Are Organizers of the Competing Queer Liberation March Trying to Re-Elect Trump?

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You're looking at a disturbing microcosm of what is currently wrong with the left -- our inability to take yes for an answer. If anyone has any pull with this group, I beg you to make them stop this ill-conceived "competing" Pride march, happening on the same day that the world marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots -- an event that has led to our having a serious LGBTQ presidential candidate. (Did you EVER think that would happen in your lifetime?)

I totally agree with the organizers that the police and corporations are deeply flawed. But what we've fought for these past 50 years is to have the police not storm our bars and arrest and beat us -- and to have corporations acknowledge us and our families as equal beings. By all means push both to do better -- corporations are greedier than ever and police brutality shows no sign of abating. But what is the value in protesting men and women in uniform as they PROTECT our parade -- and by its own admission, protect the Queer Liberation March -- and corporate floats who are at least trying to do the right thing?

Instead, how about a Queer Liberation March to mark the 50th anniversary of the Christopher Street Liberation Day march -- in 2020?

If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times: This is how Trump gets re-elected. Stunts like this do nothing but divide liberals, turn off allies and, more disturbingly, alienate potential allies.

Whether Heritage of Pride (the organizers of the main parade) gave its blessing or not -- and really, how could it not? -- I wish the organizers would please reconsider. For anyone but a Bernie Bro, the optics are horrible.

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New Progressive Podcast Gives Tips on How to #Resist

What makes the new "UnPresidented" podcast -- hosted by progressive writers and activists Cliff Schecter and John Aravosis (Americablog) -- different from all the rest? It gives you an insider's look at the week's political news -- and the action steps you need to get involved and RESIST. Get started HERE.

Liberals' Islam Problem

The left has an Islam problem: If liberals won’t come to terms with religious extremism, the xenophobic right will carry the day

ISIS doesn't represent true Islam. But denying there's a problem within Islam only makes the left look feckless

Thank you, Sean Illing, for further explaining what I wrote about on Monday. Read HERE.

Even a Blind Person Could See This Guy's an Idiot

Man Who Would Rather Go Blind Than Get Obamacare Now Going Blind

Oh, "conservatives." You never fail to give us something to shake our heads about. Yep. He wants the government to bail him out -- and his wife has to audacity to blame the Affordable Care Act for not letting him have coverage now!

 “[My husband] should be at the front of the line because he doesn’t work and because he has medical issues,” Mary Lang said last week. “We call it the Not Fair Health Care Act.”