Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

It’s always projection and crazy talk when he gets frazzled.

I can’t imagine having joined the military to protect the country and being forced to walk around Washington DC without pay like these soldiers who just waved at me.

“Why should anyone feel secure about the right to marry when this Court has proven it doesn’t believe in precedent?” Jim Obergefell told me. www.advocate.com/news/kim-dav...

Jon Lovett and Arizona U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego now at Crooked Con, talking about Democratic messaging to reach middle of the road voters.

Now at Crooked Con 2025, social media influencers and creators Brian Tyler Cohen, Adam Mockler and Ky Polanco are discussing “how to make content that breaks through.”

I’m at Crooked Con, Crooked Media’s convention on democracy in D.C., where Congresswoman Sarah McBride and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear are very popular panelists. The panel with Jon Lovett, Hasan Piker, Symone Sanders Townsend, Tim Miller and Jessica Tarlov is so packed they’ve turned people away.

“The government made no secret of its intent. There’s a very strong record making the case of animus, expressed on the face of the policy and in the words and deeds of [Hegseth and Trump], lead @gladlaw.bsky.social attorney Jennifer Levi told me. www.advocate.com/news/talbott...

“The government made no secret of its intent. There’s a very strong record making the case of animus, expressed on the face of the policy and in the words and deeds of [Hegseth and Trump], lead @gladlaw.bsky.social attorney Jennifer Levi told me. www.advocate.com/news/talbott...

Getty’s Andrew Harnik today took what should be the photo of the year.

No shit.

Getty’s Andrew Harnik today took what should be the photo of the year.

The Trump administration went so far as to send a SWAT team to his luxury condo and made a propaganda video out of the arrest. Then, a federal grand jury declined to indict ‘sandwich guy’ Sean Dunn. Now, a criminal jury found him not guilty of assault. www.advocate.com/crime/sean-d...

Why do people seem to always faint when they’re in the Oval Office with Trump, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz? What just happened is the second or third time somebody has collapsed, and the press was rushed out of the Oval.

I’m about to be live on “The Briefing with Steve Scully” on SiriusXM POTUS to discuss the Supreme Court’s conference tomorrow, where the justices will consider whether to accept Kim Davis’s challenge to marriage equality. Channel 124 if you’re interested.

JoAnna Mendoza is a queer former USMC drill instructor, like in the new Netflix show “Boots” (that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon called “woke garbage”), and she’s running for Congress in Arizona. www.advocate.com/politics/joa...

“Attorneys who want to overturn Obergefell are trying to shoehorn that into a very narrow case,” GLAD Law legal director Josh Rovenger told me. The justices will meet about the case tomorrow. www.advocate.com/news/kim-dav...

LGBTQ+ groups are celebrating Nancy Pelosi. “She fought for funding at a time when members didn’t even want to say the word AIDS… and she was one of the sharpest and most powerful critics of those who attack us,” the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Cathy Renna told me. www.advocate.com/politics/nan...

This married couple, the Gardening Gays, woke up this morning and found human feces and medical waste strewn at their rural Virginia farm’s entrance and welcome sign. They told me they don’t think it’s a coincidence that it happened the night Virginia voted blue. www.advocate.com/news/gardeni...

“Attorneys who want to overturn Obergefell are trying to shoehorn that into a very narrow case,” GLAD Law legal director Josh Rovenger told me. The justices will meet about the case tomorrow. www.advocate.com/news/kim-dav...

This married couple, the Gardening Gays, woke up this morning and found human feces and medical waste strewn at their rural Virginia farm’s entrance and welcome sign. They told me they don’t think it’s a coincidence that it happened the night Virginia voted blue. www.advocate.com/news/gardeni...

🧵Crushed it

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

lol

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

“Turn the volume up!”

Sure seems like tonight is a blue tsunami.

The truth is that anti-trans ads have never been decisive anywhere, and I would love it if this cycle puts the nail in the coffin of that nonsense narrative.

Breaking: Jubilation in Richmond, Virginia where Abigail Spanberger was just elected the new governor. Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state. www.advocate.com/politics/abi...

The room here in Richmond is electric as Abigail Spanberger continues her victory speech.

Breaking: Jubilation in Richmond, Virginia where Abigail Spanberger was just elected the new governor. Republican anti-trans ads did not work in the state. www.advocate.com/politics/abi...

This week on The Mess, @imarajones.bsky.social is joined by @cwnewser.bsky.social, senior national reporter for The Advocate. Together they deconstruct how our political climate and norms have been demolished under the absurdity of this administration. 🎧 Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Huge press presence here in Richmond, Virginia, at Abigail Spanberger’s election night event, where doors will open soon for supporters, as the state election returns that will decide who the next governor is come in. Polls close at 7 p.m. ET. I’m here, reporting for @advocate.com.

After a grand jury declined to indict the guy who threw a Subway sandwich at a Border Patrol agent, the DOJ is moving forward with a full trial for the misdemeanor salami-tossing incident. www.advocate.com/crime/sandwi...

“I am immensely more qualified than Pete Hegseth is to run the DoD,” fighter pilot Emily Shilling told me. “I’ve led more people. I’ve led larger budgets than he ever had before taking over, and I’m not even qualified. This guy has no purpose being in that seat.” www.advocate.com/history/hist...

Their cruelty knows no bounds. Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has ordered trans military members to appear at their separation board hearings in drag, dressed and groomed to the standards of their sex assigned at birth and not their gender identity. www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

“The high of orientation was met with probably the deepest low of my life outside of losing my husband to cancer,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride told me in a deeply personal and revealing interview. www.advocate.com/politics/sar...

Voting today in Virginia and trans? Know your rights.

“Why should anyone feel secure about the right to marry when this Court has proven it doesn’t believe in precedent?” Jim Obergefell told me. www.advocate.com/news/kim-dav...

Kamala Harris can sue CBS for … $500 billion because they edited Trump’s 60 Minutes interview, right? That’s the law now, is it not?

“I am immensely more qualified than Pete Hegseth is to run the DoD,” fighter pilot Emily Shilling told me. “I’ve led more people. I’ve led larger budgets than he ever had before taking over, and I’m not even qualified. This guy has no purpose being in that seat.” www.advocate.com/history/hist...

Their cruelty knows no bounds. Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has ordered trans military members to appear at their separation board hearings in drag, dressed and groomed to the standards of their sex assigned at birth and not their gender identity. www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

“The high of orientation was met with probably the deepest low of my life outside of losing my husband to cancer,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride told me in a deeply personal and revealing interview. www.advocate.com/politics/sar...

Republicans “have put on a big show deporting people and targeting transgender folks,” President Barack Obama said about the GOP’s scapegoating of minorities and DEI, at the Abigail Spanberger rally in Virginia.

Surprising exactly nobody.

INBOX: The White House is now limiting further where the White House press corps can go. This memo just went out from White House National Security Council to comms director Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt and is “effective immediately.”

Georgia State Rep. Karla Drenner told me about a colleague of hers in the legislature, who had said to her, “I decided you weren’t worth knowing,” because she’s gay. She added, “He watched me for years, and one day he said he was wrong.” www.advocate.com/politics/kar...

“There’s reason to be hopeful, but don’t be optimistic. Optimism assumes it’ll just get better by itself. Our only hope is if people rise together and fight back.” – Kevin Jennings, @lambdalegalceo.bsky.social Read more about "All Rise," our new campaign to fund the fight for LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈  

It turns out that nobody wants to go to the Trump-Grenell Kennedy Center. www.advocate.com/news/kennedy...

It turns out that nobody wants to go to the Trump-Grenell Kennedy Center. www.advocate.com/news/kennedy...