Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The Associated Press reports: Three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under 19. Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington. The attorneys general of Oregon and Minnesota, and three doctors, also joined as plaintiffs. The complaint …

NBC News reports: San Francisco officials filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration, arguing Trump’s executive orders that promise to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and prosecute local law enforcement officials who refuse to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts are unconstitutional. The suit, co-led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County officials, comes as the …

Media Matters reports: Fox continues to spread the false claim that immigrants with criminal records are the only people at risk of deportation in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation blitz, this time on Fox’s Spanish-language news show. Host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked her guest, Texas Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland, if it was correct that the current deportation efforts exclusively target “criminals, murderers, …

Axios reports: President Trump said on Friday that there is “no rush” moving forward with his “Gaza takeover” plan, which he also described as a “real estate transaction” between America and Israel.  “The U.S. would view it as a real estate transaction. We will be an investor in this part of the world. No rush to do anything,” he said. Trump …

Reuters reports: One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as “Special Advisor to the Director” at the Office of Personnel Management, which has been spearheading Musk’s efforts to shrink the …

First, there was this bizarre exchange: Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked President Donald Trump about Elon Musk declaring his “straight man” love for him. Doocy asked Trump what First Lady Melania Trump thought of Musk declaring his “straight man” love for the president. DOOCY: Elon Musk says I love Donald Trump as mush as a straight man …

Memphis’s NBC affiliate reports: A Bartlett man is behind bars indicted on rape charges. John Miller, a former youth volunteer at Hope Church, is charged with rape of a child—a class-A felony. According to the indictment, the crime allegedly occurred in 2006; the case was presented to a grand jury last month. Hope Church says all its volunteers must undergo repeated …

The Heartland Signal reports: At the start of the new legislative session, a group of North Dakota legislators put forward a potentially unconstitutional resolution that would have the state “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ.” “Whereas, the founding fathers of this great state begin the constitution with the words, ‘We’, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God … …

The Associated Press reports: All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after the detection of seven cases of avian flu, which has also hit farms nationwide, led to the slaughter of millions of birds and driven up egg prices. Gov. Kathy Hochul said there is no …

The CBC reports: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada “is a real thing.” “Mr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing.” Trudeau said. The prime minister made the …