U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: 'We Stand with You'

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/21/us-attorney-general-loretta-lynch-we-stand-you

Marco Rubio Considers Reelection Bid, 'Astonishingly' Cites Pulse Tragedy

That Rubio would seek another term in the U.S. Senate is “shameful,” says the Human Rights Campaign.

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/6/21/marco-rubio-considers-reelection-bid-astonishingly-cites-pulse-tragedy

Man Claims He Had an Intimate Relationship With Orlando Shooter

The man told Univision that Omar Mateen’s motive was not “terrorism” but rather a revenge attack on Puerto Ricans. 

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/21/man-claims-he-had-intimate-relationship-orlando-shooter

Chris Pratt, Draper Sterling, Michelle Obama, Finn Cole, Hydraulic Press: NEWS

2016 ELECTION. Donald Trump claims things are going to change: “I think Corey’s terrific. I watched him before. He was terrific toward me. Said I was a talented person. And he’s a talented person,” Trump said on “The O’Reilly Factor.” “He’s a good guy. He’s a friend of mine. But I think it’s time now for a different kind of a campaign. We ran a small, beautiful, well-unified campaign. It worked very well in the primaries.”

WATCH: @DavidMuir asks @realDonaldTrump why so many Trump products are made overseas.t.co/wpqMN595wT

— ABC News (@ABC) June 21, 2016

MAD MAN. Trump makes several payments to Draper Sterling ad agency. “In their most recent FEC filing, the Donald Trump campaign revealed that they paid $35,000 to an ad agency that, by all appearances, doesn’t actually exist.”

Trump report includes three 10K payments to “Draper Sterling” for advertising

Who is going break it to him that it’s a fictional ad agency?

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 21, 2016

HE WROTE THE BOOK. Hillary Clinton on Trump: “He’s written a lot of books about business; they all seem to end at Chapter 11.”

MISSISSIPPI. Federal judge refuses to block state’s anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ law: “U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves argued in his four-page order that since none of the lawsuit’s plaintiffs would be harmed by the law in the immediate future, a preliminary injunction would be inappropriate.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS. Blake Lively says that she and Ryan Reynolds are officially “breeders”.

INCOMING. Michelle Obama to do Carpool Karaoke with James Corden. “CBS has confirmed to Mashable that FLOTUS will be joining Corden on his internet-dominating segment, which airs during the Late Late Show.”

KIM DAVIS. Rowan County, Kentucky clerk asks federal appeals court to dismiss her case: “Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized gay marriage last year. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her. A federal judge ordered her to issue the licenses, but she refused and went to jail. Davis appealed the decision, and a federal appeals court had scheduled arguments in the case next month. But in April, the state legislature approved a new law removing the county clerks’ names and authorizations from state marriage licenses.”

NORTHERN LIGHTS. A new Frozen story is on the way. Will they #GiveElsaAGirlfriend?

POSTERIORS. Finn Cole in Animal Kingdom (work unfriendly).

ORLANDO. Inside the gay clubs, a week after the shooting: “I went out to gay bars in Orlando on the one-week anniversary of the tragedy hoping to prove that people were overcoming through joyous clubbing; that they were reclaiming a queer space that had taken from them through direct violence. I wanted to gay up my reporting—not just ask people questions, but be with them, dance with them, maybe even hook up with them. But it didn’t really work out. People were too depressed.”

IT HAPPENED. Rick Astley hit #1 again in the UK.

NYT. Gay summer events worth traveling to. “The parades close out Pride month but kick off a busy calendar of events with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes that are intimate enough, even with added security in place, to balance fellowship with fun.”

HOTTIES. Michael B. Jordan on the beach in Maui.

BLOOD BAN. Senators press FDA to lift discriminatory policy. “Saying the Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub this month highlights a discriminatory federal policy regarding blood donations, U.S. senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell on Monday joined the growing call to end restrictions targeting gay and bisexual men, among others. They were among two dozen senators who sent a bipartisan letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf urging the agency to update the agency’s policy that refuses donations from gay and bisexual men who have had sex with another man within the past year.”

BLAST FROM THE PAST. When Chris Pratt was a yummy chubby goofball.

WYOMING. Pinedale municipal judge and circuit court magistrate Ruth Neely can’t refuse to marry gay couples: “Neely’s constitutional rights do not “exempt her from complying with the Wyoming Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibits such conduct by a judge and to which she swore her oath to abide by as a judicial officer for the State of Wyoming,” the Wyoming Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics wrote in a brief filed Wednesday.”

CRUSHED IT. Hydraulic Press Channel receives YouTube award for 100,000 subscribers, handles it appropriately.

TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Vlad Castillo.

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Kim Davis Just Wants to Make the Case Against Her Go Away

The antigay Kentucky county clerk claims a new law gives her all the “religious accommodation” she ever desired.

www.advocate.com/politics/2016/6/21/kim-davis-just-wants-make-case-against-her-go-away

Could Orlando Make Frank Ocean an Activist?

“Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist,” wrote Ocean in a lucid Tumblr post, about the Orlando shootings. 

www.advocate.com/music/2016/6/21/could-orlando-make-frank-ocean-activist

Details of the Plot to Assassinate Donald Trump (Video)

www.advocate.com/election/2016/6/21/details-plot-assassinate-donald-trump-video

Donald Trump’s ‘Evangelical Executive Advisory Board’ is a ‘Who’s Who’ of Anti-Gay Figures

Donald Trump today announced his Evangelical Executive Advisory Board which is a ‘Who’s Who’ of anti-LGBT figures.

Said Trump: “I have such tremendous respect and admiration for this group and I look forward to continuing to talk about the issues important to Evangelicals, and all Americans, and the common sense solutions I will implement when I am President.”

The list:

Executive board members include:
•    Michele Bachmann – Former Congresswoman
•    A.R. Bernard – Senior Pastor and CEO, Christian Cultural Center
•    Mark Burns – Pastor, Harvest Praise and Worship Center
•    Tim Clinton – President, American Association of Christian Counselors
•    Kenneth and Gloria Copeland – Founders, Kenneth Copeland Ministries
•    James Dobson – Author, Psychologist and Host, My Family Talk
•    Jerry Falwell, Jr. – President, Liberty University
•    Ronnie Floyd – Senior Pastor, Cross Church
•    Jentezen Franklin – Senior Pastor, Free Chapel
•    Jack Graham – Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
•    Harry Jackson – Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
•    Robert Jeffress – Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas
•    David Jeremiah – Senior Pastor, Shadow Mountain Community Church
•    Richard Land – President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
•    James MacDonald – Founder and Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel
•    Johnnie Moore – Author, President of The KAIROS Company
•    Robert Morris – Senior Pastor, Gateway Church
•    Tom Mullins – Senior Pastor, Christ Fellowship¬
•    Ralph Reed – Founder, Faith and Freedom Coalition
•    James Robison – Founder, Life OUTREACH International
•    Tony Suarez – Executive Vice President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
•    Jay Strack – President, Student Leadership University
•    Paula White – Senior Pastor, New Destiny Christian Center
•    Tom Winters – Attorney, Winters and King, Inc.
•    Sealy Yates – Attorney, Yates and Yates

Trump made the announcement in a conjunction with a meeting with leaders of the Religious Right in New York and told the gathering of Christianists that they should not pray for all leaders, but selectively pray for the ones who aren’t “selling the evangelicals down the tubes,” specifically him:

[…Anything] about Hillary in terms of religion. She’s been in the public eye for years and years and yet there’s nothing out there, there’s, like, nothing out there. She’s going to be an extension of Obama but it’s going to be worse because with Obama, you had your guard up, with Hillary you don’t, and it’s going to be worse. So, I think people were saying, some of the people were saying, ‘Let’s pray for our leaders.’ Well, you can pray for your leaders, and I agree with that, pray for everyone, but what you really have to do is you have to pray to get everybody out to vote, and for one specific person. We can’t be politically correct and say we pray for all of our leaders because all of your leaders are selling Christianity down the tubes, selling the evangelicals down the tubes, and it’s a very, very bad thing that’s happening.

Far-right activist E.W. Jackson tweeted out a video of Trump making that speech:

Our leaders are “selling Christianity down the tubes” #ConversationWithTrump pic.twitter.com/55PBY26aAv

— E.W. Jackson (@ewjacksonsr) June 21, 2016

And then he later misrepresented what Trump said:

“Let me just address one thing that he said during our steering committee meeting,”Jackson stated, “when he said, ‘Don’t buy this political correctness you gotta pray for everybody’ … There are some people who say, ‘Oh, Donald Trump said don’t pray for all your leaders, only pray for him.’ Look folks, I was in the room. Donald Trump acknowledged that we’re supposed to pray for everybody. He acknowledged that. But what he was trying to say was, after that he said don’t let political correctness stop you from realizing I gotta pray for everybody [but] you gotta pray for this campaign, you have got to pray for new leadership in this country.”

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