Some news items for your Sunday:
• New Music: Out recording star Reneé Rapp dropped her new album “Bite Me,” this week.
In an interview with Variety she shared, “Everything I make is gay…This time around, I knew what I wanted. I wasn’t making [this album] to impress anyone else. I made it to impress myself.”
• OUT: In an excellent personal essay, TV host and gossip columnist Rob Shuter shares how he went from practicing “camouflage” growing up as a bullied gay kid to turning it into his super-power.
• NBC News: The mayor of Hungary’s capital was questioned by police over accusations of helping organize an LGBTQ Pride event that the country’s right-wing populist government had sought to ban. He showed up in a rainbow Pride t-shirt.
The liberal mayor of Hungary’s capital was questioned by police over accusations of helping organize an LGBTQ Pride event that the country’s right-wing populist government had sought to ban. https://t.co/GxANQKs8q3
— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) August 1, 2025
• New York Times: Grocers and food policy researchers are warning cuts to food stamp programs could result in stores laying off workers, raising prices or shuttering entirely as their revenues drop – especially in rural counties that already have few food retailers.
• Texas Tribune: Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year.
• Tech Crunch: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wants to deliver ads to users during their conversations with the company’s AI-powered digital assistant, Alexa. #DearGodNo
Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations | TechCrunch https://t.co/9mOejKz3Uu
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) July 31, 2025
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