Image for: A Coalition Of Online MAGA Influencers Spent Late March Attacking Senator Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina For Holding A Forty-Dollar Bubble Wand At Disney World; The Bubble Wand Belonged To A Little Girl Whose Parent Was In The Bathroom And Whom Graham Was, Per A TMZ Eyewitness, Helping; The Eyewitness Account Was Available Before The Attacks Began; The Attacks Used Specifically Anti-Gay Innuendo Of Child Predation; The Innuendo Was Deployed By A Voting Coalition That Has Spent Years Refining That Exact Tool Against Lgbtq+ Americans; The Tool Has Now Turned Toward One Of Its Architects; Douglas Considers This Worth Saying Out Loud Politics

A Coalition Of Online MAGA Influencers Spent Late March Attacking Senator Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina For Holding A Forty-Dollar Bubble Wand At Disney World; The Bubble Wand Belonged To A Little Girl Whose Parent Was In The Bathroom And Whom Graham Was, Per A TMZ Eyewitness, Helping; The Eyewitness Account Was Available Before The Attacks Began; The Attacks Used Specifically Anti-Gay Innuendo Of Child Predation; The Innuendo Was Deployed By A Voting Coalition That Has Spent Years Refining That Exact Tool Against Lgbtq+ Americans; The Tool Has Now Turned Toward One Of Its Architects; Douglas Considers This Worth Saying Out Loud

On March 27, 2026, during a partial federal government shutdown, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was photographed by TMZ at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, holding what observers identified as a Little Mermaid-themed bubble wand priced at approximately forty dollars. The eyewitness account provided to TMZ by a fellow park visitor stated that Graham was holding the bubble wand for a little girl whose parent had taken her to the bathroom. TMZ published the eyewitness account in the original article. The eyewitness account was available, in print, from the moment the photograph began to circulate. The photograph then circulated, on social media, accompanied by claims from a coalition of online MAGA influencers that Graham — a 'gay, childless, septuagenarian,' per one widely shared post — being at Disney World 'ALONE' with 'a child's toy' was 'disturbing.' The attacks used, specifically and openly, the rhetorical structure that has been weaponized for years by the same coalition against LGBTQ+ Americans: the suggestion that the presence of a single adult near children is, by virtue of that adult's perceived orientation, evidence of predatory intent. Douglas Allegedly, Opinion Editor, has a structural observation to make about this episode. Douglas's observation is not in defense of Lindsey Graham. Douglas's observation is in defense of accuracy.

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Image for: A Coalition Of Online MAGA Influencers Spent Late March Attacking Senator Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina For Holding A Forty-Dollar Bubble Wand At Disney World; The Bubble Wand Belonged To A Little Girl Whose Parent Was In The Bathroom And Whom Graham Was, Per A TMZ Eyewitness, Helping; The Eyewitness Account Was Available Before The Attacks Began; The Attacks Used Specifically Anti-Gay Innuendo Of Child Predation; The Innuendo Was Deployed By A Voting Coalition That Has Spent Years Refining That Exact Tool Against Lgbtq+ Americans; The Tool Has Now Turned Toward One Of Its Architects; Douglas Considers This Worth Saying Out Loud Politics

A Coalition Of Online MAGA Influencers Spent Late March Attacking Senator Lindsey Graham Of South Carolina For Holding A Forty-Dollar Bubble Wand At Disney World; The Bubble Wand Belonged To A Little Girl Whose Parent Was In The Bathroom And Whom Graham Was, Per A TMZ Eyewitness, Helping; The Eyewitness Account Was Available Before The Attacks Began; The Attacks Used Specifically Anti-Gay Innuendo Of Child Predation; The Innuendo Was Deployed By A Voting Coalition That Has Spent Years Refining That Exact Tool Against Lgbtq+ Americans; The Tool Has Now Turned Toward One Of Its Architects; Douglas Considers This Worth Saying Out Loud

On March 27, 2026, during a partial federal government shutdown, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was photographed…

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Snopes Now Maintains A Running Collection Of Fake Truth Social Posts Attributed To Donald Trump Because His Real Truth Social Posts Have Become Indistinguishable From The Fake Ones; The Collection Is Called ‘Beware Of These 15 Fake Trump Truth Social Posts’; It Was Published On April 12, 2026; It Has Already Been Outpaced By Reality; Douglas Has Read All Fifteen; Douglas Has Notes

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A Las Vegas Company Held An Olympics-Style Sports Event On May 24 In Which The Athletes Were Allowed To Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs; The Event Was Called The Enhanced Games; The Company Sells Peptides And Supplements And Documents The Effects Of The Drugs On The Athletes For Its Own Research; The Two Athletes Who Refused To Take The Drugs Won Their Events; The One World Record That Was Set Was Set By A Swimmer Wearing A Banned Equipment Suit; Yolanda Has Notes; The Notes Are Long

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