AvatarDonna CostanzoConservatives are having a bad day after the Senate passed the marriage equality billLGBTQ Nation - Daniel VillarrealThe marriage equality bill just protects some established rights. But to listen to the complainers, religion is over in America. Conservatives are …
AvatarDonna CostanzoNo evidence of voter fraud found in midterms: cybersecurity officialsAxios - Sareen HabeshianThere is no evidence of voter fraud in Tuesday's midterm elections, Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency said Wednesday. Driving the news: "We …
AvatarDonna CostanzoWe Call Ourselves Sister JudgesElle - Rose MinutaglioFour years ago, they changed the face of the Texas judiciary. Can they do it again this November? On a smothering hot summer day in 2018, 19 Texas women—all of them Black, all of them pillars in the legal community—got in formation for a photoshoot. Sharing knowing nods and confident smiles, they …
AvatarDonna CostanzoThe Woman Who Saved Native SongThe Marginalian - Maria PopovaTucked into a corner of the Library of Congress is the Densmore Collection of cylinder phonographs — a bygone medium containing the living songs of an ancient culture. In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government continued its assault on Native Americans by demanding they relinquish their …
AvatarDonna CostanzoAngry mom goes viral after giving an anti-LGBTQ commissioner hell during a public meetingLGBTQ Nation - Alex Bollinger"I've never been sexually assaulted at a drag show, but I have been in church. Twice!" she said, adding that the church "told me it was my fault." A …
AvatarDonna CostanzoWhat the Constitution actually says about race, explainedverified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserThere’s a glaring flaw in the Supreme Court lawsuits attacking affirmative action. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was hearing only the third case of her career as a Supreme Court justice when she went after one of her conservative colleagues’ most sacred cows: the idea that the Constitution requires …