Edward Winkleman

So-called conversion therapy is emotional torture. Full stop.

“no kid would choose it if they had adult faculties”

No kid would choose it if they had truly loving parents and a supportive community. No kid who is sure they’re gay wants it beaten out of them, “medically” or otherwise.

It’s emotional torture, and those who practice it are hacks.

Also, who announces an “undercover” operation? You’ve either just tipped your targets or admitted you’re just trying to intimidate them. “We’ve had an uptick in interest in joining our ranks from folks you’d think wouldn’t support us…must be a coincidence, right?”

Either way, it’s just plain dumb.

Why not: “AG Bondi, you are not here to ask questions. You are here to answer questions. Throw away your list of critiques of the panel’s Dem members and simply answer our questions. That’s the only reason you’re here. Fail to do so, and you’ll be held in contempt.

Now answer the question.”

🤡💩

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Republicans

Toenail fungus.

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95%

So technically, yeah.

Douchebaggery.

I take comfort in knowing Stephen Miller does not enjoy SCOTUS-underwritten immunity.

I long to see him held accountable by a jury of his peers.

Or, better yet, one of actual humans.

Save them for another piece…

1 transgender shooter
GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!"

47,209 white male shooters
GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

Am I the only one thinking Chappel is channeling Cindy Sherman in the short hair bit in ”The Subway” video?

I’m guessing it’s probably something else, but what?

Communism is thousands of years old?

Did Marx also invent a Time Machine?

Why must he write so idiotically?

So-called "civil discourse" requires respect for the other person's place in society, as an equal citizen. Once you suggest anyone is somehow "less than you" because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., it's YOU who has introduced incivility into the conversation.

His ego is entirely out of control. The GOP needs to put country over party. He’ll burn the whole thing down and them along with it if they don’t.

That’s because the GOP still believed in America back then.

It's a photo of a paper taped on a light pole that says "Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you."

Truth

Seemingly everyone is covering this song, from Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Kacey Musgraves, Rick Astley, and Moon Taxi to Ed Sheeran, Orville Peck, and (with Roan) Elton John. Plus countless buskers and TV show contestants. But the casual cover by Keith Urban nails the joy of the song. Nails it.

YouTube video by ACOUSTIC SET OFFICIAL Pink Pony Club | Cover By Keith Urban

I share this w/ (for me) a surprising lack of embarrassment, but recently I’ve become a bit of a connoisseur of covers of Chappel Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” (which is 2nd only to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for songs I knew the 1st time I heard them were the anthem of a specific time in our culture). /1

You don’t “fail” at something you never intend to do.

New York’s Art Stars of the ’80s, Curated by One of Their Own

Mary Boone summarizing the grand, mostly unrealized until it's too late, truth about opening an art gallery, thinking you're a cultural custodian:

"“The longer you have a business, the more it turns into a business.”

Repulsive behavior…simply barbaric and inhumane.

I blame Miller. He’s so convinced undocumented immigrants are beneath basic humanity that he pushes for this type of treatment.

I long to see him on trial at The Hague.

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

- Leonard Cohen (who would have turned 91 yesterday).

So if the rapture happens tomorrow, that means most of Trump’s most righteous administration should be sucked up into heaven, right? And any of them who are not are lying when they claim to be good Christians, right?

Looking at you Hegseth and Noem.

John Oliver: the four words that are the only thing that can genuinely make a bully go away: "Fuck you. Make me."

#FYME

Orwell was an optimist.