30 Touching Photos Of LGBT Activists Responding To DOMA’s Overturning

Not everyone responded like Michele Bachmann to the news that in a 5-4 ruling the Supreme Court had overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); in fact, most people were absolutely elated. Throughout the country, LGBT activists shed tears of joy as the love many of them share at a state level must now finally be recognized at a federal one. It wasn’t a sweeping ruling in the slightest, but it’s definitely progress. 30 of the most poignant ones are below, only to be followed by a characteristically brazen quip by Nancy Pelosi regarding Bachmann’s thoughts (oxy moronic?) on the court’s ruling.

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Obama Sings Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”

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Notes On The Next American Revolution

The Article: What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution in The National Memo.

The Text: Chapter One: How to Detect a System Problem Without Really Trying

People toss around the phrase It’s the system pretty loosely in everyday language. Usually they mean that things are sort of set up, by either design or accident, to run the way they run—and that the game is pretty well rigged so that those at the top (and their organizations) control the action. You can’t really buck the system: Too much power, too much red tape, too much bureaucracy—they’ll wear you down.

And so on.

That’s not a bad way to start thinking about the big system that defines the overarching contours of our national life—namely, the large corporate-dominated economic system and the heavily constrained political system that set the terms of reference for almost everything else.

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The Best Moments From #StandWithWendy

Take that, Rand Paul. After spending around 11 hours on her feet, Texas state senator Wendy Davis–and the droves of emblazoned women supporting her–was successful in preventing Rick Perry’s anti-abortion bill, which would impose severe restrictions on a woman’s ability to have an abortion and would also close all but five abortion clinics within the Lone Star state, from passing. Around the stroke of midnight, Republican senators hurriedly tried to pass the bill, but the impassioned chants of a “mob” of 400 pro-choice activists prevented Lt. Governor David Dewhurst from signing the bill before the deadline had passed. Everything is bigger in Texas, and to the chagrin of many men within the senate floor last night, that includes a woman’s fight for choice. Here are some of the best moments:

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