TODAY: Nevada Republican Presidential Caucuses: “Republicans will caucus Tuesday night, making their pick from a five-way field of GOP candidates that also includes Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Nevada is the fourth early voting state of the GOP, following Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.”
2016 ELECTION: Ted Cruz asks for resignation of national spokesman: “Cruz cited a social media posting from Tyler on Sunday publicizing a blog post misstating Marco Rubio’s remarks to a Cruz staffer in South Carolina. The posting, from the Daily Pennsylvanian, which also posted a video, recounts how Rubio ran into Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, and a staffer in South Carolina on Saturday at a Hampton Inn. The news outlet reported that Rubio decided to ‘have some fun’ with the staffer, who was reading the Bible, and suggested that the Bible did ‘[n]ot have many answers in it.’ Tyler posted the story on Facebook but later deleted it and apologized after a Cruz staffer said Rubio didn’t make any such comment.”
BERLIN: Germany’s first major LGBT refugee center to open: “Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Marcel de Groot, who runs the Schwulenberatung advisory centre which is responsible for the project, said the Berlin shelter will house gay, lesbian and transsexual migrants.”
CLIMATE: Seas rising faster than at any time in past 2,800 years: “Unsurprisingly, the study blames the anomalous 20th-century rise on global warming — and not just that. It also calculates that, had humans not been warming the planet, there’s very little chance that seas would have risen so much during the century, finding that instead of a 14 centimeter rise, we would have seen somewhere between a 3 centimeter fall and a 7 centimeter rise.”
FOOD: New study claims Paleo diet is terrible for you: “The Paleo diet, the study says, doesn’t help you lose pounds — it helps you gain them. Fast. For the study, lab animals were fed a steady Paleo diet, comprised of high-fat foods and low carbs. Within two months, the animals gained 15% of their body weight and developed painful diseases. Mice in the study demonstrated increased gluten intolerance, often seen as a precursor to diabetes.”
NAME CHANGE: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has changed its name to GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders: “…a name that would both honor our past and explicitly make visible that GLAD has always fought for bisexual, transgender, and queer people as well.”
REFUGEES: LGBT refugees facing threat in Europe’s shelters: “Across Europe, gay, lesbian and transgender migrants say they suffer from verbal, physical and sexual abuse in refugee shelters, and some have been forced to move out. The AP found out about scores of documented cases in The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, with the abuse usually coming from fellow refugees and sometimes security staff and translators.”
“KESHA VS DR LUKE: Dr. Luke denies rape allegations on Twitter: “Until now I haven’t commented on the lawsuits, which should be resolved in court not here on Twitter…I didn’t rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister…”
WWII: Anatomical information about Hitler: “The diminutive tyrant suffered from a condition called hypospadias — which left him with a micropenis, Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie write in their new book ‘Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute.’ The condition can be so severe that sufferers are forced to urinate from a hole at the base of their manhood.”
MYSTERY: 13 bald eagles found dead on eastern shore of Maryland. “Investigators were called Saturday afternoon to a farm in Caroline County. The farm on Laurel Grove Road in Federalsburg lies west of the 3,800-acre Idylwild Natural Area.”
$10,000 reward being offered for info leading to a conviction in dead of 13 bald eagles on the Eastern Shore. pic.twitter.com/lghqISgpOb
— Maryland NRP (@MDNRPolice) February 22, 2016
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook now wants you to record 15-second birthday videos for your friends: “Happy Birthday! We hope you like the present we got you: yet another awful way for your friends to insincerely spam you through social media on this, your special day.”
LGBT AMERICANS AND SCOTUS: The DNC put out this video yesterday.
BIRTHS: Gorilla born by caesarean at Bristol, UK zoo doing well: “While mum recovers, baby – so far unnamed – is being hand-reared by keepers at the zoo. A team of five are working shifts day and night to give her human formula milk every three hours, and sometimes put a little cardigan on her to keep her toasty when it gets chilly.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_7NNg8efXg
TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY: Hole-digger Diego Arnary.
https://instagram.com/p/BBwrF-Yy4eQ/?taken-by=diegoarnary
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