Gabriel Arana

05/29/2020

What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots

“A riot is the language of the unheard.”

Unrest in Baltimore has an old MLK quote back in the news

05/29/2020

Brian Sims called a “little girl” by homophobic Republican on House floor

Brian Sims is one hunky little girl.

GOP Rep. Jerry Knowles shouted the slur while Sims wear speaking on the House floor...

05/27/2020

Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

Let Kramer remind us that justice isn’t always “nice.”

He worked hard to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency. But his confrontational approach could sometimes overshadow his achievements.

05/20/2020

I want a president who’s not dumb.

05/17/2020

This

05/13/2020

U.S. judge puts on hold Justice Dept. move to dismiss Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to hear outside groups’ challenges

‪With Trump and McConnell stacking the courts, there will be fewer and fewer judges like this.

Move could re-air evidence, arguments over whether Trump national security adviser’s lies to the FBI was a crime

05/12/2020

Aimee Stephens, trans woman at center of Supreme Court case, dies at 59

Justice delayed is justice denied. Stephens was one of the plaintiffs in the LGBTQ non-discrimination case currently at the Supreme Court. A hero to our movement.

Stephens was the first transgender person whose civil rights case was heard by the Supreme Court. The high court is set to decide on her case imminently.

05/10/2020

Happy Mothers’ Day!

05/09/2020

Opinion | The World Is Taking Pity on Us

“The United States reacted like Pakistan or Belarus, like a country with a shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”

Will American prestige ever recover?

05/07/2020

Trump’s DOJ Says It Can’t Prove Michael Flynn Did the Crime He Confessed To

Why do we even bother keeping the DOJ open these days?

The Justice Department dropped its case against the former Trump adviser Thursday, citing reasons.

04/28/2020

Vice President Mike Pence tours Mayo Clinic without coronavirus mask even though he was told to wear one

To think this guy is in charge of the federal government’s Coronavirus response ...

Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the White House's coronavirus task force, visited the Mayo Clinic without a mask. The facility requires everyone to wear a mask to avoid spreading the virus that causes Covid-19.

04/27/2020

260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus

“By far the most recurring utterances from Mr. Trump in the briefings are self-congratulations, roughly 600 of them, which are often predicated on exaggerations and falsehoods.”

Three journalists from The New York Times reviewed more than 260,000 words spoken by President Trump during the pandemic. Here’s what we learned.

04/24/2020

Lysol maker issues warning against injections of disinfectant after Trump comments

Ah so Clorox is okay then, right?

Lysol manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser on Friday issued a warning that “under no circumstance” should its products be administered into the human body or be used as a treatment for the coronavirus, a day after President Trump discussed whether&

04/23/2020

Our fearless leader

04/19/2020

Idaho GOPer says stay-at-home orders ‘no different’ than sending Jews to extermination camps

I think the Jews would have preferred staying home.

A Republican state lawmaker compared Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) to Adolf Hitler because she said that stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic are akin to Nazi extermination camps. During an interview with a Texas podcaster last week, Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott called the economic shu...

04/15/2020

Kellyanne Conway: WHO Should Have Been Prepared For Pandemic; "This Is COVID-19, Not COVID-1 Folks"

Kellyanne Conway has that same Trump ability to say totally insane things with no trace of irony.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway laid blame on the World Health Organization for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday morning's "FOX & Friends." She recalled how they originally claimed that shutting down travel between the U.S. and China was "xenophobic and racist." "We have ever...

03/25/2020

Fox News Claims It Never Called COVID-19 a Hoax | NowThis

The mental contortions it takes to be a Trump booster no matter what.

Sean Hannity denies ever referring to the coronavirus a hoax. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis...

03/19/2020

Anti-gay Republican voted against coronavirus testing bill because it “redefined family”

GOP priorities

The bill allows sick leave to take care of a same-sex partner's children. That was enough for him to vote "no...

03/16/2020

PrEP: The Story of a Sexual Revolution

PrEP has let many gay men feel comfortable having condomless sex again—and that’s okay.

Over the past eight years, the once-daily pill has ushered in a sexual, social, and political revolution among those most at risk of HIV. This is the story of PrEP’s rise, who’s been left behind, and the ongoing effort to make HIV/AIDS history.

03/13/2020

At the end of February, Trump predicted the number of Coronavirus infections would fall “close to zero” within “a couple of days.” #MAGA

03/11/2020

03/10/2020

Israeli rabbi: Coronavirus outbreak is divine punishment for gay pride parades

They said gay marriage would have dire consequences.

Meir Mazuz falsely claims Arab states spared, because they 'don't have this evil inclination'; modern Orthodox group blasts him for 'inciting against the LGBT community'

03/08/2020

NowThis Politics

Nobody is more respectful toward women than me. Believe me.

You don't need to dig very deep to find a supercut of Donald Trump's MANY sexist and demeaning comments about women

03/05/2020

Trump makes spurious claims about coronavirus in phone call with Sean Hannity

So we get a fake border emergency but the Coronavirus death toll is just a hoax?

In a phoner with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus — 3.4% — by saying "I think the 3.4% is really a false number."

03/02/2020

Way more contagious than the Coronavirus

02/27/2020

Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders

Will you vote for Bernie if he’s the nominee?

Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.

02/22/2020

NowThis Politics

It’s painful to watch Trump supporters reason. Everything is Pelosi or AOC’s fault.

‘He’s definitely for our country. He’s not about himself.’ — Here’s why Trump supporters are sticking by the president, in their own words

02/20/2020

Crowded border facilities where detainees are forced to sleep in toilet stalls violate the Constitution, judge rules

What “America first” looks like

A federal judge in Arizona ruled Wednesday that conditions in US Customs and Border Protection migrant holding cells in the agency's Tucson sector violated the Constitution.

02/16/2020

Former Justice Dept. Lawyers Press for Barr to Step Down

“Each of us strongly condemns President Trump’s and Attorney General Barr’s interference in the fair administration of justice.”

More than 1,100 former prosecutors and officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations signed an open letter condemning the president and the attorney general over the Stone case.

02/14/2020

Opinion | How to Make Your Marriage Gayer

Y’all could learn something

Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones. What’s the secret?

02/08/2020

Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Gordon Sondland and Alexander Vindman in Post-Acquittal Purge

Not to worry. The Republicans assured us Trump learned his lesson from impeachment.

Emboldened by his victory and determined to strike back, the president removed Mr. Sondland as ambassador to the European Union after the White House earlier on Friday dismissed Colonel Vindman.

02/05/2020

Nancy Pelosi rips up copy of Trump's State of the Union speech following divisive address – as it happened

Petty or fitting?

The president delivered an address that would not have sounded out of place at a campaign rally

02/03/2020

Not a sports fan but even I knew the Kansas City Chiefs are not in Kansas.

01/20/2020

Tennessee governor says he will sign anti-gay adoption bill

Queer people should not have to pay for government services that exclude them.

The bill will allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to receive taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBTQ families and others.

01/16/2020

Opinion | In this fight, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both losers

This is what a lot of progressives fear: Bernie and Warren splitting the lefty vote and bringing each other down in the process.

Mom and Dad are fighting. And no child likes to see Mom and Dad fight.