Sen. Marco Rubio today vowed that he will vote against the immigration reform bill that he co-authored if the amendment allowing gay US citizens to sponsor their foreign partners is not removed. “If this bill has something in it that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill. I’m done,” Rubio said Thursday during an interview …

Last week Florida resident Gloria Mackenzie, 84, came forward as the $590M winner of the largest individual lottery jackpot prize in US history.  According to the British tabloid Daily Mail, Mackenzie is going to share the jackpot with her 57 year-old son Scott, who lives in Jacksonville with his partner Jerry, age 65. Gloria, whose husband Ralph died in 2005, …

The Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday awarded $3.5M to activist Chaim Levin, who sued his cousin for childhood sexual abuse. Levin is also a plaintiff in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s pending lawsuit against JONAH, a New Jersey-based Jewish “ex-gay” organization. The New York Daily News reports on yesterday’s win: Chaim Levin, now 24, claimed in a Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit …

The Tampa Bay Times and the Center For Investigative Reporting have collaborated on a expose’ they have titled America’s Worst Charities.  Fifty groups are examined and the full list is at the link.  CNN opens their report today with this: The worst charity in America operates from a metal warehouse behind a gas station in Holiday, Florida. Every year, Kids …

Ricky Martin’s new single leaked out last night. The below clip cuts off the beginning by a few seconds, but you can listen to a higher quality full version on Soundcloud.  Sounds like a big summer club hit to me.

Today was a rare Thursday release of rulings by the Supreme Court, but there were no decisions on the pending same-sex marriage cases. So now we’re down to the next two Mondays left in the month. CORRECTION: SCOTUSblog has posted an addendum on today’s live blog noting that there will likely be at least one more special release day this …

Film synopsis: “Terms And Conditions May Apply examines the cost of so-called ‘free’ services and the continuing disappearance of online privacy. People may think they know what they give up when they click ‘I Agree’ on companies like Facebook and Google. They’re wrong.”

From yesterday’s official Facebook blog: Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you’ll see a feed of what other people …

“President Obama is continuing his war on free speech. With the IRS trying to intimidate and silence conservative groups, and the Justice Department digging into the phone records of reporters, it’s no surprise that the president also wants to deny First Amendment rights to our Armed Forces. With its statement, the White House is now endorsing military reprimands of members …

Tell us about your hobbies. Are you a collector, a gardener, a flea market hound?

By a party line vote of 17-15 yesterday the Wisconsin state Senate approved a bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion so that “they know they are killing a live baby.”  Democrats demanded further debate but GOP Senate President Mike Ellis screamed, “The vote is non-debatable!” as he broke his gavel. According the Associated Press, the microphone …

“So I got invited to model for this guy (potentially NSFW) last week, and I just now got the proofs back from him. He shoots mostly guys, and he’s got some ‘questionable’ people interested in his work, so I was actually a little worried he might, you know, try to pull my pants off and choke me to death with …

Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Steve)

The press materials stress that this is a “follow-up” and not a sequel to 2006’s unintentionally homoerotic gore-fest. That’s because the action occurs “before, during, and after” what took place in the first film. The release date is March 2014.

“They brought a woman that had been to all the witch doctors and all the magic soothsayers and whatever she could do to get healed because she had breast cancer. As she was standing in the crowd, the power of God came all over her and she grew a brand new breast. Right after that, they brought two more people …

260,000 “likes” on Facebook. (Via JMG reader Aaron)

Via Buzzfeed: Sen. Jeff Flake’s high school–aged son Tanner used Twitter to threaten the “faggot” who stole his bike that he “will find you, and … will beat the crap out of you,” joked about an acquaintance stealing one-liners because he’s Jewish, and went by the name “n1ggerkiller” in an online game. “I’m very disappointed in my teenage son’s words, …

According to Breitbart, Maher referred to Palin’s “retarded” son during a stand-up performance in Las Vegas earlier this week. While “libtard” is probably the second-most common epithet in Teabagistan (after an infinite number of racist variations on the president’s name), they are all calling for Maher’s head over this.

The American Family Association is dying to know. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan)