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Nate Silver, the gay man who saved the sanity of millions of progressives during the 2012 election, is moving to ESPN. ESPN bought the FiveThirtyEight site and name outright, which differs from the New York Times’ current licensing deal, Silver said. Skipper described ESPN’s partnership with Silver as a “long-term, multi-year” deal; the purchase price was not disclosed. Silver said …

From his press release: Dr. Robert Garcia, the Vice Mayor of Long Beach, California, has announced that he is running for Mayor in a YouTube announcement released last week. Over 5500 people have already seen the video announcement. Dr. Garcia has served on the City Council for 4 years, and was elected Vice Mayor in 2012. He is 35, a …

Last week members of the Satanic Temple held the above ritual at the family gravesite for the Phelps family.  Mississippi cops say arrests are coming. “Meridian Police have reached out and spoken to Mr. Arlinghaus of Magnolia Cemetery,” says Captain Dean Harper of the Meridian Police Department. “We are in the process now of constructing affidavits and warrants against these …

Chris Geidner has the breaking news at Buzzfeed: A federal judge in Ohio ordered state officials Monday to recognize the marriage of two men that was performed in Maryland on the death certificate of an Ohio resident in hospice care who the judge says “is certain to die soon.” “The end result here and now is that the local Ohio …

LaGuardia is shut down while emergency vehicles respond to a Southwest jet that landed without its nose gear.  Passengers on other planes say they saw flames during the skid, but there are no reported injuries so far. Passengers are exiting via emergency chutes at this writing.

Suffolk County police have charged four males in the hate crime assault of two gay men in Babylon, Long Island. The four suspects were walking down Deer Park Avenue in Babylon around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, when they asked two men for directions to the train station, according to Suffolk County police. They went on to punch, kick and shove the …