[ID: The title of a news article reads, “These 25 rainbow flag-waving corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years.” The article is by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.
Then there’s a banner of six different corporations’ social media profiles, where you can see their avatars have been updated for pride month to either have a rainbow ring around their logo or a completely redesigned logo in rainbow colors. The corporations are AT&T, CVS Health, Deloitte, Verizon, Walmart and Wells Fargo.
Below there’s a table of several large corporations that shows “company PAC,” “Amount donated to federal lawmakers with a ‘0′ HRC score,” and “Amount donated to sponsors of anti-trans legislation (AR, TN, NC, TX, FL).”
The table reads as follows.
Comcast & NBCUniversal. $1,095,500. $35,300.
AT&T. $1,079,500. $59,450.
Home Depot. $836,500. $2,000.
United Parcel Service. $675,410. $10,250.
Deloitte. $662,000. $4,000.
Exxon Mobil. $599,300. $13,750.
Chevron. $551,500. $15,000.
Verizon. $518,000. $6,500.
UnitedHealth Group. $496,500. $38,000.
Google. $483,500. $0.
Amazon. $459,000. $0.
General Motors. $458,000. $16,000.
Walmart. $442,000. $43,000.
Cigna. $358,000. $8,750.
Ford. $297,000. $0.
Anthem. $282,500. $10,400.
JPMorgan. $275,000. $2,500.
CVS. $259,000. $6,500.
Johnson & Johnson. $223,000. $7,000.
Facebook. $152,000. $0.
Wells Fargo. $124,500. $15,500.
Walgreens. $104,000. $1,000.
McKesson. $93,000. $5,500.
Total: $10,524,710. $300,400.
Source: FEC and state campaign finance databases. All contributions from 2019 to present. [Transcriber’s note: No date was visible in the image, but the original post was made on June 15, 2021.]
October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA.
It was 40 years ago today…
Never gets old.
40 years on and it still is gratifying
Anita’s still alive and kicking and being anti-gay. Thom Higgins, who threw the pie when he was 27 – and was poetically from Beaver Dam – passed away 17 years later at 44. Info on his life is here. The pie throwing was a big deal. In an age before the internet let gays feel connected, and long before ACT UP, the pie showed small pockets of gays that we could fight back.
it showed that gays were human beings, who might be in the room with you, that you had been accepting as being equals and treating as people. you didnt suspect them as bieng gay, why should you treat them different after? do they become less human after finding out?
i mean, its almost like you just found out they have an oppinion on your bullshit
She was “pied” on TV. All across the country, people got to see proof that the LGBT community weren’t going to just sit there and take it. People who thought they had no choice but to stay silent saw a horrible woman get humiliated on live TV.
One of the best moments in television history.
happy pride, y’all.
Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you.
Act a clown, get pied like one. 🤡
I would like to start throwing pies again but I remember the uproar over “milkshaking” people and which asshole was it? Dinesh? That faked having a concrete milkshake thrown at him?
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that states have the authority to prosecute non-tribal members who commit crimes against Native Americans on Indian territory.
The ruling limits a major tribal ruling issued by the Supreme Court in 2020 and cuts back on tribal sovereignty.
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt praised the court’s opinion, calling it a “pivotal moment” in a statement.
Stitt has been fighting for state sovereignty on the issue and had expressed fear that if his side were to lose, it could open an avenue for individuals to gain access to abortion on tribal lands, as a way of sidestepping the state’s strict abortion rules.
“We think that there’s a possibility that some tribes may try to set up abortion on demand,” he said in an interview with KTUL before the opinion came down. “They think that you could be 1/1000 tribal member and not have to follow the state law. And so that’s something that we’re watching.”
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