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To The Surprise of No One, Ron DeSantis Lies.

Again.

saywhat-politics:

DeSantis claimed Dodgers stadium was ‘virtually empty’ after Pride backlash, but the game actually had higher attendance than normal

        • The LA Dodgers’ LGBTQ Pride Night turned controversial when an activist group that offended the religious right was invited.
        • Conservatives touted a video of a nearly empty stadium as a win, claiming they staged a successful boycott.
        • In reality, the game had higher-than-average attendance as religious groups protested outside.

Conservatives appear gleeful that they may have just scored another culture war win — this time, through Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers.

But their claim to have successfully boycotted a Dodgers game for its LGBTQ Pride participation and guests — notably echoed by presidential candidate Ron DeSantis — appears to be false.

Leading up to the team’s 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night, the Dodgers disinvited and then re-invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a nonprofit “order of queer and trans nuns,” which some religious conservatives found to be offensive to Christianity and Catholicism.

“We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16th,” the team said in its re-invitation statement shared on Twitter. “We are pleased to share that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the lifesaving work that they have done tirelessly for decades.”

All conservatives can do is lie and threaten violence, because they know this country has rejected them.

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Happy Juneteenth!

From Mock Paper Scissors:

Guys, this is a big, eff’ing deal:

Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan announced earlier today that the National Archives plans to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC.

This puts The Emancipation Proclamation on the same footing as the other foundational documents: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights:

“When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, he wrote that ‘all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free,’’’ Shogan quoted. “Although the full privileges of freedom were not immediately bestowed upon all Americans with Lincoln’s order, I am proud that the National Archives will enshrine this seminal document for public display adjacent to our nation’s founding documents. Together, they tell a more comprehensive story of the history of all Americans and document progress in our nation’s continuous growth toward a more perfect Union,” she said.”

And this story puts the significance of having the Emancipation Proclamation in situ side-by-side with the others :

Thousands queue to see the Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No. 3

We’re far from a perfect union, I get that; our aspirations are greater than our realities. I can feel the  ground shake a little bit; something has shifted. The culture has moved, and though we still have a long way to go, today we moved together into a better future.

It’s a baby step, but it is an important one.

Happy Juneteenth!

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Or, may I add, the unrealistic expectation that the cable guy is going to be a hot, horny, 30 year old who has enough time in his daily schedule to bend you over and have his way with you before his next appointment…

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