For instance, look at all the backlash against JoJo Siwa and her relationship with Chris Hughes. Advertisementtwitter when a bisexual is bi: pic.twitter.com/2yuyBvrsos — jessica ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ (@tinkjobej) June 8, 2025If I’m in a relationship with a man, I’m a bisexual for attention. If I’m in a relationship with a woman, I’m a lesbian who can’t admit it. AdvertisementIn a world that is attacking the rights of our entire LGBTQ+ community, why are we turning on one another? It has never been a more fucking terrifying time to be anything but cis het and we are all having our experiences as queer people invalidated.

LOADING ERROR LOADING“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday mocked President Donald Trump’s renewed obsession with honoring the Confederate leaders who fought against the United States during the Civil War. Trump this week said he was restoring the names of those figures to U.S. military bases, including one honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee. Colbert fired back with a reminder straight from the history books. “Yes, ’cuz when you think winning, you think Robert E. Lee,” Colbert said. “Same reason we just named our new battleship the USS New York Jets.”

A messenger attending the Southern Baptist Convention participates in worship during the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez) via Associated PressDALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. AdvertisementThe resolution calls “for laws that affirm marriage between one man and one women.”There was no debate on the marriage resolution. The two-day annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention began Tuesday morning with praise sessions and optimistic reports about growing numbers of baptisms. That came shortly after the release of a blockbuster report by an outside consultant, which said Southern Baptist leaders mishandled abuse cases and stonewalled victims for years.

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I Had An Unlikely Friendship With Erik Menendez. Erik Menendez looks back and smiles at the spectator section during his and his brother Lyle’s murder trial, Aug. 11, 1993, in a Van Nuys courtroom in Los Angeles. My parents didn’t know about our friendship, and I was certain that this was the moment they would discover my secret, causing everything to come crashing down on me. I couldn’t imagine the consequences I would face if my mom and dad discovered that the “Erik” who often called our house was actually Erik Menendez. A letter sent from Erik Menendez to the author Courtesy of Jennifer Sullivan BeebeEver since then, I’ve felt like I owed you an explanation.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGA federal judge on Monday blocked several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that have threatened federal funding to nonprofits that primarily service LGBTQ+ communities. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, California, issued a preliminary injunction halting three of Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-transgender executive orders. Shortly after he also signed two orders directing agencies to terminate federal funding for all diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Almost immediately, nonprofit organizations saw that their contracts, totaling hundreds of thousands and, in some cases, millions of dollars in federal funding, were being canceled. Support HuffPost Already contributed?

But by night, I was secretly flying tons of cocaine for Pablo Escobar and smuggling it into South Florida. Photo Courtesy Of TJ DominguezAt that point, I started making regular trips to the Bahamas. Primarily because most cocaine pilots during that time partook in the cocaine they were smuggling, and they were always high. After I started making weekly $5 million trips for Pablo Escobar, he stopped paying me in cash ― and started paying me in cocaine. Then there was the “cocaine kingpin me” who was smuggling and selling tons and tons of cocaine for Pablo Escobar.

Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff in The White Lotus Fabio Lovino/HBOThe White Lotus star Sam Nivola has addressed critics who’ve called him a “nepo baby” due to his family’s ties to the entertainment industry. Earlier this year, Sam caused a major stir in the third season of The White Lotus, in which he played the youngest member of the Ratliff family, Lochlan. AdvertisementSam with his mother and father at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 Lev Radin/Shutterstock“My whole thing was that my parents really didn’t want me to be an actor, which I totally get – I don’t know if I’d want my kid to be an actor. “I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t even know who Sam was or who his family was until like six months into [filming],” Patrick admitted. “He was, like, ‘Oh, I hope they don’t call me a nepo baby’.

Trump Stumbles On Air Force One Stairs After Mocking Biden For The Same ThingThe president nearly took a dive as he climbed up the stairs on Sunday.

Israel’s military later said it killed the head of the Mujahideen Brigades, As’ad Aby Sharaiya, in Gaza City on Saturday. Israel’s military didn’t immediately comment. Israel’s military said the strike targeted the Mujahideen Brigades leader. Israel’s military has said it fired warning shots or, in some instances, at individuals approaching. The U.N says it has been unable to distribute much aid under its system because of Israeli military restrictions on movements and insecurity.

BBC's 1995 Pride And Prejudice BBCThis year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, which might explain the deluge of Austen shows hitting the stage and screen this year. But let’s be real: not all adaptations are created equal, as members of Reddit’s dedicated r/janeausten forum know. Writing to the fanbase, site user u/Jorvikstories asked readers to list their favourite film and TV adaptations of Austen’s books. Here are the most popular responses:“It is the standard by which all Jane Austen adaptations should be judged.”Advertisement“I’m sure I’m not the only person who learned to love the novel by watching this adaptation. Advertisement“I haven’t seen Clueless mentioned yet, and I feel like that’s a pretty good modern adaptation of Emma.”Advertisement

Trump is federalizing the California National Guard to put down another imaginary ‘uprising’. The goal is growing more chaos to draw attention from the massive White House / Congressional GOP grifting operation in favor of America’s wealthy. www.nytimes.com/… Governors almost always control the deployment of National Guard troops in their states. When/if Trump declares martial law don't forget the most effective way of disarming the National Guard. This isn’t the first time Katie Miller has found herself torn between Musk and Trump.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the Pentagon was prepared to mobilize active-duty troops “if violence continues” in Los Angeles, saying the Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton were “on high alert.”AdvertisementFederal security agents on Saturday confronted protesters in the Paramount area in southeast Los Angeles, where some demonstrators displayed Mexican flags. Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News that the National Guard would be deployed in Los Angeles on Saturday. One said that National Guard troops can deploy quickly, within 24 hours in some cases, and that the military was working to source the 2,000 troops. The last time it was invoked was during the 1992 Los Angeles riots at the request of the California governor. AdvertisementTelevision news footage on Friday showed unmarked vehicles resembling military transport and vans loaded with uniformed federal agents streaming through Los Angeles streets as part of the immigration enforcement operation.

explained in February, losing health care coverage would spur people to improve themselves, and they’d be better off for it. The budget office pointed to what happened when the first Trump administration let Arkansas implement a Medicaid work requirement in 2018. “People are screaming and saying, ‘Hey, it’s kicking people off Medicaid.’ It’s not kicking people off Medicaid,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said in an interview with CNBC. During a Wednesday interview on Fox Business, Oz defended the bill’s harsh, new work requirements for Medicaid. It also requires states to kick people off Medicaid if they can’t prove they’re meeting the work requirements.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump’s idea that Russia and Ukraine are like kids at the playground who would be better off fighting for a while before being pulled apart. “We are not kids with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin at the playground in the park,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids.”AdvertisementUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump's idea that Russia and Ukraine were like two kids brawling at a playground. “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,” Trump said. “They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart.