Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon are legendary queer activists that everyone should know about.
Check out Smithsonian Magazine's feature on them: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
This led to 4 years of legal whiplash in the legislature, the state supreme court, and the ballot box, ultimately culminating in Perry v. Schwarzenegger in the U.S. Supreme Court, which made same-sex marriage legal in California.
Their marriage was soon voided by the California Supreme Court, claiming Mayor Gavin Newsom had overstepped his authority by issuing marriage licenses under an equal protection argument.
Mayor Gavin Newsom officiating the wedding of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in 2004 at San Francisco City Hall.
🏳️🌈 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.’”
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)
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.
What a motherfucking psychopath. #Venezuela
At those levels, makes you wonder how many mini-strokes he’s already had.
From @msignorile.bsky.social - count me among the obsessed:
How Heated Rivalry became a 2025 streaming sleeper hit open.substack.com/pub/signoril...
In the first hours and days of the next president’s term, there must be a concerted effort to utterly expunge the name “Donald Trump” from every federal building, outpost, sign, website, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse, except where necessary for historical accuracy. And not just the name, but every vulgar trace of him: Chisel off the letters, take down the photos, melt down the stupid coins, tear out his patio and replant the Rose Garden, strip all the chintzy gold appliques from the walls of the Oval Office. Maybe even demolish the ballroom, but at the very least remodel it so it doesn’t look so much like an obscene mashup of the Winter Palace and Saddam Hussein’s bathroom, then rename it for someone he hates. The Obama Ballroom has a nice ring to it.
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...
The original PDF of the contact book is here: www.justice.gov/multimedia/D...
Here is the #EpsteinFiles Contact Book. Names extracted with Google Gemini. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
“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...
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎅🏾🎁🎄🕯️👼🏼
Pelosi retiring. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
A legendary and historic leader.
Here’s my favorite clip of her, saying she’s gonna punch out Trump.
#NancyPelosi
Trump is LITERALLY seizing the means of production right now ffs! 10% of Intel, 20% of Westinghouse, he’s shaking down America’s companies for billions in cash and stock.
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.
NY Post: Ex-NY Rep. George Santos reveals why he’ll flee NYC if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor
Thrilled for our friends in the great state of New York 🗽
I love that Mamdani’s ad features a short conversation with a bodega cat. Every vote matters.
Cluely ragebaited their way to a seed.
It’s the attn economy. You gotta give people a reason to talk about you.
I don’t think you have to be an edge lord to do it, but it’s the laziest way to do it, so many will attempt that first.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/c...
TECHCRUNCH screenshot: Cluely's Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral. "Generally, if you're not in deep tech, then you need to low-key deep focus on distribution," Lee told the crowd at Disrupt 2025. But he also made it clear that not everyone was cut out for this kind of viral marketing. "If you're any good at engineering, you're probably not funny and you're probably not going to be a content creator because you don't have it in your blood. Realistically, most of these people have no chance of going viral."
he’s not wrong, unfortunately.
“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.
“founder mode” = publicly glazing dear leader
bringing maxine waters energy into this day
