Last week The New Republic published an article by Melissa Gira Grant titled, "The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court" about how the request for a gay wedding website underpinning the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case was supposedly fake.…
Avery Brundage is Today's Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, which notes that he "fought zealously" against boycotting the Games in Nazi Germany.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_BrundageThe "Legacy" section spells it out clearly, noting he's well known as an anti-Semite, racist and admirer of Hitler.So it's a good day for me to re-post the…
Posted my freely licensed photos from today's abortion protest in Foley Square at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:May_2022_abortion_protests_in_New_York_CityAdded to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization#Reactions - we'll see if it lasts (the profanity might be too inflammatory? idk).First time I've used Signal to blur faces for Commons, need to find a different tool (probably GIMP I assume?) that doesn't…
"Vote like your rights depend on it" #IVoted
"The fact that the law of the land hinges on the continued health of an 82 or 84 year old judge is bizarre." -- Andrew Yang, 2018https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1013505243731169280?lang=en
Two weeks ago, CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta came to my university and received the 2018 William Randolph Hearst Award for his work. I'm not really the biggest fan of CNN, but I've been impressed with Acosta's work, and getting to hear him speak was a real treat.…
Nothing like having someone rush into your precinct at 7:58pm, just in time to vote.Volunteering was a stressful blast once again.
The following is a letter I just mailed to the Boy Scouts of America, following President Donald Trump's speech at the National Jamboree. I implore my fellow scouts to also contact the BSA to express their feelings. 25 July 2017 Boy Scouts of America PO Box 152079 Irving, TX 75015-2079…
We’ve all seen the movies – Captain America and his shield bashing Nazis left and right. If one of the most iconic symbols of American Freedom does it, are we supposed to follow his example? After the inauguration of President Trump, white supremacist and Nazi Richard Spencer was punched in…
As I said earlier, I worked the polls from 6 a.m. to roughly 9:20 p.m. We had one voter come in at the nick of time at 7:59 p.m. I was glad to see that we had a lot of first time voters, as well as some who just filled…
After being generally frustrated by this election cycle and wanting to contribute to make it less so, I decided to sign up to work at the polls this year, and help facilitate the election. Yesterday, we had election officer training by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter's office. It…
