• The Advocate: A federal appeals court has reinstated the Pentagon’s ban on people living with HIV enlisting in the armed forces, undoing a lower-court decision that had briefly opened the door to qualified recruits with undetectable viral loads.
• Apple TV: The third season of LOOT is here and no one is mad that Zane Phillips (above) has joined the cast as hunky boyfriend “Moro” to billionaire “Molly Wells” (played by Maya Rudolph).
• Erin in the Morning: The United Kingdom’s “Girl Scouts” organization—Girl Guiding—has banned transgender girls from joining.
• NPR: The Department of Justice has instructed prisons and jails to drop standards designed to protect LGBTQ people from sexual violence.
• Pink News: While Spotify is letting subscribers discover their most listened songs of the year, gay dating app Grindr is showing off its own 2025 stats including Ireland having the most bears, Switzerland is tops in twinks, and the U.S. boasts the most daddies.
• Forbes: Eric Trump is reportedly ten-times richer than he was the day before the Donald returned to the White House in January. But, but, but…. Hunter Biden…
• Axios: A Pentagon watchdog concluded in a long-awaited report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. operations and troops at risk during a strike in Yemen by sending sensitive information to a Signal group chat on an unapproved device,
• New York Times: A new survey found that 98% of U.S. diplomats say that workplace morale has fallen since Trump took office again in January. Eighty-six percent said it had become harder to carry out U.S. foreign policy.
Time’s up! It looks like former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is about to enter the “find out” phase of his life after he “f*cked around” defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee. A higher court has rejected his appeal. A federal judge on Thursday ordered Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence . Continue reading “Trump Adviser Steve Bannon To Report To Prison July 1”
(screen capture via MSNBC) Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in organizing a group of his pro-Trump cultists to invade the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Continue reading “Ex-Proud Boys Leader Gets 22 Years In Prison For Jan. 6”
