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three men say lindsey graham paid them for sex while he voted against us. his sister won't "entertain" it. we'll do it carefully. The CLOSETocracy, a documentary released on YouTube on Oct. 22, 2026, by The Young Turks and Swamp Watch Studios, features three men who allege the late Sen. Lindsey Graham paid them for sex, including one who says he was 17.... october 23 aoc says she backs trans women because she's a girl's girl. finally, a politician who talks like the group chat. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2026, while campaigning for Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, that she supports the rights of trans women "because I'm a girl's girl," tying trans... october 23 south carolina said no to the gay men's chorus. 470 people said yes, and paid more than the state was going to. The Greenville Gay Men's Chorus has raised $42,075 from 470 donations on GoFundMe, passing its $40,000 goal, after the South Carolina Arts Commission voted 5-3 on Oct. 1, 2026, to deny it a grant of about $13,000 a year over... october 22 a married gay couple says coworkers on a maine solar job threw food at them. guess who got fired. Wilmer Muchacho and Jose Cordero, a married couple, sued solar installer Centre Electric in federal court in Maine on Oct. 14, 2026. They allege coworkers at job sites in Holden and Mattawamkeag called them slurs and threw food at them,... october 22 the guy who sold maga a "woke-free beer" now has his own customers calling him a thief. the call is coming from inside the boycott. Ultra Right Beer, the 'woke-free' beer Georgia political consultant Seth Weathers launched in April 2023 during the boycott of Bud Light over Dylan Mulvaney, has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. Wired reported on Oct. 21, 2026, that... october 22 glee is officially coming back, and lea michele is reportedly in talks to play rachel berry again. we are, unfortunately, gleeks again. On Oct. 21, 2026, Disney+ and Hulu gave a series order to a Glee reboot from 20th Television. No cast, plot or premiere date was announced. Variety and TheWrap reported that Lea Michele is in talks to return as Rachel... october 22 the fake trans mailers in texas had a tracking number. it leads to a vendor whose only federal political client on record is the house gop's campaign arm. they say it wasn't them. Mailers from a fake "Texas Transgender Student Union" carried a mailer ID tied to SnailWorks, a Maryland mail-tracking company, the Texas Tribune reported, and SnailWorks confirmed to the Houston Chronicle it was hired to track them without naming the client.... october 22 enes kanter freedom said the wnba kicked him out. it offered him a private luxury suite with extra security. he chose the sidewalk. Enes Kanter Freedom left Game 3 of the WNBA Finals in Atlanta on Oct. 21, 2026, after refusing to watch from a private suite that the Atlanta Dream and State Farm Arena arranged following his own safety concerns, AP and... october 22 anderson cooper made a supercut of trump talking about men's bodies and called him the assman-in-chief on cnn. i need to lie down. Anderson Cooper closed CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Oct. 21, 2026, with a Seinfeld clip and a montage of President Trump praising the looks of male Republicans, a day after Trump told a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, that he... october 22 strangers keep walking up to the young sheldon star to ask if he's gay. his answer is "not for you." iconic, no notes. In Jessica Radloff's book about Young Sheldon, published Oct. 20, 2026, Iain Armitage, 18, said strangers ask him in public whether he is gay or dating anyone. He did not describe his sexuality; he said he answers with lines like... october 21 two ex-nba players told the wnba they're women to make a point. the wnba wrote back "you're men." now one of them says he's been misgendered. In an Oct. 16, 2026 letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman and four other House Republicans, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert wrote that "only women are eligible to play in the WNBA" and that former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce... october 21 the supreme court just told trump that trans prisoners keep their hormones. only two justices said they'd have let him, and you already know their names. On Oct. 21, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's emergency request in Trump v. Kingdom to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone treatment and social accommodations for about 1,000 transgender federal inmates. Justices Clarence Thomas... october 21