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Via John Wright at Lone Star Q: A state district judge in Houston has ordered the city to stop providing benefits to the same-sex spouses of employees, but city officials say the decision will have no impact because a federal judge has already ruled that the benefits must remain in place. State District Judge Lisa Millard issued a temporary restraining …

Via press release from the ACLU: Today, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle denied a motion filed by the ACLU of Florida asking the court to quickly lift the stay that had been placed on the Court’s decision striking down Florida’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples, and denied a motion by the state to extend the stay until the appeals …

Via the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Denying Missouri’s gay couples the opportunity to marry is unconstitutional, a judge ruled this afternoon. As a result, St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison said in his decision, marriage licenses can be issued. “The Court finds and declares that any same sex couple that satisfies all the requirements for marriage under Missouri law, other …

1. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia 2. Barack Obama, President of the US 3. Xi Jinping, President of China 4. Pope Francis, Head of the Roman Catholic Church 5. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 6. Janet Yellen, Chair, Federal Reserve System 7. Bill Gates, Co-chair, Gates Foundation 8. Mario Draghi, President of European Central Bank 9. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google 10. David Cameron, UK Prime …

Via Stereogum: Way back in January, before we’ knew anything at all about Ultraviolence beyond its title, Lana Del Rey’s eerie cover of the Disney classic “Once Upon A Dream” appeared in the trailer for Maleficent on Grammys night. Now the song from the trailer, which is actually a remix by Young Ruffian, has its own video built entirely out …

(Tipped by JMG reader Irish Atheist)

Sen. Rand Paul has created a series of Facebook posts showing every losing Democrat endorsed by Hillary Clinton. And you thought this was all Obama’s fault.

Scandal-plagued homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio held a press conference this morning where he declined to declared victory on his 752-vote lead. As about 180,000 provisional, absentee, and mail-in ballots remain to be counted statewide, DeMaio said, “It’s been a really exhausting campaign, what’s a few more days?” Despite no winner having been declared, multiple right wing sites are …