Some news items you might have missed:
• The Advocate: Pete Buttigieg weighed in on the issue of trans kids playing girls’ sports saying he rejects blanket policies like the federal bans being pushed by the Trump administration:
• Caftan Chronicles: Tim Murphy’s latest interview chat is with longtime AIDS survivor and author Joe Westmoreland, whose exhilarating (and mainly autobiographical) 2001 novel “Tramps Like Us” is being reissued.
• The Hill: A House Republican has introduced a bill that would rename the Kennedy Center as the “Trump Center for the Performing Arts.” #deargodno
• Them: Out trans actress Laverne Cox recently shocked fans on social media by revealing she dated a MAGA Republican NYC police officer for four years. “We were madly in love.” Amid backlash, Cox posted a response saying, “I did not develop any of these politics. I still have my own.”
• Washington Post: The Trump administration is set to destroy nearly $10 million in birth control being stored in Belgium even though the United Nations and other aid groups have offered to buy the contraceptives. It will cost around $167K to destroy the family planning supplies.
• Task & Purpose: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is diverting $200 million in funds previously appropriated to Marine Corps barracks, military-run schools, and more to pay for 20 miles of a partial border wall.
Pentagon shifts $200 million from barracks, schools, facilities to border wall https://t.co/ZBiMS3GL0n
— Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) July 25, 2025
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