Sold out Christmas drag show gets the last laugh on Florida, final thoughts about Charlie Kirk & other Mon/Tue news briefs

Editor's note - this may or may not be my final post for 2025. Either way, I am grateful for all of your support and hope that I continue to retain that support as I move into 2026, which will be my 20th blogging anniversary I think that the attack on the trans community will unfortunately continue in 2026, but I also think that our opponents just carried it step too far. And I am going to make a supreme effort in helping to capitalize on the error. What is the error? I won't mention it now, but I have my fingers crossed.

 

Florida tried to shut down this Christmas drag show. It sold out the entire venue. - A reminder from last week of what can be accomplished when you stand up to bullying.

Zohran Mamdani claps back after Elon Musk attacks out lesbian FDNY chief appointee - One thing I would like to see is more people calling out Elon Musk. That doddering, shy, maybe, possibly, slightly autistic routine he puts on is an act. In my opinion, he is a bigoted fool whose very presence is dragging America down. This article proves my point. The FDNY chief appointee he is attacking, Lillian Bonsignore, has over 30 years of experience: 

 Bonsignore joined the FDNY in 1991 as an emergency medical technician, serving 31 years before her retirement in 2022. She was named chief of the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Services division in 2019, becoming the first woman to head the division and first uniformed woman to be a four-star chief in the department. Her tenure included working as a first responder in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and leading the EMS division during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Trump's gay Kennedy Center president demands $1M from performer who canceled Christmas Eve show - And I want to create three Rob Kardashian clones who will be my love slaves. You can't always get what you want. 

Trans National Security Agency employee sues Trump administration for ‘denying her existence’ I hope she wins. 

When grandparents come out of the closet - Good article! We tend to forget our elder LGBTQ people and that shouldn't ever happen.

Finally, a word about Charlie Kirk to close out this post:

This might be slightly premature to say, but I think the death of Charlie Kirk — and Trump World’s subsequent forced national observance of grief — is having the opposite effect of what I initially thought. If you had asked me in September what would happen, I would have said that Kirk’s murder was the American Reichstag fire, the moment the Trump administration and its great and powerful cyber army would finally conquer the information landscape and complete their authoritarian crackdown on free speech. 

 And a bit of that happened, sure, there was harassment, and doxxing, and people lost their jobs for insensitive posts about Kirk. But it didn’t last. Only a few months later, there is no bigger joke on the internet than Charlie Kirk. Every feed is full of Kirkified slop and AI brainrot mercilessly making fun of MAGA’s martyred influencer. The tail of history is long and these things always evolve, but, as it stands currently, Kirk is the Harambe of the 2020s and MAGA has never felt more cringe, old, and worst of all, boring. - Ryan Broderick, author, Garbage Day