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“Alright, so it’s Pride Month. Anybody know who this guy is? He’s a big icon in the gay community. Harvey Milk — I have heard of him, largely because there was a movie called Harvey Milk that starred James Franco as Harvey Milk. [Franco played Milk’s boyfriend.] “He was a gay rights activist in San Francisco. He was eventually murdered. …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson spent several minutes during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Wednesday morning pushing back on Musk and trying to reassure Republicans after Musk signaled that he thinks lawmakers who support the megabill should be ousted next year, according to three people in the room granted anonymity to describe the private meeting. Johnson told his …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: Kent State University is closing its LGBTQ+ Center, Women’s Center and Student Multicultural Center because of a new state law banning diversity efforts that is set to take effect at the end of the month. Kent State’s LBGTQ+ Living-Learning Community will cease to exist because of Senate Bill 1 going into effect, according to a …

The Hill reports: Allies of President Trump are attempting a takeover of the D.C. Bar Association as voting ends Wednesday in the election to lead the prestigious organization. The two-way race for president is between Diane Seltzer and Brad Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi. It comes at a moment of heightened tension between the White House and …

Mediaite reports: Reacting on Jesse Watters Primetime to model Livvy Dunne’s split at the end of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit runway show this past weekend, Fox News host Julie Banderas remarked, “This was a great strip show, I thought. I mean, did you see what they weren’t wearing?” Watters then declared, “Remember back in the Biden era, all of the …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk continued his rampage against Donald Trump’s spending bill on Tuesday night, setting the stage for an ugly showdown with the president’s faithful. “Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America!” he wrote, sharing a graphic depicting rising national debt over the past three decades. “ENOUGH,” he added. He also responded with a “100″ emoji to an …

Axios reports: Butterworth’s, the MAGA-favorite watering hole on Capitol Hill, is partnering with the Kennedy Center and will offer discounts to some of its customers, according to plans first shared with Axios. The deal is the latest sign of MAGA’s growing entrenchment in the Washington cultural scene, and comes as the Kennedy Center faces backlash for President Trump’s takeover of …

“Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about. Deport.” – New York City Council member Vickie Paladino, above a 2019 tweet …

Mediaite reports: While railing against the bill on Tuesday, Musk shared a post from an X user slamming the GOP and replied, “In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.” The Tesla billionaire’s call to remove the entire House GOP, except for Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH), came after he called the …

“This is really interesting because the last time Laura Loomer, at least the last known time, I should say, that she was here at the White House, there were significant events that came after. One is she came to talk to President Donald Trump personally and essentially told him, urged him, really, to fire a number of people she deemed …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Elon Musk is “terribly wrong” after the tech billionaire blasted the GOP megabill as a “disgusting abomination.” “With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill,” Johnson told reporters. Johnson said he discussed with Musk the accelerated repeal of many green subsidies in the House …

The Daily Beast reports: The State Department’s chief of protocol said Tuesday she expects parade-goers to serenade President Donald Trump with a rendition of “Happy Birthday” this month. Monica Crowley, a former Fox News pundit whom Trump appointed, admitted on Steve Bannon’s podcast Tuesday that the Washington parade on June 14, officially to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. …

Military.com reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show. Military.com reviewed a memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy — the official who holds the power to name Navy ships — that showed …

The Washington Post reports: Elon Musk on Tuesday called President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation making its way through Congress “pork-filled” and “a disgusting abomination.” Musk, who recently left his cost-cutting role in Trump’s administration, issued his strongest condemnation to date of the massive tax and immigration bill that narrowly passed the House and is pending in the Senate. “Shame on …

Politico reports: Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are calling on chair Jim Jordan to condemn the detainment of a Congressional aide by Department of Homeland Security authorities. A staffer for Rep. Jerry Nadler — the former senior Democrat on the Judiciary panel — was handcuffed in the member’s district office last week, amid protests outside the building of …

The Charlotte Observer reports: UNC Charlotte says an administrator is “no longer employed” after a video went viral of her implying work related to diversity, equity and inclusion was still happening on campus. The video, which appears to use a hidden camera, was originally posted by nonprofit activist group Accuracy in Media. Posts on X by Corey DeAngelis, who identifies …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends co-hosts were openly angered by Democrats insulting President Donald Trump as ‘TACO,” which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. “Democrats are really off-kilter,” said Rachel Campos-Duffy as she introduced the segment, saying that her political foes are so bereft of ideas to attack President Trump that “they’ve come up with this really cringy response, which …

Entertainment Weekly reports: Michael Flynn Jr., son of retired Army lieutenant general Michael Flynn, who served as U.S. national security advisor for 22 days during Donald Trump’s first term before resigning in disgrace, shared a clip depicting Nick Offerman’s Parks & Recreation character, Ron Swanson, throwing a rainbow flag into a dumpster on Sunday, the first day of LGBTQ Pride …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump on Monday implored voters in New Jersey’s primary for governor to support Republican Jack Ciattarelli when early in-person voting begins Tuesday and said the state was ready for a change after years of Democratic control. The president, who has golf clubs around the state and frequently stays at his Bedminster property, announced his …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump is posting on the internet with a velocity and ferocity far beyond that of his first term, surprising aides with predawn messages fired off at a blistering pace. As of Sunday, Trump had posted 2,262 times to his company’s social network Truth Social in the 132 days since his inauguration, a Washington Post …