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Published by New York Daily News Rep. George Santos has a plan to survive — and it’s straight out of the MAGA playbook. Mocked by late night comics and mostly shunned by his own party’s leaders, the controversial Long Island Republican has found a political home in the far-right wing of the GOP. Santos, who admits to lying about much of his background, now says he’s a victim of the liberal media, Deep State prosecutors and so-called Republicans in name only, the same cast of villains that former President Donald Trump and Fox News hosts rail against. “MAGA world is a safe harbor for Santos, perhaps the only one he has left,” … Read More View the full article

Published by Newbury Today By [email protected] (Trish Lee) Following a visit from Sir Ian McKellen to the Corn Exchange panto last year, to see his friend Adam Brown’s Cinderella – which Adam co-wrote and directed – the Hungerford actor is now touring the country in Sir Ian’s own panto Mother Goose. The two met when they worked together in Newzealand on the Peter Jackson film of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Adam played the dwarf Ori and Sir Ian was the wizard Gandalf. https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/sir-ian-mckellen-checks-out Adam told @newburytoday arts editor Trish Lee: “I’m having a wonderful time on Mot… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Lukas Gage’s mom praised his “great a**” when she saw his nude scene in ‘The White Lotus’. The 27-year-old actor has had some raunchy sex scenes in both the HBO vacation satire and the latest season of ‘You’ but the risque material didn’t faze his “cool hippy” mother. Asked how his mom reacted to the scenes, he told Variety: “She says, ‘That’s a great a**. Get that money. Get that bag and be committed.’ “My mom’s cool. She’s like a cool little hippy lady. With nudity, I think we both share sort of a European vibe.” Lukas – who is dating hairstylist Chris Appleton – doesn’t want anyone to feel “scrutinised or like the butt of the joke” with the sex acts he’s depicted on screen. Asked if he’s had any crazy fan mail, he replied: “No. We have a couple people from the golden shower community that are very grateful that it’s being shown on screen, and they have some haters who are yucking some people’s yum. “Everyone should feel heard and feel seen. I never wanted to make anyone feel scrutinised or like the butt of the joke. I just believe that everyone should embrace all their kinks and everything that they love about themselves and not feel ashamed.” Meanwhile, Lukas offered praise to Diplo for his “honesty” after the producer revealed he had received oral sex from a man and was “not not gay”. He said: “I’m sure there are a lot of people who have that same exact experience but maybe don’t have the confidence or the honesty to talk about it like that. “And, you know, there’s going to be people on either side saying that he’s not labelling himself enough. I commend him on his honesty and I don’t think we need to label everything and have it all figured out. Things can be in a grey area and don’t have to be so black and white.” View the full article

Published by Euronews (English) Italy’s LGTBQ+ community is accusing Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government of trampling on same-sex couples’ parental rights despite the country’s already having some of the weakest in Europe. For activists, the latest example of this came this week when the Senate voted against a European Commission regulation for cross-border recognition of same-sex parents. Italy thus joined the Visegrad group — composed of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia — in refusing to transpose the regulation. The news has outraged the country’s LGTBQ+ community, which has repeatedly called out Meloni… Read More View the full article

Published by Al-Araby A transgender Saudi woman who was living in the US is feared dead after posting a suicide note in which she spoke of her trauma after American “fixers” allegedly entrapped her. Eden Knight shared on Sunday what she called her “final message” on Twitter, which has racked up 31 million views, telling her 21,900 followers “if you’re reading this, I’ve already killed myself”. In her message she claimed her family admitted to hiring “fixers” and a Saudi lawyer in the US, to bring her back to Saudi Arabia where transgender people face severe discrimination. The New Arab could not verify Knight’s cla… Read More View the full article

Published by Raw Story A Texas-based gathering of the right-wing legal group the Federalist Society saw members pushing “radical new theories” about election laws — and possibly secession from the United States, reported POLITICO on Friday. The Federalist Society — which is best known for training an army of conservative lawyers for jobs on the federal bench, where they have undermined everything from abortion rights to labor laws to the basic ability of the civil service to pass rules — was long a champion of “judicial restraint,” as it was founded in an era when the judiciary was far more liberal than it is toda… Read More View the full article

Published by The Street By Tony Owusu The financial expert calls the claims ‘ridiculous.’ Both Republicans and Democrats have pounced on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to push their own political agendas. While Democrats have focused on deregulation during the Trump administration — specifically the dismantling of Dodd-Frank — Republicans have seized on a different, more esoteric reason for Silicon Valley Bank’s demise. Wokeism. DON’T MISS: One Political Party is Using a Trigger Word to Explain SVB’s Collapse “This bank, they’re so concerned with DEI and politics and all kinds of stuff, I think that really div… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Judges, scholars, lawyers, government officials and current U.S. Supreme Court members paid tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, honoring a liberal stalwart and women’s rights pioneer whose 2020 death opened the door to a transformative rightward shift on the top U.S. judicial body. A rare meeting of the Supreme Court Bar, comprised of attorneys admitted to practice law before the court, featured speeches from people who worked closely with Ginsburg including U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who argues cases for President Joe Biden’s administration. “Her life was a quintessentially American story,” Prelogar said. “She was born to a family of immigrants, and grew up with modest means. She faced profound adversity and discrimination. Yet, through her intellect, hard work and force of will, she not only reached the top of her profession, she reshaped it. She broke barriers for those who came after her and she inspired multiple generations.” A similar meeting was held following the 2016 death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a influential figure on the court whose memory looms large among conservatives just as Ginsburg’s does among liberals. The two jurists were close friends who shared an affection for opera. Ginsburg’s death at age 87 after a bout with cancer was an inflection point for the court. It enabled then-President Donald Trump to make a third appointment to the court – Amy Coney Barrett – who was rapidly confirmed by a Senate then controlled by his fellow Republicans. That gave the court a 6-3 conservative majority, further diminishing the power of its liberal bloc and paving the way for rulings like last year’s decision ending the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion. Trump also appointed conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. The conservative majority has shown no hesitation in taking up contentious issues, also including a ruling last year widening gun rights. Based on arguments held since their current term began in October, the conservative justices appear poised in the coming months to end affirmative action policies used by colleges and universities to increase campus racial diversity, further undermine a federal law barring racial discrimination in voting and enable businesses to refuse certain services to LGBT people based on constitutional free-speech rights. Barrett was confirmed by Senate Republicans a week before the 2020 presidential election. Democrats accused them of hypocrisy after Republicans refused to act on Democratic President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to succeed Scalia during a presidential election year in 2016. Garland, a former federal appeals court judge who now serves as U.S. attorney general, was due to speak at a special sitting of the court following the bar meeting. Chief Justice John Roberts is also set to speak. Ginsburg rose from a working class upbringing in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn and prevailed over systemic sexism in the legal ranks to become one of America’s best-known jurists. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993, she provided key votes in landmark rulings securing equal rights for women, expanding gay rights and safeguarding abortion rights. Ginsburg was the second woman ever named to the court, after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The court now for the first time has four female justices including Barrett and the three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the latter being Biden’s sole appointee. (Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham) View the full article

Published by Knewz Former vice president Mike Pence is refusing to apologize for joking about Pete Buttigieg’s maternity leave in light of the recent train derailment. Pence spoke at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington on Saturday where he decided to poke fun at President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary for taking time off after the birth of his twins. “When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months maternity leave, where upon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair,” Pence told the crowd. “I mean, Pete Buttigieg is the on… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Bono was too “macho” to admit to being an ABBA fan. The U2 frontman admitted he never wanted to “own up” to enjoying the Scandinavian quartet’s pop hits when he was a teenager “in the middle of punk rock” but he and bandmate The Edge professed to a love of various chart stars who are not “very hip” because they can appreciate their art for what it is. Explaining why they chose to cover ABBA’s ‘SOS’ in BBC Radio 2’s ‘Piano Room’, which was broadcast on Thursday (16.03.23), The Edge told DJ Gary Davies: “We’re big fans of this Scandinavian band, appreciators of their work in a way that grew over years. We are fans of the Bee Gees which people wouldn’t have imagined. We’re fans of lots of great songwriters who aren’t necessarily seen as very hip, and I guess we’re just appreciators of their work.” Bono added: “I was saying to one of the cellists today that I didn’t have the courage to own up to this next band when I was 16 in the middle of punk rock, but I did get to the Bee Gees and I was ready to own up to ‘Massachusetts’ and ‘Tragedy’, I mean these are just crazy good. “John Lennon owned up to loving the Bee Gees. But there’s a bit of a macho, ‘I don’t want to own up to ABBA.’ But I’ll tell you what, they’re just better songs. You can’t be empirical about everything in art.” The ‘One’ singer recalled the “phenomenon” of how ABBA were so beloved by “young mothers”. He said: “There is something about ABBA. I can remember ABBA as like the national anthem for young mothers. Certainly at closing time at our local pub, often young women would sing ‘Thank You For The Music’, and I would sing it and I was very thankful for the music! “But I was like, what is this phenomenon? This is before their musicals and all that. What is going on with ABBA?” Listen back to Bono and The Edge in BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer. View the full article

Published by Raw Story A Tennessee library director lost his job over online accusation made by conservative celebrities. Actor and author Kirk Cameron, former swimmer Riley Gaines and “Duck Dynasty” star Missy Robertson complained the staff at Hendersonville Public Library were less than hospitable while they were recording promotional videos for the Christian-themed children’s book, “As You Grow,” and even tried to cancel their scheduled family event, reported Fox News. “Not only were they rude to us,” Robertson said. “They were super rude to their entire community that lived there in Hendersonville, Tennessee, be… Read More View the full article

Published by Knewz David Geffen, 80, has married his 30-year-old boyfriend, Donovan Michaels, in a private event attended by just two other couples. The media mogul, worth an estimated $7.7 billion, reportedly tied the knot on Saturday in a secret ceremony held in Beverly Hills, California. “David has loved Donovan for a while, and they had been talking about taking the next step together,” an anonymous source said. Geffen, a prolific philanthropist known for donating millions of dollars to museums, art centers, and hospitals, has had a string of boyfriends in recent years but no known marriages. The source adde… Read More View the full article

Published by Knewz Joe Exotic, the infamous former Oklahoma zookeeper made famous by the Netflix docuseries Tiger King, recently announced his intention to run for President from inside his prison cell. Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka the “Tiger King,” or “Exotic Joe” was arrested and convicted on two charges of murder-for-hire, one of which he allegedly paid an individual $3000 and to travel from Oklahoma to Florida to take out his biggest critique Carole Baskin. In addition to his attempts on Baskins’s life, was charged with violating the Endangered Species and Lacey Acts, and as a result, he faced 19 wildlife c… Read More View the full article

Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States, and its Black former president, Alphonso David, have settled a lawsuit in which David had alleged racial discrimination in his firing, the two sides said on Wednesday. David was fired in September 2021 after New York state Attorney General Letitia James issued a report saying he had advised former Governor Andrew Cuomo about dealing with sexual harassment allegations, the organization’s board said at the time. David was identified in the report as having been involved in efforts to undermine Cuomo’s first accuser, Lindsey Boylan. David, who said in his lawsuit that he was the group’s first Black president, had held the post for two years. The Washington-based nonprofit group advocates for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people (LGBTQ). The lawsuit alleged racial discrimination in David’s firing. The advocacy group denied that and said David was fired for violating the organization’s conflict of interest policy by assisting Cuomo’s team. The terms of the settlement were confidential, the two sides said in a joint statement on Wednesday, adding they chose to “amicably resolve” the lawsuit. Human Rights Campaign named a new president, Kelley Robinson, in September. Robinson is the first Black woman to hold the post. Cuomo, 63, stepped down as governor in 2021 after a state investigation concluded he sexually harassed women who worked for him. Cuomo denied wrongdoing. According to David’s LinkedIn profile, he was president of Human Right Campaign for over two years. He had spent over eight years prior to that working for Cuomo’s office – first as counsel for civil rights and then as chief counsel. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of the Global Black Economic Forum. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) View the full article

Published by Radar Online mega Conservative Charlie Kirk’s event at the University of California was disrupted by a mob of protestors which led to two arrests, RadarOnline.com has learned Officials said protestors allegedly threw eggs and smashed windows in an attempt to breach the venue where Kirk was speaking, RadarOnline.com has learned. mega Around 500 attendees were listening to the 29-year-old activist’s presentation when tensions between protestors were ignited outside the University Credit Union Center, where the event was held. UC Davis officials claimed that a 100-person crowd gathered at the venue and briefly blocked the building’s main entrance and sidewalk. According to officials, protestors allegedly used pepper spray on other members of the crowd. mega GOP House Rep. Jim Jordan & Democrat Stacey Plaskett Come To Blows During Subcommittee Hearing: ‘Oh, Now We Wanna Get On With It?!’ Frightening Fall: Mitch McConnell Hospitalized; Mystery Surrounds Extent Of Senate Minority Leader’s Injuries Treasury Provides GOP Access To Biden Family ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ UC Davis authorities claimed that in addition to throwing eggs and discharging pepper spray, the demonstrators smashed 10 glass window panels in doors, in an unsuccessful attempt to breach the venue. Officials alleged that one police officer was hurt during the crowd’s dramatic escalation of violence when protestors allegedly jumped on him from behind and pushed him to the ground. Never miss a story — sign up for the RadarOnline.com newsletter to get your daily dose of dope. Daily. Breaking. Celebrity news. All free. mega Two arrests were made for vandalism. mega “Aside from these pepper spray reports, no major physical injuries were reported and no one requested treatment for injuries,” UC Davis officials said in a statement. Prior to Kirk’s event on Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee condemned UC Davis for allowing the activist on campus — and accused Kirk of being a “fascist” who promoted anti-transgender rhetoric. Following the scathing op-ed, the university issued a statement ahead of Kirk’s visit that read, “UC Davis stands with our transgender and non-binary Aggies in opposition to this hateful and divisive messaging.” View the full article

Published by AlterNet A Florida Republican lawmaker’s bill would require schools to teach the “benefits of monogamous heterosexual marriage,” effectively teach that transgender people don’t exist, ban young women from discussing menstrual cycles and menstruation, and would require students be falsely taught that HIV can only be contracted through sex. State Rep. Stan McClain’s legislation, HB 1069 says “instruction in acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sexually transmitted diseases, or health education, when such instruction and course material contains instruction in human sexuality, such instruction may only oc… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet Candace Owen, founder of The BLEXIT Organization, bashed actress and LGBTQ+ advocate, Jamie Lee Curtis for outwardly supporting her transgender daughter, Media Matters for America reports. According to CNN, in 2021, Curtis revealed her daughter identifies as a transgender woman, and the actress most recently noted she will “be referring to her Oscar statue using they/them pronouns ‘in support of my daughter Ruby.'” Owens took some time during her The Daily Wire show to criticize Curtis’ recent interview with ALOK, who is an author, comedian and transgender activist. READ MORE: Arkansas Republi… Read More View the full article