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#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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We urgently need a federal privacy law to protect our privacy from big tech companies who spy on us on our phones and social media, to protect us from Flock cameras that are being improperly accessed by folks who are using that information to target innocent people.

He’s treating our capital like some shitty AirBnB that he won’t have to clean up.

Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu

Horrifying title for anyone who remembers the 1980s.

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

From banning partisan gerrymandering to giving citizens a chance to sue for voting rights to expanding the U.S. House of Representatives, here are eight solutions to protect every eligible U.S. citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections. bit.ly/4j4uGiG

Just....put it all out there girl

found a new naming convention for my writing drafts

“Shame is one of the ways that groups of people mediate their norms without state intervention,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “This, of course, is not always a good thing. But any community without shame must have moral consensus.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oOtftg

Oh, and that week, temps in Detroit fell to -50 and I called home on a satellite phone from the jungle, where it was 85 degrees.

I flew down a day early to Belize City and was warned not to leave the hotel by myself. Then I saw the TV news from the U.S. about the Northridge earthquake and found out half the attendees would be a day late when they figured out how to get them out of LA. Fun times.

This was the trip where I hung from the "door" in the back of an RAF chopper tilted sideways so I could shoot overhead photos of a Mayan ruin. Right leg wedged between the two seats in front, no belt, just a left foot on the runner to brace me.

The editorial Internet is ceasing to exist.

Uber quiet, but for dental hygienists

Indexing, the big tell that your Gen X mind is distinctively warped.

Shocking story in here of Byron White and his clerks shredding his papers… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

Those were wigs?

Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

Go out how you want, leave a comet trail of good behind.

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

Well I failed

John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden

Wes Siler is an independent journalist who has spent the last 24 years writing about the intersection of public lands, conservation, and politics. He tells the story of the brief battle that forced Native American displacement from most of modern-day Ohio. #WeAreAmerica250

Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.

A new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. https://cnn.it/4g2Sl1d

Time to train on avoiding gunfire in classrooms.

My tailor!

Such a shame. He also did a remix of Erasure’s cover of Supernature, the opening sixty seconds of which are among the most exciting in electronic music. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

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In today's cameo appearance I talked to the NYT about how badly we've fumbled the ball here. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/m...

Was not prepared for how much I’d dislike Hair (movie)

Live a life that doesn’t get ratioed in death.

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"Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life." The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer:

TL,DR: Not good that only 5 justices thought Trump’s EO facially unconstitutional. Here as in so many other places, Trump has moved the Overton window.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

One of the real radicals of television during the onset of the epidemic. He and Oprah made space and had time for anyone who needed treatment or visibility or empathy. (Here with Michael Hardwick and Kathy Wilde in 1986, post Bowers v Hardwick.)

‘The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick’ recalls a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ activism and the Supreme Court Courtesy Norton Author Martin Padgett has a way of summoning back an Atlanta that now only exists in memory, historical archives, and YouTube videos. In his first book, “A Night at the Sweet…

“They marched because they were dying. They marched because the law said they were criminals. They marched because they no longer wanted to remain silent.” Fascinating read about Michael Hardwick and the LGBTQIA+ rights movement, as well as HIV. #PrideMonth #HIV www.queerty.com/before-marri...