February 14, 2025 Covidiots, Crackpots
Time Magazine reports: In an interview just hours after his confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlined his priorities in response to specific prompts by Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “It’s MAHA time” read a chyron as Kennedy joined the program, later changing to “MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!” Kennedy said, “I’m not going to take …
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February 14, 2025 Homocons, Trump Administration
Christopher Wiggins reports at The Advocate: The Kennedy Center has quietly removed a highly anticipated National Symphony Orchestra concert celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride from its website, intensifying fears that federally affiliated cultural institutions could be the next battleground in President Donald Trump’s war on the LGBTQ+ community. The event, “A Peacock Among Pigeons: Celebrating 50 Years of Pride,” was scheduled for …
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February 13, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: The final season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” will premiere on Hulu on April 8. Three episodes of the dystopian drama will drop at once, followed by weekly episodes until the series finale on May 27. Elisabeth Moss’ protagonist June Osborne narrates a teaser trailer for the final season, saying, “They believed that these garments that they put on our …
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February 13, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
NBC News reports: A group of 14 states sued Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Thursday, arguing that the authority the White House granted the tech billionaire and his advisory DOGE is unconstitutional. The suit, filed by Democratic attorneys general takes aim at the magnitude and scale of Musk’s power, noting that DOGE has led the Trump administration’s efforts …
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February 13, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“Let me try to break this down for you, because I know that some of these concepts are a little complicated. We know that high taxes disincentivizes work — why work more if the government takes more? Whereas a tariff disincentivizes consumption, so — ‘I have to pay for this, maybe I won’t eat as much.’ So, isn’t the international …
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February 13, 2025 Crime, New York City
The New York Post reports: Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and telling people to lie to the FBI, a letter obtained by The Post reveals. The letter sent by Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her post Thursday rather than obey an order from President Trump’s Justice Department …
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February 13, 2025 Crime, Religion
Charlotte’s Queen City News reports: A former Caldwell County pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday after being convicted for possessing child pornography. According to court documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in April 2023, law enforcement identified a Dropbox account belonging to 53-year-old Ashley Crouse, then a pastor at a church in Caldwell County, had videos containing child …
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February 13, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Daily Beast reports: Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump seemed oblivious to McConnell’s history with polio. “I don’t know anything about ‘he had polio’,” Trump said. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins proceeded to ask the president, “Are you doubting that he had polio?” Trump responded with a rant against McConnell. “I have no idea if he had polio. All …
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February 13, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Trump administration officials at the Pentagon invited a far-right activist, Jack Posobiec, to participate in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first trip overseas, triggering alarm among U.S. defense officials worried about the military being dragged into partisan warfare. News of Posobiec’s invitation circulated among U.S. officials in Washington and in Europe ahead of Hegseth’s visit this week …
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February 13, 2025 LGBT History, Trump Administration
From the National Park Service’s newly updated entry about New York City’s Stonewall Monument: Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Located in Greenwich Village, …
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