@catherinebracy.com getting a book shout out on @ezraklein.bsky.social by @alexbores.nyc !
🏳️🌈 22 years ago today, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were the first of ~4,000 same-sex couples to get married in San Francisco. Del and Phyllis founded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB)–the first lesbian organization in the United States–in the midst of the Lavender Scare, an era of pervasive homophobia.
“‘I’m so happy about the news,’ Dong said in Mandarin, choking up with tears in her eyes. ‘It was really tough after everything that happened. We thought our life savings and our hope were all gone.’”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 7mo agoNY AG James has announced a major victory in the state’s lawsuit against a developer who illegally sold non-existent homes to immigrant families, “with the court awarding more than $4.2 million in restitution, plus nine percent interest dating back to 2016: documentedny.com/2026/01/14/b...
While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
Plausible pathway (from a month ago)
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8mo agoPlausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps: 1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
From @msignorile.bsky.social - count me among the obsessed: How Heated Rivalry became a 2025 streaming sleeper hit open.substack.com/pub/signoril...
How Heated Rivalry became a 2025 streaming sleeper hit
In a year when “diversity” was under assault, the Canadian romance series about gay hockey players proved how wrong-headed the attacks were even when it comes to dollars and sense.
open.substack.com
Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...
Here is the #EpsteinFiles Contact Book. Names extracted with Google Gemini. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Epstein Files Contact List
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“Carpenter wrote on X that the video ‘is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.’” deadline.com/2025/12/sabr...
Sabrina Carpenter Blasts “Evil And Disgusting” Trump White House ICE Video Using Her Song ‘Juno’
UPDATED, with White House comment: Sabrina Carpenter blasted the White House on Tuesday for using her song Juno in an ICE deportation video. Carpenter wrote on X that the video “is evil and disgusting...
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Pelosi retiring. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 A legendary and historic leader. Here’s my favorite clip of her, saying she’s gonna punch out Trump. #NancyPelosi
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9mo agoI wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I love that Mamdani’s ad features a short conversation with a bodega cat. Every vote matters.
“You’re no Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo. I KNEW Mario Cuomo!” A thing Curtis Sliwa just said to Andrew Cuomo’s face.🤣🤣🤣 #NYCMayoralDebate
if only the left put the same energy into registering voters as they do into whining about #EzraKlein.
listening to Hanselman on @oxide.computer's podcast and always kinda figured he was a bit of a curmudgeon—and I have affection for curmudgeons usually—but jeez lol.
The press’s double standard for MAGA is maddening. THEY SOLD ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ MERCH!!! Profiting off bloodlust that alligators might eat brown people. Good on Warren for being incredulous.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoElizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
Mr. Rogers successfully defending The Corporation for Public Broadcasting from a threatened $20 million budget cut (67% of their funding) in 1969.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
It was abundantly clear that the people working at the ICE facility in Baltimore have been instructed to hide the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.
“Blow on the embers, the fires in your own heart and conscience that need to be stirred,” Grant said in an interview with CT right before sound check at the concert. “Engage, come on, come on, engage!” Grant has described PEPFAR as a “pro-life” program 👇🏽
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last yr.“Hi, Senator Hagerty, hi, this is Amy Grant,” she said. “I’m standing on stage singing to over a thousand people … We want you to know that here in Nashville we want to see full funding of PEPFAR so we can stay on track to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/amy-...
