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AUSTIN, Texas - It was a historic election night in Texas, with many firsts and political shifts taking place, including in the statewide courts. Democrat Maggie Ellis became the first woman elected to lead the state’s highest civil court after defeating Republican incumbent Jimmy Blacklock in the race for Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice. She also is the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected statewide in Texas, according to her campaign.

Billionaire media mogul David Geffen has reportedly rekindled his romance with his ex-husband Donovan Michaels, just months after their bitter divorce and an explosive lawsuit. The 83-year-old entertainment titan and his 33-year-old former spouse appeared 'very much back together' during an October outing aboard Geffen's 454-foot superyacht Rising Sun, sources told Page Six. The apparent reconciliation comes as a surprise, given the vicious legal battle that followed their split and the wild accusations Michaels leveled against his billionaire ex. Their reconciliation comes just seven months after their divorce was finalized in April, bringing an end to a marriage that lasted...

We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the "Third Turning": an unraveling. The so-called Left is making it happen, too, with conservatives enabling it by conserving yesterday's liberalism and being those nice guys who finish last. In Marxist circles, this stage would be called "destabilization" — the second of a four-part process to subvert a society and seize control. The first, third, and fourth stages are, respectively, "demoralization," "crisis," and "normalization." The demoralization stage, which essentially is the undermining of a target nation's morality (the process of radically changing the population's...

The New York Times probably didn’t start their day planning to blow up Jane Doe’s case against the so-called “Cornell 7,” but its own reporting has done just that. Buried inside the Times’ reconstruction of the accusations against seven Cornell frat members is a sequence of events that dramatically changes the picture and essentially tells the world these young guys are innocent and there was no rape. According to documents obtained by the Times, Jane Doe didn’t initially describe herself as a “rape victim” after the night in question. Quite the contrary. She reportedly told roommates what happened, exchanged friendly...

The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media making ­everything worse. It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices... A young woman who goes by “Jane Doe” has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time... Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten,...

Police in Pembroke Pines are investigating a video that shows a man abusing and killing ducks, officials said. The video from Aug. 30 captured the incident that happened behind a building in the area of University Drive and Northwest 13th Street

John Symonds, who died on October 21 aged 92, was the prolific author of imaginative, quirky fantasies, though he was better known as the literary executor and biographer of the voluptuary, occultist and megalomaniac Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).Symonds met Crowley a year before his death, at a Hastings boarding house where the self-styled “Beast 666” was eking out his squalid final months as a spent mage on a diet of gin and heroin. Crowley’s will, which he apparently concocted himself, vested the copyright of his works in Symonds and made him his literary executor.Symonds was initially fascinated by Crowley, but as...

James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee. Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face. Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a...

No one believes Satan has prophets, but he does, this is what they are telling us to believe, but worst of all, this is exactly what we are doing. When the prophet Micah began preaching to Israel about their political, social, and economic decline, they accused him of blasphemy, and there are those who would be more than glad to have put him to death. The Golden Age of Israel was at its peak during Micah’s time, and to say that it was going to end suddenly, completely, to the people it sounded like deep blasphemy. They wouldn’t hear of...

I just wanted to make this a bit of a heartfelt rant and I will give the link later. Some of you probably know a homosexual who was dismissed from the now-defunct Christian music group "Avalon" has re-released one of their songs. He says it celebrates his homosexual lifestyle. Disappointing enough, but not surprising. What has really prompted my post today is my exceeding disappointment in five women who have blessed my walk with their music: Point of Grace, a trio of singers. Nichole Nordeman, a solo artist. Kim Hill, a musician from the 80s and 90s. All five of...

One of TV’s longest-running children's shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media. Sesame Street shared a post on social media Tuesday, which read: “Happy Pride Month from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the [gay and lesbian] members of our community.” The post also included an image featuring different rainbow-colored furs resembling puppet characters from Sesame Street, such as Elmo, Cookie Monster and others. Primarily geared toward toddlers, the series, (which moved in 2015 from PBS to HBO, and in 2025) was acquired by Netflix — drew the ire of...

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Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is shaping up to be the biggest movie of the year, and right-wing voices are furious at it. “Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey,” wrote Elon Musk on X. Musk, alongside hundreds of right-wing culture warriors algorithmically boosted on his platform, have spent the past few weeks fuming over the news that Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o is playing Helen of Troy, and that transgender actor Elliot Page might be playing Achilles. One right-wing influencer described the casting of Page as Achilles as “the final straw to ruin Homer.” Another pundit, in a post that received...

Ocean Drive was filled with [homosexuals parading] as the Miami Beach Pride Parade marked its 18th anniversary. Despite new legislation limiting local government support for diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) initiatives, this...

Every six months, approximately 130,000 Russian conscripts are called up for their year of service, where most of them will face sadistic hazing. In Russian, it’s called dedovshchina, a brutal internal army regime that began in Soviet times but is thoroughly embedded in modern military culture. Western militaries have worked hard to reduce bullying and hazing in the ranks with some, but not complete, success. But in Russia’s army, dedovshchina is a unique cultural staple and a formative part of the military identity. Multiple sources, both those who served in Soviet times and those with experience in the modern Russian...

"The whole world is on the precipice of something much worse"Russell T. Davies has spoken about the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the world, believing the current political climate has fostered hostility toward the community. The writer, who created the pioneering ‘90s TV show Queer As Folk as well as 2021’s It’s A Sin, spoke at a Screen Talk at the BFI Flare Festival in London on Monday (March 23). He was promoting his new series Tip Toe, a drama about a bar owner in Manchester who becomes embroiled in a feud with his neighbour. Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ rights...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The former partner of Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis died by suicide on Thursday, one day after making a court appearance. Daniel Curran was found dead at a building at Northeast 36th Street and North Ocean Boulevard on his 35th birthday. His death comes after a domestic violence case against Curran where Trantalis, 72, cited previous incidents of threats and violence.

Joe Biden and his wife Jill ventured out in Santa Monica, Calif., amid his battle with cancer, Page Six is told. Spies spotted the former first couple at celeb favorite Giorgio Baldi with Scott Miller, the former Ambassador to Switzerland, and his husband, LGBTQ+ activist Tim Gill. Fellow diners told us that Joe — who was diagnosed in May 2025 with an aggressive form of stage 4 prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones — was quiet for much of the dinner, but piped up to sing “Happy Birthday” to guests celebrating at a neighboring table. “Jill did most...

Sometimes, doing what you believe is right comes with a cost. For former National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) midfielder Elizabeth Eddy Biggs, she knew that long before she ever hit "post." Mrs. Biggs officially announced her retirement Tuesday after an 11-year professional career. "I'm deeply thankful to God, my family, friends, teammates, staff, coaches and fans for this wild, wonderful journey, both full of blessing and growth," Mrs. Biggs said in a video posted to her social media. (Video: https://x.com/elizabetheddy2/status/2036553794373210317) And, in a conversation with OutKick on Monday, she said she's at peace with how everything unfolded — even if...

A coalition of congressional Democrats unveiled a resolution titled the “Trans Bill of Rights” last week to push back against the “fear” and “hatred” propelled by those who believe that one’s sex corresponds to their biological sex. As written by Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., in a press release, the resolution aims to direct the federal government to expand transgender access to public “services” and “accommodations.” The bill language adds that it aims to ensure that “transgender and non-binary people” get “equal access” to “services and public accommodations that align with their gender identity. The bill also states that transgenders should...