AEG Owner Phil Anschutz Is Still Donating to Causes Promoting Anti-LGBTQ Beliefs AEG owner Philip Anschutz donated $1,020,000 to two organizations that made public statements against LGBTQ people -- Colorado Christian University and the Sky Ranch Christian camping organization.

The owner of Coachella is a right-wing nationalist and gives lots of money to anti-LGBT organizations.

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Book Club Case File: My Dearest Holmes — However Improbable First published in 1988, My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy is a very special pastiche that boasts something very rare—it’s certainly among the earliest published gay pastiches about the great detecti...

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Would play, would read.

"Guys, this was an empty field in the autumn. Look at what is here now." -Leningrad region, RF. There is no end in sight to the "good Russians." I suppose this is exactly what Putin intended, everything is going according to plan.

we all know I have no life, so:

The Court finds the decision to proceed with the 15th Street Cycle Track Removal to be arbitrary and capricious because the record does not reflect that the defendants examined the relevant data and articulated a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made. It further finds that the defendants’ invocation of the highway modernization categorical exclusion, and their conclusion that the Removal Project would not have a significant impact on public health and safety, to be arbitrary and capricious as well. Therefore, the decision to proceed with the Removal Project as described in the March 31, 2026 NPS Decision Memorandum and the March 31, 2026 NPS and FHWA Categorial Exclusion documents, as well as in the February 23 NPS and February 27 FHWA Categorical Exclusion documents to the extent they were not rescinded or nullified but only elaborated upon on March 31, is hereby VACATED and REMANDED to the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration

A federal judge just blocked the Trump administration's effort to rip out the 15th Street bike lane on the national mall—which substantially reduced crashes and injuries—holding that the move was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the law: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sec. Hegseth: "It's Just Gay" To Require Our Warriors To Wash Hands After Using The Bathroom

Oooooh. Man. Honest to god, it hadn't occurred to me.

Wow. I am so naive. He had both motive and opportunity. And he was a cruel monster.

Note that the "inappropriate name" belongs to Gay Men's Press, a publisher of books by and about gay men.

Harry Houdini thought Jean a "tomboy." I couldn't say. I can say that she very much disapproved of homosexuals. Here is a picture of Jean.

A terrific sketch of copyright and Sherlock Holmes by Charlie Jane Anders. My favorite moment is when the youngest Conan Doyle child, Jean, has a conanniption:

Book Banners Don't Know What a Book Ban Is People trying to remove books from libraries insist it's not a book ban. Everyone wants to ban a book, but no one wants to be a book banner.

Even though published almost 4 years ago, this is the best article I've read about book bans. I hope you'll read and share it. #BookSky

Screenshot of law and order svu scene with z folder on desk labeled “Epstein.”

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Star Trek meets Doctor Who: George Takei as Sulu and Louise Jameson as Leela, standing in a control room. Sulu looking alert, in a gold Starfleet uniform, while Leela, in her leather warrior outfit and holding a knife, stands beside him, both focused on something off-screen with tense expressions.

Happy Birthday to George Takei and Louise Jameson.

Sulu and Leela. Oh my, what a multidimensional adventure that would be!

#LouiseJameson #DoctorWho #GeorgeTakei #StarTrek #Sulu #Leela #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

"I accept that information that I should have had and information that the House should have had should have been before the House but I did not mislead the House."

I'm going to ask Keir to diagram that mess for me.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs...
That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

*L&O duh DUM*

The Bittersweet Temporality of Love | Los Angeles Review of Books On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s a perfect time to unearth the forgotten fantasies of Thomas Burnett Swann.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) quoting Trump at a Nevada event expressing confusion over the term "corner store," saying he's never heard it used that way and asking "Who the hell wrote that?" The embedded video shows Trump speaking at a podium with the presidential seal, surrounded by "No Tax on Tips" signs and Nevada branding.

He…doesn't really know what a corner store is. And clearly doesn't review what his speechwriters write beforehand.

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

That's quite a load of feces. I mean a list of theses.