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I suppose there was no way to leave a pile of jiggery-pokery: Jars of applesauce and bouquets of broccoli were left on the steps of the Supreme Court on Friday as part of a makeshift memorial for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The unusual items became symbols of the ObamaCare debate following colorful comments from Scalia, who was the court’s …

Getting attention on Twitter this afternoon is an adorable video of a little girl’s sobbing reaction after her grandmother tells her President Obama is limited to two terms. Little Caprina Harris shares a birthday with the president and August 4th is a “special day of celebration” in her home. Watch the video at this link to The Root.

The Guardian reports: A conservative group’s attempt to sabotage a formal for young queer people has spectacularly backfired. The publicity the group drew to the event helped raise enough funds to cover its entire cost. The youth-led organisation Minus18 has held a Same Sex Gender Diverse formal for gender-diverse and same sex-attracted young people aged 21 and under in Melbourne …

Today’s Postmodern Jukebox cover is a swinging Motown-flavored take on Justin Bieber’s recent chart-topper. Lead vocals are by Broadway’s Shoshana Bean, who succeeded Idina Menzel in Wicked. The wonderfully animated backup singer on the left is Luke Edgemon, who competed on season four of The Voice. Edgemon is openly gay and also played one of the Dalton Academy Warblers on Glee.

Smallish sample, margin of error, and Fox News – so huge grain of salt and all that. From The Hill: Bernie Sanders has passed Hillary Clinton at the top of a national poll for the first time in the 2016 race. A Fox News poll of the Democratic presidential race released Thursday shows Sanders with 47 percent support to Clinton’s …

From the New York Post: The Mets will host the team’s first ever Pride Night at Citi Field this season, as the latest major New York team to have such a night after the Islanders hosted an LGBT-themed night this month. The Mets in the past have hosted events from Fiesta Latina night to Jewish Heritage Day. Other major league …

Hundreds of mourners lined the steps of the Supreme Court building in the last hour as the casket of late Justice Antonin Scalia was laid in state upon the pedestal that once held the body of Abraham Lincoln. Watch below. The remaining eight Justices lined up alongside the casket in the order of their seniority as a prayer was read …

From Alabama.com: Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville confirmed Friday morning. Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch …

From Know Thy Neighbor: This morning, the Georgia Senate will debate HB 757, a hybrid of the House Pastor Protection Act and the Georgia First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). The new bill is pretty terrible. In short, it allows any individual or “faith-based” business, non-profit entity, or taxpayer-funded organization to ignore any law that conflicts with their religious beliefs about …

A survey conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute reveals that a majority of Americans in every state supports the Equality Act, which would ban anti-LGBT discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. From the Human Rights Campaign: Currently, 33 states lack clear, fully inclusive LGBT non-discrimination protections, leaving people at risk for being fired, denied a job or …