Welcome to Tuesday, June 29th, LBTQIA+ & allies & et al...

The Stonewall Riots were a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

Also known as the Stonewall Uprising and Stonewall Rebellion, the riots - a watershed event in the gay liberation movement - occurred between June 28 and July 3, 1969.

Here, we take an (animated) look at the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights in the U.S.
 

Federal Deficit Tops $2.1 Trillion in FY2021 Through May

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal budget deficit exceeded $2.1 trillion for the year to date when the first eight months of fiscal year 2021 came to a close in May. That surpasses last year’s deficit for the same period by $184 billion and puts the federal government on pace to post the largest budget deficit of all-time for the second consecutive year. 

The USAFacts chart below shows monthly federal spending dating back to October 2018, when FY2019 began. Monthly spending ranged from $291 billion to $439 billion prior to the onset of the pandemic but has regularly been above $500 billion per month and soared as high as $1.1 trillion in June 2020:

Are you concerned about the federal budget deficit?

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All The Memes Fit To Post

And, In The End...

On this date in 2007, the first iPhone went on sale...

📲,

—Josh Herman

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