Announcing a Nancy Reagan Stamp on the First Day of Pride Should Be a Crime

On the first day of Pride Month, First Lady Jill Biden decided to make a whole bunch of enemies by announcing she’d be unveiling a new stamp commemorating Nancy Reagan.

As you can see in that press release, it gets worse! Present at the unveiling will be Louis DeJoy, the Trump donor-turned Postmaster General who has spent the last few years trying hard to tank the US Post Office (and who somehow still has a job, even after Trump left office!), representatives from the Reagan Foundation, and a Reagan descendant.

Given the fact that their total inaction during the AIDS epidemic is and will always be a huge part of the Reagans’ legacy, this commemoration couldn’t be more poorly timed. The best time to announce a new Nancy Reagan stamp would be never. The second best time would be literally any other day of the year that’s not the first day of Pride.

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.

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