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Chelsea Clinton Claps Back After Fox News Host Says Hillary Clinton “Would Literally Sell Her Daughter To Be President”

Chelsea Clinton (L), Lisa Boothe (R)

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is not suffering fools lightly these days, and good for her.

Lisa Boothe, a co-host on Fox News’ “The Five,” ripped into former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton this week, saying she was so vile that she’d “sell her only child” to win the White House.

“He literally worked for the most soulless person on this planet who would literally sell her daughter to be president,” said Boothe. “If she could sell her only child to be president. I mean, that’s how much she wants it.”

Chelsea saw the bit on Twitter and was not having it.

“No, she wouldn’t. I’ve never doubted & always known I was the most important part of her life. Now as a mom I’m even more grateful to my mom.” wrote Chelsea.

Chelsea has been speaking out more via her Twitter account lately when public figures take a swipe at  her mother that somehow involve Chelsea.

Go, Chelsea, go!

The video clip of Boothe is below via Twitter.

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Out Music: Superfruit “Worth It (Perfect)”

Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying – Superfruit

More colorful, pop-y goodness from Superfruit, the side gig for out Pentatonix members, Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying.

Following the release of “Imaginary Parties” and “Bad 4 Us,” the duo drops a third music video – “Worth It (Perfect)” – from their new EP, Future Friends (Part One).

The new single is a bright, synth-pop confection that matches the fun, feel-good video featuring teen dancers Kaycee Rice and Sage Rosen, who flip the switch on binary roles, dancing in gender-nonconforming costumes.

Grassi and Hoying, founding and current gay members of the 3-time Grammy Award-winning a cappella quintet Pentatonix, describe Superfruit’s musical approach as, “a little more gay-friendly and a lot more open, more sexual, more liberated.”

Watch the fun video below.

Sage Rosen and Kaycee Rice
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Former Soviet Intelligence Agent Attended Trump Jr. Meeting, Worked On Trump “Pee-Gate” Dossier

There appears to be no end to the number of shoes dropping regarding Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a “Russian government attorney” as news comes that she was accompanied by a former Soviet counter-intelligence agent, who also has ties to the company that assembled the PeePeeGate Trump dossier.

From Mediaite:

Rinat Akhmetshin has been the man of the hour since revelations emerged that he attended the infamous Trump Jr meeting.

But it get’s better. In addition to that, it now appears that he worked as a lobbyist along alongside Fusion GPS, the company which put together the infamous Trump dossier.

The unverified dossier was published by Buzzfeed in January and was intended as opposition research against Trump. It got it’s nickname the “Pee Tape Dossier” because of the claim contained within that Russian intelligence agencies had footage of Trump urinating on a prostitutes in a bed at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.

The collaboration was highlighted in a complaint filed by GOP Senator Chuck Grassley last year. According to Grassley, Akhmetshin also did not register as a foreign agent during his lobbying activities.

“It is particularly disturbing that Mr. Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS were working together on this pro-Russia lobbying effort in 2016 in light of Mr. Akhmetshin’s history and reputation. Mr. Akhmetshin is a Russian immigrant to the U.S. who has admitted having been a Soviet counterintelligence officer,” Grassley said in the complaint.

Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS also lobbied against the Magnitsky Act, a law passed by President Obama in 2012 which gave the U.S. power to defend itself from Russian corruption by withholding visas and freezing financial assets of Russian officials that have violated human rights. The act was named after Sergei Magnitsky, who discovered $230 million missing from Russian tax officials and police officers, but was arrested and died in prison after his discovery. When the U.S. passed the law, it upset Russian president Vladimir Putin so much that he immediately retaliated by outlawing the adoption of Russia orphans by Americans.

Akhmetshin is a former Soviet Intelligence Officer who came to the U.S. in 2009. He has been working as a lobbyist since and was involved in a lawsuit that claimed he masterminded a hacking scheme and ran negative public-relations campaigns.

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Out Music: Leon Else Covers Whitney Classic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”

Leon Else

Out singer/songwriter Leon Else took a break in the studio to record a stripped down cover of Whitney Houston’s classic hit, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”

Leon dropped the earnest and open-hearted Whitney cover following the release of his new single, “What I Won’t Do,” which I wrote about here back in May.

The synth-driven “What I Won’t Do” is the latest single to be released from his upcoming EP due this summer.

“What I Won’t Do” follows on the heels of Else’s previous single “The City Don’t Care” feat. Oliver, which was released in March.

Dubbed “the new Sam Smith” by People magazine, Else’s soulful and richly emotive voice have acted like a magnet to fans and critics alike. Immediately generating buzz, Else has garnered the attention of Elton John while also having been named “Best Dressed Man” by British GQ and, most recently, Else was tapped by VH1 to pay tribute to George Michael and praised as “mesmerizing” (Idolator) and “captivating” (Paper).

Watch Else’s unplugged version of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” below.

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President Of Chechnya Tells REAL SPORTS Gays Should Be Removed To “Purify The Blood” Of Chechen People

HBO’s Real Sports is the first western outlet to score an interview with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, who is one of Putin’s strongest allies.

Real Sports procured the interview in part because it is doing a piece on MMA in Chechnya.

At one point during the interview, Kadyrov says that if there are any gay people in Chechnya they should be removed in order to purify the blood of the Chechen people.

Oh – and then there’s the part where Kadyrov says “we will put the world on its knees and screw it from behind.”

He seems nice, huh?

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News Round-Up: July 14, 2017

People take much better selfies than I do LOL

Some news items you may have missed:

• Today’s my 54th birthday! And where am I spending it? In a dance studio (above) getting ready for a production of Sister Act I’m choreographing at Sacramento Music Circus next month. Who would have thought 40 years ago when I took my first dance steps I’d still be doing it? Or thought I’d grow up to be a passionate LGBT activist? #grateful

• A new survey in the UK says 37 is the tipping point for being “too old” to go clubbing. And 37% felt it was “tragic” to see folks in their 40s and 50s out on the party scene.

• A homeschooling Christian mother got so mad at Teen Vogue for running a story on anal sex she burned the magazine. That’ll learn’em.

• The only thing I love more than a bully getting their comeuppance is when the bully cries. A Portland, Oregon, man chased a Muslim couple in his car for 20 blocks shouting, “Take off the fucking burka, this is America; go back to your fucking country.” He now faces a hate crime of second-degree intimidation. #Good

• One of the stars of the TLC Christian reality show The Willis Family has been charged with four counts of child rape.

• Researchers in New Zealand have high hopes for a possible vaccine to combat gonorrhea.

• Sharon Stone shows stone-cold class in responding to a letter Madonna wrote in the 90s in which Madge refers to both Stone and Whitney Houston as “horribly mediocre.”

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Donald Trump’s Odd 25-Second Long Handshake With French President Macron

Folks are talking about this awkward 25-second handshake between President Trump and French President Macron.

And it is rather odd.

Not only does Trump not let go of Macron’s hand for an uncomfortable length of time, he then leans over and kisses and hugs Mrs. Macron without letting go of the French president’s hand.

It comes across like two couples on their first wife-swapping date or something.

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Former “Russian Counterintelligence Officer” Attended Trump Junior’s Trump Tower Meeting

Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump Sr.

NBC News is reporting that there was yet another person – yes, Russian – at June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower where Donald Trump Jr. expected to receive dirt on Hillary Clinton from a “Russsian government attorney.”

From NBC News:

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.

The lobbyist, who denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies, accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr.; Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump campaign.

The Russian-born American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.

The Associated Press identified the lobbyist as Rinat Akhmetshin, and said he acknowledged attending the meeting, though he said it was not substantive. “I never thought this would be such a big deal, to be honest,” he told the AP.

Alan Futerfas, the attorney retained by Donald Trump Jr., told NBC News two other people accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting — someone Futerfas described as a translator and someone he described as a “friend of Emin [Agalarov]’s and maybe as a friend of Natalia [Veselnitskaya]’s.”

Futerfas said he has talked with that individual. “He is a U.S. citizen. He told me specifically he was not working for the Russian government, and in fact laughed when I asked him that question.”

So, a full year of “Russian” whispers and accusations regarding a Trump campaign/Russia connection, and total denials from Team Trump the whole way.

“There was NO contact between anyone in the campaign and any Russians.”

“There was NO contact – except those calls between Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador.”

“There was NO contact – except those calls, and Jeff Sessions’ contact at that gala event last year.

“There was NO contact – except those calls, and Sessions’ gala contact, oh – and that meeting about Russian adoption with Junior at Trump Tower.”

“There was NO contact – except those calls, and Sessions’ gala contact, and Junior’s meeting with the “Russian government attorney,” oh – and her friend she brought along who spoke Russian and it turns out used to be “a former Soviet military counterintelligence officer.”

No. This doesn’t look sketchy at all.

By the way, this was Don Jr. on July 11th – “This is everything. This is everything.”

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Allowing Same-Sex Marriage Couples To Re-File Taxes For DOMA-Related Tax Refunds

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has filed a bill that would allow same-sex married couples to go back and amend their federal income taxes jointly for the three years before the 2013 SCOTUS ruling which brought federal recognition of legal of marriage equality – if it would result in a tax refund.

From Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade:

Same-sex couples could file an amended return if they feel they would’ve receive a refund in one or more prior tax years for up to three years in the past: 2010, 2011, and 2012. Under some circumstances, such as signing an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service to keep the statute of limitations open, these couple might have been able to seek a refund from an earlier time.

The Refund Equality Act would extend the window period for a refund further back in time. Same-sex couples could file a joint return to seek a refund dating to the time of their marriage, which in Massachusetts could be as early as 2004.

Same-sex couples who wed in jurisdictions with marriage equality more than three years before the DOMA decision — Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and D.C. — could be eligible for a refund under the Refund Equality Act.

I can share that hubby Michael and I filed jointly for the first time in 2013. In that we make different incomes (he’s a big deal entertainment publicist, I’m a journalist), we saved a LOT.

At the time, our accountant showed us four different scenarios of what our taxes would have been ranging from “single” to “married – filing jointly.” The difference was huge.

I think if a couple’s incomes are similar the impact isn’t as great.

Michael and I married in California in 2008, so I would definitely take advantage of this law if it comes to pass.