.It’s long been a talking point of the anti-gay right that LGBTQ+ [...]