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Nancy Pelosi dedicates a campus and opines on the presidential race.

Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., pulled transgender people from the legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination." And since nothing says action like an angry missive or online petition, a letter signed by gay groups was sent to Congress yesterday demanding them to rebuff legislation excluding transgender folk, according to the NGLTF.

Photo of a woman trying to get in the Federal Building despite the presence Code Pink protesters

Rally at St Luke's Hospital in the Mission

Let the vanity runs for offices begin: Tenacious Texas trespasser and brilliant anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan just promised to maybe, possibly, perhaps make a run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if our current Speaker fails to (finally) jumpstart a Bush impeachment come July 23. Sheehan plans to make it official next Tuesday, run as an independent, and swears to "give [Pelosi] a run for her money."