Really must see pics from tonight outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village as the New York State senate voted on the marriage equality bill. Look.
TPM’s Josh Marshall has been down on Christopher Street in Manhattan this evening as crowds gathered near the historic Stonewall Inn in anticipation of the passage of gay marriage in New York:
The final vote in the New York state Senate was 33-29. Cheers break out in the Senate chamber.
The gay marriage measure is now assured of passage, the NYT reports.
The marriage equality bill that’s been creeping up to the starting gate in the New York state senate is going to a vote tonight. The word is it’s going to make it. But nothing official yet. And it ain’t over till it’s over.
Five Russian scientists who worked on the design of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor were among the 44 fatalities on the Tupolev-134 that caught fire and broke apart on an emergency landing near Petrozavodsk on Monday.
Nevada becomes first state to legalize robotic cars.
Documents seized from the bin Laden compound show that in the last months of his life Osama bin Laden believed al Qaeda needed a name change and aggressive rebranding campaign.
We could imagine a future world in which Xe (Blackwater) faced off against Awesome Jihad (al Qaeda).