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It’s showtime for Pete Buttigieg to get America fixed back up

President Joe Biden has signed landmark infrastructure legislation that has been promised by multiple administrations but never actually accomplished. The bipartisan bill invests $1 trillion into American roads, electrical grid, and environmental projects. Out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has vowed…

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Cover boy Lil Nas X is one of GQ’s Men of the Year

Queer icon Lil Nas X is adding yet another milestone to his impressive résumé: GQ cover model.  The Grammy-winning “Old Town Road” singer will grace one of the magazine’s three Men of the Year covers, with “Spider-Man” actor Tom Holland and NBA star

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A case of HIV hysteria is uncovered after 30 years

After several people were diagnosed with HIV in a small Florida town in the late 1980s, an unassuming dentist named David Acer was unfairly labeled a Typhoid Mary. The reputation of the closeted Acer, who died in 1990, was dragged

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Unmasking the right-wing’s sweetheart, Moms for Liberty

Moms for Liberty, a nonprofit claiming to advocate for “parental rights,” appears to be using parents as pawns to advance a far-right agenda.  The group — which has quickly gained substantial media attention, becoming a right-wing sweetheart and mainstream spectacle — has…