Some news items you might have missed:
• CBNC: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (a prominent vaccine skeptic) has announced he is removing all 17 sitting members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with new members.
• Outsports: Mark Shields is the first active Gaelic athlete to come out as gay since 2009. Shields has played senior gaelic football for more than a decade with Armagh. Last year, the team won the All-Ireland Championship for only the second time in the club’s history.
Gay footballer comes out, reveals big change in the locker room.https://t.co/jU95cK9aOX
— Outsports (@outsports) June 5, 2025
• LGBTQ Nation: Staffers at the remnants of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been instructed to destroy AIDS/HIV drugs and other life-saving medicines once earmarked for distribution – if they can’t sell them first. Or, they could just give them away…
• THEM: Emmy/Tony Award winner Alan Cumming shares on turning 60 and making sure his uber-successful reality competition series The Traitors reps LGBTQ people.
After spending a whole day on set with our latest cover star Alan Cumming, it’s safe to say that the beloved bicon is every bit as charming off-screen as he is on.https://t.co/FsJ9sVeINR pic.twitter.com/cLqC5iPd4R
— Them (@them) June 9, 2025
• CNN: TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw and his camera crews were embedded with ICE agents during some raids that took place in Los Angeles “to get a first-hand look at the targeted operations” for his conservative MeritTV channel. He also taped a promotional interview with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.
• New York Times: YouTube has quietly changed its policy about efforts to police online speech in the wake of Republican pressure to stop moderating content. Critics say the changes have contributed to the rapid spread of misinformation and have the potential to increase digital hate speech.
YouTube has encouraged its moderators to leave up videos that may break the platform’s rules, including those with derogatory slurs or misinformation, as long as they’re considered to be in the public interest. The shift comes as the GOP pressures YouTube to stop moderating content. [image or embed]
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) June 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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