Links + Commentary

• Fifth-grader originally banned from presenting speech supporting marriage equality now okayed to speak. One step forward, two steps back, four steps forward. 
• The Justice Department doesn't feel it's their duty to notify people in prison that they might be innocent, or to make it easier for them to get out once they're cleared of their crimes. 
• Aisha Tyler posted a Facebook note titled "Dear Gamers" that ends with: I'll still be playing when your mom's kicked you out of her basement/and you have to sell your old-ass console/and get a real job.
• The House passes a resolution expressing regret for Chinese Exclusion laws. The rest of America's immigration policy remains deeply racist.
• SodaStream's product seemed pretty cool to me until I found out that their main production factory is in "Mishor Edomim, a settlement and industrial zone in the occupied West Bank, on confiscated Palestinian land". I will not be buying this product.
• How lies spread. An analysis of how the media ran with the "drones surveil American farms" panic attack.
• Priscilla Dang defends herself from gropers with her martial arts skills. 
• Fossilized turtles' sex acts frozen in time. 
• Club Unicorn: In which I come out of the closet on our ten year anniversary - A young, gay Mormon man says he is happily married with children, and has a happy sex life with his wife.
• In Which I Feel Compelled to Start a Blog Because of a Club and a Unicorn - A young, straight Mormon talks about how she was formerly unhappily married to a gay Mormon man, had children, and eventually ended up divorcing.