Even if the Kentucky GOP is right and this is what loses Beshear the election, it it was clearly the right thing to do. I want Beshear to stay in office, but I don’t know if I could vote for him if he didn’t resist the queerphobia coming out of the General Assembly. Shame on our legislature for passing this bill—and for so clearly acknowledging here that it’s to score political points at the expense of Kentucky children.

I’ve felt a lot of appreciation for Wil Wheaton recently, but for him to come to Kentucky to praise our libraries and speak against dumb laws passed by our legislature makes me just love the guy.

Good for Andy. One thing I personally appreciate about Governor Beshear is that he so often invokes his faith as a Democrat. Granted, it’s probably a calculated decision in such a red state, and I’m still uncomfortable with how faith and politics are intertwined in the U.S., but it shows that faith doesn’t have to be queerphobic.

Oh, so this is why my family’s gotten rocked by flu the past five days.

I’d skipped over the story when the Markup reported it, but seeing local coverage of how it plays out locally makes it even worse. Municipal broadband ought to be more common!

McConnell gets so close to recognizing the danger other Republicans pose to democracy, but he always stops just short.

Disappointing but unsurprising.

There’s a similar amendment on the ballot in Kentucky in November; here’s hoping for similar results.

A friend gave me this book as a gift for my confirmation nearly a year ago. I wasn’t sure what I would think about it, but I was excited about Merton’s connection with Kentucky, and I figured that if my friend liked it, it ought to be pretty good. I finally decided to dive in and while I have a good opinion of it overall, I think my response is better described as mixed.

We’ve had a rough year of natural disasters.

I haven’t read Limón’s poetry (I don’t read much poetry at all), but I’ll have to change that. Happy for some Kentucky and Lexington representation in this way.

Good for the court, though the narrow majority is disappointing.

Je suis impressionné par le nombre de BD francophones disponible aux bibliothèques du Kentucky, mais c’est quand-même hyper decevant de lire une BD francophone en traduction.

Pretty upset about these results from the primary. I voted for the other candidate and was shocked to find Young won. At least I have a few months to figure out who to write in.

Religious freedom isn’t worth anything if it’s only a shield for conservative Christianity.

Primaries are coming up! Time to do your homework!

Grumpy about this this morning.

Wish that I’d been paying better attention to this legislation. Libraries are pillars of our communities and ought to retain partisan independence.

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

I have spent a few hours this week reading violently anti-trans posts as part of a research project. My patience for queerphobic dog whistles disguised as feigned concerns about girls’ sports is at zero. So disappointed in the Kentucky legislature.

I do not always have praise for the local Republican supermajority, but I’m glad to see this goes beyond Ukraine to provide support for all kinds of refugees. Tentative optimism here.

Textbook example of why it is never enough to say you didn’t mean any harm. This is shameful and gross.

Tremendously worrying stuff. Taxes are the price we pay for democratic society.

Amazon already has too big a footprint here. Don’t feel great about this.

Disappointed to see more legislation like this under consideration.

Glad to hear this—and glad my state rep seems to me a voice of reason here.

We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.

I probably would not have read this book on my own but it was selected as the 2022 Kentucky Reads selection by Kentucky Humanities. I noticed that in a headline somewhere (probably the Herald-Leader) and decided it was worth giving it a shot. I ended up enjoying the book a lot! It plays with themes of nostalgia and wondering if the past could have or should have been different. I’ve been thinking about both of those things a lot recently, including in the context of my faith transition.

Nope nope nope.

Hooray for sports?

I am shocked—shocked!—to find gerrymandering going on in this establishment.

A reminder of local involvement in the Capitol attack.

Supermajority is not enough for some folks, it seems.

I am glad someone is doing this reporting, and I’m even more glad it’s from here in Kentucky instead of folks from outside.

The last thing we need is a more regressive taxation system.

Dreading this whole process.