Gabriel Arana

07/04/2021

Gotta love Dolly

Let freedom ring! Have a happy and safe #4thofJuly ❤️

07/03/2021

When will Britney Spears be free? 'This conservatorship's days are numbered,' says lawyer

#FreeBritney and unfree Bill Cosby.

Latest twist in Britney Spears's case signals the conservatorship will end, says one legal expert.

06/30/2021

Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

How in the world are we allowing this unrepentant serial rapist out of prison to be among women again?

The entertainer has been serving a three-to-10 year sentence in a prison outside Philadelphia.

06/28/2021

The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools

This Pride month, as revelers hit the streets to celebrate LGBTQ history, Republican state legislatures are hard at work trying to erase it. My latest The New Republic >

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.

06/26/2021

Caitlyn Jenner says it’s easier to come out trans than Republican

Please please where do I go to CANCEL?!

Gurl, sthap...

06/25/2021

Rudy Giuliani’s N.Y. law license pulled over ‘demonstrably false’ 2020 election claims

What a frivolous man

“The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be overstated,” the judges wrote about Giuliani.

06/23/2021

Straight white politician says Pride is unfair to straight white men, says he’s being “crucified”

Um every other day is Straight Pride.

This guy is such a drama queen...

06/14/2021

After de Blasio, will NYC’s mental health thrive?

"In 2015, two years into his first term, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made mental health a signature priority when he announced the creation of ThriveNYC, a series of 54 initiatives with a budget of $850 million over four years. The pandemic was nothing if not a major stress test for Thrive’s various programs and the city’s sprawling mental health infrastructure."

Wrote about COVID-19's effect on mental health, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Wife's $1 billion mental-health initiative, ThriveNYC for City and State NY.

Rigoberto Lopez had struggled with mental illness since he was a teenager. But what his relatives described as typical, rebellious adolescent behavior escalated as he got older. After turning 18, he left home, bouncing between relatives’ homes before entering New York City’s shelter system in Ma...

06/13/2021

How Orlando's LGBTQ Latino community is healing and mobilizing five years after the Pulse massacre

Five years later, it turns our all those “thoughts and prayers” managed to do nothing to prevent this year’s 347 mass shootings.

Orlando fundamentally changed after 49 people were killed at Pulse on June 12, 2016, LGBTQ Latino leaders said. But to make positive changes for LGBTQ Latinos permanent, those community leaders must continually justify their work to the state and federal government to receive funding, or else they r...

06/11/2021

Is there an uncontroversial way to teach America’s racist history?

No, white people just have to stop being snowflakes.

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.

06/10/2021

Support for same-sex marriage reaches record high in US, poll shows

In 2001 half that number supported gay marriage. This is what happens when you keep shoving it down Americans’ throats.

A record 70% of Americans support legal recognition of same-sex marriage, according to a new Gallup poll. That's the highest level of support seen since Gallup starting tracking the subject in 1996, when just 27% of Americans were in favor of legal recognition.

06/04/2021

Video: Group Allegedly Singles Out Same-Sex Couple Kissing At Downtown Sacramento Pool

Never understood the logic of those who think PDA by gay people is somehow sexual and graphic. Every time a straight couple walks a stroller with a baby down the street, you know they’ve been up to nasty stuff. Protect children; hide your baby.

A heated argument caught on camera started when two women claim they were harassed for kissing each other at the Kimpton Sawyer pool.

06/02/2021

Boaters harass family with Pride flag as boat goes up in flames

This is satisfying to watch.

A boat full of bigots was seen swarming a family flying a Pride flag just before their vessel exploded and was “charred to a crisp,” according to one of the victims.

06/01/2021

Push for Voting Overhaul in Congress Falters

It should not take a supermajority to pass basic legislation.

Opposition from Republicans and some of their own senators has left Democrats struggling to determine whether they should try to nix the filibuster to save a top priority.

05/26/2021

Analysis: Even the Holocaust isn't out-of-bounds in Marjorie Taylor Greene's age of outrage

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Nothing is sacred in a political age fueled by outrage.

05/14/2021

Badass Cat Leaps From 5th Floor Of Burning Building, Struts Off Like A Boss

Friday mental health break

OK, so perhaps there's something to that whole nine lives thing after all.

05/12/2021

Cheney, stripped of leadership position, vows to keep Trump from returning to presidency

Let’s just remember that this woman supports torture.

House Republicans stripped Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., of a leadership position Wednesday, rejecting her insistence that the GOP tell the truth about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

05/11/2021

US restores transgender health protections denied by Trump

This is less a case of the Biden administration changing policy than following the law. The Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that “discrimination on the basis of sex” includes discrimination against trans people, which the Trump administration just ignored.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration declared Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that narrowed rights at the intersection of changing social mores and sensitive medical decisions...

05/05/2021

The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown

I have quite a few of these people as friends. Liberals are not immune from politics trumping reason.

Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over COVID-19 policies, and some liberal policy makers have left scientific evidence behind.

04/01/2021

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs bill to legalize recreational marijuana in New York

This is so long overdue. By every conceivable measure marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in the state of New York.

03/24/2021

Rachel Levine, historic transgender nominee, confirmed as assistant health secretary

🙌

Levine, who most recently served as Pennsylvania’s top health official, is the first openly transgender official to be confirmed by the Senate.

03/10/2021

Stephen Colbert Dances on Piers Morgan’s Grave

How Piers Morgan stayed on tv for so long is beyond me.

“Piers Morgan is such a baby, someone at Buckingham Palace just asked what color he’s going to be,” the “Late Show” host joked.

03/07/2021

Passed without a single Republican vote because all 50 of them wanted corporations to dodge liability for their actions during Covid. #corporationsfirst

Passed without a single Republican vote because all 50 of them wanted corporations to dodge liability for their actions during Covid. #corporationsfirst

03/01/2021

Gilt-y: golden Trump statue pops up at rightwing CPAC summit

In case there was any doubt the Republican Party has lost its mind.

Bloomberg reporter posts video of kitsch conference monument, with Trump due to give first post-White House speech on Sunday

02/18/2021

Senator Ted Cruz left Texas for Cancún as the state was battered by a brutal winter storm.

He fled to escape the Green New Deal.

Photos of Mr. Cruz and his wife boarding a flight from Houston to Cancún, Mexico, sparked a fierce outcry on social media late Wednesday.

02/18/2021

Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America

“What mattered most about Limbaugh was never primarily whom he helped elect, or which groups of people he offended, or why. It was the effect he had on his fans — on the millions of white conservatives he coddled, flattered, tickled, entertained, disinformed, fearmongered, and pulled into a counterfactual universe that became darker over time.”

How the right-wing talk radio icon corrupted the Republican Party, spread hate, racism, and lies, and laid the groundwork for Trumpism

02/17/2021

Furiously anti-LGBT+ radio host Rush Limbaugh dies, aged 70

Limbaugh had a comedy segment on his show called “AIDS Update” where he’d mockingly read the names of dead gay people to triumphal music.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has died aged 70, his wife announced on his show on Wednesday.

02/17/2021

Police Union Honors Law Enforcement Officers Injured Carrying Out Capitol Attack

LOLz

NEW YORK—In an effort to recognize the brave sacrifices they made during the Jan. 6 riot, the New York City Police Benevolent Association reportedly honored Monday those law enforcement officers who were injured carrying out the Capitol attack. “When we reflect on the events of that day, let us ...

02/15/2021

Five Action Items to Stop Anti-Trans Bills

Republicans legislatures have introduced a slew of bills targeting trans kids. Here’s what you can do, according to the ACLU’s Chase Strangio.

With bills targeting trans kids sweeping the country, here is what you can do.

02/14/2021

Now QAnon thinks the COVID-19 vaccine will make you gay

If only!

If only...

02/14/2021

Republican Acquittal of Trump Is a Pivotal Moment for the Party

“A generation’s worth of rhetoric about personal responsibility appeared to founder against the perceived imperative of accommodating Mr. Trump.”

The vote, signaling how thoroughly the party has come to be defined by the personality of one man, is likely to leave a blemish on the historical record.

02/12/2021

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02/10/2021

The Full, Harrowing Video Presented By Impeachment Managers

This is harrowing to watch, and yet I still know Trumpians who say they don’t see where he incited the riot. It’s true: He could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his lemmings would defend it.

02/09/2021