Friday Politics Roundup for December 16, 2022

Biden signs bill protecting same-sex and interracial marriage right. The new law codifies into law the right to marry for same-sex and interracial marriage. The move became a priority after Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas put targets on the rights in his concurring opinion in the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

White nationalists, Euro ultranationalists, and right-wing Republicans met up in NYC for the New York Young Republican Clubs gala calling for “total war” against their designated enemies. 

The group’s president, Gavin Wax said: “We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets…This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power.”

Marjorie Taylor Green reflected on the January 6 insurrection saying, “I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”

Newsweek continues to become a forum for the radical-right. 

“We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets,” NYYRC president Gavin Wax declared to a room full of supporters 

Elon Musk suspends at least 8 journalists and the @ElonJet account from Twitter for posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family. Most of the reporters who were banned had been covering Musk’s rule change banning “live location information” - presumably because @ElonJet was posting publicly available flight data from Musk’s private jet. Ahh…the power of ownership. 

Students at West Chester University are organizing around housing after students receive letters saying their spots in public university owned dorms won’t be available, but “private” dorms - at double the cost - will be. 

Temple University launches a center to combat racism, antisemitism and LGBTQ+ bigotry and xenophobia.