“James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, is rushing to escape his on-the-record gender insanity — but it’s clearly just a dodge, part of lefty candidates’ nationwide playbook to claim to embrace ‘normalcy’. Talarico has unambiguously claimed there are six genders and that God is nonbinary; as a state legislator he voted against bills to keep biological boys out of girls’ sports and to end gender-reassignment treatments for minors. Now he tells Fox News those six-gender comments ‘missed the mark’; he insists he supports a trans-athlete ban and a national ban on gender surgeries and hormones for kids. Has he seen the light of reason and started to actually follow the science on the issue? Don’t bet on it.” (09/12/26)
Source: In These Times
by Tina Al-khersan & Azadeh Shahshahani
“In early 2025, the world watched as masked federal agents abducted Pro-Palestinian activists across the country based on the premise that they were promoting or supporting terrorism. Having tested various legal boundaries through these cases, the Trump administration became further emboldened later that year, issuing the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) in September 2025. The memorandum effectively equated certain political and ideological beliefs with terrorism, and a slew of politically motivated attacks quickly followed. … Although these attacks have in many ways felt unprecedented, they must be seen as a continuation of the War on Terror, in which the security apparatus constructed over the last 25 years is now being used to aggressively target political dissent within the United States.” (09/11/26)
“I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless everyone was still greatly impacted by the human tragedy. However, while the experience of attending a government school had already made me sure the ‘adults in the room’ running society were largely a bunch of morons, this realization went into overdrive upon seeing the reaction to this event. It was one of the times in my life where it suddenly became apparent that few genuinely believed in anything of moral value. To me, our country’s incapacity to use reason has remained scarier, and a bigger threat to my physical safety and personal liberty, than anything terrorists could do. The worst was the general attitude of, ‘What did we ever do to anyone?'” (09/11/26)
“So: Trump is offering to pay you $5,000 and jack your cost of living up, in return for which he’s demanding your vote and $5,000 plus interest. If that sounds like a good deal to you, you suck at math and you’re probably a member of the rapidly shrinking ‘MAGA’ base.” (09/10/26)
