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Truth Wins Out Slams Conversion Therapy Decision | Opinion

“This ruling is a profound failure of both logic and moral responsibility that confuses ‘free speech’ with ‘false speech’,” said Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen.

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TWO Applauds Chicago Bulls for Waiving Jaiden Ivey Following Anti-LGBTQ Online Rants - Truth Wins Out As Basketball Skills Fade, Ivey Rebrands as Hate Preacher at Expense of the Bulls, Fans, Teammates and NBA, Says Former Chicago Talk Show Host

“The Bulls sent a clear message that hateful conduct has consequences,” said Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen. “They stood up for their fans, their players, and the integrity of the game. That kind of leadership matters."

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Lions Led by Donkeys The U.S. is fighting Iran under the worst wartime political leadership America has ever had.

Hegseth, in a war with an Islamist power but in which the U.S. has partnered with other Muslim states, has decided to place his own, peculiarly militant Christian beliefs at the center of his public rhetoric, a decision of unconscionable stupidity.

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Shock Whistleblower May Have Blown Open ICE Barbie Husband’s Secret An undocumented immigrant may have been the one to leak damning information about Noem’s husband.

Karma

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TWO Condemns Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Laws to Protect Minors Against Conversion Therapy - Truth Wins Out Ruling will Have Limited Impact Due to Symbolic Laws with Massive Loopholes and No Teeth, Said TWO

“This ruling is a profound failure of both logic and moral responsibility that confuses ‘free speech’ with ‘false speech’,” said TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen.

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Pete Hegseth’s Bigotry Is Corrupting Our Armed Forces Trump Admin. War on Minorities Could Undermine Iran War Effort

Hegseth and Trump appear to be restructuring the military where there are two-tiers. One where white men can, “Be All You Can Be” and a lesser track with a cement ceiling, where one can “Be All A Black Soldier Can Be”, which excludes top leadership roles.

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Kash Patel’s push against Democratic lawmaker raises concerns within FBI FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing to post documents related to a Democratic lawmaker who has not been accused of wrongdoing, raising alarms within the Bureau.

This is known as a bribe to entice someone to spill dirt on a political opponent. If only Trump put as much effort into releasing the Epstein Files.

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State bans against conversion therapy are ineffective, argues leading LGBTQ+ activist - LGBTQ Nation State bans against conversion therapy do nothing to stop the religious groups who offer it most, says longtime activist Wayne Besen.

“They just cannot win under any circumstances,” TWO’s Wayne Besen said. “People need to understand that and fight for their lives, because that’s what’s on the line, that’s what our opponents want for us.”

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A lot of people can’t handle The Truth.

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Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy

There is no greater ass kissing MAGA clown 🤡 than Nick “Alpha Male” Adams. This must be a a sick joke.

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Ahoy, “progressives”. Since the Iran war began, many of you blamed Netanyahu for having magical powers to persuade Trump to bomb Iran. Well, now Prince Mohammed bin Salman even went further than Netanyahu by advocating for US ground troops!

Will you blame MBS too? Or, is it about hating Israel? 🤔

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Opinion | ‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran

“I think people ought to look like whatever they look like so that they are capable in their jobs. I think the idea that we wouldn’t want gay or transgender service members to serve — if they’re good — is preposterous. I want whoever’s good to serve.”

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Andy Beshear Delivers a Scathing Attack on JD Vance in Ohio, Stoking 2028 Tensions

JD Vance is a dangerous ideologue who is heavily involved with Project 2025.

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Antizionism is a Hate Movement That Must Be Defeated It’s Not About Israel or Netanyahu—It’s About Hating Jews

To identify as antizionist in 2026 is to embrace a lazy philosophy, promote intellectual absurdity and engage in political farce. It’s the equivalent of a person saying they are anti-Louisiana Purchase, against the Russian Revolution or being outspokenly pro-Whig.

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Pete Hegseth made an explicitly religious appeal, asking Americans to pray for U.S. troops “on bended knee” and “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Why is Hegseth offering sectarian prayer to a religiously pluralistic country?

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Wayfinder–The Man I Trusted, The Lie I Didn’t See This week’s breadcrumb along the trail of my journey wasn’t gentle. It hit like a brick — one of those truths that shows up late, uninvited, and determined to rearrange the furniture in your chest.…

Randy Scobey talks about his past relationship with conversion therapy charlatan and sleazy Wall Street con artist Arthur Abba Goldberg.

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Vance To Visit Hungary To Prop Up Sagging Orban - Joe.My.God. Reuters reports: U.S. Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Hungary in the coming days in a show of support for the country’s long-time nationalist prime ​minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a...
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Where are our leaders? Remembering David Mixner Karen Ocamb’s latest commentary raises a question everyone’s thinking but no one’s asking out loud: WHERE are our leaders?

Thanks for writing this Karen Ocamb.

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Not surprisingly, the Project 2025 bigots have launched the cynical new “Greater Than” campaign, where 47 religious right groups argue—without a shred of evidence—that marriage equality has hurt society.

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Opinion | Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future

In January alone, Mayor Frey said, small businesses in Minneapolis suffered over $80 million in lost sales, workers lost $47 million in wages, the city had to pay the police some $6 million in overtime.

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New Christian Attack On Gay Marriage Lacks Moral Standing If You Support Trump and Ignore Epstein Victims, You Lack Credibility

Sorry, fake “Christians”, but when you behave in such an undignified, phony manner on “family values”, you no longer get to preach and be taken seriously.

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Australia Urged to Protect Members of the Iranian Women’s Soccer Team

This is what bravery looks like. Protect the Iranian women’s soccer team from the mullahs. They just slaughtered up to 30,000 protesters. What might they do to these heroes?

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FIU Scandal Reveals How Republicans Ruined a Generation Vile Bigotry Spewed in College Chats Show What Conservatives Value

Has the hopeful Obama generation given way to a cynical, cantankerous generation infected with spiteful intolerance? Has America come this far, in the quest for civil rights and mutual respect, only to have raised a fetid crop of fascists?

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What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.

All roads lead to Russia with Trump

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LGBTQIA+ teens bashed and filmed in IS-inspired Sydney attacks An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of Islamic State sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

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EU hearing highlights long road to banning anti-LGBTQ 'therapy' | Euractiv Only eight EU countries have banned conversion therapies so far

A report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), published in December, found that a quarter of LGBTQI+ people had been subjected to forms of this “therapy”.

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Ahmadinejad: No Gays, No Oppression of Women in Iran

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Former Iranian President who said gay people don’t exist in Iran—no longer exists. Adios.

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Good riddance

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Beware of Two-Faced Tulsi.

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