Pastor Carl Gallups, best known for his declaration that President Obama is the Anti-Christ and for his regular predictions that God is about kill the fuck out of all humanity, wants police departments to threaten Target managers with arrest for abiding with the company’s restroom policy. Via Right Wing Watch: Bragging that he is a “sworn special deputy” in Arizona …

Donald Trump was the headliner today at the Faith & Freedom Coalition convention in Washington DC, where, speaking from a teleprompter, he threw anti-gay red meat to the gathered evangelicals by vowing to “uphold marriage and family as the building blocks of society.” And even at this event, there were protesters. Via Talking Points Memo: Donald Trump’s speech was disrupted …

From the Dallas Morning News: An officer-involved shooting prompted a lockdown Friday afternoon at Dallas Love Field Airport. Video posted on Instagram shows officers responding about 12:20 p.m. with their guns drawn. Several shots can be heard as authorities yelled for someone to stay down. The suspect was taken to a hospital. The video does not show that any officers …

Homocon Peter Thiel is probably doing cartwheels in his mansion. Via the Hollywood Reporter: Gawker Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a Florida judge issued a $140 million final judgment in favor of Hulk Hogan in the invasion-of-privacy lawsuit over the posting of a sex tape. The online news organization founded in 2003 by Nick Denton which now …

From the New York Post: Lifelong Republican David Goss, 35, was hanging out with his conservative friends in February when he came up with the idea of TrumpSingles.com, a dating website for supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Goss’ female pal, who’s a die-hard Trump fan, told him that when she revealed her political leanings to a male Hillary …

Via Politico: Even evangelicals should pray for President Barack Obama, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said at a gathering of religious conservatives on Friday. “You know, I think we are called to pray. We are called to pray for our country, for our leaders, and yes, even our president,” Perdue said during the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to the Majority …

From the Desert Sun: Richard Grenell, a Palm Springs resident, Trump delegate and Fox News contributor, is behind a series of ads this week targeting Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gun-control measure that’s expected to land on the November ballot. The ads were created by a new group calling itself the Coalition for Civil Liberties and are unique in who they …

Big story from USA Today: Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work. At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by …

From the Washington Post: Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton will meet privately Friday morning, according to two knowledgeable Democrats. The sit-down, coming just hours after the Massachusetts senator formally endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, will fuel speculation about her prospects as a potential vice presidential pick. The women have had several conversations over the past month, including one that lasted …

For real. Via Yahoo News: Auditions are being held this weekend to play Martin Shkreli in a upcoming musical about the infamous millionaire, hoverboard-riding pharma bro called “Martin Shkreli’s Game.” “Remember when the internet thought that Bill Murray could legally steal back the $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, from that pharma bro Martin Shkreli? …

So this happened yesterday. Via TMZ: President Obama got in the way of potential true love when the people protecting him opened a can of whoop ass on an unsuspecting NYC bicyclist. Daniel Provencio, 59, tells us he was hot to trot for a blind date — pumping “Call Me Maybe” through his headphones — when NYC cops tackled him …

Sure he does. Via Politico: Donald Trump is ready for a general-election fight with Elizabeth Warren. “Pocahontas is at it again! Goofy Elizabeth Warren, one of the least productive U.S. Senators, has a nasty mouth. Hope she is V.P. choice,” Trump tweeted Friday morning, hours after Warren assailed the presumptive Republican nominee during a speech at the American Constitution Society, …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Mel Gibson and writer Randall Wallace are working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christ that will tell the story of the resurrection of Jesus, Wallace tells The Hollywood Reporter. Wallace, nominated for an Academy Award for scripting Gibson’s 1995 best picture Oscar winner Braveheart, on Thursday (reluctantly) confirmed rumors that he has begun to …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Even as another Democratic state lawmaker called for an investigation of a campaign donation given by Donald Trump to Attorney General Pam Bondi, questions arose Wednesday about who would conduct such a probe. State Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice to look into the matter. “There …

USA Today reports: President Obama told gay rights activists Thursday that they need to be vigilant to continue the progress they’ve made over the last eight years of his presidency. “Together we’ve proven that change is possible, that progress is possible,” he told a reception for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists at a White House reception — the eighth …

Just Jared reports: Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley show off their singing voices alongside Barbra Streisand on the A Chorus Line song “At the Ballet” for the legend’s new Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway album. The song can now be streamed on Spotify and it is available for download on iTunes! The full album is available for pre-order right now …

The Daily Beast recaps: Back in April 2012, President Obama made his first ever appearance on NBC’s talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at UNC-Chapel Hill. There, the commander in chief and the musically inclined funnyman channeled their inner Al Greens and slow-jammed the news, pressing Congress to stop interest rate hikes on Stafford student loans. Obama returned to …

NBC News reports: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a hero to liberal progressives ideologically aligned with Bernie Sanders’ anti-Wall Street rhetoric, endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Thursday night on MSNBC’s the Rachel Maddow Show. “I’m ready. I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United …

WOW. CBS News reports: Speaking at a judicial conference in D.C. on Thursday night, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren unleashed one of her strongest attacks yet on presumptive GOP nominee and “wannabe tyrant” Donald Trump over his rhetoric on judges — and his troubles over Trump University. “Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for …

Yesterday a federal court issued a permanent injunction barring Alabama officials from defying the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. This afternoon Roy Moore’s Foundation For Moral Law issued a typical response. Via press release: Foundation President Kayla Moore noted, “Judge Granade’s jurisdiction extends over only the Southern District of Alabama. She has no authority to bind officials in other parts …