Back in February, I reported that Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano had penned a coming book. From the Penguin Random House press release: Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney—a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life—in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and driven from home, Forney was the heart …
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The Hill reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in Texas, fulfilling one of his campaign’s main targets ahead of November. Kennedy and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, turned in 245,572 signatures to the Texas Secretary of State’s office on Monday, more than double the number required …
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“Debbie Birx ought to be on trial to be hung by her bedazzled scarf. Charlatan, fraud, liar, quack, evildoer, but I repeat myself — who, of course, made sure to have Thanksgiving with her family during lockdowns while you couldn’t have it with yours. “You were 1,067 percent higher likely to die from the jab than — or suffer a …
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ABC News reports: Donald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in a Miami federal prison. Navarro, the former Trump White House adviser, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump Jr. confirmed the visit to …
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The Washington Post reports: Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice. Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute …
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From the New York Times‘ live-blog: Jonathan Swan May 13, 2024, 12:48 p.m. ET Michael Cohen says that Trump explicitly told him they needed to do whatever they could to suppress Stormy Daniels’s story until at least after the election, because it wouldn’t matter at that point. Maggie Haberman May 13, 2024, 12:50 p.m. ET Cohen also recalls asking Trump …
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The New York Times reports: Representative Ruben Gallego, running unopposed in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona, placed a reservation on Monday for $19 million in television advertisements for the general election this fall, according to his campaign — the largest any Senate candidate in the country has made so far. Come fall, Mr. Gallego is likely to …
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From the New Hampshire Justice Department: Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the United States District Court in Arizona has denied Avid Telecom’s multiple attempts to dismiss and delay a bipartisan, 49-state lawsuit against the company Michael D. Lansky, L.L.C., dba Avid Telecom, as well as its owner Michael D. Lansky and its vice president Stacey S. Reeves. Forty-nine …
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“First of all, I’m disappointed in the courtroom. I’m hearing, ‘Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump.’ He is former President Trump. Give him some respect. I mean, that’s what that place is in there. It’s no respect. Here is what I’m seeing, too. It is depressing. That courtroom is depressing. This is New York City. The icon of our country, and we …
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Axios reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake is making her first major advertising move in her 2024 Senate campaign, Axios has learned. Lake’s campaign plans to reserve $10 million in ads for the fall, a source familiar with the plans told Axios. That spending will start with a statewide $675,000 ad buy for May, which will focus on immigration and the …
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