Some news items you might have missed:
• OUT: As of 2025, twelve actors who played characters on GLEE have Tony Awards. Hit the link to see the list including this year’s winner for “Best Leading Actor in a Musical.”
• LGBTQ Nation: Air Force veteran Gina Ortiz Jones has become the first out LGBTQ+ person elected as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and only the third woman to hold the office.
She also celebrated trans troops at her victory rally. #LGBTQhttps://t.co/5OqiK5mbny
— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation) June 10, 2025
• ABC News: A 23-year-old Michigan man has been arrested for calling in a fake bomb threat after missing his flight and having to book another.
• HuffPost: During a House Defense Appropriations subcommittee hearing today, the Defense Department’s acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, said sending the National Guard into Los Angeles will cost taxpayers in the neighborhood of $134 million.
It’s going to cost $134 MILLION for National Guard troops to be here in LA for the next 60 days. That’s a lot of $$$ spent for them to sleep on concrete floors & stand outside Federal buildings (which LAPD could do on its own) while the GOP wants to gut Medicaid and VA benefits pic.twitter.com/mPjkhh4w3e
— Dan Przygoda (@dprzygoda) June 10, 2025
• CBS News: A bipartisan bill has been filed in the US Senate to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25, and hasn’t been raised since 2009.
• New York Times: A new report by the World Bank projects the global economy to slow sharply this year amid Donald Trump’s off-on trade policy increasing economic uncertainty.
• The Democrats: “The Daily Blueprint” is the Democratic Party’s new, official morning news show on YouTube.
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