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During the Turning Point USA's Young Women's event, Charlie Kirk ranted about how men have been feminized and emasculated and only Charlie Kirk himself could restore their manliness.
To Christian nationalists, attacking the LGBTQ community is simpatico with denigrating the current state of manhood.
Kirk is now extending his hatred to womanhood.
Money. Incumbency. Near-universal name recognition.
U. S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has uncorked a powerful political brew in her quest to clear a field of five Republican primary opponents, all of whom have deeper roots in Colorado’s easternmost district than the second-term congresswoman.
That time-tested formula has given Boebert, less than half a year after she abandoned her western Colorado seat to run in the 4th Congressional District, a substantial advantage in the June 25 primary election, said Republican political analyst Kelly Maher.
A lot of Coloradans are worried about our democracy. And they want candidates to pay attention to it, too.
That is the message that comes through loud and clear from more than 4,500 responses to the Voter Voices survey that The Denver Post and dozens of other newsrooms around Colorado are circulating during this election year, as of last week.
When there are a zillion right wing mouthpieces out there twisting the narrative, it's not surprising polls would be weird. But anyway, here's your Sunday cartoon and open thread.
What's on your mind these days?
- Karoli
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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with The Virginia Quarterly Review and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging from a silvered quiet. Icicles shatter like glass. Meltwater babbles, braiding in puddles and then in deltas.