You know already that President Donald Trump is on a rampage to build hideous oversized structures in Washington, D.C. (the Epstein Ballroom, the Arc de Trump) and to deface existing structures using exorbitant no-bid contracts. We got some good news this past weekend when a judge made Trump take “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND” off the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I only wish the…
In Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, the epigram-spouting Lady Bracknell is told by Jack Worthing, her daughter’s suitor, that he’s lost both his parents. To this, the lady replies imperiously: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” I thought of Lady Bracknell this week on learning that Republican House…
A great riddle of the 2024 election is how Donald Trump managed to double (to 14 points) his advantage among working class voters, defined as those lacking a college degree, compared to 2016. This is a mystery because Trump spent much of his first term undermining labor rights. The main (though by no means only) vehicle for doing so was the Trump-appointed majority on the National Labor Relations…
Updated: Texas AG Ken Paxton calls James Talarico’s support for trans kids ‘weird’ in runoff victory speech
Texas Republicans on Tuesday chose Attorney General Ken Paxton, the embattled conservative firebrand who spent years under felony indictment while spearheading some of the nation’s most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ legal campaigns, as their nominee for the United States…
Of all President Donald Trump’s kleptocracy schemes, perhaps the most shameless are his financial legal claims against the same executive branch over which he presides. Now Trump is on the verge of settling one of these, a lawsuit he filed in January against the Internal Revenue Service seeking $10 billion in damages for the leak of his tax returns to _The New York Times_. With negotiators…
FBI Director Kash Patel erupted during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, shouting over lawmakers, challenging a senator to an alcohol test, and escalating weeks of scrutiny over allegations of drinking, internal chaos, and retaliatory behavior inside the bureau, as new reporting raised fresh questions about whether the FBI has inflated arrest numbers and manipulated…
Android 17 will feature a new set of emoji’s. Google has announced that the latest Android version will get a bunch of new emoticons, which will also use a 3D design.
The European Union is delaying key AI obligations for high-risk systems while tightening rules on deepfake and watermarking, highlighting how commercial and political pressure is reshaping the bloc’s landmark AI law.
At Baylor University, a private Baptist institution in Waco, Texas, where questions of faith and identity have long been tightly policed, students gathered Wednesday for something that, until recently, would have been difficult to imagine.
They called it “All Are Neighbors.”
The event, organized by a coalition of student groups, brought LGBTQ+-affirming Christian voices to campus in a…
Democrats continue winning in elections. A Virginia ballot initiative to redraw congressional districts has passed by a narrow margin, setting off a new front in the national fight over redistricting and drawing immediate praise from LGBTQ+ advocates and Democratic leaders who cast the result as a check on partisan power.
According to Decision Desk HQ, the measure was approved by 51.26…
Embattled Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced Monday that her time had come to an end amid a widening misconduct investigation, becoming the third Senate-confirmed Cabinet official, and the third woman, to leave President Donald Trump’s second-term administration in less than two months.
LGBTQ+ advocates moved quickly to define her tenure. “Sec. Chavez-DeRemer’s legacy will be…
India’s shift to market-linked LPG pricing is passing global fuel shocks, exacerbated by the chaos in the Middle East, directly to households.…
A community in Colorado is coming together to rescue a safe space for LGBTQ+ people. Denver’s only lesbian bar said it was closing. Within days, its community raised tens of thousands of dollars to try to keep it open.
The Pearl, a sapphic-focused bar and café, announced it would shut down after struggling financially, according to Denver Fox affiliate KDVR. The venue, which moved into the…
“There’s seemingly this mentality building,” Carolyn Schenck, a former national fraud counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, tells _The Wall Street Journal’_ s Richard Rubin. The mentality, Shenck says, is “the IRS isn’t going to catch me.” It isn’t that people are getting more corrupt. It’s that the president of the United States is inviting them not to pay.
I know that sounds harsh, but…
A cheap antibiotic that has been sitting in medicine cabinets for decades is suddenly doing something remarkable: helping reverse one of America’s fastest-growing sexually transmitted infections, and offering one of the clearest measurable successes of a Joe Biden-era LGBTQ+ public health initiative just as President Donald Trump’s administration dismantles many of the federal systems that…
For months after Renee Good was killed during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, the Trump administration controlled the evidence, the timeline, and much of the public narrative. Now, under court order, it is being forced to surrender both records and secrecy.
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A Nebraska lawmaker’s latest attempt to revive anti-trans legislation collapsed on the chamber floor this week, but not before exposing the precarious political arithmetic that has made the state one of the country’s closely watched battlegrounds over LGBTQ+ rights.
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A gay journalist says he was briefly detained by security after he booed President Donald Trump during the opening night of the musical Chicago at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to the Washington Blade.
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Eugene Ramirez, a former national…
A social media post from President Donald Trump on Sunday morning is drawing sharp scrutiny from legal experts and national security observers after the president threatened attacks on infrastructure in Iran, language that critics say echoes conduct prohibited under international law.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a highly produced video celebrating Director Kash Patel’s first year in office, drawing scrutiny for what critics describe as a propaganda-style presentation featuring a sweeping, cinematic montage of arrests, drug seizures, and political talking points.
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Stephen Lewis, who died this week at 88, was leader of Ontario’s New Democratic Party and father of Avi Lewis, current leader of…
Although Melbourne is addressing the Strait of Hormuz crisis by following up its "freedom restricting" lockdowns of 2020/21 with... extra freedoms... it might not be too long before another round of grifters & conspiracy theory protesters hit the streets to sow discord & confusion around the world
The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill restricting transgender students’ access to bathrooms and locker rooms, advancing legislation that reflects a widening shift in how Republican-led states are regulating the everyday lives of trans people and aligning with a growing number of Republican-led states adopting similar policies.
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Rachel Maddow came back Monday night to a question she’s been asking since the start of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, and suggested the answer is starting to reveal itself.
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On MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show , the anchor revisited her early warning: before accepting the…
Roughly 3,800 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 are now on strike at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants in Greeley, Colorado, after months of negotiations over wages, health insurance costs, and working conditions.…
Cal Calamia won the nonbinary division of this year’s Los Angeles Marathon. But unlike the race’s men’s and women’s champions, they received no prize money. Calamia also won the division in 2024 and returned this weekend to claim a second victory in the only category that still offers no financial reward.
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The US war on Iran is the most unpopular a US war in history. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s war on Iran is very unpopular. As pollster G. Elliot Morris notes, it is the most unpopular a US war has ever been when it started. And…
Over two decades later, it’s clear the US war on Iraq was motivated less by a need for oil and more by US policymakers’ desire to project…
In most of New England, the question of whether transgender people may use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity has largely been settled. In New Hampshire, lawmakers are reopening it.
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The Republican-controlled New Hampshire House voted 181–164 on…
There is a revealing moment in a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience when the conversation briefly brushes against empathy before veering back into familiar anti-trans rhetoric. Cisgender men, not transgender women, are the real danger to all women, the conservative podcaster said.
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