Some news items you might have missed:
• The Hill: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicts – “The Supreme Court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion — they will send it back to the states.”
• Instinct Magazine: Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman says there may be some surprises for fans in the upcoming film finale of Nick and Charlie’s love story. “There is a point in the movie where we slightly diverge from the events of volume six, and it takes a slightly different path to get to the ending.”
alice talking about the heartstopper movie and how it might be different from volume 6 pic.twitter.com/5OARUNyIhG
— Chloe (@royalsdnp) August 17, 2025
• Billboard: Twenty-six years after he became the first Latin male artist to win Best Pop Video for “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Ricky Martin will return to the MTV VMAs this year on September 7 to accept the first-ever “Latin Icon Award.”
• JoeMyGod: DC National Guard members assigned to patrol the nation’s capitol are being trained to carry M-17 pistols – a military variant of a semi-automatic pistol which has been banned by multiple law enforcement agencies (including ICE) for reportedly firing without a trigger pull.
REPORT: DC Natl Guard To Be Issued Banned Pistolshttps://t.co/dKCyun80bm pic.twitter.com/R0eirP4AbB
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) August 19, 2025
• The Advocate: The gentrification of NYC’s West Village threatens to displace many of the queer elders central to the nation’s LGBTQ+ history. But the fight to preserve the neighborhood’s rich history continues.
• Truth Social: Donald Trump whined on social media that museums across the country are “out of control” because they document “how bad slavery was.” Ummm, slavery was bad…
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