The Pentagon has had multiple floors locked down and evacuated after reports of an “air quality issue necessitating precautionary measures,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced Thursday.
“The Department is executing standard protection protocols, including a shelter-in-place order for the affected area. Response teams are in place and ready to support building occupants,” he continued.…
Idaho state officials told a federal judge they can test bathroom users to DNA if necessary to enforce a law segregating stalls by gender.
Idaho’s strict anti-trans law requires people to use public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth. When attorneys for plaintiffs challenging the law noted that many transgender people have state-issued…
New York elected leaders slammed the Mount Sinai Health System after the medical provider said it would turn over records of transgender patients to the Trump administration.
The New York City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus said such a betrayal of medical privacy would contribute to an increasingly hostile environment for trans youth.
“Let us be clear: transgender children are not political…
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace shifted her positions on transgender rights and rebranded herself from a moderate Republican to a MAGA culture warrior. In the end, it didn’t help her secure President Donald Trump’s endorsement in South Carolina’s race for governor. In popular terms, _a leopard ate her face_. After reshaping her political identity around Trump and the grievances that animate…
Plus, who’s in control of the Gaza Strip?
Bill Pulte for director of national intelligence? _Really?_
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday that he is appointing William J. Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence, following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in which capacity Pulte has also appointed himself chairman of the Federal National Mortgage…
For a few months now the consensus amongst many powerful firms & institutions is that the SoH would reopen in June, the world thereafter returning to normality. But with that fallacy now disproven, it's time to consider the possibility that the SoH might remain closed for months, even years on end.
A California city that banned the Pride flag could soon be represented by a gay Congressman.
Huntington Beach, a conservative city in Southern California, will likely be represented in the next Congress by U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, the first out immigrant elected to Congress, who could be one of the most powerful members next year. That’s the result of a Democratic redraw of the Golden…
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Officials in Greenland are worried that President Trump will move forward on his push to increase the United States’s role there around the time of the president’s birthday on June 14, according to The New York Times. Elizabeth Saunders, a Columbia University political scientist who…
The first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Congress from the South lost a closely watched Democratic primary Tuesday night after former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson in Texas’ newly redrawn 33rd Congressional District.
With 78.17 percent of precincts reporting at 11:07 p.m EDT, according to Decision Desk HQ, Allred led Johnson 53.76 percent to 46.24 percent in…
For months, the turmoil surrounding CBS News has simmered behind the scenes, with nervous executives, frustrated producers, sagging ratings, newsroom leaks, and growing whispers that one of America’s most iconic television news divisions is losing its institutional footing.
A series of damaging reports across the media industry has intensified scrutiny of CBS News chief Bari Weiss, the…
Google Launches AI Powered Search Box
AI Mode now has more than 1 billion users, according to Liz Reid today at Google I/O. Many SEOs had been predicting that AI Mode would become the new SERP. Google isn't doing that but it is much more deeply integrating AI into search with a new "intelligent search box," tightening the AIO and AI Mode connection and introducing new "search agents." The new…
GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI POWERED SEARCH BOX
AI Mode now has more than 1 billion users, according to Liz Reid today at Google I/O. Many SEOs had been predicting that AI Mode would become the new SERP. Google isn't doing that but it is much more deeply integrating AI into search with a new "intelligent search box," tightening the AIO and AI Mode connection and introducing new "search agents." The new…
The world’s largest open-source registry, node package manager (npm), has been hit by another fast-moving malware attack, this time targeting the widely-used AntV enterprise data visualization tool.
Unlike last week’s high-profile npm attack on TanStack, which exploited a complex GitHub Actions cache poisoning weakness, the latest incident early on May 19 took the more conventional route of…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared to be panicking during a Senate Appropriations hearing Tuesday as he tried to justify President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and his own visit with convicted child sex offender and Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
“You’re gonna assure us that President Trump will get no proceeds from this [fund] … his family will not get [any…
The U.S. Treasury’s highest ranking lawyer quit just hours after President Trump announced his Anti-Weaponization Fund—a brazen attempt to dole out $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to his allies, supporters, and himself.
Treasury General Counsel Brian Morrissey resigned shortly after the fund was approved on Monday, according to _The New York Times_. Morrisey has yet to publicly comment. He served…
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday reduced the prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, the election denier whose efforts to undermine confidence in the 2020 election transformed her into a MAGA folk hero and a convicted felon.
A jury found Peters guilty in August 2024 of allowing a person affiliated with MyPillow founder and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell to…
An anti-LGBTQ+ legal group has sued Wisconsin after state leaders refused to roll back restrictions on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors.
Since 2024, Wisconsin has treated therapy marketed as “sexual orientation change efforts” as unprofessional conduct for licensed counselors, according to the _Wisconsin Examiner._
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, or WILL, which has also…
Federal attorneys are demanding that a transgender health program in New York City turn over sensitive records concerning youth patients, including medical assessments, intake forms, insurance claims, and “documents sufficient to identify each patient,” according to a subpoena made public this week.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas subpoenaed NYU Langone Health…
An Oklahoma school teacher is suing former state Superintendent Ryan Walters for defamation. The lawsuit contends Walters worked in concert with Chaya Raichik, founder of the Libs of TikTok social media account, to terrorize the teacher for nearly 1,000 days.
The legal complaint was filed years after Walters, a Republican with a long anti-LGBTQ+ record, threatened Regan Killackey’s teaching…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week announced a new program to provide 40 million free diapers to families with newborns in California.
Some say the new Golden State Start program is masking Newsom’s efforts to gain funds for personal use.
Newsom is partnering with Baby2Baby, a national nonprofit headquartered in California, to provide diapers to…
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A program is returning burrowing owls back to their natural habitat
The Upper Nicola Band released 11 captive-born owls in spax̌mn — part of a decade-long effort to reinstate the tiny…
President Trump is planning to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary over disagreements relating to flavored vapes and other policy decisions, according to _The Wall Street Journal_.
Trump’s displeasure with Makary has been well documented. Last week, the _Journal_ reported that the president became frustrated with the commissioner because he refused to approve blueberry,…
It has come to this. Every year a completely inoffensive nonprofit called the Partnership for Public Service hosts a ceremony to hand out awards to civil servants who excel at their jobs. The awards are called the “Sammies,” after the roofing magnate and philanthropist Samuel J. Heyman (1939–2009), who put up $45 million to create the Partnership for Public Service in 2001. The Sammies have won…
Florida is moving to close the infamous “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades because it has grown too expensive to operate, according to _The New York Times_.
The embattled facility—which has cost the state of Florida $1 million a day to run—has been beset with allegations of unsafe living conditions, abusive treatment, and protests from Native American groups over…
The Justice Department is investigating potential insider trading related to the skyrocketing oil prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon. The department is specifically looking into at least four instances where traders made over $2.6 billion betting that the price of oil would fall moments before it did, according to sources who spoke with ABC News.
According to the London…
A circuit court judge has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify how a recent emergency order impacts transgender citizens suing the State Department for not allowing their passports to display gender markers aligned with their identity.
Last November, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to stop issuing passports to transgender residents who do not feature a gender marker…
Get ready with me while we talk about Ashley St. Clair.
Ashley St. Clair is a gonzo MAGA influencer turned gonzo ex-MAGA influencer who is also known for having mothered a child with Elon Musk in 2023. She is a college student. She is 27.
For the last few months, St. Clair has been posting to TikTok about her escape or exile from the MAGA carnies. She sums it up this way: “I became a cringe…
A Republican candidate for Congress in New Mexico is running on a platform shaped by a megachurch that condemns same-sex relationships, rejects transgender identities, and calls abortion murder.
Greg Cunningham, backed by former President Donald Trump, has cast his campaign in explicitly ideological terms. Cunningham has called advancing the national Republican agenda his “number one…
Following the decision, Democrats are calling for Congress to pass new federal voting rights legislation, but President Donald Trump would likely veto it. Others are urging more radical changes, including expanding the size of the Supreme Court.