Monthly Archives: June 2012

At Netroots: Breitbart Is Here

Dead Breitbart sycophant and vile CNN contributor Dana Loesch is wandering around Netroots with crackpot teabagging blogger Jim Hoft, looking for Occupiers and other “fringe” attendees to ridicule on their sites. Loesch just tweeted the above photo in front of the Daily Kos logo. (Netroots began as a Daily Kos event.) Hoft, you may recall, is the lying freak who …

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Wingnuts Attack Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren For Attending Netroots

Here’s how teabagger site Daily Caller sees it: Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick and Republican Sen. Scott Brown attended the Friday funeral of a slain Massachusetts police officer, Kevin Ambrose, who died Monday while on duty. There is, of course, a noticeable absence from the list of mourners. Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren apparently couldn’t be bothered. She’s hanging out …

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Netroots Trans Panel On SiriusXM

SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile is interviewing this morning’s Netroots Nation transgender issues panel this hour (3pm – 4pm eastern.) In the background you can see some of the others on the Netroots “radio row” including progressive talker Sam Seder, who is in the booth to Mike’s right. Across from Seder is the David Pakman Show crew.

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NEW YORK: Appeals Court Rules That HIV+ Saliva Is Not A “Deadly Weapon”

A panel of judges on the New York Court of Appeals has unanimously overturned a lower court and ruled that if an HIV+ person spits on or bites somebody, his saliva cannot be considered a “deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.” David Plunkett was serving a 10-year sentence for punching and biting a police officer. The incident occurred in 2006 when …

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Lizz Winstead At Netroots Nation

Daily Show creator and comedian Lizz Winstead spoke at Netroots Nation today, where she read excerpts from her new book, Lizz Free Or Die.

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Atomic

Eternally glamorous Debbie Harry attended last night’s amFAR benefit in New York City. (Via Boy Culture)

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TODAY: SiriusXM At 4PM

Today at 4pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show at Netroots Nation to talk about the LGBT presence here and how our issues are being addressed. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account.

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New From Minnesota For All Families

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Billboard Of The Day

Source.

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Pelosi Vows To Drop DOMA Defense

That is, IF the Democrats win back the House. “First of all, we can expect something to go away, like stop spending taxpayer dollars on the Defense of Marriage of Act, which is a waste of money and not the right thing to do,” Pelosi said. Pelosi had previously criticized House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for taking on defense of …

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Netroots Hosts First-Ever Trans Panel

Left to right: Autumn Sandeen, Jos Truitt, Monica Roberts, Jennifer Levi. Moderator: Dr. Jillian Weiss. Lots of allies in the audience are getting an education.

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American Apparel Hires Trans Model

GLAAD has the details.

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Eat Your Birth Control

Among last night’s speakers at Netroots Nation was the president of Planned Parenthood, whose reps had placed chocolate birth control dispensers on all of our tables. Preventing pregnancy is delicious.

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CDC Reports Decline In HIV Education

Via press release: Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its 2011 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which tracks everything from seat belt utilization to tobacco use among America’s youth. While the report showed improvements among many risk factors, the percentage of U.S. high school students who had learned about HIV/AIDS in school dropped from …

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Romney: I’m Your Strong Leader

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Email Of The Day – Eugene Delgaudio

“Joe, Should a man be allowed to use women’s only restrooms? You and I both know the answer: Of course not! But Obama’s Department of Justice has just ordered a college to allow exactly that. You see, they have decided a sexually disturbed man — who goes by ‘Jennifer’ Braly — has the right to use any women’s restroom on …

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Electoral Map Unchanged

No movement in the totals versus last week’s map.

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Gays Don’t Want Gay Children

“Young people grow up and it’s amazing what happens when you become a mom or a dad yourself. It’s amazing what happens when, all of a sudden now you are entrusted with a young life and that kid looks just like you and all of a sudden now it’s your little boy or your little girl. No one wants their …

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On Sale At Netroots Nation

From the same artist I blogged about yesterday.

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Philly Mayor Backs Big Gulp Ban

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is backing Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large servings of sugary drinks. “Sugary drinks, like soda, fruit drinks and sweetened teas, are the single largest sources of sugar in the American diet,” Nutter said, according to the text of his speech. “On average, Americans drink 20 ounces of soda a day,” he said, adding that Bloomberg’s proposed …

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