The Go Ahead & Sue Him (Please!) Edition

Lies & the lying liars who tell them: The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic, reported by The American Prospect.

More stupid people falling for stupid stuff: Strangely Blogged catches Utah Sen. Mike Lee doing "foreign policy" on Twitter.

The Political Plague is still w/ us: The Rectification of Names provides facts, statistics & a reality-based perspective about pandemic origins.

Hypocrisy update: Predictably, GOP politicians banning drag shows have had stints as drag queens, notes The Signorile Report.

M. Bouffant did this. Submissions to mbru@crooksandliars.com.