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Representative Lynn Afendoulis has announced her intentions to introduce a bill that would mean only the American and the state flag can be flown outside governmental buildings in Michigan. Her bill is coming after the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, flew the rainbow flag outside of the Romney Office Building for a day during Pride Month. Afendoulis said it was “inappropriate to promote social policy, even in the form of a flag, on state office buildings. “We shouldn’t be playing identity politics with...

Gay adult film stars Michael DelRay and Dante Colle trolled a group of anti-LGBTQ hate preachers at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, California last week. The homophobic group of Bible-bashers could be heard yelling into a megaphone about eternal damnation and hell at passersby. One of the preachers wore a “TRUST JESUS” t-shirt while the other held a sign that read “Where will you spend eternity?” and “Repent or perish.” Colle tweeted that they asked the religious extremists how...

In the spirit of brotherhood, many US citizens took to Twitter to offer their sympathy to Britons for having Boris Johnson as their new prime minister. Johnson who won by a significant majority vote from the British Conservative party remains a controversial figure for many. Some see similarities between US President Donald Trump and Johnson including their disregard for "rules", their confidence, and their signature strawberry blonde hair. After Johnson's victory was announced, Trump even said the British were calling the new...

On Friday 19 July, 20-year-old Kathy Zhu shared a screenshot of an email she received from the Miss World America organisation, informing her that she would be stripped of her Miss Michigan title, which she had recently won. “It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America that your social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content,” the letter said, adding that she no longer met the requirement of “being in good character”. Kathy claimed that the social...

Earlier this month, an anonymous footballer opened an account on Twitter with the name ‘The Gay Footballer’. His first tweet read: “I’m a professional footballer, playing for a club in the @SkyBetChamp. I will be revealing my identity soon, but I am a proud gay man, hoping to break the mould. I am under the age of 23, and today I came out to my family.” It ended with the footballer declaring that he will “soon come out publicly”. He followed...

Yvie Oddly has issued an apology to her fans over recent “controversial” tweets. The queen – who won the eleventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race – caused “quite the stir” on Twitter after telling fans that she will refuse to take photos after she finishes a show, saying: “Don’t be selfish.” “Imagine that you’re a very passionate chef who landed your dream job at a prestigious restaurant,” she wrote. “Imagine that you just spent a long day on your feet cooking...

The Miss World America organization has stripped a fervent Trump-supporting model of her Miss Michigan 2019 title over “racist, Islamophobic, and insensitive” social media posts, with one such tweet saying: “The majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks.” Kathy Zhu, 20, is a University of Michigan student who won the 2019 Michigan World America title on Sunday. However, her reign was cut short after organizers became aware of Zhu’s controversial Twitter posts. Zhu tweeted Thursday what appeared to be a...

CNN’s Randi Kaye interviewed two Eau Claire, Wisconsin residents who supported President Trump in 2016 to see who they are supporting in the 2020 election. Kaye began by asking the coworkers about Trump’s racist tweets telling four congresswomen of color to “go back” to their “crime infested” countries. Kerri Krumenauer, an employee of Wiersgalla Plumbing & Heating Company, defended the president and rejected claims that his attacks are in any way racist. “How is it racist?” Krumenauer asked. “If you don’t like...

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...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, the oldest son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, to be secretary of labor. In a tweet on Thursday evening, Trump praised Scalia’s experience as a lawyer “with great experience working with labor and everyone else.” Politico first reported earlier on Thursday that Trump would likely tap Scalia for the role . Scalia, 55, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chants of “send her back” by supporters of President Donald Trump, attacking Somali-born U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, triggered a wave of concern among congressional Republicans on Thursday, while Omar said Trump was “spewing fascist ideology.” Alarmed that the inflammatory chant might become a theme of the 2020 election campaign, Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives discussed the potential political risks at a breakfast with Vice President Mike Pence, according to Representative Mark Walker of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump may not have planned it this way, but his attacks on four liberal lawmakers as un-American have emerged as a major strategy of his 2020 re-election campaign, and more thunder from him was expected at a rally on Wednesday night. Despite criticism from Democrats that his attacks are racist, Trump has intensified his portrayal of the four minority congresswomen as people who should leave the country if they do not like his policies...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump for “racist comments” against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic vote aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him. Tempers flared in the hours leading up to the vote that mainly split along party lines, the culmination of three days of outrage sparked by a Trump tweetstorm that diverted attention from all other business in Washington. Trump had...

Republican Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.) on Tuesday attempted to take the heat off President Trump after his racist tweets targeting four congresswomen of color by cliaming he is “a person of color” because he is white. “Why do we get wrapped around the axle about everything he says,” Kelly, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, told VICE News. “Listen, he’s not a politician.” The conservative Republican said charges of racism against the president are “way beyond the pale.” “You...