Song of the Day: '(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' by Heaven 17

This song seem all too appropriate 36 years later. People try to tell me "Now you know how conservatives felt during the Obama administration" -- only they were protesting looming FEMA camps, having their guns taken away, Sharia law and the fact that their president was born in a foreign country, none of which was even remotely true. We're protesting ACTUAL policy.

 

Morning Wood

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Not only has this "plan" proven to be completely unworkable and almost certainly illegal, it doesn't even make sense using the "logic" that inspired it. The post-9/11 terrorist attacks that have happened in the U.S. were carried out by homegrown extremists, not refugees. And 9/11 was carried out by nearly all Saudis, a country not included on the list and one in which Trump just happens to have business interests. Kudos to the U.S. for ripping this un-American order to shreds.

Massacre in Quebec is horrifying on so many levels -- but why did I know it was going to turn out if was carried out by one person despite reports that there were at least two?

Trump travel order sows chaos ...

My friend Yogi explains how an antacid is the secret ingredient for making a fluffy cake! Read HERE.

Speedo Sunday

GOP Congressmen on Fast Track to Revoke Marriage Equality

As predicted, the Republican-controlled House plans to reintroduce the so-called First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), which is a pretty way of saying "fags are second-class citizens." If the filibuster somehow stops this from going through -- it has bipartisan support in the House and Senate, plus Trump loves licking evangelical ass -- the upcoming challenge to same-sex marriage rights in Texas will surely do the trick, because once Trump's Supreme Court signs off on Texas' bullshit, other states will be able to have their own FADAs. (To top it off, Trump can claim gay marriage is still intact because we will still be able to wed in all 50 states, we'll just be separate and not equal in the red ones.) Thanks again to all my friends and family who thought Hillary Clinton was "just as bad." Read HERE.

An Instagram of Memories of People We've Lost to AIDS

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If you want to kill a few hours -- and risk wanting to kill yourself because of all the heartbreak -- head over to The AIDS Memorial Instagram. Billed as a place "preserving the legacy of the AIDS epidemic with stories of love, loss and remembrance." the account is the perfect evolution of the famed AIDS Memorial Quilt, only more information can be shared about the person depicted -- stories, obituaries, bios -- and way more people have access to it.  

The page was set up somewhat anonymously by a guy named Stuart in Scotland, who explained to i-D what his inspiration was: 

"I was always struck by how many talented people passed away and were just forgotten about. People could've lived and achieved much more but didn't get that option. For a long time lots of people just didn't want to talk about AIDS, so I started looking for people's stories." 

As the deadliest years of the plague thankfully fade into the distance, Instagram seems like the perfect setting to remind younger people of the generation of men and women whose lives were wiped out way too soon.

Hello, Kelly!

So handsome.

Derek Anson Jones was the director of "Wit."

Artist Tom Bianchi remembers his friend David 

Seeing Nora Burns's show about her friend David tonight.

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