Joe.My.God. LGBT News

First, some background via the Daily Beast: In April 2022, Pensacola-based attorney Autumn Beck Blackledge approached then-Rep. Matt Gaetz with a “very, very important question” from one of her clients, Tiger King star Joe Exotic, who in 2019 was convicted of 17 counts of animal abuse and attempted murder for hire. “If you do decide to run for president, would …

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports: A suspect is in custody accused of fatally stabbing three people across three different locations in unprovoked attacks in Manhattan on Monday morning, the NYPD said. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is raising questions about why the suspect, who has a history of mental health concerns and arrests, was on the streets. Police …

The Hill reports: Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to private investigators. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, argued that the FBI has access to information gathered by law …

Courthouse News reports: In a pair of cases that may foreshadow the targeted deregulation of federal agencies under President-elect Donald Trump, a panel of judges at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday about the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board. The separate but similar cases were filed by Amazon after the NLRB accused the company of …

NBC News reports: A Wyoming judge ruled Monday that two laws restricting and banning abortion in the state violate its constitution, making the procedure legal up until fetal viability for the time being. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens imposed an injunction on the pair of state laws in a ruling that said they ran afoul of the state constitution, …

The New York Times reports: In his private conversations over the past few days, President-elect Donald J. Trump has admitted that his besieged choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, has less than even odds of being confirmed by the Senate. But Mr. Trump has shown no sign of withdrawing the nomination, which speaks volumes about his mind-set as he staffs …

“There are plenty of individuals as committed as Kennedy to making America healthy again, without the world view of a privileged, hedonistic, serial adulterer, abortion advocate whose overall world view is progressivism tinged with hedonistic contrarianism. Kennedy is not a skeptic. He is a professional contrarian. His views on vaccines overall are not grounded in science. He has repeatedly been …

Austin’s CBS affiliate reports: The State Board of Education heard more than 8 hours of public testimony on Monday on whether to approve a new statewide curriculum. The “Bluebonnet Learning” curriculum would incorporate Bible lessons in kindergarten through fifth grade in public schools. Testimony is expected to resume Tuesday morning. A months-long debate over the new curriculum culminated in tense …

Politico reports: Democratic-aligned health care advocacy groups are putting together a strategy to fight Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be HHS secretary. During an organizing call on Monday, the details of which have not been reported publicly, more than 200 people from several dozen of those groups, along with other advocacy organizations, discussed strategies to oppose Kennedy’s nomination. That …

The Daily Beast reports: The lawyer for two women who testified to the House Ethics Committee that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid them for “sexual favors” said Monday that one of the forms in which they were paid was the PayPal of Nestor Galban, whom Gaetz calls his “adopted son.” Florida attorney Joel Leppard embarked on a media tour Monday, …