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While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is posting bizarre videos wishing for a return to the violent masculinity that brought us the Vietnam War, the Biden-Harris administration has scored another big win for LGBTQ+ justice.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday that more than 800 former service members discharged under the homophobic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy have had their status upgraded to “honorable discharge” after a yearlong review.“Don't Ask, Don't Tell” affected more than 13,000 military members during the 17 years it was in effect and barred openly gay people from serving. According to Christa A. Specht, a legal policy director at the Pentagon, while most of those members were given honorable discharges, “nearly 2,000 were separated with less than fully honorable characterizations.” While many of those affected by the policy appealed for an upgrade after the policy was reversed in 2011, others likely didn’t know that was an option and did not apply. Austin announced in September 2023 that the Pentagon would be reviewing the remaining cases in order to “do right by our outstanding service members, military families, and civilian employees.” According to Austin, 96.8% of the cases reviewed received an upgrade to their status.

The Republican presidential nominee posted a video on Saturday titled “America’s Military: President Donald J. Trump vs. Comrade Kamala Harris.” “WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!” Trump wrote in the post accompanying the video.The amateurish effort splices footage from Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket” alongside video of drag queens and transgender advocates. R. Lee Ermey’s notoriously abusive drill sergeant character who dehumanizes new recruits during basic training is captioned “President Trump.” Those clips are juxtaposed with videos ripped off of social media of LGBTQ+ people dancing, with a caption reading “Comrade Kamala.”xWE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2024

Hung Cao disparaged people who are tolerant of drag queens by implying they are not tough enough to serve in the U.S. military.

Donald Trump attended the highly anticipated Alabama-Georgia college football matchup

The Senate on Wednesday quietly cleared a key military nomination for commanding general of the U.S. Army in the Pacific after Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) dropped his hold on the nominee. Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark, the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, was confirmed to be a general for the commanding Army job...

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats from advancing a resolution aimed at ensuring access to emergency health care, including for abortions, as Democrats keep their messaging centered on reproductive rights ahead of November. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) attempted to pass the resolution, which was introduced last week, via unanimous consent. She argued it was necessary after ProPublica reported a [...]

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) holds a press conference about requesting additional resources for the Secret Service, at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 17.

Republican senators are calling on Secret Service to increase security for former President Donald Trump in the wake of a second assassination attempt.

Republican senators are fast losing patience with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) inability to muster the votes to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, and are warning they will take matters into their own hands if the House fails to act by Thursday. GOP senators fear that Congress may stumble into a shutdown [...]

Senate Republicans seethed Monday after former President Trump was subject to what authorities said was another assassination attempt and questioned why Secret Service protection has not been beefed up even more since the shooting in Butler, Pa., two months ago. GOP lawmakers returned to the Capitol angry and upset, and pointed fingers at the Secret [...]

Sylacauga, Alabama, residents fume at officials over an influx of Haitian migrants legally in their town under Temporary Protective Status as state lawmakers seek action.

Democrats are finding their footing on football, promoting their pigskin backgrounds and talking up the game. Republicans, however, see an inauthentic rebrand.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seen after Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on July 30, is looking ahead to his next act.

Free and fair elections have been a nightmare for Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016 and was voted out of office in 2020 after one term, whereupon he told his followers that he had won and fomented a violent insurrection. No wonder the former president is all in for the authoritarian alternative.

'The worst outcome will be what happens to us.'

A South Florida dive bar has been hit by backlash after displaying a joke about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on its large outdoor sign.“How do you miss a head that’s that inflated?” was arranged in large letters on the marquee outside Harry’s Banana Farm in Lake Worth Beach Monday, Miami News Times reports. The sign was taken down within 24 hours following public outcry, mostly from supporters of the former president and current GOP nominee to return to the White House.Trump was injured and a spectator was killed Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when a 20-year-old shooter climbed a roof and fired off several shots before being killed by Secret Service members.Harry’s Banana Farm manager Lou De Stout told WPTV News he has a penchant for crafting snarky signage outside the bar.ALSO READ: Ex-Republican concerned Trump is hiding medical report after attack"I thought it was just another humorous sign but apparently it struck a nerve,” De Stout told WPTV.Soon after the sign went up, Trump supporters gathered outside the restaurant Monday in protest and flocked to the business's online Yelp page, spamming it with negative reviews.The following day, the bar had a new message on the marquee."Yeah for Trump. So happy for him. You crazy b-----ds happy?"Watch the video below or at this link.

"Hopefully we can work through this and get something done in a short period of time," the Alabama senator said.

The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.

The Senate on Thursday approved three senior military nominations, filling crucial positions to lead the Navy, Air Force and Marines that have until now been blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.). The Senate voted to confirm Adm. Lisa Franchetti for chief of naval operations, making her the first woman to officially lead the Navy. Franchetti has been serving as chief of...

For hours on the Senate floor Wednesday, a group of Republican senators publicly broke with Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his hold on military nominations.

Frustrated Republican senators spent hours Wednesday evening on the chamber floor trying to confirm dozens of military officers up for promotions, escalating a monthslong feud with fellow Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville.

Schumer said Smith's sudden medical emergency is "precisely the kind of avoidable emergency that Sen. Tuberville has provoked though his reckless holds."

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday moved forward under pressure to confirm President Biden's nominees for top posts in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, after insisting for months that he wouldn't schedule individual votes for military positions over Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blanket hold on promotions.

If successful, the chamber will approve top leaders for the Navy, Air Force and the Marine Corps' No. 2 as soon as Wednesday.

Senate Democrats are working with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and a handful of Republicans on a rarely used procedural tactic to defeat Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) blockade of more than 360 military promotions, a stalemate that has consumed the Senate for months. Democrats are looking at using a standing order resolution to move a block [...]

The Senate resumed consideration of its three-bill spending “minibus” Thursday by rejecting an amendment from Sen. Mike Braun that would effectively strip spending earmarked for state and local projects from the package. The Senate voted 35-62 to reject the Indiana Republican’s proposal that would prevent $3.8 billion in earmarked spending from going to 1,270 projects […] The post Senate rejects Braun amendment to strip ‘minibus’ earmarks appeared first on Roll Call.