PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Democrats Compared Parental Rights Groups to the KKK While Passing a Transgender Law. Now, Those Groups Are Suing.

The parental rights groups Defending Education, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, and Protect Kids Colorado teamed up with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and a medical doctor, Dr. Travis Morrell, to file the lawsuit Monday, challenging HB 25-1312, which Polis, a Democrat, signed Friday. The law amends the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of “gender expression,” specifically stating that refusing to use a person’s “chosen name” will constitute discrimination.

The lawsuit claims this violates the First Amendment by compelling Coloradans to speak to promote transgender issues, in violation of their free speech. It also claims that requiring staff at places of public accommodation to use a transgender person’s “chosen name” is unconstitutionally vague and subject to arbitrary enforcement, violating the 14th Amendment.
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The groups are suing Colorado because they “believe that sex is immutable and fixed at birth, and they oppose the spread of controversial gender ideologies among Colorado’s youth,” according to the lawsuit. “They do not want to be forced to affirm—through the use of pronouns, names, or other language—that a biological man is actually a woman or vice versa. Yet that is precisely what HB 25-1312 requires.”

That must be more of Polis’s “light regulatory touch.”

PERSONALLY, I HAVE MORE THAN ONE, BUT OKAY: Robin Hanson: My Complaint Re Academia.

NORTH KOREAN TV CALLED AND SAID YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO DIAL THE GASLIGHTING BACK:

This is THE GREATEST clip out yet – Jake “The Shill” Tapper telling Joe Scarborough that an 80 year old dementia sufferer focused on making Scarborough his bitch by suckering him to go out to the public on his show and saying Biden was the “Best Biden” ever at that time.

And… https://t.co/bghUmcxvBb

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 22, 2025

Joe Scarborough, Then: This is the best Biden ever, and F YOU if you can’t handle the truth.

Joe Scarborough, Now: I was obviously wrong, but I’m not sure what the takeaway is here.

🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/B7rljfpbAv

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 21, 2025

Mark Halperin tries to get Scarborough back to planet earth, but Scarborough dodges by dissembling and playing the “But Trump” card:

This was Joe Scarborough trying to explain to Mark Halperin his “best Biden ever” comment from March 2024. After insisting this was “the first time I’ve seen the clip all the way through,” Scarborough offered this defense…

Scarborough: “Yeah, he stumbled —”

Halperin: “And, of… pic.twitter.com/ao7RFsFXEX

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 21, 2025

JOHN LUCAS: Preparation and Reflections for Memorial Day: And remembering a North Carolina farm boy.

INDICTMENTS ALL AROUND: Meet the Biden ‘politburo’ accused of running the country in secret: There was the aide who demanded $4 million to advise the re-election campaign. There was the enforcer who ‘cast out heretics’. And there was Jill Biden.

However, as the book is published there is little chance of a reprieve for those accused of covering up, or wilfully ignoring, Biden’s decline. “I don’t think there is a way to make it stop,” one Democrat sighs. “Every Democrat is going to need to have an answer on Biden and why we let him stay for so long.”

The blame game is moving to a cabal of advisers, dubbed the “politburo” by colleagues in a nod to the highest decision-making body of the Soviet Union, a group said to have enjoyed unprecedented power.

“Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,” one cabinet member claims. “I’ve never seen a situation like this before, with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] secretary Yellen.”

It was a coup, and they were usurpers. And every Democrat should have to answer for it.

INDEED: Pass the SALT (Cap): Red-State Americans Shouldn’t Have to Subsidize Lavish Blue-State Social Programs.

WEIRD ANCIENT HISTORY:  Quick Take: the Fake Roman Financial Panic.

ANOTHER WIN FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND SMALL BUSINESS: “Town officials in Conway, New Hampshire, tried to force a local bakery to paint over a mural made by local school students. . . . But no good deed goes unpunished. Two months later, town officials decided that they would treat the students’ mural as a ‘sign’ subject to strict size and location restrictions.”

They lost, thanks to IJ.

IT TAKES A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:   A Fired Government Worker Later Sobbed but Couldn’t Call His Parents Because of This Hilarious Reason.

THEY’RE PROGRESSIVES: THEY’RE FOREVER HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON:  What Happened in This Democratic Primary Is Another Wake-Up Call for Progressives.

THERE’S A WORD FOR NATIONS THAT RELY ON OTHERS FOR THEIR DEFENSE: COLONIES:  Brexit undone for a defence deal we don’t need.

TAKE A LESSON FROM HER EXPERIENCE: WATCH YOUR MOUTH AND MIND WHAT YOU TWEET:  The appalling treatment of Lucy Connolly.

Or if you prefer: Great Britain has fallen in all but name.

CHASER:  Lucy Connolly appeal denied. Her barbaric two year seven month sentence stands.

BECAUSE NOW WE CAN JUST DO THINGS:  Trump Shows South African President Video of Officials Calling for Murder of White Farmers.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SO SHOCKED:  Buffalo Public Schools Continues to Cover Itself in Infamy.

YEP. “SCIENTIFIC GOVERNANCE”:  What Nobody Tells You About Apartheid and Jim Crow: The Policies of South Africa and of the USA’s Southern States Were Neither Rightist Nor (Primarily) Racist; What They Were Was “Socialism with a Racist Face”.

THEY’RE THE CULT OF ORANGE MAN BAD:  Three National Wins that Reveal the Extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

POINT:  There’s a Difference Between Being Pro-2A and Anti-Gun Control.

CBS FAILS AT ECONOMICS:  “Most Americans Don’t Earn Enough To Afford Basic Costs Of Living”.

THEY’RE COLLEGE PROFESSORS, FROM YALE; THEY’RE SMARTER AND BETTER THAN YOU:  Even Nate Silver Couldn’t Take What These Yale Professors Did Seriously in Response to Trump.

YEAH. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  House Republicans investigate Harvard’s ties to Chinese and Iranian governments.

BEST SERVED COLD. AND HARD:   South Africa courts Starlink; Musk says no.

IT’S HARD TO TAKE THE “ALLEGED” SERIOUSLY WHEN THERE ARE RECORDINGS:  Trump admin terminates $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism.

SOME OF US RECOGNIZED THAT FROM THE START:  Net Zero: Unachievable, dangerous and pointless.

WHAT CAN BLUE DO TO YOU?  Welcome to the State of Taxington.

IF THE WORLD ENDS IN AI, IT’S THE STUPIDEST OF ALL THE PREDICTED ENDS: AI Thievery and the End of Humanity by Ing.

Like dying from a pinprick.