Seth Moulton’s had a tough few weeks. Two days after the election, The New York Times published a post-mortem of the 2024 general election contest in which the Democratic Massachusetts congressman appeared to blame his party’s poor performance on its support for trans rights. The comments came after Donald Trump …
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Thursday’s Olympic contests saw two of the greatest American athletes ever solidify their status as legends. Simone Biles won her sixth Olympic gold medal in the women’s gymnastics all around, making her the most decorated gymnast in American history. Swimmer Katie Ledecky became the most decorated woman in American Olympic …
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the legality of state-level bans on access to gender-affirming care for minors. The case, which will not be argued before the court until the fall, will have wide-reaching ramifications for the civil and medical freedoms of transgender individuals in the …
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Ever since right-wing influencers orchestrated a boycott of Anheuser-Busch products last year for collaborating with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, they have been foaming at the mouth for a new product to boycott for incredibly stupid, hateful reasons. First, it was Frosted Flakes, due to its mascot posing for a photo …
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When Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict went to school on Feb. 7, months of bullying over their gender identity boiled over into a physical fight between them and three older girls in the school bathroom. The next day, Nex was dead. Now, as the circumstances around their death continue to develop, …
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It’s a running gag in the 12th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that people keep mentioning that Larry David didn’t work on the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but then returned for the finale. Every time, Larry greets the observation with stony silence, because he knows the audience hated that …
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Long before she transitioned, Harper Steele was a writer at Saturday Night Live. She was hired in 1995, the same week that a performer named Will Ferrell joined the cast. Unlike his fellow Groundlings Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri, who’d also been recruited from the L.A.-based improv group to join …
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Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, the comic’s seventh stand-up special for Netflix, opens with a quote about the nature of success by Henry David Thoreau before capturing the comic in stark black-and-white, moving through the crowd in slow-mo (cigarette in hand, naturally) to Radiohead’s “Daydreaming,” like a championship boxer before a …
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31-0 — that was the final score of the World Cup qualifying match in 2001 that made the American Samoa soccer team legends in the world of international soccer. Not legends in a good way, mind you; they were the ones on the receiving end of that epic lambasting. Think …
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In its fourth and final season, Netflix’s Sex Education gets a makeover. Sex therapist sidekick Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) tries on a glittered kilt. “It girl” Ruby (Mimi Keene) dons a pride pin. And Cavendish College’s queen bee Abbi (Anthony Lexa) puts on a quilted coat while her partner Roman (Felix …
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