Some news items for you as we head over Hump Day:
• Pink News: Pedro Pascal appeared with his sister, Lux Pascal, for a rare joint red-carpet moment at the BFI London Film Festival premiere of his new film Behemoth! Lux publicly came out as transgender in 2021 on the cover of Chilean magazine Ya, and later graduated from Juilliard School in 2023.
• New York Times: Today’s inflation report showed consumer prices last month were 3.7% higher than they were a year ago – contradicting Donald Trump’s sunny pronouncements about an improving economy.
• OUT: Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy had a chance to address the company’s controversial history with LGBTQ+ rights in a new interview with TODAY, but chose instead to dodge the restaurant’s homophobic views. The clip below is cued up.
• JoeMyGod: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued his department’s ‘final demand’ to medical organizations (like the American Medical Association) to answer for “sex-rejecting procedures for minors.”
• Atlanta News First: Voters in Georgia shattered early voting records as more than 188,600 ballots were cast on the first day of early voting – an increase of more than 53,000 over the 2022 midterm elections.
• The Advocate: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have to testify under oath about his public statements targeting transgender people, including remarks in which he used an anti-trans slur before senior military leaders.
• The Daily Beast: Administration insiders claim Kimberly Guilfoyle has been keeping a secret “burn book” on the first family and that she’s now threatening to tell all when she returns to the U.S.
Kimberly Guilfoyle has allegedly kept the receipts and is threatening to bring the Trump family down with her following her shock ouster this week.
https://t.co/AweaLPukKQ https://t.co/vQQE8YyWBb
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 14, 2026
• Washington Post: A new report on the repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool found at least 85 places where the ‘blue coating’ failed because of errors including the premature refilling of the basin before the liner had fully dried. The report, commissioned by the contractor who did the job, had no mention of vandalism.
• The New Republic: Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland couldn’t handle the audience laughing at his lame explanation for high gas prices during a debate with his Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz on Tuesday.
Republican Congressman Andy Harris gets laughed at after blaming high diesel prices on Democrats. https://t.co/61cWqHLrqD
— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 14, 2026
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