Some news items for you as we march over this Hump Day:
• Media Matters: Megyn Kelly told her listeners on Sirius XM yesterday that she’s thankful “perverted” Pride Month is over. Hard to believe she was ever considered a legitimate journalist.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out this week’s round-up of LGBTQ (and adjacent) publications including the latest from DNA Magazine.
• Queerty: Melania Trump ended Pride Month with a message that somehow managed to piss off LGBTQ+ people & homophobes alike.
• The Advocate: Married GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton was spotted vacationing in Iceland with his mistress even as he campaigns on “Christian values” in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races.
Celebrating #NationalCameraDay with this video of MAGA “family values” TX Senate candidate @KenPaxtonTX and some lady who’s not his wife in 4k 📸 pic.twitter.com/Cq8bgQa9J7
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 29, 2026
• Boy Culture: If you like gay male romantic novels, check out Matt Rettenmund’s chat with Edward Schmit, author of The Open Era, something of of a tennis version of Heated Rivalry.
• Axios: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the U.S. economy added 57,000 jobs in June, about half the 115,000 job gains economists were expecting. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%.
DUN DUN DUN! 😱 Maria Bartiromo and company cope with an underwhelming June jobs report
“We came in underneath expectations … I’m a little disappointed in this, frankly” pic.twitter.com/x0WZZEKVxS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2026
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