Partial Citizens

Nice article by Frank Rich, 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans.

Iran

Global news coverage of Iran is diminishing, though the protests continue. Kudos to Andrew Sullivan for continuing to watch.

Constructing the Enemy

An interesting post by David Bromwich: Iran Was an Easier Enemy Before We Saw Their Faces with lessons for LGBT organizers -- no better way to reinforce homophobia than by campaigns like prop h8 that closet queers.

Catalog of Obama's Betrayals

Great article in Salon by John Aravosis.

Queer History Must Read!-Stonewall Riot Police Reports, June 28, 1969

Summary and documents brought to us by Outhistory.org, offer new facts and tongue in cheek analysis:

Officer Andrew Scheu of the 6th Precinct charged that Wolfgang Podolski had resisted arrest and had struck the “arresting officer in the left eye with a rolled up newspaper causing officer to fall to ground sustaining a fractured left wrist.” This is the first documented reference to Podolski, a waiter or writer (the report is unclear), as a rebellion participant. This is also the first reference to a rolled up newspaper as a resistance weapon.

Iran: Read This

A Different Iranian Revolution in the New York Times takes on the idiocies propagated by lazy journalists.

For instance, some American analysts assert that the demonstrations are taking place only in the sections of Tehran — in the north, around the university and Azadi Square — where the educated and well-off reside. Of course, those neighborhoods were home to the well-to-do ... 30 years ago. The notion that these areas represent “the nice part of town” will come as a surprise to their residents, who endure the noise, congestion and pollution of living in the center of a megalopolis.

Iran Election Fraud

Walter Mebane, the University of Michigan political science and statistics professor acknowledges what Iranians have been saying for days: fraud, fraud, fraud.
h/t Andrew Sullivan

Not surprised at Obama's "they're more or less the same" stance. So one was elected, one wasn't. What's a few votes between friends?

Not at all to say Americans should ham-handedly intervene, but still. No real difference? Aiii. What a beacon of democracy we are.

Iranian Women Fight For Rights

It's not just the election getting women onto the Iranian streets. h/t Faisal Alam

In Iran

Twitter and other new media play role as opposition protests in Iran, and the government plays whack a mole in trying to shut it down. Watching with hope and dread.

Obama Sucks

Obama's admin defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children.

Bite me, you hypocritical asshat.