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An early exit poll published by a Ukrainian NGO says Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party is on course to win 44.4% percentage of the vote. The party, which is led by Dmytro Razumkov, is on course to win the most seats in the Ukrainian parliament after Zelensky called a snap election following his inauguration as president in May. Speaking to reporters after the exit poll was published, Razumkov predicted his party had won all of the constituencies in Kiev. The...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Billionaire Tom Steyer, a longtime friend and key donor to liberal candidates and causes, says he decided to run for the Democratic presidential nomination next year because no other candidate was offering a “mandate for change”. But by deciding to fund his long-shot bid with $100 million of his own money, some Democratic activists believe all he will end up doing is denying his money to grassroots organizations and candidates in Senate and House races...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (Reuters) - An immigrant to the United States, Suzanne Vale took no offense at Republican President Donald Trump’s tweet this week telling Democratic congresswomen they are free to “go back” to their ancestral homes if America is not to their liking. She disagrees with critics who accuse Trump of race-baiting with his attacks on the four women of color. “I don’t care what you are - what religion, where you come from,” said Vale, 61, a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of four minority women lawmakers on Friday, saying that they had said horrible things about the United States, and defended himself from criticism over his comment that they should leave the United States if unhappy. A day after saying his audience at a campaign rally in North Carolina went too far in chanting “Send her back!” about Somalia-born Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Trump on Friday defended the crowd members...

Screenshot via Florida Politics Now for your daily dose of disappointing, we have someone who lied about helping Pulse victims after the shooting. Elizabeth McCarthy is currently in hot water. According to recently released documents by the Florida Department of Health, the former Democratic state House candidate confessed to a state investigator that she lied about being a medical doctor and treating Pulse victims. As such, she is now being charged of violating state law under the state’s unlicensed activity statues. The...

If there’s one thing Broadway legend Patti LuPone is not it’s a homophobe. She’s been an LGBTQ ally since the very beginning and we’re proud to have her in our corner. That said, even allies mess up sometimes. Yesterday, the two-time Tony and Grammy award winner took to Twitter to express her disgust with Sen. Lindsey Graham after he declined to call Donald Trump racist over the whole “go back to where you came from” controversy. “Lindsey Graham, you are a disgrace,” LuPone...

A gaggle of House Republicans are lobbying their colleagues to bully Amazon into restocking two ex-gay conversion books it recently yanked from its online shelves. The trouble began earlier this month when the retailer pulled all the titles written by the late Dr. Joseph Nicolosi (a.k.a. the “father of conversion therapy”) after determining they violated the its guidelines. The move came after a Change.org petition gathered over 80,000 signatures calling on the site to stop selling Nicolosi’s books, “A Parent’s Guide...

Elizabeth McCarthy (image via Elizabeth McCarthy’s Facebook)Yikes. While running her campaign for Florida’s House of Representatives, 50-year-old gay candidate Elizabeth McCarthy apparently lied about working as a cardiologist and helping remove “77 bullets out of 32 people” the night of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. An investigation into her credentials by the Florida Department of Health found that contrary to her public statements, she was never a doctor, she never got her bachelor’s degree from Florida State, she wasn’t working...

Everyone’s been talking about FaceApp, the new photo filter app lets users modify pictures of themselves to appear older, younger, with a different hairstyle, as a different gender, and so on, often to very creepy results. It was all fun and games until people realized that the app was owned by the Russian company Wireless Lab and that it was farming their private data. Given how Russia used people’s data to meddle in the 2016 election, soon people started freaking out. In...

Christian flagThe Liberty Counsel, the Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group which supports criminalizing gay sex and allowing discrimination due to “religious freedom,” recently sued the city of Boston, Massachusetts to force it to fly the Christian flag over city hall. The group filed the lawsuit on behalf of Camp Constitution, a literal camp that wanted to fly the flag for an hour while throwing an “event with pastors encouraging racial reconciliation, freedom in the United States, and celebrating the...

The track, a collaboration with actor and rapper Daniel J. Watts, is a powerful rally cry for Americans to take a stand against President Donald Trump, who has proven unfit to protect the rights of LGBTQ people, women and ethnic minorities. “Oh 45, a real nose dive for American lives, because he’s not really sure, I’m so transfixed, he’s dumb as bricks,” Tituss sings on the track, where he begs the listener to “wake from your slumber” and speak out. Despite...

Ricky Martin has joined the thousands or protestors calling on Puerto Rico’s homophobic governor to resign. Governor Ricardo Rosselló has been facing criticism for some time now regarding his mishandling of Hurricane Maria funds in 2017. The situation became exacerbated last weekend when a local media outlet published almost 900 pages from a leaked private group chat between him and 11 of his cronies revealing homophobic, misogynistic, and other vile remarks. Among the homophobic writings are jokes about people’s sexualities and...

This last Pride month, a site called Popular Information revealed that at least nine American corporation were donating millions to anti-LGBTQ candidates while receiving a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index ranking the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.” Now there’s a recently unveiled campaign called “Zero for Zeros” which is revealing these companies and asking them to stop their harmful donations. These companies include many that you probably use every day like Amazon,...

Rafi Peretz, the Israeli Minister of Education, has backtracked on comments he made in support of so-called conversion therapy for queer people. Over the weekend, Peretz had told local news “I think it’s possible” when asked about conversion therapy. He also added, “I can tell you that I have a deep knowledge of education, and I have done it too,” referring to a student who had reportedly changed his sexual orientation. Before landing his job in the Israeli government, Peretz...