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Pete Buttigieg shades 'Trump’s personality cult,' says MAGA has a 'warped reality'

Pete Buttigieg appeared on Fox News Sunday to tell conservatives on their own airwaves that they're in a cult.

As GOP Fragments, Sen. Ben Sasse Slams 'Weird Worship' of Trump

"Personality cults aren't conservative," says the senator from Nebraska, who's under threat of censure for criticizing Donald Trump.

Ancient gender-nonconforming Romans found refuge in a community dedicated to a goddess

The Catholic Church has long emphasized traditional binary views of gender. But in many places, both present and past, individuals have been able to push back against gender norms.

The huge banner of a glaring Trump in front of the USDA is a literal sign the U.S. has lost its democracy

Opinion: When public spaces glorify the ruler, dissent is silenced, and history is rewritten, it's the end of America as we knew it, writes John Casey.

Ezra Miller’s Alleged World of Drugs, Guns, and Messianic Visions

Sources describe the Flash actor on a downward spiral of disturbing behavior.

The Coming Sham Impeachment Trial Proves Trump Owns the GOP

Republicans stood against corrupt Nixon. An even greater presidential monster has emerged, but his party doesn't demur this time. We'll all pay the price.

MAGA money and manpower running Trump’s military parade create a sickening spectacle of shame

Opinion: Soldiers will be exploited and used by MAGA as stagecraft for a wannabe dictator who used five deferments to dodge service, writes John Casey.

Who is Katie Britt, the GOP senator who inspired a million memes

Everybody is talking about the hilarious/distrubing performance of the junior Republican U.S. senator from Alabama in her response to the State of the Union. Here are some things to know about her.

Trump's Reelection Strategy Is to Make Us Doubt Everything

The wannabe dictator's unspoken slogan: Doubt the Dems, doubt our institutions, doubt the truth; nothing matters so just vote for me.

So long, partner

In his short life, Heath Ledger barely had time to tap his potential. But for us, he had already achieved the performance of a lifetime--and losing him so soon after Brokeback Mountain is like suffering a death in the family.

Op-ed: The Friends of Hugo Chavez

With friends like Hugo Chavez, who needs enemies?

Valentino’s Dolce Vita

After years of giving Vanity Fair readers an insider's gaze into the personal lives of the rich and infamous, Matt Tyrnauer steps behind the camera for his first documentary film, the compelling Valentino: The Last Emperor.

In the Jeffrey Epstein pit of venomous MAGA snakes, here’s which serpent will come out alive

Opinion: A who’s who of hissing vipers, Carlson, Jones, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino, et al., under the spell of one snake charmer, writes John Casey.

After Surviving a Mass Shooting, Daniel Hernandez Only Looks Forward

The out Arizona legislator -- who gained a national profile after helping save Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's life -- is now running for Congress.

Gay U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan hopes November’s election will turn the page on Donald Trump and the far right

The Wisconsin congressman shared his thoughts with The Advocate on the temperature of anti-LGBTQ+ political rhetoric and the 2024 election.

Wilson Cruz: 'We're in Revolutionary Times'

The Star Trek: Discovery star opens up about being gay in 90s Hollywood.

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Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik Spews Anti-LGBTQ+ Bile in Fox Interview

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Chaya Raichik called the LGBTQ+ community a "cult" of "evil people" who are "recruiting."