NYC officials plan to reraise pride flag at Manhattan’s Stonewall monument after Trump administration removed it - POLITICO

New York City officials plan to reraise a pride flag at the federal monument at Stonewall in Manhattan, setting up a potential fight with the White House at the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement nearly 60 years ago…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/stonewall-pride-flag-trump-nyc-00774020 

 

Jefferson County, Illinois leaders sued over Ten Commandments monument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eco4k-z4gnQ

 

Dutch feminists campaign for national monument to ‘witches’

Susan Smit, Bregje Hofstede and Manja Bedner, the chair and board members of the National Witches Monument foundation, have raised €35,000 (£29,000) for an official site of memory for about 70,000 people who died during a Satanic panic that swept Europe and the Americas. 

"It's about creating more awareness around this history of, basically, femicide," Hofstede said. "To this day a witch is still a comic figure. In the Netherlands, every year at the carnaval, people burn effigies of witches … but there's hardly any knowledge of the actual history of people being burned at the stake."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/dutch-feminists-campaign-for-national-monument-to-witches

White Lies Matter ransom note: Selma Confederate monument will become ‘toilet’ unless demands met - The Washington Post

...The banner reads: "The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives,"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/06/ransom-confederate-chair-selma/

Comedians 'Honor' White Nationalist Rep. Steve King With His Own Confederate Statue | HuffPost

A comedy duo called The Good Liars unveiled the “tiny statue for a tiny man” in Des Moines, Iowa.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-statue-the-good-liars_n_5e58d66bc5b6beedb4e96afa

What Is the Satanic Temple, and How Did a Goat-Headed Statue End Up at the Arkansas State Capitol? - Pacific Standard

Hooves, horns, wings, and rippling muscle touched down briefly at the Arkansas State Capitol on Thursday, as the Satanic Temple unveiled an 8.5-foot tall bronze statue of Baphomet at the Arkansas State Capitol. Baphomet, a winged creature with a pentagrammed goat's head and man's torso, serves as a go-to signifier for the Satanic Temple. The statue was trucked into Little Rock for a First Amendment rally the Temple held last week, as a protest against the Ten Commandments monument that currently sits on the capitol grounds.....

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-satanic-temple-brings-baphomet-to-arkansas

President Trump Announces Plans To Build A Monument Commemorating the War on Christmas | Secular Coalition for America

Today, the Trump Administration unveiled plans to construct a monument hailing the end of the War on Christmas. The new memorial will make good on President Trump's promise to bring about a peaceful resolution to the nearly 20-year contrived conflict.....

https://www.secular.org/news/president-trump-announces-plans-build-monument-commemorating-war-christmas 

Legal bill hits $700,000 in fight over Ten Commandments monument in rural New Mexico – The Denver Post

Monument has been moved from city hall to land owned by Baptist church.....
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/19/ten-commandments-monument-rural-new-mexico/

Bloomfield must pay $700K for lawyer fees in Ten Commandments case

The city of Bloomfield is considering using online fundraising to pay the $700,000 it owes from the lawsuit regarding the Ten Commandments monument that was formerly located outside of City Hall. Because the courts ruled the monument violated the U.S. Constitution and represented a government endorsement of religion, the city must now pay the legal fees for the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the complaint in 2012 on behalf of two Bloomfield residents, Janie Felix and Buford Coone.....

http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/bloomfield/2018/02/14/bloomfield-pay-lawyer-fees-ten-commandments-case/338680002/

Democratic mayors blast Trump, decline White House invite - CNNPolitics

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and a host of other mayors who had been invited to the White House on Wednesday declined the invitation because of a Justice Department crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities.....
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/mitch-landrieu-donald-trump-new-orleans/index.html

Rabbi: Roy Moore Just Sat There While I Got Bullied Over a Christian Monument – Friendly Atheist

Every day now seems to bring new stories about how Roy Moore allegedly hit on teenage girls (in the creepiest possible ways) and assaulted some while in his early 30s. Those stories should be front and center on the list of why Moore has no business being in the U.S. Senate. But it’s not like he was qualified before these allegations began coming out. Moore was someone who defied the rule of law multiple times — as the highest ranking judge in the state of Alabama — and someone whose primary goal, it seemed, was to use his public positions to promote his theology. Spreading fundamentalist Christianity meant far more than upholding the rule of law or being a decent human being. ....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/11/16/rabbi-roy-moore-just-sat-there-while-i-got-bullied-over-a-christian-monument/

Public Records Reveal Lots of Backlash Against Satanic War Memorial in MN Town – Friendly Atheist

For the past six months, the city of Belle Plaine (MN) has been embroiled in a controversy involving a Christian monument in Veterans Memorial Park. Because that park is public, The Satanic Temple applied to put their own monument for veterans right next to the display of a kneeling soldier in front of a Christian cross. ....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/08/22/public-records-reveal-lots-of-backlash-against-satanic-war-memorial-in-mn-town/#disqus_thread

What Robert E. Lee Wrote to The Times About Slavery in 1858 -- The New York Times

The man who would become a Confederate general wanted to correct an article about freeing the slaves on his family's estate. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html?_r=0

Georgia judge suspended for comparing anti-Confederate protesters to ISIS: report | TheHill

A judge in Georgia has been suspended for Facebook posts in which he compared protesters of Confederate statues to members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Gwinnett County Judge Jim Hinkle called protesters opposing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee in Charlottesville, Va., “snowflakes.” He said they had "no concept of history" and should “leave history alone.”....
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/346780-georgia-judge-suspended-for-comparing-anti-confederate-protesters-to-isis

Crowds of protesters turn themselves in after activists topple Confederate statue -- ThinkProgress.org

Crowds of residents lined up outside the Durham, North Carolina detention facility on Thursday to turn themselves in after activists toppled a Confederate statue in the city earlier in the week. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/crowds-of-protesters-turn-themselves-in-after-activists-topple-confederate-statue-751d6a088532/

Maine governor claims removing Confederate statutes is ‘just like’ destroying 9/11 Memorial -- ThinkProgress.org

On the same morning President Trump unequivocally threw his support behind preserving monuments to treason and slavery, Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) equated removing Confederate monuments with destroying the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/maine-governor-claims-removing-confederate-statutes-is-just-like-destroying-911-memorial-b0371ac380aa/

PA City Finally Removes Veterans Memorial Bench That Denigrated Atheists

For more than a decade, Justus Park in Oil City, Pennsylvania was home to a bench honoring veterans that read “Men Who Aren’t Governed By God, Will Be Governed By Tyrants.” As if our only options were God or tyranny....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/04/pa-city-finally-removes-veterans-memorial-bench-that-denigrated-atheists/

Mississippi lawmaker says leaders who support removal of Confederate monuments ‘should be lynched’

The day after the city of New Orleans removed the last of its Confederate monuments from public display, a Republican lawmaker who represents the town where Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi wrote that leaders who work to have such monuments taken down "should be lynched." ...
https://thinkprogress.org/karl-oliver-mississippi-confederate-monuments-lynched-767c1be3c5b2

‘Spiteful and petty’: Maine governor bans signs to Obama-designated monument

A decision by the Republican governor of Maine, Paul LePage, to ban signs to Katahdin Woods and Waters, a national monument designated by Barack Obama, has been described as “sophomoric and petty” by a member of the family that donated the 87,563-acre tract to the nation.

LePage made the controversial move, which was announced on Friday, pending the outcome of a federal review of 27 national monuments ordered by Donald Trump in April and being carried out by the US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/21/katahdin-woods-waters-obama-monument-signs-banned?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=227083&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

Inside Tehran's monument to US 'arrogance'

For close to four decades, the US embassy in downtown Tehran has been preserved in situ, although its diplomatic functions have long since ceased.

The 1979 hostage crisis, during which a group of Iranian students stormed the embassy and held dozens of Americans captive for 444 days, marked its final operational chapter. Although the hostages were released in early 1981 after the two countries struck a deal, the embassy did not reopen; instead, over the years, it gradually evolved as a monument to the bitter relations between Iran and the United States. ...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/tehran-monument-arrogance-170424122742752.html