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Scott Walker isn’t due to formally announce his candidacy until Monday, but yesterday afternoon his team fired out the above tweet. The tweet was deleted after brief firestorm of questions across Twitter.

Nebraska’s lone renegade county clerk has backed down. Sioux County Clerk Michelle Zimmerman was on vacation and unavailable for comment, but Deputy Clerk JoElla Norman said Friday that somebody in the office will issue a same-sex license if requested. Zimmerman was the only one out of 93 county clerks in Nebraska who said she would not issue a license in …

Via The Wrap: Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou guard the last humans on the planet after breathable air becomes non-existent in the new trailer for “Air,” a science fiction film produced by “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman. In the trailer, the actors play two engineers tasked with protecting humans in air-tight coffins who are the “last remnants of human civilization.” …

Via press release from Brian Brown: Sen. Rick Santorum gave the keynote address to NOM’s Second Annual Marriage Gala in Washington, DC on July 2nd. Sen. Santorum ripped the US Supreme Court for their illegitimate ruling and pledged as president to work to reverse it, saying “this will not stand,” bringing the crowd of nearly 400 people to their feet. …

Some YouTube commenters don’t think he really answered the question regarding “evolutionary sense.”

Earlier this week the Liberty Counsel issued a 33-page brief to the Alabama Supreme Court which declares that they can defy Obergefell.

Via Politico: This week, HarperCollins, the book’s publisher, sent a letter to The New York Times inquiring about Cruz’s omission from the list, sources with knowledge of the situation said. The Times responded by telling HarperCollins that the book did not meet their criteria for inclusion. “We have uniform standards that we apply to our best seller list, which includes …

Via the SPLC: This is a condensed version of a sworn video deposition presented at a June 2015 trial in New Jersey: Ferguson v. JONAH. Conversion therapy provider JONAH offered Hoffman as a “success story” witness claiming that conversion therapy works to change sexual orientation from gay to straight. A jury unanimously decided that JONAH is liable for consumer fraud …

Yesterday Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear personally told Casey County Clerk Casey Davis to issue marriage licenses or resign. On Monday a state court will hear the ACLU’s lawsuit against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. All of the renegade Kentucky clerks face possible jail time. Via the Associated Press: “The rest of the county court clerks are complying with the law …

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Some same-sex marriage opponents argue that under state religious-freedom laws, a government employee’s beliefs should be accommodated so long as another official is available to carry out the task. But government employees do not have a constitutionally protected right to pick and choose which members of the public they will serve, …

Via Radar Online: Those dirty Duggars! The conservative Christian clan has been hiding another shocking sex secret from fans for years. RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that Amy Duggar’s dad— and patriarch Jim Bob’s brother-in-law— Terry Jordan, 52, was once accused of infecting a woman with genital herpes in a bitter lawsuit. In Washington County court documents uncovered by Radar, an …

“It’s unprecedented in American history that the president of the United States would be so in-your-face immoral and impose that immorality and sin on the rest of the country. I wept when I saw that and thought about what a horrible example that is to the rest of the world. I just felt shameful to be an American at that …

Lupone talked to the New York Times: “This woman — a very pretty young woman — was sitting with her boyfriend or husband. We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. We talked about it at intermission. When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, …

Standing ovation! Get the tissues! (Tipped by JMG reader Pope Buck)

He followed this up by retweeting a rainbow flag with a swastika.

The BBC reports: Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his roles in classic films Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has died aged 83. Egypt-born Sharif won two Golden Globe awards and an Oscar nomination for his role as Sherif Ali in David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia. He won a further Golden Globe three years later for Doctor …

There was a huge roar from the crowd when a squad of South Carolina state troopers marched out. Chants of “USA! USA!” followed when one of the troopers began turning the crank to lower the flag. UPDATE: Breitbart columnist reacts.

Politico reports: Donald Trump is still not sure whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that aired Thursday night, the Republican presidential candidate said he was not that interested in talking about the issue, compared to other ones. Honestly, I don’t want to get into it,” Trump said. Asked whether …