Chat with Jessica Stern (sub req), executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Thursday, May 21st at 2 PM Eastern in The Hive. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is an organization that specializes in gender, sexuality and human rights globally. A champion of social and economic justice, Stern has previously worked at Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, among other organizations. She currently serves on the board of the International Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT Rights and teaches at Columbia University.
Jessica is looking forward to talking to TPM readers about gay and lesbian issues, as well as the impending Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. Drop your questions at or before 2 PM on Thursday May 21st!
Here are the five videos wingnuts say prove Obama is planning a military takeover of Texas.
Someone tell this goof you don’t get to name your own doctrine? And definitely not after yourself?
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 15, 2015
Apparently ISIL had nothing to do with that failed Mohammad cartoon shooting in Texas.
The Jeb watershed has sent TPMers out onto the terrain of Iraq War dead-enders trying to find someone who will say, yes, it’s still awesome. And it’s turning out to be pretty hard. Even Elliot Abrams has given up the fight. So far only John Bolton says he’s still in favor. We’re still looking.
Help us find who else is still on board. If you see news reports of people saying they still think the invasion was a good idea, please drop us a line.
Today, The Slice published a fascinating deep dive by Beejoli Shah about the DIY porn community that continues to thrive on Instagram despite the company’s Herculean efforts to get rid of it. There are many places on the internet that will welcome your naked pics with open arms: Reddit, Tumblr, even your own blog. So what makes people engage in a cat-and-mouse game with an app that goes to such lengths to keep their site porn-free?
I mentioned a couple days ago that this might be happening. And now I think we’re seeing that it is. Improbably, Jeb Bush’s run for president and painful bumbling have triggered, though by no means caused, a watershed moment in the country’s reckoning with the strategic blunder – and let’s just say it – self-inflicted catastrophe of the Iraq War.
This has not been a good few days for Jeb Bush. But I want to highlight one issue this is bringing to the fore about his campaign and the entire 2016 primary process. Through all this clumsy fumbling over “would you invade Iraq” what’s most conspicuous is the dog that is not barking. It is very hard to find any Republican partisans that are lifting a finger to defend him. Laura Ingraham kicked things off ridiculing him. Byron York wrote a merciless column lambasting Bush both for the substance of his remarks and their optics. But it goes well beyond these Republican commentator-elites.
A couple of readers chime in with differing views on the political science research fiasco in Montana: