06/22/25

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📱 JD Vance has reportedly become the most blocked account on Bluesky just two days after joining the social media platform. The vice president signed up for the site, a competitor of X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.

💍 Wedding spending by same-sex couples and their out-of-state guests has boosted state and local economies by approximately $5.9 billion over the past 10 years, a new study by the Williams Institute has found.

🚨 Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn't mince her words when dissenting to the majority in U.S. v. Skrmetti, accusing her conservative colleagues of “abandon[ing] transgender children and their families to political whims.” The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth. “By refusing to apply heightened scrutiny, the majority renders transgender Americans doubly vulnerable to state-sanctioned discrimination,” she wrote. "In sadness, I dissent."

Onward and upward,

Alex Cooper

Editor-in-Chief, The Advocate

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