Monthly Archives: June 2016

Dem US House Rep. Filemon Vela To Trump: You Can Take Your Racist Border Wall And Shove It Up Your Ass

The Hill reports: A Hispanic House Democrat who represents a Texas district bordering Mexico tore into Donald Trump’s attacks on a Mexican-American judge, calling them blatantly racist. Rep. Filemon Vela didn’t mince words in a lengthy open letter to the presumptive GOP presidential nominee on Monday. “Mr. Trump, you’re a racist and you can take your border wall and shove …

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Nutjob Dilbert Cartoonist Scott Adams: I’m Endorsing Hillary Because I Might Be Assassinated If I Don’t

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says he is endorsing Hillary Clinton because her supporters might murder him if he doesn’t. And he’s “100% serious” about that. He writes: If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate …

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American Family Association: Don’t Fund HIV/AIDS Research, Just Tell Gays To Stop Having Sex [VIDEO]

The AFA is ever so unhappy with President Obama’s recent Pride Month proclamation, which included mention of his administration’s work to reduce new HIV infections. Via Miranda Blue at Right Wing Watch: In the video, AFA’s president, Tim Wildmon, it’s executive vice president, Ed Vitagliano, and Abe Hamilton, a public policy analyst, discuss the proclamation while standing in the group’s …

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President Obama To Endorse Hillary Clinton

From the New York Times: President Obama, after months of sitting on the sidelines of the rancorous contest to succeed him, is now ready to aggressively campaign for Hillary Clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her candidacy as early as this week. The White House is in active conversations with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign about how and where the president …

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Buzzfeed Cancels $1.3M GOP Ad Deal Over Trump: We Don’t Take Ads For Unhealthy Cigarettes Either

Politico reports: BuzzFeed has pulled out of advertising agreement with the Republican National Committee over objections to Donald Trump’s rhetoric. The buy was for $1.3 million, a source close to BuzzFeed told POLITICO. The source said that the main consideration was the site’s employees – that BuzzFeed could not countenance “having employees make ads, or working at the company and …

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Bill Donohue: The New York Daily News Hates Catholics

The New York Daily News has been absolutely relentless in blasting the Catholic Church for its dogged opposition to reforming child abuse laws. And as usual, Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue is screaming. He writes today: The Daily News stooped to a new low yesterday when it assigned reporters to interview the faithful as they exited St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and …

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ABBA Performs Together For First Time In 30 Years

The Independent reports: Look who’s back – ABBA reunited on stage last night to celebrate Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson’s 50th anniversary as friends. The four musicians celebrated by throwing a private party in Stockholm, with an exclusive guest list. And they’ve almost broken the internet – with the majority of fans waiting with bated breath for video footage of …

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ALABAMA: Roy Moore’s Hate Group Thinks Roy Moore Should Be Nominated To Replace Antonin Scalia

The Foundation For Moral Law, the anti-LGBT hate group now headed by the wife of suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, thinks Moore would be an excellent choice for the open seat on the US Supreme Court. From the op-ed linked to by the FML on their Facebook page: Once again, Judge Roy Moore has been removed from …

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BRITAIN: “Leave” Side Takes Lead In New Brexit Polls

Reuters reports: The campaign for Britain to leave the European Union has taken a 4-5 percentage point lead ahead of a June 23 referendum, according to online polls by ICM and YouGov, sending sterling toward three-week lows against the U.S. dollar. The swing toward “Out” with less than three weeks to go comes as both sides step up their campaigning …

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Hillary Slams Trump’s Racism In New Ad [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign unveiled its latest ad against Donald Trump on Monday, highlighting comments from notable Republicans publicly rebuking their party’s presumptive nominee for his comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel. The video opens with a clip of Trump’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper last Friday in which the Manhattan real-estate magnate rejected the notion that his criticism of …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Accounts Get Hacked

At least they didn’t get his Facebook account. Via Gizmodo: First the hackers came for Katy Perry. Now they’ve come for someone who should know better than to use the same password on multiple sites: Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out he’s as dumb as the rest of us. Zuck’s Twitter and Pinterest (though, crucially, not Facebook) accounts were hacked over the …

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Bob The Drag Queen Promotes PrEP [VIDEO]

Via Pink News: The newest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bob the Drag Queen, is urging people to take the anti-HIV medication, PrEP. The Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada can reduce people’s chances of being infected with HIV by up to 99 percent, if taken daily. In the latest HIV Beats video by the #endHIV campaign, Bob says: “Oh hey! …

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Janet Porter Flops With “Nationwide” Target Protests

Anti-LGBT activist Janet Porter flopped with ReaganBook, she flopped in her bid for the Ohio Senate, and this weekend she flopped again as it appears that only a handful of Target stores saw protesters for her “nationwide” event on Saturday. At this writing I’m only finding news accounts of protests at three of Target’s 1782 locations. Two of those protests …

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NEW YORK CITY: Child Abuse Survivors March Across Brooklyn Bridge In Support Of Reform Bill

Yesterday openly gay New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman (white shirt) led a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of his bill to reform the statute of limitations on child abuse. From the New York Daily News: More than 200 advocates for reform of the state’s statute of limitations on claims of child sexual abuse marched across the Brooklyn …

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John Oliver Forgives $15M In Medical Debt [VIDEO]

TIME reports: The debt-buying industry has lead to some unscrupulous practices among debt collectors and debt collection proceedings are clogging up courts across the country with lawsuits, the vast majority of which go unanswered. Many debt collectors also seem to have little respect for consumers and simply do whatever is necessary to make more money. So Oliver did the only …

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David French: I’m Not Running For President

In his own words at the National Review: Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States. I gave it serious thought — as a pretty darn obscure lawyer, writer, and veteran — …

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Hillary Wins Puerto Rico Primary [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, putting her within striking distance of capturing her party’s nomination. After a blowout victory Saturday in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a decisive win in the U.S. territory, Clinton is now less than 30 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the …

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Sanders To Backers: Please, No More Violence [VIDEO]

From the Washington Post: Bernie Sanders made a direct appeal to supporters in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” imploring them not to engage in violence after a week in which protesters — some apparently loyal to the Democratic underdog — attacked Donald Trump backers in California. “Any person who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, …

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Trump Adds Muslim Judges To “Unfair” List [VIDEO]

Via the Guardian: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has said “it’s possible” that Muslim judges, in addition to Hispanic jurists, would be biased against him and thus ineligible to oversee any case involving him. Democrats and Republicans alike have rebuked Trump for his insistence that a federal judge, an American citizen since his birth to Mexican immigrants in Indiana, is …

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President Obama Marks 35th Anniversary Of HIV/AIDS: Today We Call The Names Of Those We’ve Lost

Via White House press release: On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on what would later be understood as the first documented cases of AIDS. The past 35 years tell a story that bends from uncertainty, fear, and loss toward resilience, innovation, and hope. We’ve learned that stigma and silence don’t just fuel …

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