Charlie Kirk, Conservatives RAGE At Sesame Street PRIDE MONTH Post
Robby Soave and Lindsey Granger discuss Charlie Kirk and other conservatives slamming PBS's "Sesame Street" over celebrating Pride month. #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Conservatives #PBS
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Tons of Pride 2025 celebrations across Central PA: Here's when and where
June marks LGBTQ+ pride month, and in Central Pennsylvania, tons of events are planned across June and July. From block parties to street festivals, bar crawls and more, there are plenty of pride festivities to look forward to this summer. This list will be updated as more information becomes available. The event started last year after organizer Lizz Dawson said she wanted to see queer joy represented in York, her hometown, the same way she saw it represented in New York while she lived there. It was, in a way, a public coming out for herself and organizing the event, meant everything to her. After much success last year, Pride Pop-off Block Party is back on this year on Friday, June 13 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in York's Royal Square District. The event will feature drag performances, face painting, a dunk tank, vendors, food trucks, and more. Dawson added, "It's more important than ever this year to showcase that queer people are not going anywhere." York County Pride, a family-friendly event hosted by the Rainbow Rose Center will take place at the York County Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year's pride event will feature over 150 vendors, including local nonprofits and crafters, food trucks 14 drag performers, live music, and free HIV testing provided by Family First Health. Activities include interactive arts and crafts, face painting and RPG games, among others. Balloon artists as well as five tattoo artists and one piercing artist will be set up. The annual Lititz Pride Festival will take place on Saturday, June 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lititz Spring Park located at 24 N Broad St, Lititz. The free, family-friendly event will feature live performances, local vendors and artists, food, activities for kids and family, community resources and more. This year, members of the Lebanon community will be hosting the fourth annual Pride Street festival. The celebration will take place on Sunday June 22 from 1-5 p.m. on 8th Street between Cumberland and Chestnut Streets in Lebanon City. Pride 2025 will be designed for all age groups and is open to the entire community at no cost. "This year's theme, Together We Rise, builds on the power of community and the strength of joining together to celebrate LGBTQ+ lives, create safe spaces, and foster connections," organizers said in a release. More: Pride Month: Lebanon community hosts pair of events to celebrate in June Pride Month will begin in Carlisle with a proclamation at Borough Hall starting at 11 a.m., followed by the 'Big Gay Walk' to Letort Park with flag flying, music, and more festivities. From there, enjoy a pride picnic with food, resource vendors, and a local DJ from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on pride events in Carlisle this month, visit In its seventh year, the official pride bar crawl in Harrisburg is bringing 'colorful drinks, good vibes and epic bar-hopping fun.' Tickets are $24.05 for a single ticket and $18.41 per person for a group of four or more. A portion of every ticket sold goes directly to Pride Non-Profit Organizations nationwide, supporting those in the LGBTQIA+ community. The 21 and over event will begin at 4 p.m. at Midtown Arts Center and end at 12 a.m. Tickets include two to three drinks, pride swag, food specials, a drag show and more. More information can be found on The parade will start in Harrisburg on City Island at 10 a.m. and travel through downtown before ending on Front Street. From there, the festivities will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Soldiers Grove near the state Capitol, Harrisburg. More information is available at This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: Pride 2025 celebrations, parades & more across Central PA
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Gay GB News host says Pride ‘doesn't show anything good about the gay community'
Alex Armstrong, a gay presenter, has come out against , saying the gay community doesn't need it anymore. Armstrong, who hosts The Saturday Five on the right-wing news channel, was participating in a debate with the topic 'Do we need Pride anymore', arguing against its existence. 'Things like Pride do the exact opposite to what Jonathan [a guest on the show] thinks they do. It turns people off,' Alexander said. 'What I see when I see some of those Pride events is fetishes being displayed on the street, men running naked around, thinking that's acceptable when there are children walking around. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Armstrong (@alexharmstrong) 'It doesn't show anything good about the gay community. It stereotypes them, and there'll be millions of gay men, thousands of them watching tonight, who'll go: 'Actually, I don't want that representing us'.' Amrstrong went on to say go beyond criticising Pride, instead blasting the gay community writ large for its support of granting access to puberty blockers to trans children. He went on to say: 'They've advocated for for children. During the 2000s gay rights was being relatively accepted, people have got over the fear of it all and moved on. The public had moved on. Do you know what? We don't really care anymore. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Armstrong (@alexharmstrong) 'It's the assimilation argument all over again, isn't it? Do you want to be part of society, or do you want society to look at you and think you are different?' Armstrong later shared a clip of his appearance on Instagram, posted with the caption: 'Millions of gay people are sick of having their sexuality weaponised, being told it's the most important thing about them. Then you get the far-left activist LGBT groups pushing their degenerate ideology down people's throats on top of it all.' The host received support from a number of his 14,000 followers, with one user commenting: 'Well said Alex, we wanted equality which we have. We didn't want to be part of a cult and for the movement to be hijacked, not only by what it is now but by corporations virtue signalling. There are still countries where you can be imprisoned or put to death for being gay, don't see them virtue signalling in those countries though.' The post Gay GB News host says Pride 'doesn't show anything good about the gay community' appeared first on Attitude.
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Trump asks Congress to make (some of) DOGE's illegal cuts legal
President Donald Trump sent Congress a memo Tuesday night asking lawmakers to sign off on his administration's demand for roughly $9.4 billion in immediate spending cuts. If Congress passes that rescissions package, funding to NPR, PBS and a slew of foreign aid programs would be officially slashed. If this idea sounds familiar, it's because Trump is asking Congress to take back money for programs that he and Elon Musk have illegally refused to spend. The request is a nod to the way things are supposed to work under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, a law that makes it clear that the president has no authority to unilaterally withhold, or 'impound,' money the legislature has appropriated. Thus, the request itself is a tacit admission from the Trump administration that its refusal to spend money Congress has appropriated is against the law. If an administration doesn't want to spend money that has been budgeted, a 1974 law requires the White House to submit what boils down to a request for Congress to take its money back. Only after both chambers approve would the budget authority granted to specific departments and agencies be rescinded. Congress now has 45 days to pass the package before it expires and the administration is once again legally required to spend that money. In the memo passed on to Congress, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought laid out 22 specific cuts to be made. The largest single item in Vought's request would fully eliminate $1.07 billion allocated over the next two fiscal years to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB, as those of us who grew up watching 'Sesame Street' know, is the biggest source of funding for many PBS stations. Trump signed an executive order to slash the CPB's funding last month, but NPR and PBS have called the order unconstitutional and sued to have it overturned. But the bulk of the requested cuts are focused on drawing down funding to various international projects the Trump administration has decided 'do not align with an America First foreign policy agenda.' They apparently include such controversial concepts as promoting democracy ($83 million rescinded from the Democracy Fund), helping children ($437 million in contributions to UNICEF and other United Nations programs terminated), fighting HIV/AIDS ($400 million cut from programs like the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR), and saving lives after natural disasters ($496 million withdrawn from the International Disaster Assistance account). Among the smaller but pettier cuts requested is $125 million of the U.S. Agency of International Development's operating budget. It has been months since the Department of Government Oversight de facto shuttered USAID, which Musk famously boasted had been fed 'into the woodchipper,' with most of its contracts illegally cut and its employees fired. Many of those laid-off employees are also suing the administration for circumventing Congress in trying to shut down an agency Congress established by law. As with many things budget-related, several things are true at once here. On the one hand, the money that would be clawed back would undoubtedly have major, catastrophic impacts on the work it's funding. On the other, the $9 billion package is a drop in the bucket compared to the $2 trillion in savings that Musk originally promised to find with DOGE and a drop in the ocean compared to the annual $6.8 trillion federal budget. Getting the package through Congress would require only Republican votes, but that doesn't mean it will succeed. There has historically been little appetite from Congress for rescission requests; many lawmakers are aware of the political risk that comes with publicly voting to cut specific programs, especially popular ones. As Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, recently noted to reporters, 'there hasn't been a successful rescission package in many, many years.' But Musk has been unhappy with the lack of enthusiasm from Congress for codifying DOGE's cuts. The Tesla CEO, who just left his quasi-official government role, slammed the House's megabill as a 'pork-filled ... abomination.' Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he called Musk to talk to him about the bill but got no answer. Even if congressional Republicans balk at the relatively small package, Vought has a backup plan: keep breaking the law. The OMB director recently appeared on CNN not only to say this was 'the first of many rescission bills,' but also to insist that impoundment remains on the table. He also echoed a truly absurd claim from his former think tank that as long as you illegally withhold money within the 45-day window before a fiscal year ends, you can do an end-run around Congress. To repeat, in presenting congressional Republicans with the chance to place a veneer of legality on DOGE's actions, the White House is tacitly admitting that the power of the purse still lies in Congress' hands. But Vought's attitude makes it clear this is a 'heads I win, tails you lose' proposition. If Congress doesn't go along with its rescission package, the Trump administration will simply continue to do as it has done and usurp the power of appropriation for itself. The sad thing is there are surely plenty of GOP lawmakers who, to avoid risking difficult votes, are willing to surrender their awesome power. This article was originally published on
