John Russell

1 month ago | gaysonoma.com | John Russell

National/ News/ Top Stories A cisgender woman in Arizona is speaking out after she says she was harassed by cops in the women’s restroom of a Tucson Walmart late last month. Kalaya Morton, 19, of Phoenix, says she and her ex-girlfriend were using adjacent stalls in the store’s women’s restroom when two male sheriff’s deputies entered. “They were flashing lights on our feet and saying, ‘You have to get out of here. You have to come out. We need to talk to you,’” Morton told Advocate. Morton,...

2 months ago | flipboard.com | John Russell

NowThe Oscars are always at least a little bit frustrating when your favorites don’t win, but there are often larger, more universally agreed-upon snubs, and at last night’s 2025 Academy Awards, that was no exception. Obviously, a lot of this is going to be subjective, so all I can offer is my own …

2 months ago | flipboard.com | John Russell

3 hours ago“Who am I to judge?” With those five words, Pope Francis signaled that his papacy was going to be different from his predecessors', especially when it came to LGBTQ issues. In 2013, the pope was barely a few months into his pontificate when reporters pressed him about the issue of gay priests as he …

2 months ago | flipboard.com | John Russell

13 hours agoElon Musk says federal employees must either document their work — or lose their jobsFederal workers across the U.S. government received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to account for what they did in the past week — and Elon Musk says they will lose their jobs if they don't respond.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | John Russell

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