MAGA Gay Porn Star Gets UNC Staffer Fired Over DEI - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/maga-gay-porn-star-gets-unc-staffer-fired-over-dei/
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🎵 The Ballad of El Goodo
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https://stayfreerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/thirteen-originally-by-big-star
https://open.spotify.com/track/1B5kQto4k99RG67TJEwwS5
Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie,
a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda,
is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.
Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida.
She moved to D.C. in January.
Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $1…
Photographed a new lupine — harlequin lupine, Lupinus stiversii — in Yosemite National Park over the weekend
#naturalist
WGA East threatens a strike by Vox employees without a new contract that includes The Dodo Union staffers along with better pay, AI protections, and more (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-strike-pledge-new-deal-ai-protecti…
Stavropol explosion kills Russian official who led attacks on Ukraine's Mariupol: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/stavropol-explosion-kills-russian-official.html
How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…
After contractor cuts, Voice of America staffers brace for further layoffs - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/05/28/voice-of-america-layoffs/
Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google