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As Mark Robinson completed his rapid six-year rise from conservative internet sensation to the Republican nominee for North Carolina governor, he worked relentlessly to sell his political vision to evangelical Christians. Traveling from church to church and thundering away on social media, he condemned “transgenderism” and “homosexuality” as “filth.” He said Christians should be led by men, not women. And on at least one occasion, he explicitly called to upend American tradition on God’s role in government. “People talk about the separation of church and state,” Mr. Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, said in a speech in October. Trying to find it in the writings of any patriot, anywhere, and I cannot.

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☆ My 91-year-old grandma was filled with wisdom. There were 3 important life lessons I was grateful she passed down.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Daisy Ridley is better known as Rey in Star Wars — the sensitive Jedi whose attitude is nonetheless badass. My paternal grandmother, who died at 91, became Daisy Ridley — her maiden name was Duck of all things — in 1932 when she married my grandfather, Robert. And, just as the Star Wars character inspired women and girls to be strong, Nanny was our role model. She didn't want to have to leave at 60 — the retirement age for women in the UK back then. Daisy Ridley was wise and a positive force.

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☆ 'Give him the benefit of the doubt': Why one gay GOP leader is holding his fire on Mike Johnson — and wants to know if he has any gay friends
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Again, not to predetermine or predispose the speaker, I just don't know how many gay people he knows. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she voted against him in part because he voted for the "Democrat gay marriage bill." So you're out of step, you're out of line, Marjorie, if you've got a problem with gay marriage. I don't think during that time, President Obama or then-Vice President Biden were supportive of LGBT equality. I'm not surprised it tracks with where he is on gay marriage, it tracks with where he is on LGBT acceptance issues in society.

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☆ House Speaker Mike Johnson did work for a 'crisis pregnancy' center that used a van to find pregnant women
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson was the bookkeeper for a crisis pregnancy center, IRS forms show. Crisis pregnancy centers have a history of spreading medical misinformation. Crisis pregnancy centers, or pregnancy resource centers, aim to stop people who are pregnant from seeking abortions by promoting adoption and parenting skills. Imagine Life Ministries noted on its website that many women "have never heard of pregnancy centers or the resources offered there." Imagine Life Ministries did not designate itself under that category in any filings since its founding.

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☆ Idaho's Teacher of the Year fled the state after conservative parents attacked her for being an LGBTQ+ ally
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Idaho Teacher of the Year says she fled the state after conservatives and parents attacked her. She said she was harassed for her support for the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter. The teacher told The Boston Globe teachers are leaving the job because they don't feel valued. Karen Lauritzen, 44, told The Boston Globe she was named 2023 Idaho Teacher of the Year last September and started the school year with high hopes. It's to make kids into the best versions of themselves," Lauritzen told the Globe.

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☆ Opinion | The Radicalization of the Young Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When Sitman condemned the right’s cruelty toward trans people, Hochman conceded some of his points. “Do I love the way that some people on the right talk about sensitive culture issues surrounding stuff like transgenderism always? “Could we use more empathy and humility in the way that we approach these questions? Absolutely.”In March, Hochman went to work for Ron DeSantis, who at the time still looked like the most viable standard-bearer for a post-Trump Republican Party. But whatever his motives, his trajectory from conservative intellectual wunderkind to disgraced troll tells us quite a bit about the culture of the young right.

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☆ The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Gerald Posner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: With athletes pushing back against woke agendas in basketball, swimming and football, the PC project may be running out of steam (02/09/22). Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe fashion for transgenderism has brought with it a new euphemism: “gender-affirming care,” which means surgical and pharmacological interventions designed to make the body look and feel more like that of the opposite sex. Gender-affirming care for children involves the use of “puberty blockers”: one of five powerful synthetic drugs that block the natural production of sex hormones.

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☆ Social Media Companies Need to Address Speech That Incites Fear - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But by allowing such speech to be disseminated on their platforms, the social media companies were doing something that should perhaps concern us even more: They were stoking fear of a marginalized group. Nearly all of the tech platforms developed extensive and detailed rules banning hate speech after finding that the first thing that happens on a new social network is that users start tossing slurs at one another. The European Union even monitors the speediness with which tech platforms remove hate speech. But fear is weaponized even more than hate by leaders who seek to spark violence. Hate is often part of the equation, of course, but fear is almost always the key ingredient when people feel they must lash out to defend themselves.

☆ After Jan. 6 Sedition Convictions, Far-Right Threats Remain
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The guilty verdicts on Thursday against four leaders of the Proud Boys on charges of seditious conspiracy were arguably the most significant victory the Justice Department has won so far in its vast investigation of the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors took a victory lap, with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland noting that along with the similar convictions of six members of another extremist group — the Oath Keepers militia — a major blow had been struck against two of the country’s most prominent far-right organizations. And yet on April 23 — one day before closing arguments took place at the Proud Boys trial — fliers blaming Jews for “the rise in transgenderism” were found in the driveways of several homes in suburban Atlanta. One week later, as the Proud Boys case went to the jury, a neo-Nazi group flying a swastika flag protested a drag show in Columbus, Ohio. The incidents were just two of the many such episodes in recent weeks.

☆ Opinion | Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The new cultural liberalism in the media reflects the views of senior staff members and is opposed by affinity groups and young employees. That’s important, because surveys consistently find that “woke” values are twice as prevalent among younger leftists than among older leftists. Over eight in 10 undergraduates at 150 leading U.S. colleges say speakers who say B.L.M. What’s more, seven in 10 think a professor who says something that students find offensive should be reported to their university. First, the media is, by definition, an outward-facing, audience-driven enterprise, dependent on some kind of mass market for its viability.

☆ Ted Cruz defends three-times-a-week podcasting side-hustle, says it's a 'critical part of the job'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ted Cruz's highest-profile 2024 Democratic challenger says the Texas senator is podcasting too much. But Cruz argues that hosting a thrice-weekly podcast is "critical" to being effective as a senator. "That is not somehow peripheral to doing the job," said Cruz. The Texas senator began the project over three years ago, during former President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial. Though some other lawmakers also host podcasts, Cruz is well ahead of the pack in terms of the sheer volume of podcasting he does.

☆ Montana's House speaker is preventing a transgender legislator from speaking about bills on the House floor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Montana House speaker is now refusing to recognize her until she apologizes for her speech. "It is up to me to maintain decorum here on the House floor to protect the dignity and integrity, and any representative I don't feel can do that will not be recognized," the speaker said. Her attempt to speak, however, was futile after House Speaker Matt Regier refused to recognize her. That evening, the Montana Freedom Caucus published a letter to Twitter misgendering Zephyr and calling for the Montana House of Representatives to censure her. Moving forward, Zephyr said she'd continue to show up and advocate for her constituents, even without the ability to speak on the House floor.

☆ Opinion | Sorry, Republicans, Your Trans Panic Won’t Help You Win
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

State legislatures across the country are enacting draconian abortion bans that are producing predictably tragic outcomes. It has become blindingly obvious what happens when Republicans legislate what Americans do with their sex organs. For years even before the fall of Roe, conservatives have used hard-edge anti-trans messaging in both red and swing state races, only to come up short. issues as a wedge in races in swing states from the Midwest to the Sunbelt to New England. The data suggest that opposition to trans rights cannot overcome — or possibly even make a dent in — the advantage that comes to Democrats in swing states for supporting abortion rights.

☆ Trump's Waco rally fans take his word as gospel and can't fathom voting for anyone else: 'Whatever he says is just golden for me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"All the solutions we need are strictly Donald J. Trump," one diehard fan told Insider. "I"m just waiting for Trump," the Waco resident, who declined to give his last name, told Insider. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida mingles with MAGA supporters during former US President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas. Nguyen Adams, who said she wouldn't call herself a full-fledged Trump supporter, told Insider she was there mainly out of curiosity. The world is not safe," Edy told Insider, adding that she's worried that America is being taken over by communists and freedom-hating domestic terrorists.

☆ Ted Cruz keeps dodging on whether he agrees with his former podcast co-host's call to eradicate 'transgenderism'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Conservative personality Michael Knowles called for the eradication of "transgenderism" in a CPAC speech. "I think the extreme left's ideology has been very harmful," Cruz initially told Insider on Tuesday before boarding an elevator in the Capitol building. "I get that you have a story you want to write," Cruz told Insider. "The press is being silly and deliberately taking him out of context," Cruz told Insider when first asked about the issue on Tuesday. But even so, Knowles' comments go well beyond what most Republican lawmakers have articulated.

☆ We asked CPAC attendees what they think 'woke' means. Their answers were all over the place.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The word "woke" has quickly shot to the forefront of Republican politics in recent years. We asked CPAC attendees what they thought the word means. The word "woke" originally emerged from African American vernacular English, signifying a general awareness of systems of injustice. For Francis, who said he homeschools his own children, the word "woke" invokes the idea of a system of education that's stoking divisions between groups. "Political correctness" appeared to be the most popular short-hand among attendees.

Congressional Republicans introduced what some are calling a national version of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill — or what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It would prohibit schools, for example, from providing sex education or library books that include LGBTQ topics to children under 10. Advocates say the law stigmatizes LGBTQ families and queer youths, who already face disproportionate rates of bullying and harassment at school. Let’s call this what it is, a national ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.”But some advocates say the federal bill would actually go further than Florida’s measure, because its impacts would extend outside just classrooms to any institution, program or event that receives federal funding or takes place on federal property. “No child should ever be exposed to sexual exhibitions like drag shows in public places, whether that’s at a public library or a public park,” he said.

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