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<\/p>\nRoger Stone, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, Andy Cohen, Costa Rica, Kanye West, Adele, Mars, Queer Comics: HOT LINKS<\/b>
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RIP<\/strong>. Longtime news producer Dick Jefferson dies at 63<\/a>.<\/p>\n GIULIANI<\/strong>. White House staffers threaten to quit if the \u201ccircus\u201d continues<\/a>: \u201cf the Giuliani circus continues unabated \u2014 with him taking media calls<\/a> day and night and freelancing on legal and policy matters \u2014 White House staff will likely quit, a well-placed source tells me.\u201d<\/p>\n PRIMARY DAY<\/strong>. What\u2019s at stake tomorrow, the first big primary day of 2018<\/a>. \u201cWill a\u00a0new political dynasty<\/a>\u00a0be born? Will a man<\/a> not quite\u00a0a year removed from prison<\/a>\u00a0become the GOP\u2019s candidate for Senate? Will Dennis Kucinich\u00a0finally win a nomination<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 14 years after his first quixotic presidential bid? These things could all happen Tuesday, primary day in the great states of Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n ROSIE O\u2019DONNELL<\/strong>. Under scrutiny for campaign donations<\/a>: \u2018\u201cIf 2700 is the cut off \u2014 [candidates] should refund the money,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t look to see who I can donate most to \u2026 I just donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit.\u201d O\u2019Donnell said she donates often, and uses the online liberal fundraising platform ActBlue. \u201cMy anxiety is quelled by donating to those opposing trump [and] his agenda \u2014 especially at night \u2014 when most of these were placed.\u201d<\/p>\n MALICE<\/strong>. Americans starting to suffer from Trump\u2019s health care agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n ROGER STONE<\/strong>. Hasn\u2019t been contacted by Robert Mueller\u2019s team.\u00a0\u201cI have not.\u201d<\/p>\n CNN’s @ChrisCuomo<\/a>: “Have you been contacted, directly or through counsel, by anybody from the special counsel’s team?”<\/p>\n Roger Stone: “I have not.” pic.twitter.com\/vAUxQwe0H7<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 New Day (@NewDay) May 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n WISCONSIN<\/strong>. Man eats 30,000th Big Mac<\/a>. \u201cGorske says he\u2019s eaten at least one Big Mac almost every day since May 17, 1972. He has kept most of the boxes or receipts or has made specific notes in calendars that he\u2019s kept.\u201d<\/p>\n ISRAEL<\/strong>. Andy Cohen to be International Ambassador of Tel Aviv Pride.<\/p>\n I’m extremely excited and proud to announce I will be the 2018 International Ambassador of #TelAvivPride<\/a> in Israel for the June 8 parade! #LGBTQ<\/a> #Pride<\/a> #VisitIsrael<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Andy Cohen (@Andy) May 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n AS MUCH AS I CAN<\/strong>.\u00a0An immersive theater experience debuting in New York\u00a0on Tuesday that shines a light on the need for supportive networks in response to the HIV crisis among black MSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n COSTA RICA<\/strong>. Enrique S\u00e1nchez, first gay member of Costa Rica\u2019s legislative assembly takes office.<\/a><\/p>\n EVERYONE GOT WRECKED<\/strong>. At Adele\u2019s Titanic-themed birthday party<\/a>.<\/p>\n SPACE<\/strong>. NASA launches Mars InSight Lander<\/a>. \u201cThe nearly $1 billion Mars InSight probe blasted off shortly after 4 a.m. local time, roaring south down the coast to the delight of crowds gathered on beaches and church parking lots to watch in the pre-dawn darkness. The lander\u2019s two-year mission aims to understand what makes the Red Planet like Earth and help advance the search for new homes for our species\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n COSMIC QUESTION OF THE DAY<\/strong>.\u00a0Could space aliens on hefty super-Earths be trapped by their own gravity<\/a>?<\/p>\n KICKSTARTER OF THE DAY<\/strong>.\u00a0No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n MONDAY MUSCLE<\/strong>. Adrien Pillay.<\/p>\n The post Roger Stone, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, Andy Cohen, Costa Rica, Kanye West, Adele, Mars, Queer Comics: HOT LINKS<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kodra.jpg?resize=195%2C195\")
YEARBOOK PHOTO OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Kevin Kodra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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WHITE FREEDOM<\/strong>. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West<\/a>: \u2018What Kanye West seeks is what Michael Jackson sought\u2014liberation from the dictates of that\u00a0we<\/em>. In his visit with West, the rapper T.I. was stunned to find that West, despite his endorsement of Trump, had never heard of the travel ban. \u201cHe don\u2019t know the things that we know because he\u2019s removed himself from society to a point where it don\u2019t reach him,\u201d T.I. said. West calls<\/a> his struggle the right to be a \u201cfree thinker,\u201d and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom\u2014a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls<\/a> you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls<\/a> you to give even more, but a conqueror\u2019s freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, pussy<\/a> grabbers, and\u00a0fuck<\/a> you anyway, bitch<\/em>; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n