Joe Biden

President Joe Biden Tuesday morning issued an official White House LGBTQ Pride proclamation, the first since President Barack Obama.

In his "Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month," (below) President Biden says he is "particularly honored by the service of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve in the Cabinet, and Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate."

President Joe Biden's nominees to the United States Postal Service board of governors have now all been confirmed, with the Senate's approval of Anton Hajjar, former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union. This means the nine-member board now has four Democrats and a Biden-appointed independent, raising progressive hopes that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the former shipping executive appointed under former President Donald Trump, could finally be removed.

But things aren't quite so simple, wrote Steve Benen for MSNBC.

Newly released emails obtained by the Washington Post reveal that an official at the Department of Health and Human Services made a highly unorthodox suggestion to Dr. Anthony Fauci last year.

In an email from April 2020, the unnamed HHS official suggested to Fauci that the government supply hospitals with "doggie cones" to protect frontline workers who were still without sufficient personal protective equipment.

According to a report from Politico, there is a growing debate within the Democratic Party over strategy for the 2022 midterm election with some wanting to make it all about Donald Trump while others want to focus on issues that are popular with the voters -- a strategy that worked for them in the 2018 midterms.

According to one Democrat, Donald Trump may help them with their decision by continuing to keep himself front and center as the face of the party; doing their work for them and constantly reminding voters of the reason he lost re-election in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly believes he's going to be "reinstated" as president within the next two months.

According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, "Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August" because the widely criticized "audit" he's backing in Arizona will show he actually won the 2020 presidential election.

President Joe Biden has so far been able to escape the fate of every commander in chief for at least a generation.

Every president for at least the past 30 years has been successfully vilified by his opponents, but Republicans have been unable to land their political blows on Biden -- whose approval rating has never fallen below 52 percent, reported the Intelligencer.

Rep. Pete Meijer (R-Mich.) is fed up with the pro-Trump conservative Republicans whom he describes as "treacherous snakes." On Monday, May 31, Meijer, a military veteran, took to Twitter with a post in observance of Memorial Day as he criticized those "salivating for civil war."

The freshman lawmaker, who is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, acknowledged the work of those who came before him as he noted his "struggle with Memorial Day" as a result of "browing-beating from the holier-than-thous."

In Tulsa, the city that still bears the scars of a 1921 racial massacre, African-American residents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, hoping he will hear their call for financial reparations.

"I just want him to feel our pain," said local activist Kristi Williams.

A Trump-loving, QAnon-promoting, anti-vaxx, anti-mask Nashville hat store owner who boasted she had "one of the largest selections in the world" is finding brands speaking out against the antisemitic yellow wearable "not vaccinated" stars she posted and cutting ties with her business, which she calls HatWRKS.

The Tennessee Holler first identified the antisemitic stars via Twitter. NCRM was the first publication to report on them.

Disgraced former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was infamously pardoned by then-President Donald Trump in 2017, has now been reduced to trying to make money by selling autographed photos of himself.

Writing on Twitter, Arpaio encouraged his followers to "get your very own personalized signed photo of Sheriff Joe" for the price of just "$19.99 and FREE shipping worldwide."

In the past, Never Trump conservative Bill Kristol was often highly critical of the Democratic Party. But in the 2020 presidential election, the neocon pundit enthusiastically rooted for now-President Joe Biden — and in an article published by The Bulwark (which he co-founded) over the 2021 Memorial Day Weekend, Kristol argues that Democrats need to seriously dominate government in the United States in order to protect U.S. democracy from Trumpism.

Kristol's piece is not an endorsement of all things liberal or progressive. Rather, Kristol believes that Trumpism is so toxic and destructive that Democrats must "become the nation's majority party…. at least for now." And he believes that suburban anti-Trump Republicans or ex-Republicans are an important part of Biden's coalition.