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The Huffington Post recaps: Bill Maher ripped into the GOP’s policy of cutting taxes for the rich on Friday night. The “Real Time with Bill Maher“ host said the state of California was proof that doing the reverse, and instead raising taxes on the most wealthy, could actually lead to a booming economy. The comedian gloated about how The Golden …

JMG reader Gerard tips us to the below speech from legendary Irish activist Panti Bliss, who this week headlined ILGA-Europe’s Equality Gala in Brussels. Watch as Panti speaks stirringly about homophobia and the Orlando massacre. A key quote: “I’ve never been to Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, but that doesn’t matter because I know it like the back of my …

Hate group leader Tony Perkins is ever so pissed that “intolerant liberals” have a problem with legalized discrimination. He writes: While most Mississippians were getting ready for bed, Judge Carlton Reeves’s office was buzzing. The controversial judge, responsible for striking down the state’s marriage amendment, was busy working on an encore. Under the cloak of darkness, he released a 60-page …

NBC News reports: A Hillary Clinton supporter will have a chance to give a speech on stage at the Democratic National Convention later this month to formally nominate Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee, an honor typically reserved for Democratic officials. Clinton’s campaign is holding a contest to select the supporter, who will be flown to Philadelphia to speak at …

Mississippi News Now reports: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he doesn’t know if his office will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that blocked a state law dealing with religious objections to gay marriage. Hood is the only Democrat in statewide office, and his staff had defended the law that was passed by the Republican-majority Legislature and signed by a …

YouTube’s viral Liberal Redneck (a real-life comedian named Trae Crowder) is back with his take on Trump supporters who want to make America white again. As always, I won’t give away the best lines with a recap. Just watch below.

The US Navy Office of Community Outreach sent us two emails today noting the recent celebration of LGBT Pride Month aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which upon its launch in 2001 was the first-ever ship named for a then-still living former US president. The photo above is captioned: PHILIPPINE SEA (June 25, 2016) Yeoman 2nd Class (SW/AW) …

From the Wall Street Journal: The owner of online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims. Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating …

Splodey heads! Via Mediaite: Former future Vice President and current Donald Trump-backer Sarah Palin was at her verbal slap-chopping best Friday afternoon as she appeared at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado to stump for the real estate mogul. The former Alaska governor showed true frontier resourcefulness when she decided to just use made-up words when she ran out …

Today Gawker published a claim from an unnamed source that resurrects long-running speculation that Donald Trump’s erratic behavior is fueled by an addiction to prescription diet pills. From their piece: According to our source, the Donald Trump of today is on a diet drug called phentermine—and has been since at least April of 2014. Phentermine first gained notoriety in the …