Article written for Paste Magazine on the successful introduction of Mortal Kombat's first openly gay character, Kung Jin.
Kung Jin’s Komplicated Koming Out
Ron DeSantis has proposed a permitless carry law that will abolish all gun training and safety requirements to carry a gun in Florida. It’s sheer lunacy.
"You see the mob takes the Fifth…If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment." - Donald J Trump in 2018 … wonder what changed his mind on the 5th??? https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1620485148096565248
Newly released video obtained by CBS News shows former President Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.
"He's invoking the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times," CBS News' @GrahamKates reports. https://cbsn.ws/3WW018y
📢 Dear cis folk
A popular tactic used by anti-trans activists is to insist that no one is trying to take Trans ppl's rights away
Yet this transphobe (Trump) is promising to do exactly that if elected to the worlds most powerful public office
See this rhetoric for what it is https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1620620742445654022
Trump just released one of the most terrifying videos I've ever seen of him. He's boasting that he would prosecute many of my colleagues and me for simply speaking on trans issues to students. He would also ban basic medical care and remove federal funding from trans programs.
News outlets criminalized for critical reporting. Journalists hounded on social media, or even killed, for speaking truth to power. Cash-strapped newsrooms scraping by with a skeleton staff. This is current state of our global free press.
Some thoughts:
https://link.medium.com/gF3AqQfs1wb
Real wages are lower today than they were in December 2019 for every industry except retail trade and leisure and hospitality.
And they are below trend in every industry.