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James Charles, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Lil Nas X are just a few of this year’s TIME Top-25 Most Influential People Online / Images via Instagram On July 16, TIME Magazine released its list of the top-25 “Most Influential People on the Internet” for 2019. Describing their approach to the fifth annual edition, “TIME evaluated contenders by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news.” Across those making 2019’s (unranked) top 25, a...

Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States, insisted in another toxic tweet that members of “the Squad” — composed of four first-term progressive Democratic women of color in the U.S. House Representatives – should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” And, he added, “You can’t leave fast enough.” “The Squad” to whom Trump refers includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (born to a New York-Puerto Rican family), Ayanna Pressley...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stopped by a drag show in NYC to express her love of the performers and audience. / Image via Instagram @joeyariasnyc Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is, once again, being the fiery and passionate leader we are proud of. Not only is the Democrat from New York trying to lower the price of PrEP for LGBTQ people, but she’s also openly expressing her love and support of us. Ocasio-Cortez recently attended the Bartschland Follies, which is a drag/burlesque show in...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress. And, look, sometimes she just wants to be a 29-year-old. Last weekend, she and her friends attended the Bartschland Follies, a drag/burlesque extravaganza held every Friday night at The McKittrick Hotel. At the end of the show, AOC, who is an avid fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race, was called up on stage by performer Joey Arias where she told the audience: “You are beautiful! You are...