Remembering Early 90s Phone-Sex Lines + ‘Micropenis’ Infighting Is Funny + More

Some news stories you might have missed:

• Caftan Chronicles: Tim Murphy chats with Brian Herrera, who went from early 90s phone-sex worker to Princeton professor, about those infamous phone-sex lines the gays used to hook up before the Internet exploded just a few years later.

• JoeMyGod: The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper dives into the recent infighting among MAGA pundits turning on each other via “micropenis” allegations.

• Right-Wing Watch: Former Trump administration official and radical Christian nationalist William Wolfe delivered a speech at Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, where he openly admitted that the goal of Christian nationalists is to gain political power and impose their morality upon everyone else.

• AP News: A new study has found as many as 155,000 uncounted COVID-19 deaths. The undiagnosed dead were more likely to be Hispanic people and other people of color, who had died in the first few months of the pandemic outside of hospitals.

Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says
Finding suggests as many as 155,000 deaths, likely occurring outside of hospitals, not recognized as Covid relatedhttps://t.co/5cXNp4TcRu

— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) March 18, 2026

• LGBTQ Nation: A recently published study contradicts the Trump administration’s reasons for its ban on trans military members: namely, that trans military members are undeployable, impair unit cohesion, and incur high healthcare costs. The study found that none of these claims is true.

• Trailer: Check out the newly-released trailer for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” starring Tom Holland. The 4th stand-alone Spidey film is scheduled to land in theaters July 31.