Some days I think about renaming this missive “This Week in EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE AND WE’RE DOOMED.”
But that’s not always true, and the terribleness I describe in this space is statehouse-specific, so …
I guess we’re all stuck with the name I came up with almost 10 (!!!) years ago.
(Big ups to the folks who’ve been here the whole damn decade, sorry my jokes haven’t improved)
I’ve spent a lot of time in this space in recent weeks describing the origin and true nature of the glut of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ legislation being pushed by Republicans in statehouses this year, but I want to take a quick moment to step back from the state-specific laws-’n’-stuff aspect of this coordinated attack on a specific segment of Americans in specific states to point out that the attitudes and rhetoric accompanying these seeps into other, far less GOP-dominated parts of the country.
Like, say, Washington, DC.